about.
long-form. lowercase by default. weirdly, it makes more sense looking back than it did while i was in it.
arc/full · /about.md
- satyajeet — based in bengaluru. arc so far: mining → quant → data → defi → agents.
- iit kharagpur — mining & safety with a cs minor. risk frameworks transfer weirdly well to smart contracts.
- the shockwave — once stood near a live underground blast on a field trip and felt it pass through me. not a line most web3 founders get to open with.
- pre-crypto — quant research at worldquant (sharpe > 2). data eng at reliance jio, real-time analytics for jio financial services.
- udacity — 150+ mentees over 5+ years. still the best debugger i own.
- zk + fhe — noir, circom, aleo, leo. top 5% in the zkp mooc (yes, i screenshotted the cert).
- lemonx — co-founded a gmx-style perp dex on core. $31m in 3 months, 18% gas savings, zero bad debt.
- alphaengine — now building with nilay — a confidential layer for defi. forked veda, 100+ strategies via decoder/sanitiser contracts.
- engagex — side project on elizaos v2 that simulates twitter replies before you post.
- ngo — also led an ngo in rural india that helped spin up 450+ women-led micro-enterprises.
if i can't explain an idea cleanly to a stranger on a call, i usually don't actually understand it yet.
02co-founder split
satyajeet
lemonx · whatsapp ai pipeline · alphaengine
built the perp dex. built the personal pipeline that processes my whatsapp on a local LLM. co-founder/CTO at alphaengine.
nilay
mpc wallet · $150M asset mgmt · alphaengine
built an mpc wallet. managed $150M in assets before crypto. co-builds alphaengine with me.
03selected credentials
| when | what |
|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Uniswap Hook Incubator (UHI6) — Fhenix Prize + EigenLayer Prize |
| Nov 2025 | ETHOnline 2025 — 1st place, Avail Nexus SDK General Track |
| Nov 2025 | Startup World Cup Finalist — top 12 of 300+, DevConnect Buenos Aires |
| 2025 | EDU Chain Semester 3 — top 1.7% (rank 153 of 9,000+) |
| 2024 | Aleo Foundation Grant — $3,000 for ZK sanction-compliance |
| 2024 | Berkeley/Stanford ZKP MOOC — Legendary NFT, top 5% |
| 2022 | DappCamp Cohort 4 |
| 2018 | IIT-JEE — top 0.7% of 1.5M+ applicants |
catalyst is the bot that runs my digital life. if i did something wrong, i am not sorry, catalyst made me do this.