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title: "Ricky Bharti - Co-Founder in United Kingdom | Tal"
description: "Meet Ricky Bharti, Founder @ Brightside: Trade Free Perps based in United Kingdom. AI stack includes hugging face, langchain, and notion."
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# Ricky Bharti on Tal

## Headline

Founder @ Brightside: Trade Free Perps

## About

\(Telegram: @rickybharti\) feel free to drop a DM 🌻 Amalgamation of community building, content creation, design, marketing, partnerships and programming and WEB3\. This allows me to create comprehensive experiences that engage and inspire users\. I have a passion for using my skills to build strong communities and create compelling content that drives results\.

## Location

United Kingdom

## AI stack

hugging face

langchain

notion

openai

## Work experience

Co\-Founder at Brightside, Sep 2025 \- Present · 8 mos, Brightside is a non\-custodial, mobile\-only, free perps trading app\. Currently under beta & is only available via invites\.

Co\-Founder at Puffy Games, Jun 2024 \- Dec 2024 · 7 mos, We’ve shut down Puffy Games In just 4 months, we reached 100K\+ monthly users across 160\+ countries, built an in\-house app, and implemented complex smart contracts\. Building Puffy was a blast for me—scaling the IP, art, music, brand design, ui/ux, features and taking the product from 0 to 1 was an unforgettable experience\.

Head of Dapp Ecosystem at Shardeum, Nov 2022 \- Jun 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, ✴️ Scaled Shardeum’s DApp ecosystem from a few projects to 147, building a pipeline of 456\+ without grants\. \(LayerZero, SushiSwap, BlueMove, QuickSwap, Pyth Network, Huddle01 and many others\) ✴️ Streamlined project management by migrating to Notion, boosting team productivity and project visibility\. Impacting 60% of the company's employee & Improving response time from days to hours\. ✴️ Developed a Figma Brand Kit used by 80\+ team members, enhancing Shardeum’s visual identity across platforms\. ✴️ Produced a 2\-minute animated YouTube video, now featured in Shardeum’s official docs, clarifying key features\. ✴️ Designed merchandise distributed to 5,000\+ community members, showcased at major events like Web3 Goa and ETH India\. ✴️ Streamlined project management by migrating to Notion, boosting team productivity and project visibility\. ✴️ Organized workshops and events, teaching college students about Shardeum and guiding them in building dApps\. ✴️ Led the design of Shardeum University, ensuring a user\-friendly, brand\-aligned educational platform\. ✴️ Created monthly update decks and Twitter threads that simplified and communicated Shardeum’s vision effectively

Core Contributor at Shardeum, Feb 2022 \- Dec 2022 · 11 mos, remote, I've been contributing to Shardeum since the very first day\. I've taken part in every initiative that Shardeum has started, and I've also started my initiatives to help contribute to the success of Shardeum\. My contributions have included \(but are not limited to\) the following: • Contributed Ecosystem Approach PPT \(With Head of BD, Shardeum\) • Created 3D renders for Shardeum • Initiated The sharding series podcast\. \(In post\-editing phase\) • Created first\-ever design kit for Shardeum on Figma \(Used by 100\+ Shardians\) • Started Unofficially Shardeum Merch Store \(5\+ Designs\) • Animated Shardeum Introductory Video \(On Youtube\) • Attended Meetups in Goa Conf for Shardeum and a lot more contributions • Organized Indore Meetup with 80\+ Attendees

Co\-Founder at DotNames, Oct 2022 \- May 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, Remote

Specialist \- Community Manager at CoinDCX, May 2022 \- Dec 2022 · 8 mos, CoinDCX is India's largest crypto exchange, valued at $2 billion, funded by Coinbase\. It has over 10 million users and is a leading exchange\.

## Education

Bachelor of Science Honours, Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

High School Diploma, Mathematics, R\.K\. Academy Biaora

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