Ajay Singh

Blockchain & AI Leader · Serial Entrepreneur

I architected the world's first enterprise-ready blockchain network on Hyperledger — deployed on-premise at Walmart. Today I build at the intersection of blockchain and AI, from regulated crypto wallets to USD-backed stablecoins.

LinkedIn Top Voice · Blockchain Dell 40 Under 40 Hyperledger Speakers Bureau
Ajay Singh
// About

Builder, founder, and enabler in deep tech

Ajay Singh is a blockchain and AI leader and serial entrepreneur with over 15 years turning frontier technology into production systems for some of the world's largest institutions. He is best known for architecting and implementing the world's first enterprise-ready blockchain network on Hyperledger, deployed on-premise at Walmart to power DLT Labs' DL Asset Track.

A co-founder of DLT Labs and D26 Ventures, he has repeatedly built companies and products from the ground up — most recently establishing a 50+ engineer development centre in India delivering global crypto products (RockWallet and the MNEE stablecoin), and serving as Co-Founder & CTO of PlatterHub and MVP Materials.

Earlier, he built high-throughput, low-latency financial systems for the National Stock Exchange of India and BNP Paribas — a grounding in mission-critical, regulated systems that underpins his Web3 and AI work today.

Point of view

  • Institutional DeFi adoption hinges on solving "risk socialization"
  • MPC & private-key recovery are foundational to mainstream crypto
  • AI agents are reshaping how software gets built
  • India's next wave: decentralization, open source, deep tech
// What I do

Capabilities

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Blockchain & Web3

Enterprise DLT, stablecoins, crypto wallets, Hyperledger. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Polkadot.

🤖

AI & Applied AI

AI-assisted engineering, AI agents & MCP, AI grading and traceability.

Architecture at Scale

High-throughput, low-latency, cloud-agnostic, multi-tenant systems.

👥

Engineering Leadership

Building and scaling India development centres for global products.

☁️

Cloud & Data

AWS, GCP, Azure. PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Cassandra, data lakes.

🧩

Product & Stack

MERN, NestJS, Next.js, React Native, Node.js, modern C++.

// By the numbers

Impact

1st
Enterprise-ready Hyperledger network (Walmart)
200K+
RockWallet customers globally
~50ms
Latency @ 5,000 concurrent transactions
+40%
Developer productivity via AI tooling
// Ventures

Building at the frontier

MNEE

Stablecoin
Architect & Delivery

USD-backed stablecoin launched on Ethereum (ERC-20) & BSV. Infrastructure sustaining ~50ms latency at 5,000 concurrent transactions.

RockWallet

Crypto Wallet
Architect & Delivery

Regulated (FinCEN-registered, SOC 2, ISO 27001) buy/swap/sell/trade wallet serving 200,000+ customers globally.

PlatterHub

AI · AdTech
Co-Founder & CTO

AI-powered influencer-marketing platform screening 50,000+ vetted creators for end-to-end, ROI-driven campaigns.

MVP Materials

Blockchain · AI
Co-Founder & CTO

World's first integrated circular-battery solution — blockchain traceability and AI grading for an EU-ready battery passport.

DLT Labs

Enterprise DLT
Co-Founder

World's first enterprise-ready blockchain — deployed on-premise at Walmart for DL Asset Track. Cloud-agnostic, multi-tenant, single-click on-prem.

LockDocs

FinTech
Architect

Document-automation for wealth & fund management — digitized forms, workflow automation, built-in compliance.

// Career

Experience

2023 — Present

Technology Leader — India Development Centre

RockWallet & MNEE

Built a 50+ engineer centre delivering two global Web3 products; introduced AI-assisted engineering (Cursor, Claude) for a 40% productivity gain and 50% fewer bugs.

2023 — Present

Co-Founder

D26 Ventures

Early-stage venture and investments across emerging tech — WitBlox, TelioEV, and LockDocs.

2017 — Present

Co-Founder

DLT Labs

Enterprise blockchain & distributed data management. Walmart Canada deployment; first blockchain trace of responsibly-produced germanium for Teck Resources.

2016 — 2017

Technical Lead

Synechron

Led technical delivery for financial-services technology engagements.

2013 — 2016

Senior Software Engineer

BNP Paribas India Solutions

Built and modernized the global Corporate & Investment Banking accounting platform; drove C++11 adoption.

2010 — 2012

Software Engineer

TCS — National Stock Exchange of India

Module lead for the Order Matching & Broadcast Engine; led NSE's first-ever Roll-Over orders in the SLBM segment.

// Writing & perspectives

Topics I write about

Long-form essays, hands-on engineering, and short-form takes across blockchain, AI, and cloud.

01

Institutional DeFi & "risk socialization"

Why large institutions hesitate — and what unlocks adoption.

02

Crypto security & recovery

Multi-Party Computation (MPC), private-key security, recovery.

03

Stablecoins & Web3 infrastructure

Building regulated, real-world crypto rails.

04

AI agents & MCP

How agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol reshape software.

05

Ethereum scaling

Rollups 101 and the modular, scalable future of Ethereum.

06

Cloud & data engineering

AWS, FinOps, Kafka/KRaft, PostgreSQL, Zero-ETL architectures.

BlockchainDeFiStablecoinsMPC & Crypto SecurityEthereum & RollupsBitcoinAI Agents & MCPAWS & CloudFinOpsData EngineeringKafkaPostgreSQLLinux & SREGoCircular Economy
// Speaking & community

On stage & in the ecosystem

2025

From Prompts to Productivity — GenAI Panel

Moderated a panel at KIET on GenAI in how we code, create & work (with MeitY Startup Hub & Start in UP; panelists from Atlassian, Deloitte, Adobe, Microsoft).

2023

Web3Conf India — Keynote Speaker

Keynote at one of India's largest Web3 conferences.

2022

Shardeum "Proof of Community"

Speaker: "Blockchain, Why It Matters to Enterprises."

2021

Un-Block 4.0 — Blockchain Symposium

Hosted with the Government of Telangana (Emerging Technologies Wing) on business transformation through blockchain.

STPI APIARY CoE — Blockchain TechTalk

"How Blockchain Is Transforming Businesses."

Memberships & roles

  • Speakers Bureau — Hyperledger Foundation
  • Member — India Blockchain Forum
  • Board of Studies — KIET
  • Advisory Council — IIM Lucknow Incubation Centre
  • Mentor — T-Hub
  • Partner — Telangana Emerging Technologies
// Recognition

Awards

LinkedIn Top Voice in Blockchain

Recognized by LinkedIn for thought leadership in blockchain.

Dell Technologies "40 Under 40"

For contributions to deep-tech innovation in India.

2022

Telangana State Industry Awards — Gold, Best Start-up

DLT Labs honored by the Government of Telangana for enterprise blockchain.

2020

CSCMP Supply Chain Innovation — 1st Runner-Up

DLT Labs & Walmart Canada's "Supply Chain & Finance Transformation Using Blockchain."

// Investing

Angel & advisory

WitBlox

DIY robotics, AI & coding edtech for young makers.

TelioEV

EV charging-station management software & e-mobility platform.

Make-in-India startups

Backer of several ventures — a few featured on Shark Tank India.

Real-world deployments

Walmart Canada · Teck Resources (germanium traceability) · DBS Bank.

Let's build something.

Building in emerging tech, raising as a founder, or looking for an advisor? I'd love to hear from you.