Tenderly CTO Explains Why Developer Tools Drive Blockchains
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Developers are powering the advancements behind blockchain, but their struggles are often overlooked. Sophisticated tools can make or break Web3’s progress, yet few focus on the infrastructure that helps teams build securely and at scale. Bogdan Habić, CTO and co-founder of Tenderly, knows this better than most. From humble beginnings at a hackathon to leading one of Ethereum’s most trusted platforms, Habić has seen the sector’s unglamorous backbone up close. BeInCrypto caught up with him at ETH Belgrade 2025 to discuss misunderstood challenges of scaling, the reality of developer bottlenecks, and why tooling, not transaction capacity, remains blockchain’s true growth engine. In this candid interview, Habić exposes what many get wrong about Ethereum’s evolution, how developer experience underpins adoption, and the role of transparency and community in shaping tomorrow’s blockchain landscape. The answer’s probably a lot less sexy than people would like. Tooling is inevitable in any engineering field. We started Tenderly by building the kinds of tools we needed ourselves, coming from Web2. We weren’t the smartest or most visionary; we were just the first to do it, and we did a good enough job for the Ethereum community to embrace us. If it’s not easy for developers to build, then what’s the point of scaling? Right now, we have infrastructure but not enough usable applications. Without making devs’ lives easier, we may as well just keep wrapping GPTs forever. Challenges and Realities Behind Ethereum dApp Development There’s a massive gap between what users see and what builders deal with. Web3-native users, especially, often don’t understand how complex it is to bring something to life. You click a button on a dApp, and that action might involve zero-knowledge proofs, advanced cryptography, and other insanely complex things. Products like Polymarket or Pum.fun work because they hide that complexity really well.…
