Jaski
Building products and writing on systems that sit at the edge of software, markets, and physical infrastructure.
Work
Polkassembly
Built the go-to platform for community voting and treasury decisions in a $10B ecosystem; for 250k+ users.
Processed $350M+ in grants; treasury tool hit $300M+ in assets under management.
Learned how distributed systems, made of protocol + humans, work.
Avail
Raised $70M across Seed and Series A.
Both rounds co-led by Founders Fund.
Got closer to what it takes to scale deep infrastructure.
Woodstock Fund
Research and investments at India's oldest blockchain-focused VC firm.
Led the founding of Woodstock Labs, the firm's in-house venture studio.
Learned that early-stage investing is a bet on people and timing, above all else; caught the builder bug.
Park+
Owned FASTag and Challan — the two highest-revenue product lines — at India's top parking and mobility company.
Helped scale the product to $10M ARR within 14 months; servicing 5M+ users.
Learned what real execution feels like - physical, relentless, and measured in outcomes.
Nomura
Got a full-time offer out of college at one of the world's top investment banks.
Turned it down to join a 50-person startup - and never looked back.
Projects
CityXplorer
Record paths as trips; save memories as audio, photos, and videos. Local and private. Continuation of Alex Jafri's product work.
A living map of hydrogen data: projects, capacity, usage, demand, supply, and government schemes.
Governance UI for Polkadot and Kusama.
Multisig and treasury tooling for Substrate chains.
Essays
From Fins to Silicon: Evolution in the Age of Abundance and Designed Intelligence
How evolution is evolving: gene editing, BCIs, longevity, and the question of what we optimize for when we can design selection.
The Perp DEX Wars: How Hyperliquid Ruled and Who's Catching Up
Decentralized perpetuals from niche to trillion-dollar battleground; Hyperliquid, Aster, Lighter, and the race for on-chain derivatives.
Lessons from History and Mythology for Today's DAOs
Consensus, inclusiveness, and shared purpose—drawn from Iroquois Confederacy, Athenian democracy, and myth.
Buying Recall in AI Search
A technical model for financing answer-first search: sponsored retrieval and one sponsored follow-up without selling out the model's voice.
Notes
The sun is a giant fusion reactor in the sky. We’re not short of energy; we’re short of the means to capture and move it. That’s an engineering problem, not a physics problem.
Hydrogen is the missing link between renewables and heavy industry. You can store it, move it, and burn it without carbon. The bottleneck is cost and infrastructure—both are coming down.
We need to think in terms of terawatts. Anything that doesn’t scale to that is a detour. Solar, wind, nuclear, and the grid to connect them—that’s the stack that matters.
Reading list
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- The Campaigns of Napoleon
- Shoe Dog
- Elon Musk
- Losing My Virginity
- A Brief History of Time
- Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Aside
Hiking, archery, running. Trained in Kung Fu; pursuing a private pilot license.