Priyansh Patel
About
Product-minded Solana builder. I take products from research to mainnet end to end: product strategy, hands-on execution across Anchor, Next.js, and APIs, and the storytelling that gets them adopted. Strong at translating dense technical systems into narratives that land for both engineering and non-technical audiences.
Work Experience
Growth and frontend engineer for Thaler, a delta-neutral yield protocol on Solana currently in Private Beta. Building the landing site and app dashboard, including SOL commitment and deposit/withdraw flows, live position and yield views, and round status and waitlist UI. On the growth side, running X, Telegram, and Discord community and comms, and handling beta operations.
Founding Operator in Loyal's Sector 0, working across permissionless intelligence built on hardware-enforced confidential compute (Intel TDX, AMD SEV-SNP). Translated dense technical systems (smart accounts, private transactions, automation layers, agentic finance) into narratives that landed for both engineering and non-technical audiences. Beyond content: wrote product proposals, surfaced UX gaps from real user behavior, and helped shape launch positioning around how the product actually behaved. The work sharpened my technical communication and showed me how creator-led narratives compound with consistency and iteration.
Founded SolixDB, a Solana-native indexing service that streamed and backfilled on-chain data directly into a consumer's own database, funded by a Solana Foundation grant through Superteam Earn. Built the real-time ingestion pipeline, the ClickHouse and Redis storage layer, and the API and dashboard that let DeFi and analytics teams index less and ship faster.
Participated across four Turbin3 programs. Builder Cohort: hands-on Solana Anchor development, program design and architecture, devnet shipping, and protocol engineering. Pinocchio Cohort (partly): contributed to the Pinocchio library. DePIN Cohort: invite-only, PhD-style program with sessions led by industry experts on DePIN. Networking working group: worked on HTTP/3 and QUIC to make Solana faster in packet delivery.
Selected as a Top 20 Arcium Fellow. Built a decentralized poker game POC leveraging Arcium’s confidential compute layer. Designed protocol logic for game queueing, stateful GameAccount PDAs, private card dealing, and secure escrow-based buy-ins using off-chain computation and smart contracts.
Contributed to a project supported by Superteam UK by improving UI/UX with task-based fixes, implementing automatic NFT minting logic, and resolving key issues like avatar flickering. Developed new features including FAQs and collectibles, while ensuring clean, well-formatted code and seamless user interactions.
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Check out my latest work
I've worked on a variety of projects, from simple websites to complex web applications. Here are a few of my favorites.
Nori
Private payroll and payments for Solana. Shipped to mainnet at usenori.xyz. Private sends, CSV batch payroll in one signature, scheduled team payouts, and selective-disclosure compliance via scoped viewing keys. Built on the Cloak SDK (UTXO shielded pool, Groth16 ZK proofs).
Shield
Tiny on-chain transaction guards for Solana, written in pure sBPF assembly. Composed as instruction prefixes; if any guard fails the whole transaction aborts atomically. Each guard is sub-kilobyte and costs single-digit compute units (slippage: 7 CU). Shipped live on devnet and mainnet with a TypeScript SDK on npm.
The sBPF Programming Book
Open-source book on writing Solana programs in pure sBPF assembly. Covers the toolchain, registers and memory, the instruction set, account data, PDAs, CPI, and a full walkthrough. Every chapter pairs an Anchor idiom with its sBPF equivalent, so Anchor developers can map what they already know onto raw assembly.
Solana Programs
A curated monorepo of Solana programs built with the Anchor framework and native Rust. Covers the full spectrum of on-chain development: AMM with liquidity pools, collateralized stablecoin with mint/burn mechanics, NFT marketplace, token staking with rewards, escrow service, vault, and MagicBlock ephemeral rollup integration. Ideal reference for Solana builders at any level.
Building excites me
Participating in hackathons has allowed me to solve real-world problems, rapidly prototype ideas, and collaborate with talented developers worldwide.
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Solana Frontier
Online
Built Nori, private payroll and payments for Solana, shipped to mainnet. Private sends, CSV batch payroll in one signature, and selective-disclosure compliance via scoped viewing keys. Built on the Cloak shielded pool (UTXO model, Groth16 ZK proofs).
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Solana Blitz v4
2nd placeOnline
Built Kestrel, a policy-governed trading agents for oracle-resolved short BTC markets. Routes high-frequency execution through MagicBlock Ephemeral Rollups while position lifecycle, custody, and settlement stay on Solana devnet.
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Solana Blitz v3
4th placeOnline
Built Confidential Desk, a confidential lending stack on Solana. Desk configuration and oracles live on the base layer; liquidity, collateral, debt, and LP economics run on MagicBlock Ephemeral Rollups with ephemeral SPL flows. Shielding and private transfers integrate the MagicBlock Private Payments API.
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Solana Blitz v2
2nd placeOnline
Built Veil, a trustless first-price sealed-bid auction on Solana (Anchor program, Next.js UI). Uses commit-reveal bidding (hash of bid + salt, then timed reveal and vault settlement). Optional private bid path (ciphertext + TEE-style verification) and MagicBlock Ephemeral Rollups for low-latency mirrored auction state.
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Monolith Hackathon
Online
Built kleos.fun, a mobile-first Solana app where users stake on outcomes and shape ranked lists using stake and on-chain reputation.
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Solana Graveyard Hackathon
Online
Built kanz.finance, a cross-chain consumer app for tokenized gold that abstracts bridging and execution for users across Ethereum, Base, BSC, and Solana. Implemented a flow where users sign from their native wallet, funds route through Sunrise, swaps execute on Solana via Jupiter, and holdings are indexed into a unified portfolio with recurring-buy automation and alerts.
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x402 Mini Hackathon
Ahmedabad, India
Built PayGate, the x402 payment gateway for APIs that enables instant monetization of any API endpoint through Solana micropayments. Designed for the emerging agent economy, PayGate eliminates complex payment integrations - allowing developers to monetize their APIs with just one line of code. Features include automatic payment verification, real-time transaction tracking, flexible pricing models (per-request, subscription, tiered), and x402 protocol compliance for seamless agent discovery. Enables frictionless pay-per-request monetization with no minimum fees and instant settlement.
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Solana Cypherpunk
Online
Built AnchorLabs, a visual developer tool for Solana Anchor programs that transforms how developers interact with on-chain programs. Upload any IDL file and instantly get an interactive interface to explore accounts, execute instructions, and debug transactions - no test scripts needed. Features real-time program state visualization, wallet integration for transaction signing, and automatic account deserialization. Designed to accelerate Solana development by eliminating repetitive testing workflows and providing instant feedback on program behavior.
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Solana Mobile Hackathon
Online
A lightweight protocol for renting verifiable micro-functions from smartphones, enabling trust-minimized execution and crypto-native monetization. Think of it as AWS Lambda for mobile devices - phones earn yield by performing tasks like uptime checks, presence proofs, and data collection, while dApps pay per use in SOL/SPL. Includes a mobile SDK, smart contract suite, and global device registry.
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100xDevs Mini Hackathon
4th placeOnline
zkdrops is a Solana-based dApp that enables private, verifiable token airdrops using zero-knowledge proofs. Built during Solana Breakout to explore scalable, privacy-first on-chain distribution.
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Solana Breakout
Online
zkdrops is a Solana-based dApp that enables private, verifiable token airdrops using zero-knowledge proofs. Built during Solana Breakout to explore scalable, privacy-first on-chain distribution.