00 INTRODUCTION

Tushar Pamnani

I build DevRel programs where developers actually ship stuff, not just show up to workshops.

Here's what I learned running 50+ Web3 programs: most fail because developers never touch the actual tech. They attend talks, collect swag, maybe star a repo - then disappear.

The programs that worked? They forced people to do something real on day one. Fund a wallet. Deploy a contract. Make a transaction. Once you've got skin in the game, you stick around.

So now I design programs around that insight - build the onboarding, fix the broken wallet flows, and make sure people leave having actually built something.

Currently doing DevRel & ecosystem design for Web3 protocols.
01 THE PROBLEM I KEEP SEEING

Why most Web3 programs fail

I've run bootcamps, hacker houses, and university tours across India. Same pattern every time: week one looks great, week two everyone's gone.

The issue isn't interest - it's that most programs stop at "awareness." Developers hear about your protocol, maybe watch a demo, then... nothing. No wallet, no testnet, no actual usage.

Once I started forcing early activation - "you need a funded wallet to get lunch" or "deploy something testnet by day 2" - retention jumped from ~15% to 86%.

Now I just build programs where you can't coast. You either ship or it becomes obvious you're not shipping.

02 SYSTEMS I’VE WORKED INSIDE

Contexts, constraints, and leverage

I bounced around a lot in 2024-2025 - fellowships, contract roles, bootcamps, conferences. The goal was to see where developer adoption actually broke before committing to one thing. Turns out the failure modes are pretty consistent across ecosystems.

Stellar India

India
DevRel LeadOct 2025 – Present

Running programs that turn developers into actual Stellar users - not just people who attended a workshop once.

Gasyard Finance

Remote, IN
Full Stack Developer (Contract)Aug 2025 – Sep 2025

Built the NFC wallet onboarding system Movement Labs used at Token2049 and Korea Blockchain Week.

Central DAO

Remote, IN
Partnerships LeadJan 2024 – Present

Scaled Web3 programs across India - 40+ events, 15K+ developers, lots of trial and error.

Router Protocol

Nagpur, MH
Developer AmbassadorSep 2024 – Dec 2024

Introduced Router Protocol and Rust to 300+ university students through hands-on workshops.

Oraichain Labs

Remote, IN
Developer AdvocateApr 2024 – Sep 2024

Wrote docs and built demo dApps for Oraichain's AI-powered blockchain stack.

Based Fellowship

Goa, IN
Fellow 3.0Aug 2025

9-day high-intensity fellowship in Goa. Shipped BitmorDCA (Farcaster DCA app) live during the program.

Solana Foundation

Remote, IN
Turbine3 FellowJul 2025 – Sep 2025

Intensive Solana development fellowship focused on production-grade on-chain systems.

Atrium Academy

Remote, IN
Uniswap v4 Hook Incubation FellowJul 2025 – Sep 2025

Competitive fellowship exploring Uniswap v4 hooks and next-gen DeFi primitives.

Roles here reflect the environment I was operating in at the time. What mattered consistently was the system behavior - not the title.
03 WHAT I'VE ACTUALLY DONE

Numbers with actual stories

650+Wallets activated

At the Stellar Hacker House in Bangalore, we made everyone fund a wallet on day 1 - they had to use mainnet $USDC to pay for lunch. Annoying? Absolutely. But 86% were still building a month later vs the usual 15%. That's where the 650 number comes from across multiple programs.

80+Real projects shipped

Not 'demo day projects that die in a week.' These are things people actually deployed to mainnet or kept building. DEX aggregators, NFC wallet tools, DCA apps - stuff that had users.

86%Bootcamp completion rate

Four-week Rust + Soroban bootcamp. Industry average for online courses? ~15%. We hit 86% by having weekly checkpoints, mandatory deployments, and actually kicking people who ghosted. Turns out accountability works.

1,500Conference onboardings

Built an NFC tap-to-create-wallet app for Movement Labs at Token2049 & Korea Blockchain Week. Average onboarding time: 28 seconds. This proved high-throughput seedless wallets actually work in the real world.

15K+Developers reached

50+ programs across IITs, NITs, and online communities over 3 years. Some were workshops, some were month-long residencies. The goal was always the same: get people to touch the tech, not just hear about it.

I optimized for learning fast over looking polished. Some programs flopped. The ones that worked, I documented and repeated.
04 COMMUNITY AS INFRASTRUCTURE

Designing environments where developers ship

I don't run workshops to "raise awareness." I run them to get people to build something real before they leave.

If you attend my workshop and walk out without deploying a contract, funding a wallet, or shipping a prototype, I screwed up. The whole point is forcing you to do the thing, not just learn about the thing.

Stellar Ragnarok Bootcamp

Stellar IndiaIndia2024–2025
Lead Instructor & Program Architect

4-week bootcamp teaching Rust and Soroban from scratch. 86% completion rate because we had weekly checkpoints, forced deployments, and kicked people who ghosted. Most online courses hit 15% - we hit 86% by making accountability real.

Protocol Workshops & University Tours

Nibiru, Router Protocol, Stellar IndiaIITs, NITs & university circuits2024–2025
Workshop Lead

Ran hands-on workshops across universities teaching Solidity, protocol fundamentals, and full-stack dApp development. Built a decentralized Google Drive using IPFS and smart contracts. People left with working code, not slides.

DevRel Uni Fellowship

DevRel Uni · Sponsored by Arbitrum FoundationRemoteOct–Dec 2024
Fellow (Student)

Got selected to study how DevRel actually works at scale - developer education, ecosystem strategy, community design. Applied everything I learned to the bootcamps and workshops I was already running.

Hacker Houses & Hackathons

Stellar India, Polkadot, Nibiru, Story, Solana ecosystemIndia2024–2025
Mentor & Judge

Mentored and judged across hackathons and hacker houses (including Stellar × Polkadot). Focused on whether teams could actually ship, not just build a good demo. Execution quality over pitch quality.

Ecosystem Talks & Founder Sessions

Aya Community, Road to Devcon, ecosystem groupsIndia2024–2025
Speaker

Invited talks and closed sessions with founders and builders about community design, activation mechanics, and why most DevRel programs fail at retention.

50+ Programs designed for shipping
Bootcamps, workshops, hackathons, and university tours in 2024–2025 - optimized for people who build, not people who just show up
05 WHAT I’VE BUILT & BROKEN

Systems designed under real constraints

Stellar Wallet Kit

TypeScript · Next.js · Stellar SDK · Soroban · React
PROBLEM

Every Stellar wallet (Freighter, xBull, Lobstr) needed custom integration code. Developers spent days wiring up the same connection logic over and over. Massive friction.

APPROACH

Built a multi-wallet abstraction layer—one SDK that works with all of them. Also shipped Stellar Pay for on-chain checkouts and integration docs so people could actually use this stuff.

OUTCOME

Wallet integration went from 2-3 days to under an hour. Now used across Stellar's residency programs and by builders who just want things to work.

Rust Notes for Web3 Developers

Rust · Technical Documentation · Developer Education
PROBLEM

Most Rust tutorials are either too academic or assume you already know systems programming. Web3 developers coming from JavaScript need something practical that doesn't waste time.

APPROACH

Created a comprehensive Rust learning repo focused on what Web3 developers actually need—ownership, traits, error handling, and how it all applies to Solana/Stellar development. No fluff.

OUTCOME

Became a go-to resource for developers learning Rust for blockchain development. Used across my bootcamps and shared widely in Web3 communities.

Shardeum JSON-RPC API Docs

Mintlify · Technical Documentation · API Design
PROBLEM

Organizing a PayFi mini-hackathon for Shardeum, but their API documentation was scattered and hard to navigate. Developers would waste hours just figuring out basic RPC calls.

APPROACH

Built clean, searchable API documentation using Mintlify. Organized all JSON-RPC methods, added code examples, and made it actually usable for hackathon participants.

OUTCOME

Hackathon participants could actually find what they needed. Reduced setup friction and let people focus on building instead of debugging API calls.

Stellar India Programs

Soroban · Rust · Stellar · Smart Contracts · Program Design
PROBLEM

Stellar ran events in India where hundreds showed up, but nobody actually used the tech. Week two? Ghost town. Classic Web3 problem.

APPROACH

Designed a 3-tier system: residency, hacker house, university workshops. The catch? You had to fund a wallet day one and use it to pay for stuff. No wallet = no lunch. Forced activation.

OUTCOME

Turned 'I attended a talk' into 'I deployed a contract and spent real money on-chain.' Retention jumped to 86% vs the usual 15%.

NFC Wallet Onboarding

React Native · Turnkey SDK · Node.js · NFC · Custom APIs
PROBLEM

Movement Labs needed to onboard 1,500 people at Token2049 and Korea Blockchain Week. Traditional wallet setup takes 5+ minutes and kills conversion at conferences.

APPROACH

Built a React Native app: tap your phone on an NFC card, wallet gets created, you're in. Under 30 seconds start to finish. Extended Turnkey's SDK to make it work for live events.

OUTCOME

Proved seedless, high-speed onboarding actually works in the real world. 1,500 people onboarded across two major conferences without bottlenecking.

BitmorDCA

Farcaster Minikit · Next.js · TypeScript · Base
PROBLEM

Farcaster users wanted to DCA into Bitcoin but had to leave their feed, open Coinbase, set up recurring buys... too much friction. Nobody did it.

APPROACH

Built a Farcaster mini app with embedded wallet + DCA protocol on Base. Create recurring Bitcoin buys directly in your social feed. Zero context switching.

OUTCOME

Shipped during a 9-day fellowship. 1,000+ active plans and 10+ BTC committed in the first 15 days. Turns out people actually want this.

DexGrator

Solana · Rust · Anchor · React · TypeScript · Jupiter API
PROBLEM

Trading on Solana meant manually checking Raydium, Orca, and Jupiter for the best price. Annoying and inefficient.

APPROACH

Co-founded a DEX aggregator that routes across multiple liquidity sources automatically. Smart routing, real-time execution, better prices.

OUTCOME

Shipped to production with real users and transaction volume. Learned a ton about aggregator economics and how liquidity actually works on Solana.

Secure Escrow Contracts

Solana · Rust · Anchor
PROBLEM

Everyone rebuilds escrow contracts from scratch, usually with subtle bugs. Trust-minimal flows are hard to get right.

APPROACH

Built a reusable escrow program on Solana with explicit state machines and safety checks. Composable APIs you can actually integrate into other projects.

OUTCOME

Reference implementation for secure escrow patterns. Documented the invariants and edge cases so others don't have to figure it out the hard way.

I'd rather ship something ugly that works than build the perfect thing nobody uses.
06 CAPABILITIES & DEPTH

What I can take responsibility for

Wallet Infrastructure & Developer Experience

  • Multi-wallet integration layers
  • SDK design & distribution
  • Developer onboarding systems
  • Wallet activation loops
  • On-chain payment rails
  • NFC-powered wallet creation

Smart Contract Platforms

  • Solana / Anchor / Rust
  • Stellar / Soroban / Rust
  • EVM / Solidity
  • Program architecture & PDAs
  • Cross-chain primitives

Full-Stack Development

  • React / Next.js / TypeScript
  • React Native (mobile)
  • Node.js / PostgreSQL / MongoDB
  • Tailwind CSS / responsive design
  • Firebase / Supabase

Distribution & Growth Systems

  • Program design (residencies, bootcamps, workshops)
  • Creator-embedded distribution models
  • Community activation loops
  • Technical content & documentation
  • Bootcamp curriculum design (86% completion)

Developer Tooling & Infrastructure

  • SDK architecture & abstractions
  • Integration documentation
  • Developer analytics & metrics
  • GitHub Actions / CI/CD
  • Docker / Nginx deployment
Tech stacks change every 6 months. Knowing how systems break and how to fix them? That compounds.
08 LET'S TALK

When I'm useful

I work best with teams where developer adoption isn't a marketing problem, it's a systems problem.

If your onboarding is fragile, retention is unpredictable, or you can't figure out why some programs work and others flop, that's the stuff I'm good at fixing.

I'm less useful if you just want someone to run events or post on Twitter. I'm more useful if you want repeatable activation systems that compound over time.

Email: tusharpamnani55@gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/tusharpamnani
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tushar-pamnani/
If you email me, context helps: what you're building, where things are breaking, what you've already tried.