Alaukik Pant
Product Lead & Founding Engineer @ Grvt
Hi there, I'm a product person. I'm interested in neo-finance apps and AI consumer products - specifically how AI helps people turn unstructured user intent into execution queries and make apps more fun to use.
Currently, I lead the product function at Grvt, a full stack exchange (savings, equities, commodities, crypto). I joined as employee #2 pre-product, wrote its settlement contracts, then started the product practice from zero as the exchange grew past $400 billion in lifetime trading volume.
I studied liberal arts and computer science at Yale-NUS College (Thesis) and Columbia University.
Experience
Founding engineer since day zero, now leading a product team of 3+ working across engineering, design, and growth to scale the exchange 10x. Over $400B in lifetime trading volume, ~$100M in TVL, and $33M+ raised from Matrix Partners, Galaxy, QCP Capital, ZK Foundation, Further Ventures, Delphi Digital, and others.
Co-Museum was a marketplace for tokenizing fine art, incubated by Coinhako and FASS@Le Freeport. As part of the founding team, I wrote the initial smart contracts and built the marketplace to trade tokenized Monets, Banksys, and Picassos — and learned that the art may be priceless, but a marketplace for masterpieces isn't a venture-scale market.
Worked on real-time e-commerce logistics systems.
My Crypto Predictions from 2018
In 2018, I spent an hour every week with Professor Andrew Bailey (author of Resistance Money) and two friends discussing cryptocurrencies and the philosophy behind them. That class was my gateway into crypto, and we wrote down our predictions for where it was all headed. Read them here — unedited, from 2018.
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