0xShikhar

Writing

Notes on ledgers, payments, identity and AI agents, and the engineering decisions behind them. Also available as RSS.

# essays

I Shipped a Lot of Web3 Projects. Most of Them Taught Me the Same Thing.
Oct 2026
Building on Canton: The Private Blockchain That Actually Runs Production Finance
Aug 2025
The ZK Identity Trilemma: Privacy, Verifiability, and Machine-Readability
Jul 2025
Cross-Chain State: A Field Guide to Not Losing Money
Jun 2025
Why AI Agents Need a Payment Layer, Not Just an API Key
Jun 2025
Designing a Restaking Protocol from Zero: What I Got Wrong at NexusFi
Jan 2024
Cross-Chain Bridges: What 'Trust Minimized' Actually Means
Feb 2022
How Liquidity Aggregators Actually Work: A Developer's View from the Inside
Oct 2021