At CoinSwitch: India's Largest Crypto App 🚀 we collaborated with Hashed Emergent for the latest edition of 'India's Web3 Landscape Report' along with Devfolio, KGeN 🟩, and KPMG India.

Here is a brief thread on some key facts and findings from the report. Stay with me, it's the good stuff.

🚀 In 2023,…

Roadrash inspired biker on Kerala roads 👇🏽

Something seem super fishy

Krutrim AI says it was created by OpenAI

🇮🇳 India continues to make significant progress on VDA regulations, and its influence on the global stage on the subject is greater than ever before with the G20 Presidency.

Reading through the Parliamentary discussions on the subject is crucial to understanding how our…

Been observing how founders and investors tend to confuse token price action for potential customer demand in nascent categories.

Picking where to build on, can be tricky if you are too early and have a limited runway. Wrote a bit about this last day.

decentralised.co/p/the-narrativ…

SHOCKING:

There has been a MAJOR data breach of Modi Govt where personal details of ALL vaccinated Indians including their mobile nos., Aadhaar numbers, Passport numbers, Voter ID, Details of family members etc. have been leaked & are freely available.

Some examples 👇

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Deepak Shenoy I find the NPA numbers very surprising. Compare this to say Amex who one would argue only lends to a very low risk market has a net NPA of 1.43% and these guys are doing P2P at 0%?

With the ReserveBankOfIndia unhappy with the c-KYC database, fintechs and tech majors are looking to push for a blockchain powered decentralised solution.

Today I write about how this could solve many problems but at the same time be challenging to implement.

economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/…

I took two hours to get home today, so I'm going to celebrate with a thread on how a design choice made in the 90s at point A is leading to traffic pileups at point B, 6 kilometers away, in 2023. Brace yourselves.

Being content is the only way to true freedom. A person who embodies this is my father-in-law, Shivaji Patil
He was in the Indian Army & voluntarily retired as a Havaldar after losing his fingers to frostbite during the Kargil War. He started a grocery shop in Belgaum after. 1/5

This Cubbon Park thing is just a symptom of how India treats public spaces.
We treat public spaces as government spaces, not people spaces.
So, any bureaucrat can make any random rule.
Which fundamentally screws poorer people who don't have private spaces.

RBI changes rules for loans. Now

- No increasing the interest rate if you default, or delay, or such. Loans can ONLY have a penalty charge.
- Such penalties will not be added to loan amount. Penalty does not 'compound'.

- Sadly, rule doesn't apply to credit cards.

Do this asap!
All employees who want to choose the old regime MUST tell their employer by the end of this month, before your employer deducts TDS on the first salary slip of the new financial year. In the absence of a specific choice, the default is new regime. This can mean…

Kuthalam in rural Tamil Nadu is using AI for making primary school students speak as good English as their “convent cousins”

My new column NDTV

India is where AI must be tamed for social good. 

ndtv.com/opinion/india-…

I really felt good reporting this story for The Times Of India about how Azim Premji is offering 'perpetual funding' of Rs 25 core to Rs 200 crores to over a dozen social organizations, doubling down on charity in his lifetime #premji

toi.in/OQXMYY toi.in/OQXMYY

A local men's salon, found at every other nook, throughout India is a commonplace for most Indian men. What's uncommon is its demand among YouTubers who reach these salons with their expensive camera and mics to shoot a barber doing their bit.

Your feeds may be filled with bits on how to farm the next big airdrop. There's a reason for it. Some of these airdrops are the equivalent of a decade's worth of median income in emerging markets.

I was curious to understand the mind of some of the decentralised.co/p/on-airdrops…

VCs on my feed be like..

This is worrying