Bitcoin Lighthouse
Bitcoin Lighthouse
Sandeep Goenka
#3 WazirX India's largest crypto exchange's WRX touching $1 billion market cap
53 minutes Posted Apr 6, 2021 at 4:18 pm.
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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
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