🔥 Indian Crypto scene is LIT af!

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Another weekend and you know what that means?

Brigade Road Bender?

Road trip to Nandhi Hills?

Web3 crypto meetups ✅

Here are the web3 meetups that went down over the weekend in BLR:

• Kaari Konnect

• StarkCon

• BLR ♀️hacker house

• SGC Demo Day

One project — StarkWare

This weekend was all about — StarkWare!

They’re building v v cool products like:

• StartkNet

• StarkEx

What’s StarkNet?

No, it’s not a net you use to catch Tony Starks.

What’s StarkEx?

No, it has nothing to do with stalking your ex.

A Layer-2 scalability engine, live on Ethereum Mainnet.

Wait what?

I need that doodhwala version.

So, in mumbo-jumbo terms — zero-knowledge proofs are a way where one party can convey to the other party that something is true without any additional data points.

It’s like when you ask your mom where THAT blue shirt is and she says, it’s on the right side of the closet. If she says it’s there, IT’S THERE.

She don’t need no additional data points like — when did you last wear it? Was it washed? Nope, she knows where it is and more importantly, where it isn’t.

These L2s use zero-knowledge to perform rollups (these are called ZK Rollups).

A rollup is a process of moving data and computation off the main blockchain. Rollups can process tons of TXNs in a batch and post a snipped to the main blockchain.

This way, rollups:

• increases throughput

• decreases TXN fees

• makes life easier

Shout out to Gyan Lakshmi for a mad insightful lesson on StarkWare, StartNet, and the programming language behind it all, Cairo.

You can learn more about StarkWare here, zk-rollups here, and StarkNet’s here.

One artist — Siddhanth Sharma

On Saturday evening with unused umbrellas and traffic-fried brains, we went for Kari Kollective’s Konnect day, and it was 👌

Here’s what we saw:

• Eyespy: NFT artists are moving beyond just visual art, into audio, video, and even food (not kidding)

• Mo marketplaces: It’s not just Opensea where NFT artists are selling their swag, it’s places like WazirX, BinanceNFT, and even niche NFT marketplaces like Naksh

• Indie artists: Art goes beyond just the big cities of BLR, MUM, or DEL, they come from all over the country and they’re heading all over the globe.

We checked out a baller NFT artist — Siddhant Sharma — who made this crazy artwork and even turned many of 'em into NFTs.

Man’s 20 and already making baller art like this!

Brb while we go mint and buy some of his NFTs.

But seriously, these artists are making mad artwork. And with NFTs, they can monetize their creativity and people like us can invest in them.

This is such a cool utility of web3 — giving indie artists a way to distribute, monetize, and even scale their artwork to the world through the blockchain.

✌️

One Protocol - HighFi 🙌

Big Matty’s Sino Global Capital in association with Devfolio held an irl Demo Day on Sunday.

What’s a Demo Day?

It’s a day for demos. 🤷‍♂️

A bunch of promising web3 projects pitched their products and protocols to a bunch of VCs with presentations and all.

The whole setting was amazing and it was made to feel like it was straight out of Apple’s iPhone launch presentation.

Take a look for yourself:

We found out about a lot of cool projects and learned more about the ones we already knew like:

• 👨‍🔬 Solvent Protocol - A platform built for all your NFT liquidity needs on Solana. You can also use this to borrow a loan against your NFTs. Now, the team is working on Strikr (kickass name), a platform to sell any NFT from any collection without owning one. (Umm…what??)

• ⛓ Truts - Trust in Truts! This is a killer platform built by Raj Karia and his team to discover great web3 communities without having to spend a lot of time and effort.

• 🎾 CricInShots - Football Manager but for Cricket. And with crypto incentives. What better way to get the Indian youth going than with crypto and Cricket! The team also gave an amazing pitch and will soon be launching their beta version.

• 💡 Lighthouse - This is some BIG brains project! Built on top of IPFS and Filecoin, it is a platform that allows you to just pay once and store all your files forever. Yes, FOREVER. Spearheaded by Nandit Mehra who gives us a lot of Steve Jobs vibez. Definitely, one to keep an eye on.

• 🏏 SwoopFantasy - This is Swoop Fantasy explained in one meme

There is one other protocol that particularly caught our attention (and our attention is very hard to catch).

It’s HighFi.

No, they are not a “decentralized” way to say hello to someone.

It is a platform that was originally built to offer seamless customer support for crypto companies in a decentralized manner.

But they recently hit the “HARD PIVOT” button.

Now, they are building a notification service that will notify you of blockchain activity in your preferred ways/channels.

Oh, and did we mention that it’s all going to be fully decentralized?

The co-founder, Gautam Sabhahit, also gave a pitch during the Demo Day and we loved it!

The project has also received pre-seed funding from the likes of Consensys and Protocol Labs.

So, you know the potential is immense with this project.

The doodhwala will keep a close on this project to see the cool things they build and report back to y’all.

Until then…keep sippin’ on some taaza doodh, James Bond style.

Shaken, not stirred. 😉

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That’s all for today peeps! Naale Sigona!

Aakash "Dahi Cheeni" Athawasya & Arvind "Doodh Peda" Krishna

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