I research how banks, market infrastructure and regulators in Asia could use Ethereum, and write it up for the people who have to decide.
About
I write The Monsoon Ledger, a weekly on policy, regulation and Ethereum across Asian finance, and was lead researcher on Ethereum and Indian Institutional Finance for ETHIndia. My focus is tokenisation, settlement and verification in India, Singapore and Hong Kong.
I spent twenty years inside large institutions and four years inside Ethereum. My work now sits where the two meet. Strategy and analytics roles at Deloitte and Medallia taught me how institutions evaluate and adopt technology. Allocating and measuring capital onchain at Gitcoin, Metagov and Scroll taught me how Ethereum behaves in production. More about me →
🏦 Current Work
- The Monsoon Ledger: weekly briefings for banks, market infrastructure and regulators across India, Singapore and Hong Kong. Regulatory Wire tracks circulars as they land, Pilot Scorecard follows institutional pilots, and Under the Hood explains the systems behind them. • Subscribe
- Ethereum and Indian Institutional Finance (ETHIndia, 2026): lead researcher on a seven-module briefing that starts from India’s tokenisation mandates under SEBI and RBI and asks what they should run on. Every figure is source-linked in a public ledger with verification tiers. • Briefing
🛠️ Earlier Work: Capital Allocation Onchain
- ENS DAO Governance Research Platform: analytics for Metagov’s independent governance review of a $400M+ treasury, built on a reproducible stack across 7 onchain and forum sources • Dashboard • Report
- GG24 Interop Standards Round: co-designed and operated Ethereum’s first interop-focused grants domain, a $100K+ round • Retrospective
- GG24 Capital Allocation Analysis: showed that quadratic funding underfunds ecosystem-critical infrastructure • Analysis
🤝 Work With Me
I work with banks, market infrastructure, fintechs and protocol teams taking Ethereum into regulated finance in Asia: regulatory and market mapping, commissioned research, pilot evaluation and advisory. I’m also open to full-time roles and speaking.
How I work with teams → · 📅 Book a 30-min intro call
✍️ Explore the Garden
A decade of writing, organized into five themes.
- Ethereum & Institutional Finance — privacy, settlement, and what it takes for institutions to adopt public blockchains
- Public Goods & Coordination — funding mechanisms, grants programs, and the data behind Web3 ecosystems
- The Art of Work — careers, product craft, and staying competent in the age of AI
- Building Better Orgs — work culture, leadership, and how organizations decide
- Living Well — attention, contentment, and the slow compounding of a deliberate life
Featured essays
- Ethereum’s Privacy Stack and the Gap in the Middle
- Being Right Isn’t Enough - Lessons for Ethereum from a 90s OS War
- The Infrastructure for Insight - Cultivating Personal Judgement in the Age of Generation
- Why Most Organisations Aren’t Ready for AI (and It’s Not a Tech Problem)
- If You Aren’t Content Without it, You Won’t be Content With it
Alongside the essays, I grow an atomic notes library in public. It includes short reflections and referenced ideas that compound into the writing above.
✨ Off the Track
I believe slow miles and metaphors both help in understanding complexity, one through the body, the other through the heart. When I’m not reading regulatory circulars, I’m usually:
- 🛠 Fixing a puncture mid-ride on roads across Bangalore
- ✍️ Scribbling poetry that often feels like debugging emotions