hey, i'm anish. i work on trading infra on solana, mostly in rust and typescript (some go). cs student at pes university in bengaluru.
spicenet (prev. pepperdex, spedx)
- co-founded spedx, a solana perps dex, in high school. it became pepperdex on hxro's dexterity, then spicenet. protocol engineer there till 2026
- built most of the pepperdex trading app and backend. lots of tx landing work during the 2024 congestion: simulation, dynamic priority fees, rebroadcasting, a cloudflare worker fanning txs out to helius, triton and jito
- after the pivot, ported dexterity onto a sovereign sdk rollup and built a smart wallet with session keys and multisig. all private, so most of my rust isn't on here
hackathons
- nonci: pre-signed nft mints on durable nonces so they don't expire before the drop (2023)
- decharge: wrote the anchor program. 2nd in the depin track at solana renaissance (~1,000 projects), later raised as a startup
- vaxchain: placed at hyperdrive
lately
- unsus: checks npm packages before they install, which matters now that agents run npm install on their own
- paddock: a persistent linux box for agents over mcp, without handing them your machine
other
- beanstalk (2026): brokerage for tokenized stocks and gold. didn't take off
- co-wrote a paper on reading handwritten indian prescriptions with vision models
- oss: StateVec::remove in sovereign sdk (still on dev), prs to raycast, kbar, homebrew-cask, exercism, ccusage
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