
Thomas Brillard developed and maintained advanced swap and exchange features for LedgerHQ/ledger-live, focusing on reliability, security, and user experience across desktop and mobile platforms. He engineered robust error handling, modular UI components, and feature-flag-driven rollouts, enabling safer experimentation and smoother updates. Leveraging TypeScript, React, and Redux, Thomas implemented cryptographic hashing for swap tracking, enhanced gas limit estimation for EVM networks, and improved fee transparency through precise API integration. His work included rigorous code linting, test automation, and changelog management, resulting in a maintainable codebase that supports rapid feature delivery, accurate analytics, and reduced user friction in cryptocurrency workflows.

February 2026 (LedgerHQ/ledger-live) - Key delivery focused on UX clarity and access to perpetual trading. Delivered Perpetual Trading UI and Access Improvements with a new entry point in the portfolio view and feature flags to control visibility. Implemented UI simplification in the Perps/mobile section by removing the navbar to reduce clutter and improve user focus. Established feature-flag-driven rollout capabilities to enable staged releases and experiments.
February 2026 (LedgerHQ/ledger-live) - Key delivery focused on UX clarity and access to perpetual trading. Delivered Perpetual Trading UI and Access Improvements with a new entry point in the portfolio view and feature flags to control visibility. Implemented UI simplification in the Perps/mobile section by removing the navbar to reduce clutter and improve user focus. Established feature-flag-driven rollout capabilities to enable staged releases and experiments.
January 2026 Ledger Live: Focused on swap reliability, UI modernization, and new product surface with testing discipline. Delivered LiFi gas limit estimation with a 30% buffer and support for custom gas limits in LiFi swap flows; migrated the LiveApp swap UI with removal of legacy mobile flow and updated tests including error messaging; launched Perps Live App entrypoint with cross-platform loading components, navigation, and configuration hooks. Strengthened QA by validating gas-limit behavior and pruning outdated tests, reducing risk of regressions. Impact: higher swap success rate, improved maintainability, and foundational support for future features across swap and Perps surfaces.
January 2026 Ledger Live: Focused on swap reliability, UI modernization, and new product surface with testing discipline. Delivered LiFi gas limit estimation with a 30% buffer and support for custom gas limits in LiFi swap flows; migrated the LiveApp swap UI with removal of legacy mobile flow and updated tests including error messaging; launched Perps Live App entrypoint with cross-platform loading components, navigation, and configuration hooks. Strengthened QA by validating gas-limit behavior and pruning outdated tests, reducing risk of regressions. Impact: higher swap success rate, improved maintainability, and foundational support for future features across swap and Perps surfaces.
December 2025 — Ledger Live (LedgerHQ/ledger-live): Implemented two key swap-related enhancements to improve reliability, accuracy, and observability of the swap flow. The work emphasizes business value by improving user-fee transparency and operational visibility, enabling faster issue resolution and scale.
December 2025 — Ledger Live (LedgerHQ/ledger-live): Implemented two key swap-related enhancements to improve reliability, accuracy, and observability of the swap flow. The work emphasizes business value by improving user-fee transparency and operational visibility, enabling faster issue resolution and scale.
Month: 2025-11, LedgerHQ/ledger-live focused on stabilizing modular drawer interactions and enabling safer, data-driven UX experiments. Delivered a critical bug fix to the modular drawer typing by ensuring isModularDrawer is treated as a string to resolve LLM integration type issues, and introduced a dynamic feature flag for the modular drawer in Swap Live to support runtime UX toggling.
Month: 2025-11, LedgerHQ/ledger-live focused on stabilizing modular drawer interactions and enabling safer, data-driven UX experiments. Delivered a critical bug fix to the modular drawer typing by ensuring isModularDrawer is treated as a string to resolve LLM integration type issues, and introduced a dynamic feature flag for the modular drawer in Swap Live to support runtime UX toggling.
Concise monthly summary for 2025-10 focusing on delivered features, major bug fixes, impact, and skills demonstrated for LedgerHQ/ledger-live. Highlights include swap tracking correctness improvements, feature flags for a modular drawer UI, and LiFi gas limit handling changes with safety considerations. Outcomes: improved accuracy, safer rollout, and maintainable codebase; business value includes reduced risk, better analytics, and smoother user experience.
Concise monthly summary for 2025-10 focusing on delivered features, major bug fixes, impact, and skills demonstrated for LedgerHQ/ledger-live. Highlights include swap tracking correctness improvements, feature flags for a modular drawer UI, and LiFi gas limit handling changes with safety considerations. Outcomes: improved accuracy, safer rollout, and maintainable codebase; business value includes reduced risk, better analytics, and smoother user experience.
Month: 2025-09 — Key features delivered: EIP-712 labeling and data structure update for Uniswap V2 Dutch Orders in LedgerHQ/clear-signing-erc7730-registry. Major bugs fixed: none reported this period. Overall impact and accomplishments: Improved interoperability and signing reliability for Dutch-order workflows, enabling smoother integration with wallets and smart contracts. Technologies/skills demonstrated: EIP-712 standard compliance, JSON schema updates, signing workflows, version control/documentation. Business value: reduced signing errors, faster integration with signing tools and Uniswap-related contracts.
Month: 2025-09 — Key features delivered: EIP-712 labeling and data structure update for Uniswap V2 Dutch Orders in LedgerHQ/clear-signing-erc7730-registry. Major bugs fixed: none reported this period. Overall impact and accomplishments: Improved interoperability and signing reliability for Dutch-order workflows, enabling smoother integration with wallets and smart contracts. Technologies/skills demonstrated: EIP-712 standard compliance, JSON schema updates, signing workflows, version control/documentation. Business value: reduced signing errors, faster integration with signing tools and Uniswap-related contracts.
Monthly summary for 2025-08 focused on strengthening the swap experience in Ledger Live (LedgerHQ/ledger-live). The month delivered two major features and a series of reliability and UX improvements across the swap flow. Key features delivered: - Swap Functionality Improvements and Security Enhancements: improved hashing, error reporting, cancellation handling, and logging to increase reliability, security, and developer clarity. Notable progress includes seedId handling for cancellations, address correctness and EVM seedId validation, expanded swap intents, and code hygiene improvements (naming, readability, and logs). - Swap Loading Screen UX: introduced a dedicated loading screen for swap operations and integrated related loading UX changes across the app to reduce user wait times and confusion during the swap flow. Major bugs fixed: - Reduced privacy risk and noise by stopping leakage of addresses and refining logging visibility to only log when relevant. - Prevented multiple onCancel invocations when users close after an error, and removed dead code to improve stability. - Improved error handling to avoid cascading failures and to surface actionable information for troubleshooting. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Significantly improved reliability and security of the swap flow, leading to fewer user errors and support tickets. - Enhanced user experience with a smoother and more predictable swap process and a clear loading state. - Sharpened observability and debugging capabilities through better logging and error handling. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Frontend feature delivery, input validation (address correctness, seedId), and robust cancellation semantics. - Logging instrumentation with privacy-conscious improvements and actionable error signals. - UX improvements through dedicated loading states and consistent loading behavior, plus general code hygiene (naming, formatting).
Monthly summary for 2025-08 focused on strengthening the swap experience in Ledger Live (LedgerHQ/ledger-live). The month delivered two major features and a series of reliability and UX improvements across the swap flow. Key features delivered: - Swap Functionality Improvements and Security Enhancements: improved hashing, error reporting, cancellation handling, and logging to increase reliability, security, and developer clarity. Notable progress includes seedId handling for cancellations, address correctness and EVM seedId validation, expanded swap intents, and code hygiene improvements (naming, readability, and logs). - Swap Loading Screen UX: introduced a dedicated loading screen for swap operations and integrated related loading UX changes across the app to reduce user wait times and confusion during the swap flow. Major bugs fixed: - Reduced privacy risk and noise by stopping leakage of addresses and refining logging visibility to only log when relevant. - Prevented multiple onCancel invocations when users close after an error, and removed dead code to improve stability. - Improved error handling to avoid cascading failures and to surface actionable information for troubleshooting. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Significantly improved reliability and security of the swap flow, leading to fewer user errors and support tickets. - Enhanced user experience with a smoother and more predictable swap process and a clear loading state. - Sharpened observability and debugging capabilities through better logging and error handling. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Frontend feature delivery, input validation (address correctness, seedId), and robust cancellation semantics. - Logging instrumentation with privacy-conscious improvements and actionable error signals. - UX improvements through dedicated loading states and consistent loading behavior, plus general code hygiene (naming, formatting).
Month 2025-07: Delivered two feature-focused items in LedgerHQ/ledger-live emphasizing reliability, traceability, and network alignment. 1) ZkSync address handling improvements: standardized the EVM dead address to 0x100000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD for the ZKSync network; aligned with network conventions and included a changeset documenting a minor version update. 2) Swap intents hashing: introduced SHA-256 hashing for swap details (provider, accounts, amount); integrated into accepted and cancelled API calls and propagated to setBroadcastTransaction and related type definitions to support the new hashing mechanism.
Month 2025-07: Delivered two feature-focused items in LedgerHQ/ledger-live emphasizing reliability, traceability, and network alignment. 1) ZkSync address handling improvements: standardized the EVM dead address to 0x100000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD for the ZKSync network; aligned with network conventions and included a changeset documenting a minor version update. 2) Swap intents hashing: introduced SHA-256 hashing for swap details (provider, accounts, amount); integrated into accepted and cancelled API calls and propagated to setBroadcastTransaction and related type definitions to support the new hashing mechanism.
June 2025 performance summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live: Focused on hardening swap and exchange flows and improving code quality. Delivered explicit address validation in swap/exchange paths, introduced a dedicated error type for missing parameters to improve failure diagnostics, and completed lint/cleanup work to enhance maintainability. These changes reduce incomplete transactions, improve user trust during swaps, and strengthen overall stability across desktop and core layers.
June 2025 performance summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live: Focused on hardening swap and exchange flows and improving code quality. Delivered explicit address validation in swap/exchange paths, introduced a dedicated error type for missing parameters to improve failure diagnostics, and completed lint/cleanup work to enhance maintainability. These changes reduce incomplete transactions, improve user trust during swaps, and strengthen overall stability across desktop and core layers.
May 2025 monthly summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live focusing on key features delivered, major bugs addressed (none reported), overall impact, and technologies demonstrated. The month centered on expanding swap functionality and partner integration, improving user flexibility and configurability while strengthening the ecosystem for future contributions.
May 2025 monthly summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live focusing on key features delivered, major bugs addressed (none reported), overall impact, and technologies demonstrated. The month centered on expanding swap functionality and partner integration, improving user flexibility and configurability while strengthening the ecosystem for future contributions.
March 2025 monthly summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live. Focused on delivering business value through robust error handling UX, expanded asset support, and reinforced release quality. Key features delivered include unified error handling and improved error UI for WebPTX swap and custom exchange flows, expanded cryptocurrency support with LiFi integration for ERC20 transaction completion, and release notes/changesets management with internal quality improvements (including sui type handling and lint/structure cleanups). Major bugs fixed include clearer error feedback and improved drawer behavior (e.g., hiding fee drawer on small EVM screens). Overall impact: reduced user friction, broader asset coverage, faster release cycles, and stronger code quality. Technologies demonstrated: TypeScript/JS tooling, changesets, linting, UI/UX patterns, LiFi integration, ERC20 workflows, sui type handling, and robust release processes.
March 2025 monthly summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live. Focused on delivering business value through robust error handling UX, expanded asset support, and reinforced release quality. Key features delivered include unified error handling and improved error UI for WebPTX swap and custom exchange flows, expanded cryptocurrency support with LiFi integration for ERC20 transaction completion, and release notes/changesets management with internal quality improvements (including sui type handling and lint/structure cleanups). Major bugs fixed include clearer error feedback and improved drawer behavior (e.g., hiding fee drawer on small EVM screens). Overall impact: reduced user friction, broader asset coverage, faster release cycles, and stronger code quality. Technologies demonstrated: TypeScript/JS tooling, changesets, linting, UI/UX patterns, LiFi integration, ERC20 workflows, sui type handling, and robust release processes.
February 2025 Ledger Live — Key features delivered, critical fixes, and measurable impact. The team implemented cross-provider swap enhancements and clearer error handling, improving user experience, analytics, and reliability across the swap workflow.
February 2025 Ledger Live — Key features delivered, critical fixes, and measurable impact. The team implemented cross-provider swap enhancements and clearer error handling, improving user experience, analytics, and reliability across the swap workflow.
January 2025 Monthly Summary for Ledger Live (LedgerHQ/ledger-live): Delivered user-centric Uniswap provider UX with accurate policy display and dynamic URL handling, introduced feature flags to control Moonpay and Exodus swap integrations, fixed data consistency for feeStrategy by normalizing string casing, and extended not-supported messaging for Ledger Nano S to include the 'near' asset. These changes reduce user friction, enable safer gradual rollouts, and strengthen cross-platform compatibility.
January 2025 Monthly Summary for Ledger Live (LedgerHQ/ledger-live): Delivered user-centric Uniswap provider UX with accurate policy display and dynamic URL handling, introduced feature flags to control Moonpay and Exodus swap integrations, fixed data consistency for feeStrategy by normalizing string casing, and extended not-supported messaging for Ledger Nano S to include the 'near' asset. These changes reduce user friction, enable safer gradual rollouts, and strengthen cross-platform compatibility.
November 2024 monthly summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live: Focused on privacy, accuracy, and reliability of the swap experience. Delivered a user-facing analytics opt-out for swap operations, extended swap history to capture DEX swaps with correct atomicity, and hardened gas and fee handling to prevent misconfigurations. These changes reduce user data exposure, improve history correctness, and stabilize the swap workflow, contributing to higher user trust and smoother transaction flows.
November 2024 monthly summary for LedgerHQ/ledger-live: Focused on privacy, accuracy, and reliability of the swap experience. Delivered a user-facing analytics opt-out for swap operations, extended swap history to capture DEX swaps with correct atomicity, and hardened gas and fee handling to prevent misconfigurations. These changes reduce user data exposure, improve history correctness, and stabilize the swap workflow, contributing to higher user trust and smoother transaction flows.
October 2024 monthly summary for ethereum.org-website: Delivered a targeted data integrity fix by correcting the Wallet Open Source Status in walletsData from true to false. The change ensures accurate wallet metadata across the site, preventing misrepresentation in UI and search results. Implemented in Update wallet-data.ts and validated through repository checks. Business impact includes improved data trust for wallet listings and reduced support queries related to wallet openness.
October 2024 monthly summary for ethereum.org-website: Delivered a targeted data integrity fix by correcting the Wallet Open Source Status in walletsData from true to false. The change ensures accurate wallet metadata across the site, preventing misrepresentation in UI and search results. Implemented in Update wallet-data.ts and validated through repository checks. Business impact includes improved data trust for wallet listings and reduced support queries related to wallet openness.
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