What I do now
I research how banks, market infrastructure and regulators in India, Singapore and Hong Kong could use Ethereum for tokenisation, settlement and verification. In practice:
- Writing The Monsoon Ledger, a weekly on policy, regulation and Ethereum across Asian finance, with a regulatory wire, a pilot scorecard and technical explainers.
- Leading research on Ethereum and Indian Institutional Finance for ETHIndia, a seven-module briefing on India’s tokenisation mandates and what they should run on.
- Advising teams taking Ethereum into regulated markets in Asia, starting from the specific problem and the person who owns it.
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How I got here
I spent twenty years across consulting, product, and research, including strategy and analytics roles at Deloitte and Medallia. That is where I learned how large institutions evaluate technology: through procurement, risk committees and a demand for evidence over enthusiasm.
Around 2021 I went down the decentralization rabbit hole and stayed. What began as writing about DAOs and public goods (runner-up, HackerNoon Contributor of the Year for DAO coverage, 2022) turned into building and operating: GrantsScope, funding-flow analyses across Gitcoin Grants 22 to 24, Ethereum’s first interop-focused grants domain, and the analytics behind Metagov’s governance review of ENS DAO, a $400M+ treasury. Four years of allocating and measuring capital onchain taught me how the Ethereum stack behaves in production and how to tell what it delivers.
In 2026 those two halves met. India has already decided to tokenise, Singapore and Hong Kong are running pilots, and the open question is what this infrastructure should run on. I now work on that question.
Full chronology, with roles and dates →
Off the track
I live in Bangalore. 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 riding long distances around Bangalore or scribbling poetry.
Bios for organizers
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Short (~50 words):
Rohit Malekar researches how banks, market infrastructure and regulators in Asia could use Ethereum. He writes The Monsoon Ledger, a weekly on policy, regulation and Ethereum across Asian finance, and led research on ETHIndia’s briefing on Ethereum and Indian institutional finance. Earlier he spent twenty years at firms like Deloitte and Medallia.
Longer (~100 words):
Rohit Malekar researches how banks, market infrastructure and regulators in India, Singapore and Hong Kong could use Ethereum for tokenisation, settlement and verification. He writes The Monsoon Ledger, a weekly on policy, regulation and Ethereum across Asian finance, and was lead researcher on Ethereum and Indian Institutional Finance, a seven-module briefing published by ETHIndia. Before this he spent four years allocating and measuring capital inside Ethereum: co-running Gitcoin grant rounds, designing Ethereum’s first interop standards funding round, and building the analytics behind Metagov’s governance review of ENS DAO. His earlier career spans twenty years of strategy, product and analytics, including Deloitte and Medallia.
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