Rohas Nagpal

I started my career in the early 1990s as a hacker. My life-long love affair with Cryptography started when I chanced upon David Chaum's work on blind digital signatures. In 1999, I co-founded the Asian School of Cyber Laws and moved to Cyber Crime Investigation. My investigations spanned 18 countries, and I first heard of crypto in 2011 when I was assisting law enforcement agencies in cases involving the drug mafia using Bitcoin for payments. I found the concept of Bitcoin fascinating and even mined some. And then I made one of my biggest mistakes. I 'deleted' my bitcoins! In 2016, I co-founded BankChain - a community of 37 international banks plus IBM, Microsoft & Intel. Currently, I am the Chief Blockchain Architect of the Hybrid Finance Blockchain (HyFi). I have authored the Crypto Playbook and am a columnist for NDTV and Mint. I have developed the Crypto Asset Valuation Engine (CAVE) and conducted the free Blockchain ADDS course for developers and architects. I also mentor early-stage Blockchain / Crypto / DeFi / Web3 startups.