Product & Business Development — Stablecoin Infrastructure (USST) at STBL (2025-05 – Present)
RWA-backed stablecoin overcollateralized by tokenized US Treasuries and MMFs, with yield decoupled into a separate NFT (YLD).
- Defined end-to-end user flows for USST minting and redemption, and the cross-chain bridging flow across Ethereum, BNB Chain, and X Layer — specifying collateral, settlement, and failure paths with engineering and partner protocols.
- Designed vault strategies to scale DeFi TVL — recursive lending against RWA collateral, and structures that cut cost of capital for market makers — against a $50M TVL target in six months across Ethereum and Stellar.
- Own the STBL dApp product lifecycle — requirements, release sequencing, testnet and mainnet documentation, and post-launch iteration — operating as the interface between engineering, design, and go-to-market.
- Built and pitched enterprise use cases generating yield on idle float for perp DEXs, exchanges, and payment companies — converting customer problems into the Enterprise Stablecoin-as-a-Service roadmap.
- Designed the DEX integration playbook (USST-denominated pairs, subsidised-fee revenue share, co-incentive campaigns); led partner conversations building a ~$200M institutional minter pipeline.
Product & Strategy — Algorithmic Trading Advisory (concurrent) at HedgedBAC (2025 – Present)
- Defined the non-custodial product model: clients retain custody of funds, the firm holds execution-only permissions with no withdrawal rights — turning a security constraint into the core product promise and the lead objection-handler in sales.
- Scoped a unified execution layer across centralized venues and on-chain perps (Hyperliquid, DEXs) — fail-closed and dry-run by default, isolated from research and business tooling so no defect outside it can place an order.
- Owned a 20+ asset universe across L1s, L2s, DeFi majors, and RWA tokens (ETH, SOL, ARB, SUI, ONDO, HYPE, TAO), each running backtested strategies over five timeframes with per-strategy performance attribution.
- Set the trust and disclosure policy — curated, disclaimered figures in public, real performance behind an authenticated portal with row-level security — scoped to India's 30% + 1% TDS regime, with counsel review gating claims.
- Replaced default vendoring of third-party AI skills into the agent trust boundary with a vetted-manifest model, treating prompt injection as a production risk surface.
Partnerships — DeFi & AVS at KelpDAO (2024-06 – 2024-12)
- Owned the rsETH DeFi integration roadmap across Ethereum mainnet and L2s, sequencing lending market, AMM, and yield vault integrations to grow protocol TVL and deepen liquidity.
- Structured reward stacks combining Kelp incentives with partner-protocol emissions — maximising restaker yield without diluting protocol economics.
- Sourced and onboarded AVSs delegating restaked ETH; authored comparative analyses of the LRT landscape for institutional and developer audiences.
Research and Business Development at CoinDCX (2022-05 – 2024-05)
India's largest crypto exchange by user base.
- Owned CoinDCX's prime crypto baskets for high-value users — GTM, factsheets, rebalancing — and led the tips/signals and news-feed products that drove transaction volume and engagement.
- Built a quantitative token-monitoring model in Python covering token health, on-chain metrics, and post-listing performance — the data layer behind listing decisions.
- Generated $300K in listings and partnerships revenue (Jun–Dec 2023) across L1/L2 protocols, launchpads, and market makers. Whale of the Quarter (Jan'24); promoted Oct'22.
