In this episode of Blocklayer Podcast, Kenzi Takahashi and Diksha Desai speak with Nischal Shetty (Founder of WazirX and Shardeum) about decentralization done right, what real community-building looks like beyond hype, and how to survive long enough in Web3 to actually ship.

Before WazirX and Shardeum, Nischal began his entrepreneurial path in 2010 by building a social media product that started as JustUnfollow and later evolved into Crowdfire. At the time, he was still working a day job — coding nights, weekends, and any spare minutes — driven by a simple insight: creators and small teams needed one place to manage accounts across Instagram, Facebook, and other platforms. The product scaled to tens of millions of users.

But in 2017, major social networks beg ...