I work on agentic payments: giving AI agents wallets, identity, and the ability to pay per request over x402 and settle onchain. Basically, I'm helping build the machine-payable web — the rails for an economy where software transacts on its own.
Before Polygon I spent my time deep in protocol engineering and zero-knowledge research. Now I spend it making all of that usable for the agents that are about to become the internet's primary buyers.
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- Agent CLI — one install gives an AI agent a session wallet, an onchain identity, stablecoin payments, swaps, bridging, and pay-per-call API access. No private keys exposed.
- Polygon x402 facilitator (
x402-rs) — the Rust middleware that sits between buyer and seller and facilitates the payment. Server middleware gates a route behind a price; client middleware pays it. - Agentic Services — a directory where services list themselves so paying agents can discover and call them per request in USDC.
- AgentConnect — links an agent to a real, user-approved wallet, and serves the machine-readable skill agents fetch to learn the onchain lifecycle.
- Agentic payments docs — the developer guide for agents that pay onchain: negotiating price, signing intents, settling per request with x402 + ERC-8004.
- PIP-82 — Agentic Commerce Gas Program — a Polygon Improvement Proposal I co-authored, recycling up to $1M in base-fee rebates to public x402 facilitators to cut gas friction for agent-to-agent commerce.
- Ethereum Protocol Fellowship — Protocol contributor. Implemented the EIP-4881 deposit-contract snapshot interface in the Lodestar (ChainSafe) consensus client. Lived deep in execution/consensus client internals, Engine API, SSZ, DevP2P, and RLP.
- Witness Chain — Software Engineering Intern. Built an RSA-accumulator proof of transaction inclusion and smart contracts for an EigenLayer AVS.
- JP Morgan — Research Intern. Researched ZK proof systems (Nova, Plonky2, Groth16, PLONK, Halo2) and built circuits to verify ML models in federated-learning nodes using Circom, Noir, and Rust. Wrote about it →
- BOBDAO — Co-founder. Grew a student Web3 developer community: 10+ workshops, 50+ campus partners, and one of India's largest online Web3 cohorts.
🥇 Filecoin Track Prize @ Unfold Hackathon · 🌟 Top 5 @ Web3 Conference Hack · 🚀 IPFS Track Prize @ ETHIndia
Rust · Solidity · TypeScript · x402 · EVM · ERC-8004 · MCP · ZK (Circom, Noir) · consensus/execution client internals
Building an API, dataset, or MCP tool that agents should pay for — or just want to talk agentic payments and x402? I'm always up for a good thread.