Case study
Staxo: a crypto trading simulator.
Our own mobile app for iOS and Android. People learn to trade crypto on a virtual portfolio priced off the real market, without risking their own money.
- Type
- Own product · mobile app
- Platforms
- iOS · Android
- Stack
- Flutter · Firebase
- Status
- Published on both stores
The idea
Most people pay for their first contact with the crypto market with their own money, at the worst possible moment. Staxo makes that first step free: you get a virtual portfolio of 500 dollars and trade at real market prices. Mistakes cost nothing, and what you learn stays. No real money is involved and no real trades are executed; Staxo is an educational simulator.
What is in the app
A full learning and competition system is built around the trading simulation:
- Trading at real prices in real time, with charts and technical indicators such as RSI, MACD and Bollinger Bands.
- Courses with quizzes across several levels, from blockchain basics to advanced strategy.
- XP, levels, daily challenges and streaks, so learning has a rhythm and a reason to come back.
- Monthly leagues and global leaderboards: compete with friends or with everyone.
- Trade history, profit and loss tracking, and portfolio sharing.
- Push notifications and biometric app lock.
How it is built
Staxo is a Flutter application: the iOS and Android versions come out of one codebase and ship at the same time with the same features. The backend is Firebase: authentication, a Firestore database syncing in real time, Cloud Functions for business logic, and push notifications.
Prices arrive in real time over a WebSocket connection, crashes are tracked through Crashlytics and behaviour through analytics, so decisions about new versions come from data. Subscriptions are billed through the App Store and Google Play.
A product that lives
The app is published on the App Store and Google Play and gets new versions regularly: new features, adjustments for new iOS and Android releases, and fixes coming out of real reports. The free plan covers learning and the demo portfolio, and the Pro subscription unlocks every course and the advanced trading tools.
For us Staxo is also a proving ground. The patterns that hold up here in production, from push notifications to subscription billing, go into client projects afterwards.
Result
Staxo is in production on both platforms, with users learning to trade at no risk. The same team and the same stack are available for your mobile app.
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