Headline

SPECTER (post-quantum privacy) · AI agents × crypto infra · Built VANTA AI tx firewall · ex-VP Engg. & Head of Ecosystem, Push Protocol ·

About

I build infrastructure for the moment AI agents start holding keys and moving money. For 8+ years, I've shipped production blockchain systems, Substrate chains, Hyperledger Fabric, cross-chain relayers, and spent five years at Push Protocol as VP of Engineering and then Head of Ecosystem & Integrations, where my team shipped 300+ protocol integrations, and I built the backend for a quest system that onboarded 80,000+ wallets. My AI work started before LLMs: in 2018 I was a data scientist building fraud detection and market-making analytics for a crypto exchange. Today it sits where AI, privacy and post-quantum cryptography meet: → SPECTER (founder) — post-quantum stealth addresses on ML-KEM-768 (NIST FIPS 203), extending ERC-5564. Rust core, WASM/npm SDK, live on four testnets, built as the private payment layer for AI agents. 3rd prize, EthCC[9]. → VANTA — an AI transaction firewall: every onchain action needs two approvals, the human's and an AI reviewer's. Track winner, ETHGlobal Cannes. → Morrow — agentic checkout: photograph an item, a vision model verifies the exact match (rejecting near-lookalikes), and a passkey approves one bounded, non-reusable payment. I also co-founded TheRawByte, a research-led content studio for AI-agent infra and privacy/ZK teams,and have spoken at 40+ conferences. Stack: Python · TypeScript · Rust · Solidity | LLM agents, tool use, multimodal verification | ML-KEM / ML-DSA, ZK | EVM, Cosmos, Substrate | RAG

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

codex

grok

langchain

langgraph

mcp

Work experience

Head of Ecosystem & Integrations at Push Chain, Apr 2023 - Jul 2026 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Remote, Led ecosystem, integrations and developer platform for Push Chain, from protocol integrations to the backend that onboarded 80K+ wallets. AI & developer tooling - Built an AI code-review GitHub Action from scratch: on every PR it pulls the diff, filters noise, chunks it and has an LLM post inline review comments against a protocol-specific checklist, speeding up review of community and grant contributions. - Built a RAG assistant over Push docs, SDK references and integration guides so developers get cited answers instead of waiting on support. - Authored integration guides, runbooks and awesome-push to make integrations self-serve. Platform engineering - Architected the Push Chain Season 3 backend (portal.push.org): 80K+ unique wallets, 40+ quest verifiers, sybil-resistant referral economy, phased launch with no-redeploy emergency controls, 27+ DB migrations, zero launch-day rollbacks. TypeScript, GCP Cloud Functions Gen2, MongoDB, Prisma. - Deployed the Hermes relayer connecting Push Chain to Cosmos chains over IBC. - Executed $PUSH tokenomics: Polygon bridge strategy and DEX liquidity via farm design. Ecosystem & growth - Led the integrations team to 300+ protocol integrations. - Launched the Push India Ambassador Program (200K+ reach), Push Points rewards, the BRB campaign and Project G.U.D. for new builders. - Booth and developer-onboarding lead at ETHGlobal Bangkok, ETHGlobal Istanbul and ETHIndia; piloted NFC-based POAP issuance at events. - Researched intents, solver design and relayer optimisations that fed Push Chain's infra roadmap. - Ran developer email campaigns on self hosted Sendy.

VP of Engineering at Push Chain, Nov 2021 - May 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos, Built and led the engineering team behind Push (formerly EPNS) multi-chain infrastructure. - Cut AWS infrastructure costs by 47% through DevOps automation, deployment optimisation and right-sizing. - Introduced Push Improvement Proposals (PIPs) to formalise protocol changes. - Led work to decentralise Push nodes and build wallet-to-wallet chat. - Migrated docs from GitBook to Docusaurus; set repo, review and CI standards. - Defined engineering KPIs with weekly reporting to leadership; hired engineers with the Talent team. - Led Push at ETHGlobal HackMoney and ran online and offline web3 workshops.

Blockchain Consultant at Push Chain, Sep 2021 - Nov 2021 · 3 mos

Blockchain Coach at Great Learning, May 2021 - Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Software Engineer at Dhiway, Aug 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, > Working on Substrate [Polkadot] to create our own Blockchain. > Working on the Substrate benchmarking. > Development and integration of pallets in Substrate blockchain.

Software Engineer (Blockchain) at Terse Software Pvt. Ltd., Apr 2019 - Jul 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos, Pune Area, India, 1. Created an ERC-20 and integrated with Web app using web3.js and used Truffle framework for development. 2. Worked on LOOM Network and deployed ERC-20 for the purpose of omission of gas fees. 3. Worked on Hyperledger Fabric Automation. 4. Worked on Hyperledger Fabric solution to store secure data information. 5. Leading project of the University of Manchester project named Modern Slavery on Hyperledger Fabric. 6. Working on HelloSME project FTP that is Blockchain-based procurement service and used IBM Blockchain.

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, SKIT Jaipur

Blockchain developer Nanodegree, Computer Science, Udacity

Public links

github: https://github.com/pranshurastogi

medium: https://medium.com/@pranshurastogi

youtube.com: https://youtube.com/@pranshurastogi

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