Kunal Ranawat

@akshansh @CharuJain2906 Looks better irl☮️

past few months, revamped six websites, shipped a major project, wrote another research paper, published two X articles, got a patent approved with @CharuJain2906 , applying for the grant next. personal life had its own weight too, can't get into it, but that's usually where the real building happens. placement season's near and i still don't know if i want to sit for it, since what i'm doing is already working. i remember the no's more than the yes's. but this week the real ones showed up, and that mattered. if you were in my place, what would you have done differently?

most audits are a photograph of a system that never stopped moving. this year's two biggest defi hacks werent bugs. one was months of social engineering ending in fake collateral. the other was a known bridge config nobody went back to close. writing about what actually broke, and why the money was never the real target. dropping soon.

. @solana_epic just got approved for @superteam 's agentic engineering grant, 200 usdg to make it worth the big picture. been sitting on this news for a bit, wanted to actually think about what it means before posting about it. so quick context on what epic is, it's a security-first upgrade intelligence platform for solana programs. basically most audit tooling looks at a program in isolation, but the real risk shows up when programs get upgraded, state changes, invariants break silently, stuff that a single-point-in-time audit just won't catch. epic is trying to build that upgrade-aware layer, tracking programs across versions and flagging what actually changed and whether it's dangerous. this grant is the agentic engineering track, not the bigger solana foundation india grant, those are different buckets and i want to be clear about that instead of overselling it. what this actually means is someone reviewed the project and thought it was worth funding to build. it doesn't mean i've proven epic works at scale yet, that part is still ahead of me. so here's how i'm thinking about the path from here: this grant funds the actual build → get a public beta out → validate against real solana repos, not synthetic test cases → get real developers using it, collect feedback, fix what's broken → build some track record, github activity, actual scans on production programs → then go for the bigger grant with real evidence instead of a pitch i've been building in this space for a while now, terraledger, leashd, oper8a, a bunch of smaller things before that. epic is the most technically ambitious thing i've taken on so far, spent real time on the architecture before writing code because i didn't want to ship something that looks smart on a landing page and falls apart under scrutiny. so yeah, genuinely grateful for the funding, but treating this as fuel for the next phase, not a finish line. next update will hopefully have something people can actually try. more soon 🛠️ cc @SuperteamIN

epic has been approved for @superteam's agentic engineering grant. this funds the next phase of development, a security-first upgrade intelligence platform for solana programs. public beta coming soon, then validation across real @solana repositories. more updates as we ship.

@akshansh Next target 666. 😉

333. writing this mostly because i want to remember what this number felt like before it changes. about a year and a half ago i was just some guy in bhopal trying to learn solana, reading docs at 2am, with no clue where any of it would lead. i spent nights debugging things i barely understood, wrote more bad code than good code, and kept showing up anyway. somewhere along the way, things started changing. i became a @SuperteamIN member. i earned a grant for a project i genuinely believed in. i started writing more - not just code, but poems, research, and thoughts that probably would've stayed in my notes if i hadn't hit "post." i got to host workshops and bring builders together through Touching Grass events. i built TerraLedger, spent months thinking about it, and then made the difficult decision to let it go when i realised it wasn't the vision i wanted to dedicate years of my life to. turns out, walking away from an idea can take just as much conviction as starting one. college had its own ups and downs too. there were semesters where i felt completely off track, but i managed to turn things around. that meant more to me than the grade itself. somewhere in between all of this, i picked philosophy back up. i learned to think a little slower, write a little more honestly, and worry a little less about whether everything made sense immediately. i've been rejected. i've changed my mind. i've scrapped projects i once thought would define me. and every single time, i've come back with a clearer idea of what i'm actually trying to build. right now i'm working on something that feels different. it's taken months of research, code, failed prototypes, and more patience than i thought i had. maybe it'll work. maybe it won't. either way, i know i'll be proud that i tried to build something that mattered. this account was never supposed to become a brand. it's always just been a place where i documented the process - code, poems, ideas, research, failures, tiny wins, and the occasional 3am thought that felt too interesting not to share. if you've been here for any part of that journey, thank you. 333 isn't a huge number. but behind that number are 333 people who chose to stick around, and i don't take that for granted. 111 more feels like a small, weirdly specific mountain. if something i've built, written, or shared has ever helped you, made you think, or simply made your day a little more interesting, i'd love to have you around for whatever comes next. there's still so much left to learn. and an even bigger future left to build. see you at 444. 🫡

Turns out the best networking event isn't networking at all. Hosted Offline Mode // Bhopal with @SuperteamIN 💜 Football. Dinner. Product reviews. Honest conversations. New connections. That's it. That's the tweet. Built Online. Met Offline. ⚡ 📸👇

@akshansh @IND_stellar @StellarOrg @riseinweb3 Congrats bro 🎉👏🏼

applied once, didn't make it. applied again, made it. now a Stellar India Ambassador 🇮🇳✨ no plans to announce. just going to build, teach, host events, and grow the community in Bhopal and beyond. back to work. @IND_stellar @StellarOrg @riseinweb3

@akshansh @SuperteamIN W!! 🔥

too many tabs open. time to close a few. I'm hosting Offline Mode // Bhopal with @SuperteamIN ⚡ builders. designers. founders. creators. Ideas, feedback, and conversations worth logging off for. RSVP ↓ luma.com/bqegnjxy

1/ i finally built it. the akshansh experience is live. here's what it actually is and why it took this long 🧵

@akshansh @SuperteamIN @colosseum W bro💯

Land records in India are fragmented, paper-heavy, and vulnerable to disputes. TerraLedger fixes this - validator-attested property records, anchored on Solana. Not speculation. Just tamper-proof ownership. Private Testnet open. Join the waitlist 👇 terraledger-waitlist.vercel.app

shipped syn8x.tech to prod today. here's what went into it 🧵

we at bhopal touched grass ⚽️🍽️ Touching Grass : Solana Builders Dinner & Turf — Bhopal was amazing 12 builders, one table • convos around what everyone’s building (pinnochio, frontier hack + more) dinner talks to turf chaos 😭 less timelines, more real connections gg 🚀

Touching Grass : Solana Builders Dinner & Turf — Bhopal builders, dinner, turf, and good vibes ⚽️🍽️ bhopal really said go touch some grass 😭 10/10 evening and 10/10 host @akshansh ☀️

An amazing evening at the Solana Touch Grass Event, thanks to the efforts of @akshansh. There is an undeniable momentum within the Bhopal Solana community, learning about the innovative projects our peers are building is a constant source of inspiration. We closed the night with our hallmark post-meetup turf session, a testament to the fact that the best teams collaborate just as well on the field as they do on the blockchain.