Pratyush Shivam
Chief Technology Officer at Konfidio, where he leads the technology behind TrustedTrucks. He builds systems that let companies who do not fully trust each other work from the same record.
What he builds
TrustedTrucks is a permissioned blockchain network that gives European freight one shared record. A shipper, a forwarder, a carrier and a consignee work from the same shipment, from the first quote to payment, instead of each keeping a copy that drifts from the others. Pratyush led the build from architecture to production, on the web and on Android.
The part closest to this site is the evidence layer. Shipment documents are fingerprinted on chain, so any party can check that a file is the one that was approved, while the document itself stays private. He wrote about what that does and does not prove in this piece.
How he thinks about blockchain
As infrastructure, not as a product. A ledger is useful when several independent companies need to rely on the same facts and none of them should own those facts. Where one company can simply keep a database, it should.
Outside work
He builds small, open source things that run in a browser tab: a game about the speed of light, the universe at true scale, a language model you can watch choose its next word. They are collected in Five things I built that run in a browser tab.
Why he runs this wire
To have one page for the day's blockchain news. The wire is automatic; nobody picks or ranks the stories. Anything he writes here is marked From the editor.