Hey there! I'm Deepansh Singh. My journey began in college in 2017 as a first-year chemical engineering student when I started an AI-based home automation system as a side project, back when AI was neither cool nor easy to build. This first entrepreneurial leap taught me lessons on team building and execution. We garnered government grants and support to build the MVP, for which I received the Young India Fellowship award. In 2019, I went all in with distributed ledger technology (DLT) research, focusing on the consensus layer and scalability via sharding. In 2020, I joined Polkadex, an HFT-based infrastructure on Polkadot, as a founding team member and COO. There, I helped build a community of 50K members, raised $6M from VCs like Kenetic, LD, QCP, and GBV, and played an execution role in launching the Mainnet in 2021 and the DEX in 2023. By 2024, we had achieved $24M in trading volume. I've since transitioned to an advisory role and am currently taking a short break. During this time, I've also become an advisor, mentor, and contributor to numerous DAOs and accelerators. I'm not very active on LinkedIn DMs, but you can reach out to me via Telegram at @singhdeepansh.