The hard part of crypto bookkeeping is not speed. It is trust. A bookkeeping system for DAOs, where money lives across thousands of anonymous transactions on multiple blockchains, and a single missing token price can mean there are no books at all.

Product : Parcel, a payments platform for crypto orgs

Role : Sole designer → research, concept, design, delivery

Team : 1 designer (me), 1 PM, 3 engineers

Timeline : 3 weeks core release, then phased delivery

Outcome : 35% faster tagging · 4 enterprise clients · 25% revenue increase

Problem Statement - What?

• Glenn, a DAO accountant, paid from his Safe but had no historical token prices for those payments → no defensible USD value → no P&L. He was stuck.
• BanklessDAO ran a main DAO + dozens of guild safes. No single place to see every guild's transactions, add audit context, and generate reports.
• The brief: build real bookkeeping for orgs whose money does not behave like money in a bank → categorize transactions, track money in/out, attach metadata, produce reports.

🚨For somone coming from Web2 background, here’s the problem statement

<aside> 👉 We currently lack a central repository for users to track all transactions made through Parcel and other bank accounts. Hence, we require a system that allows users to categorize transactions, monitor incoming and outgoing transactions, add metadata, and generate reports.

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Context - Why?