Product & design-led founder building at the intersection of crypto and AI.
~7 years across Web3 — from protocol UX at Ankr and Bitfinex to founding a DeFi protocol — now building AI-agent tooling at Effortless Labs, Singapore.
I founded Effortless Labs — a product-obsessed engineering lab in Singapore on a mission to destroy the learning curve. We take the most intimidating, complex systems and make them effortless to use, so people don't just learn technology, they own it.
- Hyperbola Network — an intelligence and infrastructure layer for AI agents.
- Igris — an AI agent product for real, in-production workflows.
- LocusGraph — a typed, temporal, relational knowledge layer for AI agents. Model-agnostic and owner-controlled, so your knowledge graph persists independently of whatever model sits underneath it.
- Davos Protocol — Co-Founder & CEO. Built the first native yield-bearing decentralized stablecoin; grew to $1M+ TVL in two months, backed by a $500K pre-seed from Polygon Studios and Sandeep Nailwal.
- Bitfinex — UX Designer, working on Lightning Network products (2021).
- Ankr — Protocol UX Designer & Project Lead; led UX across 13+ blockchain node integrations (2019–2020).
- Community building with Vizag Startups and Web Summit. BTech, Computer Science — JNTU.
- 🏆 Web 3.0 Innovator of the Year (Bronze) — BW Businessworld Web 3.0 Summit & Awards 2023
- 🏆 Entrepreneur Awards 2023
- 🌟 Entrepreneur Magazine — 35 Under 35
- 🌐 varunsatyam.com
- 🛠️ Effortless Labs: github.com/effortlesslabs · github.com/hyperbolanetwork