Nikhil Arora [Nik]

Staff Software Engineer at Katana

Previously

Smart contracts at Opyn

Founding eng at cryptoisreal and marketcap.guide

Software engineer at Jumpcut

Posts

DeFi/

Liquidity Wars: How Chains Are Fighting Mercenary Capital

February 13, 2026

DeFi/

Katana: Building the Liquidity Hotbed for Polygon's AggLayer

August 17, 2025

DeFi/

Liquity V2: An Essential Piece of DeFi Infrastructure

August 8, 2025

DeFi/

Hyperliquid: The Unfunded DEX Challenging Binance

July 22, 2025

DeFi/

How Stryke Opened My Eyes to LP Positions as Options

June 29, 2025

Web3/

Thinking About AI Agents in Crypto

June 23, 2025

Engineering/

My Experience with Claude Code

June 20, 2025

DeFi/

How Pendle Finance Works

June 9, 2025

DeFi/

Understanding Euler v2's Architecture

June 2, 2025

Web3/

Lessons from Running Production DeFi

March 24, 2025

DeFi/

Trading Squeeth: The Perpetual That Thinks It's an Option

March 15, 2025

DeFi/

Understanding Funding Rates for DeFi Perpetuals

March 10, 2025

Engineering/

Launching the First Opyn Market on Arbitrum

March 3, 2025

Web3/

Building an NFT Auction Platform on Solana

February 10, 2025

Engineering/

Building a Real-time Crypto Data Platform

February 3, 2025