Unocoin

Unocoin is where the public-market and AI chapter of my career still meets the earliest bet: that India would need a serious on-ramp to bitcoin. We built for ordinary people and institutions when most banks would not touch the category, and we kept shipping through banking bans, policy whiplash, and global bear markets.

The company crossed millions of users and processed billions in rupee volume while competing with global exchanges and local copycats. Along the way we earned backing from firms that shaped the industry: Digital Currency Group, Draper Associates, Boost VC, and others who understood how long the regulatory chess game could run.

When the Reserve Bank of India cut off banking access to crypto businesses, we did not pivot to denial. We litigated. A unanimous Supreme Court decision restored banking for the sector, a structural win for Unocoin and for every compliant builder who stayed in the arena.

Today Unocoin remains a reference implementation for what patient, compliance-forward bitcoin infrastructure looks like in a large, demanding market, and a reminder that the best bitcoin companies are built in years, not press cycles.