Summary
Mohit Vashistha is a blockchain architect and development lead with 8+ years building protocol-level systems, ZK tooling, and full-stack dApps across startups and enterprises. Currently a Development Lead at Standard Chartered, he has previously founded BlockAnt and led blockchain research at aelf, where he implemented zkRollups, zkWasm apps, ZKP-based logins and integrated LLMs to automate smart contract workflows. He combines deep cryptography experience (Groth16, Plonk, Halo2, MPC, polynomial commitments) with hands-on protocol engineering—having shipped rollup sequencers, provers, verifiers and multi-cloud POA networks. Mohit also invests in developer enablement, producing docs, tutorials, talks at Google/Microsoft events, and public tooling like aelf-Playground and Arcadia.fun. Based between Bengaluru and Singapore, he pairs academic rigor from IIIT Guwahati with a founder’s pragmatism, often exploring novel intersections of AI, semi-fungible tokens and privacy-preserving identity.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati
Hindi, English