Nischal Shetty

Nischal Shetty is the founder and CEO of India's leading cryptocurrency exchange WazirX. He is passionate about technology, innovation and blockchain. With a decade-long experience in building and scaling global products, he has established two successful startups – Crowdfire, a social media management product with over 20 Million users, and WazirX, India’s largest crypto exchange by volume with over 10 Million users. At present he is building Shardeum, which is one of the first layer one blockchain from India. It will address the scalability issue of blockchain.

Nischal has been active in the crypto space for a long time with the mission to make crypto accessible to everyone in India. He has also been fighting for bringing positive crypto regulation in India with his renowned Twitter campaign called #IndiaWantsCrypto for over 1000 days.

He’s also a leading investor/advisor at several cutting-edge startups like EPNS, Wint Wealth, Invideo, Hypersign, Remtir spanning across diverse industries like Blockchain protocols, Lending, Finance, Video-tech, etc. Nischal is also serving as one of the Board of Directors at Zilliqa Capital, a blockchain investment company investing in India-focused FinTech, Open Finance, and Decentralised Finance solutions.

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