Show notes
Nischal Shetty, Founder of WazirX on being India's largest crypto exchange and WRX touching $1 billion market cap. In this episode:
- Nischal's background, his experience with Crowdfire and why he entered the crypto industry
- Why he started WazirX
- Why the name WazirX
- Why recently the WazirX website crashed
- Why have Indian volumes jumped massively
- Are Indian volumes growing at same rate as global volumes or faster
- How record breaking users are signing up per day
- Why skeptics who claim such high exchange volumes are fake are wrong
- Why they launched WazirX NFT marketplace
- Why WRX token's market cap touched $1 billion market cap
- What the future plans are for using WRX token
- Why WRX token increased 10x in the last week
- What have been the challenges in running an Indian crypto exchange
- What he feels about international crypto exchanges entering India
- WazirX big new feature announcement, announced first on Sunny Bitcoin
- How did the Binance funding happen and how has life changed since then
- How involved is Binance in WazirX
- What crypto industry wide initiative is happening right now for government advocacy
- What are his views on the current crypto industry market
- Why he doesn't think the bitcoin blockchain is the Internet
- His message to WazirX and Indian crypto users



