Sandeep Nailwal is the founder of Polygon and CEO of the Polygon Foundation. He leads Polygon’s vision to build the Open Money Stack, enabling seamless onchain payments and financial activity. Since co-founding Matic Network in 2017, he has helped scale Ethereum and advance blockchain adoption. He also founded Blockchain for Impact and the Nailwal Fellowship, supporting medical research and Web3 builders. He holds an MBA from IIM Mumbai.

Samyak Jain is the Founder of Fluid and Co-founder of Instadapp, innovating in crypto and DeFi since 2018. He began building in DeFi during college, dropping out after winning the 2018 ETHIndia hackathon with a MakerDAO-based tool. Backed by Pantera Capital, Standard Crypto, Naval Ravikant and others in 2019, he went on to build Instadapp, which evolved into Fluid, the fastest DeFi protocol on Ethereum to reach $100B in volume, with peak TVL of approximately $12B.

I'm an engineer and amateur cook, passionate about privacy, cryptography, and distributed systems. I write about the intersection of technology and society, with a focus on building systems that preserve human autonomy and privacy.

Currently, I work with EthSystems to onboard institutions to Ethereum in a way that's performant and confidential, and being pragmatic about the tradeoffs that come with private systems.