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