Yug Agarwal

Software Engineer

Software engineer and open-source contributor with a strong focus on on-chain systems, protocol design, decentralized applications and smart contract architectures.

Yug Agarwal

Education

Academic Background

The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India
B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering
2022 - 2026

Technical Skills

Technologies and Tools

Languages

Solidity JavaScript C C++ Java HTML CSS TypeScript Rust

Technologies and Frameworks

Foundry IPFS Viem + Wagmi Remix Hardhat Blockchain Smart Contracts NFTs L1/L2 Solutions React.js Node.js Express.js MongoDB Next.js TailwindCSS

Experiences

Professional Journey

io.net Intern Astronaut: Dev Ambassador
Part-time
Aug 2025 - Present
  • Organize and support hackathons to promote GPU utilization.
  • Build diverse dApps on io.net's technology, mainly "IO Intelligence" to showcase its possibilities.
  • Help developers and users across communities explore its full potential.
  • Make videos, threads and technical tutorials to help developers seamlessly integrate io.net in projects.

Achievements

Recognition and Awards

ETHGlobal New Delhi 2025 Winner
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  • Secured 2nd position in the "Most Killer App" track by Flow blockchain through the project, "PyPI".
ETHGlobal Cannes 2025 Winner
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  • Won the "Most innovative use of 0G ecosystem" track by 0G-Labs through the project, "Warriors AI-rena".
Cooking in the TEE Kitchen Winner
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  • Ten participants were selected globally among thousands of applicants to code dApps on live streams. Hacked solo and secured 1st place in this hackathon by TEN Blockchain through the project "Kinora".
  • As part of the reward, I was offered a position in Zero to TEN Incubation Program by TEN blockchain.
PL Genesis: Modular Worlds Hackathon Winner
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  • Secured 2nd place in NEAR Protocol's "The Agentic Internet and Building AI-led Web3 Experiences" track with project, "RANN", in PL Genesis, the Global Hackathon hosted by Protocol Labs.
Build onchain AI dapps with 0G's Modular L1 - Buildathon Winner
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  • Won grant in a Wave of the 'Build Onchain AI Dapps with 0G's Modular L1' Buildathon (WaveHack by 0G).

Projects

Highlights from My Work

PyPI
Stablecoins Dutch Auction On/Off-Ramp
  • Decentralized off-ramp platform that converts stablecoins to INR via UPI payments (UPI is India's instant, universal money-movement layer that lets anyone pay anyone, anywhere, in seconds, for free) under an average time of 20 seconds.
  • This off-ramp is inspired by One-Inch's "Fusion Plus Protocol", including third-party resolver bots and Dutch auction pricing mechanism which enables users to often get exchange price better than the market price.
Kinora
Solidity TEE AI IPFS
  • This platform allows users to tokenize themselves by minting and maintaining their own AI-backed persona NFTs.
  • These transferable assets fully personify their original minters and enable their holders to interact with them.
  • The users' memory bank was stored on IPFS using asymmetric-key encryption.
  • All the AI computations were executed inside Phala's TEEs, ensuring that no personal data of any user was exposed.
  • This project also implemented "Vickrey's second-price auction" fully on-chain, a mechanism named after Nobel laureate William Vickrey, who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
Warriors AI-rena / RANN
AI Agents VRF
  • A fully on-chain PvP battle game inspired by Pokemon, where players mint warrior NFTs of any character, using personality traits as metadata so that AI agents can personify these warriors in battles, with players betting on outcomes for profit.
  • RANN: An extension of Warriors AI-rena featuring a Training Center: An AI-backed on-chain platform that enables users to train and upgrade their existing warriors, an NFT Marketplace: where users can buy/sell NFTs through on-chain auctions, and an on-chain Leaderboard.
CLAMM-DEX-Engine
Solidity Foundry
  • It is a CLAMM (Concentrated Liquidity Automated Market Maker) decentralized engine similar to Uniswap v3, built from scratch.
  • This CLAMM-DEX can generate its liquidity providers up to 400% higher returns on the same capital when compared to traditional AMM-DEX.
OptionAMM
Solidity Foundry Chainlink Oracle
  • It allows users to create and trade both call and put options with customizable parameters such as strike price, lot size, premium, and expiry.
  • The maximum loss a user may incur is limited to the premium paid, while potential profit is unlimited.

Open Source Contributions

Community Contributions

Phala Network
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  • Refactored `dcap-qvl` crate to allow PKS and KL flags in TDX quote verification.
  • Fixed incorrect base URL, cleaned up unused/duplicate image files and renamed them to descriptive names in the Phala-docs.
OpenZeppelin
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  • Contributed multiple PRs across different repositories of OpenZeppelin. Some of them are still under review.
  • Created benchmarks for the `Event-Scanner` repository from scratch using Criterion.rs and Bencher. Also investigated and fixed potential flaky tests, handled explicit channel closure and optimized reorg handling
  • Added a feature to auto-generate a private state ID from contract and wallet address in the OpenZeppelin's `UI-Builder`, enhancing end-user experience.
Ethereum Foundation
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  • Added a Python script that validates all JSON and SSZ example pairs in the repository match byte-for-byte. This is still under review.
Keystone Hardware Wallet
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  • Added a feature to show battery percentage on the status bar and an option to enable/disable this in the settings. This is still under review.
Zama
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  • Added unit tests for `abiEncodeClearValues` covering `ebool` and `eaddress` types. This is still under review.
OpenCode
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  • Integrated IO Intelligence in OpenCode, adding it as one of the AI agents providers in `Models.dev`, a comprehensive open-source database of AI model specifications, pricing, and capabilities. Also updated OpenCode's documentation to explain its usage.
  • This contribution was made as part of my role as Developer Ambassador in io.net.

Research Articles

Technical Writing

Phala Network: Building the Confidential Smart Web of the Future
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  • Wrote a technical deep dive article on Phala Network's confidential compute and Phat Contracts architecture and a developer oriented explainer on TEEs, secure off-chain execution, and private Web3 design patterns.
  • This content also simplified confidential smart contract workflows for Phala developers.
Walrus Protocol
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  • Authored a technical research thread on Walrus Protocol, explaining its RedStuff 2D erasure coding, decentralized availability model, asynchronous storage proofs, and Sui-native blob programmability.

Positions of Responsibility

Leadership Roles

Tech Fest Head, Plinth 2025
2024 - 2025
  • Led a team of 150+ members across 10+ domains including Development, UI/UX, Sponsorship, Events, Social Media, Logistics, etc.
  • Secured and managed a budget of INR 30L+ and executed the LNMIIT's annual techno-management fest, featuring tech talks, workshops, seminars, and LNM Hacks, the flagship Web3 hackathon of LNMIIT.