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NIKIL VISWANATHAN

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We realized blockchain development felt like building websites in 1995 — unreliable nodes, missing data, no debugging tools. So we built what AWS built for the internet: infrastructure developers can actually trust.

Our first app hit #1 in the App Store. Our second company powers trillions in blockchain transactions. Joe and I have a pattern: build things people didn't know they needed.

We spent two years in stealth. No blog posts, no conference talks, no Twitter threads. Just building. In crypto, that's basically being invisible. But when we launched, we had real customers and real revenue — not just a whitepaper and a token.

The best infrastructure is invisible. If you're using OpenSea, you're using Alchemy. If you're using Shopify's crypto features, you're using Alchemy. You just don't know it. That's by design.

Blockchain will be bigger than the internet. I know that sounds insane. The internet sounded insane too. The question isn't whether it happens — it's who builds the infrastructure when it does.

We launched Alchemy University to teach blockchain development for free. If we grow the developer pie, everyone wins — including us. Education is the cheapest customer acquisition strategy in the world.