I’m Gajeshgah-jay-sh · गजेश
What Drives Me
Presently (2023 - Now):
Current work:
Previous work:
Eigen Labs has raised $250million+ from a16z and others.
I’m now focused on Darkbloom and Yukon Research—distributed autoresearch for systems that expand individual agency and reward merit.
I’m on my 3rd gap year for this company by the way.
[Why Eigen?]
Coming Soon
Projects
- →Darkbloom: Private AI inference powered by idle, hardware-verified Macs.
- →ECDSA.fail: An open research network that surpassed Google’s withheld quantum-circuit result in 72 hours. IEEE Spectrum
- →MLX.Fast: Open autoresearch for faster model inference on consumer Macs.
- Earlier:All Chains Fit on EigenDA · Nocturne · Copytrading Agent · Eigen Fellowship 2025
I’ve learned through a few very different teams, markets, and moments.
Past
Engineering @ LayerZero Labs(Feb ’23 - Sept ’23)
Built open source projects on LayerZero and Stargate. View Here.
Engineering @ Solana Labs(Dec ’22 - Jun ’23)
Built open source projects on Solana. View Here.
Engineer @ Telegram Wallet(Dec ’22 - May ’23)
Not much to publicly share about this.
Engineering @ FTX Ventures(Sept ’22 - Nov ’22)
Worked with portfolio companies including Backpack and Solana on developer and user growth.
Founder Mode
Founder & CEO @ Taksh(Dec ’21 - Aug ’22)
Cross-Chain Yield Aggregator.
Led a team of 10. Got $1M AUM for private beta.
Raised $1.3M ($300k pre-seed, $1m seed). Got acquired.
Gaj Finance(2021)
Built a yield aggregator as an experiment. Ended up getting $7M TVL.
This showed me the power of Permissionless Open Innovation, accelerated with Blockchain Trust.
They didn’t need to trust a 13 yo kid in India, they just needed to verify the blockchain runs correctly.
Press & Media
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