Nitish Sahu
I take crypto products from zero to traction. Did it four times — now doing it as a founder.
Experience
Co-founder & CEO
WarpX
Singapore
Native AMM on MegaETH, Frontier Program selectee, live since day-1 mainnet, $100K+ TVL, 12+ partnerships.
- Co-founded WarpX and selected into MegaETH's Frontier program — one of the first AMMs live on
mainnet day-one.
- Work alongside the CTO across the full build, from Frontier selection through testnet to mainnet,
shaping protocol architecture and the V2-to-V3 roadmap (concentrated liquidity, hooks, MEV-protected routing).
- Owned integrations end-to-end: KyberSwap routing, AVON MegaVault USDM deposits built into the
WarpX frontend, Across Protocol bridging, DeFiLlama tracking, and SirioApp futarchy pool migration.
- Designed the Genesis Liquidity Event with tiered multipliers and minimum LP-duration locks, driving
over $100K in TVL.
- Built the brand and growth function from zero, earning features from MegaETH's official channels.
Marketing Lead
Magna (Acquired by Kraken)
New York, NY
$10B+ transaction-scale token management platform. Backed by Tiger Global, Tower Research Capital, and Y-Combinator.
- Ran point on 5+ product launches, lifting qualified inbound leads and securing major enterprise
accounts.
- Hosted 20+ global events with Ledger, Solana, Monad, Anchorage, Berachain, and Kaito, engaging
5,000+ founders and investors.
- Launched the Magna newsletter and scaled it to 20K+ subscribers as a major user acquisition channel.
- Co-marketed tier-1 client project campaigns ahead of their TGE and Node Sale events.
- Streamlined partner outreach, co-marketing, content, and community playbooks, that resulted in
multifold growth in inbound leads.
Founding Growth Lead
Olive Network (Now YieldFi)
Singapore
Layer-3 blockchain on top of Arbitrum Orbit with a gasless experience and staking/restaking yield.
- Planned, launched, and scaled the staking campaign, driving full-stack growth strategies to attract 20 million+ in
total value.
- Spearheaded a community-led ambassador program, recruiting 500 ambassadors, 35 guild members, and 50+
KOLs, and earning recognition as the "Most Active Web3 Community" (Oct-Nov 2023) by Blocmates
- Fostered strategic alliances with top DeFi protocols like Arbitrum, Pendle, EigenLayer Zetachain, and major
LRT protocols (KelpDAO, EtherFi, Puffer, Eigenpie) And drove end-to-end product partnerships and co- marketing activities
- Developed and executed content strategies leading to 15+ million impressions and 130k+ active depositors.
Growth Associate
Mudrex (Y-Combinator W'19)
Bangalore, India
Series A funded and YC backed. One of India’s biggest crypto exchanges with 10 million+ users.
- Collaborated with the product team to introduce effective content & engagement strategies, increasing in-app
engagement by more than 2X
- Found ways to embed the company's core values into content strategy, resulting in 1M+ organic impressions
across social channels
- Grew the Discord community from 500 to over 5000+ members and established the country’s largest student-led
Web3 community, WAGMI, in partnership with top institutions such as IITs and IIMs
- Led organic campaigns across social media to onboard new users and fostered cross-community collaborations,
AMA sessions and live events
Education
Amity University
B.Tech
8.3/10 GPA, minor in IP rights. Founded and led the dept. Entrepreneurship Cell; filed a patent from research presented at the India International Science Conference 2019.
Skills
EDUCATION & FELLOWSHIP
Growth & Product Fellowship
GrowthX—Bangalore, India
Top 1% growth leaders cohort. Applied acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization frameworks to a live company, MX Player.