# Anish Agnihotri

> Anish Agnihotri builds and works with focused, technically ambitious teams on blockchain infrastructure, financial markets, and protocol engineering.

Website: https://anish.com/

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I build and work with focused, technically ambitious teams on blockchain infrastructure, financial markets, and protocol engineering.

Most recently, I co-founded [Native Markets](https://nativemarkets.com), where we scaled the USDH stablecoin on Hyperliquid to $100M in supply [1] and [sold it to Coinbase](https://www.coinbase.com/en-ca/blog/coinbase-and-hyperliquid-aligning-markets-on-hyperliquid-to-usdc).

Previously, I was the first of fifty at [Ritual](https://ritual.net) [2], a solo on-chain arbitrageur [3], researcher at [Paradigm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_%28venture_capital_firm%29) [4], and prop trader at [Polychain Capital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychain_Capital).

## Work

- [51% attacking CheapETH](https://twitter.com/anishagnihotri/status/1394202083923042304): Project, 2021-05. First publicized 51% attack against a live blockchain network. 510 likes. Selected work.
- [A Guide to Designing Effective NFT Launches](https://archive.is/bZiNi): Writing, 2021-10. Canonical work on fair NFT auctions and mechanism design. 1,878 likes. Selected work.
- [UCC: From Skin Trader to NFT Expert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY3h0YM4yxk): Podcast, 2021-10. Market structure, trading, and building crypto projects with Hasu. 6,686 views. Selected work.
- [PartyBid](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/partybid): Project, 2021-04. DAO for pooled NFT ownership; spawned PartyDAO ($16.4M by a16z, acq. Stripe). 123 stars. Selected work.
- [FriendMEX](https://friendmex.com): Project, 2023-08. Leading pro interface for friend.tech. 1,080 likes. Selected work.
- [stockgecko.com](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/stockgecko.com): Project, 2026-03. Track 24/7 real-world asset perps: 14 venues, 280+ markets. 44 likes.
- [Blockworks: Interview with a Searcher 2.0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqM9PNPQFMs): Podcast, 2023-04. Finding MEV opportunities, atomic vs non-atomic trades, the role of latency, and more. 6,754 views.
- [mevboost.org](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1570967205822754818): Project, 2022-09. Track Ethereum Proof-of-Stake block builders and relays. 784 likes.
- [MultiFaucet](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1459566748303335428): Project, 2021-11. Canonical multi-chain testnet faucet servicing 10M+ claims. 2,480 likes.
- [Flashside](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/flashside): Project, 2022-04. Flash loan/flash swap arbitrage of BAYC/MAYC NFTs. 1,140 likes.
- [Fish.vote](https://x.com/johnpalmer/status/1395075904943108098): Project, 2021-05. First governance Crowd Proposal platform; Uniswap grantee. 425 likes.
- [SantaSwap](https://x.com/santa_swap): Project, 2021-12. On-chain Secret Santa; raised $315k for St. Jude, Girls Who Code, and more. 390 likes.
- [merkle-airdrop-starter](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1476255775366385668): Project, 2021-12. Canonical ERC-20 token airdrop starter using a Merkle tree of recipients. 2,140 likes.
- [daochess](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1407252425292107776): Project, 2021-06. Chess played between governance DAO token holders. 379 likes.
- [Zora Gallery](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1355098515052109827): Project, 2021-01. Front-running Zora's launch with an open-source frontend. 249 likes.
- [Weve](https://weve.email): Project, 2020-05. Private, decentralized mail built on Arweave. 72 stars.
- [GateRepo](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1511295895760867329): Project, 2022-04. Token-gated GitHub repositories. 666 likes.
- [MegaBlock](https://x.com/genzmafia/status/1288625525347348480): Project, 2020-07. Block everyone that liked a tweet; most popular X API product. 137 likes.
- [The Rollup: Purpose-Built AI Chains](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fUMy61lQiM): Podcast, 2025-02. Making AI model outputs verifiable on-chain for DeFi, on Ritual. 550 views.
- [ZKFM: Enhancing On-Chain Intelligence with Ritual](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1du8Wf8m5E): Podcast, 2024-03. Discussing AI x Crypto and developing open-access AI infrastructure. 250 views.
- [sushiswap-exploit](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/sushiswap-exploit): Project, 2023-04. SushiSwap RouteProcessor2 exploit reproduction and whitehat. 93 stars.
- [Hyperbitcoinization](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1636879325436715011): Project, 2023-03. Bitcoin price bet escrow for Balaji. 984 likes.
- [goblinmode](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/goblinmode): Project, 2022-06. Flash loan NFT arbitrage via NFTX shared pools; active alpha. 245 stars.
- [pool-sniper](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/pool-sniper): Project, 2021-10. Uniswap pool creation liquidity sniping bot. 429 stars.
- [MultiRaffle](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/MultiRaffle): Project, 2021-10. Fair NFT distribution reference contracts. 268 stars.
- [LootLoose](https://x.com/gakonst/status/1433596713189711872): Project, 2021-09. Smart contracts to unbundle and rebundle Loot ERC-721s. 719 likes.
- [Bankless: Gimme the Loot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNM6y3RyFks): Podcast, 2021-09. Discussing Loot NFT rarity, data, and community. 6,439 views.
- [dhof-loot](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/dhof-loot): Project, 2021-08. D&A tooling for Loot + derivative projects. 227 stars.
- [tweetdrop](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/tweetdrop): Project, 2021-08. Canonical X scripts to generate airdrop lists from tweets. 156 stars.
- [PawNFT](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1418658823116627973): Project, 2021-07. NFT-collateralized lending via fixed-term active bids. 308 likes.
- [Waffle](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/waffle): Project, 2021-06. NFT raffle implementation via Chainlink VRF. 49 stars.
- [Punk-NFTX-Meebit-Arb](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1504500300815732741): Project, 2021-05. Flash loan NFT arbitrage for Meebits via CryptoPunks in shared pools. 509 likes.
- [Uniswap LP Art](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1390218911740743683): Project, 2021-05. Uniswap v3 LP position art web simulator. 270 likes.
- [ENS-Lootbox](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/ens-lootbox): Project, 2021-05. Incentivizing ENS name donations à la loot boxes. 20 stars.
- [DataLeak](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1378780300864585728): Project, 2021-04. Facebook data leak inclusion checker. 270 likes.
- [WineFT](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1365940792276250629): Project, 2021-02. Aged NFTs: increasing timelock after each transfer. 161 likes.
- [Fuel Doctor](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1345080245834145795): Project, 2021-01. First interactive demo of the Fuel L2 blockchain. 19 likes.
- [via-mirror-bot](https://twitter.com/viamirrorbot): Project, 2021-01. Automated bot to track posts on the Mirror platform. 5 likes.
- [MerchWith](https://x.com/josephpalbanese/status/1334550610956361729): Project, 2020-12. 22 creators making COVID-19 masks; payout splits powered by Stir. 970 likes.
- [Comp.Vote](https://x.com/Arr00c/status/1341549003834617856): Project, 2020-12. First gasless voting & delegation platform for DAO governance; Compound grantee. 69 likes.
- [SaveAirrack](https://x.com/search): Project, 2020-12. Guerrilla marketing campaign via Twilio to take YouTuber Airrack to 1M+ subscribers.
- [FilStats](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1316992377656119296): Project, 2020-10. First Filecoin storage analytics platform. 685 likes.
- [QuadraticVote.co](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/quadratic-voting): Project, 2020-10. Real-time quadratic voting dashboard for social, community voting. 93 stars.
- [OnlyTweets](https://x.com/josephpalbanese/status/1308801270740783105): Project, 2020-09. Paywalled X accounts; reference to official X subscriptions implementation. 476 likes.
- [KanyeContract](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1306316970632138753): Project, 2020-09. Kanye West's label contract immutably stored on Arweave. 68 likes.
- [Presubscribe](https://x.com/josephpalbanese/status/1296513871562199040): Project, 2020-08. Subscribe to creators before they go independent. 259 likes.
- [WTFisQF](https://x.com/owocki/status/1290274006822555653): Project, 2020-08. Quadratic funding matching calculator with Gitcoin. 163 likes.
- [Vibes.fyi](https://x.com/anishagnihotri/status/1286512356663730177): Project, 2020-07. Positive message board, moderated by AI; one of the first users of the GPT-3 API. 85 likes.
- [Stat.Farm](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/stat.farm): Project, 2020-07. Compound Finance COMP token farming dashboard. 22 stars.
- [AlgoSearch](https://github.com/anish-agnihotri/algosearch): Project, 2020-07. Early Algorand block explorer. 14 stars.
- [Memory](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/Memory): Project, 2020-02. iOS Mood Tracker & Diary, published on the App Store. 13 stars.
- [Locked in DeFi Bot](https://x.com/defilocked): Project, 2020-02. Early DeFi TVL growth notification bot.
- [AlgoFund](https://devpost.com/software/algofund): Project, 2019-09. GitHub issue bounty platform built on Algorand.
- [SquareSign](https://devpost.com/software/squaresign): Project, 2019-09. Decentralized notary via Squarelink authentication.
- [Patreaion](https://devpost.com/software/patreaion): Project, 2019-03. ERC-1337 recurring subscriptions on the Aion blockchain.
- [dappnode.com](https://github.com/dappnode/DAppNode_website): Project, 2019-02. Built the first dappnode website for at-home blockchain node operators.
- [UEscrow](https://devpost.com/software/uescrow): Project, 2018-11. Escrow platform for ERC-20 tokens.
- [Encrypton](https://devpost.com/software/pidentity): Project, 2018-09. Encrypted notarization with documents on IPFS.
- [SignRecord](https://devpost.com/software/signrecord): Project, 2018-09. Storing DocuSign packages on IPFS, in one interface.
- [CRYBL](https://devpost.com/software/crybl-competitive-crypto-trading): Project, 2018-01. Crypto social trading platform via CMC price tracking.
- [TouchCoin](https://devpost.com/software/touchcoin): Project, 2017-10. 5s block-time blockchain via EPoW, forking CryptoNote (Bytecoin).
- [JustLaw](https://github.com/Anish-Agnihotri/Just-Law): Project, 2017-06. Better search front-end for legal document engines CanLII and FindLaw. 28 stars.

## References

- [Crypto Exchange Hyperliquid Picks Winner for New Stablecoin](https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/crypto-exchange-hyperliquid-picks-winner-new-stablecoin): [1] The Information. Native Markets is coming for Circle's $6 billion market share.
- [Crypto Power Struggle Flares as Stripe Nabs Big Stablecoin Win](https://archive.is/mnSME): [1] Bloomberg. Native Markets partnered with Stripe Inc.’s stablecoin arm.
- [Hyperliquid Turns Up The HYPE — And The Heat On Circle's USDC](https://archive.is/JKSgH): [1] Forbes. Native Markets to issue USDH, Hyperliquid's first native stablecoin.
- [Crypto companies are fighting in a 'Bachelor'-style frenzy to launch a stablecoin that will power DeFi's hottest exchange](https://archive.is/xiw8t): [1] Fortune. Bridge and partner Native Markets are considered favorites to win the race.
- [Former Polychain partners raise $25 million for Ritual, a startup focused on decentralizing AI](https://archive.is/ZmLKd): [2] Fortune. Ritual hopes to wrest control of the industry away from big tech.
- [Blockworks: Interview with a Searcher 2.0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqM9PNPQFMs): [3] Blockworks. Dean and Anish explain how MEV searchers find MEV opportunities, atomic vs. non-atomic trades, the role of latency, and more.
- [Expanding our Research Team](https://archive.is/g6ABW): [4] Paradigm. Anish Agnihotri had his first crypto wallet at age 11. Prior to Paradigm, Anish was shipping new products faster than most companies.
- [Crypto VC firm Paradigm debuts monster $2.5 billion fund](https://archive.is/vXxtz): [4] TechCrunch. The firm announced a $2.5 billion venture fund, the largest crypto fund ever.