Software engineer in Bengaluru. I build payment infrastructure, smart contracts and zero-knowledge systems, mostly for AI agents that move money.
- Co-founded Rump Labs, a technical studio for founders
- Founded The North Yard, a software holding company
- Founding engineer at Swad (stablecoin neobank, San Francisco) and Workwise (300K req/min peak)
- Data Science, IIT Madras
Site: agnij.me · Who is Agnij Dutta? · Hire
- Capline: spend limits for AI agents, on npm. On Solana a program-owned vault enforces the cap
- FLIP: escrow-based settlement for Flare FAssets, funded by a Flare Foundation grant
- x402-doctor: Lighthouse for x402 endpoints, scanned 38,020 paid URLs
- zkexpense: one ZK proof over a month of agent payments
- the-leash: an agent built to be jailbroken, with payments capped on-chain