We unwrap hard problems in crypto and AI.
Unwrap Labs designs, builds and maintains web3 and AI infrastructure — the kind that needs finance, math, token economics and product design in the same room. We run $35.9M of it in production today.
- Contracts
- Tokenomics
- Trading systems
- AI agents
- Product design
- Validator $19.1M
- Endur $11.7M
- Troves $5.1M
- Starknet Foundation
- Re7 Labs
- AVNU
- SolvBTC
Infrastructure we built, own and operate.
Every system here holds real capital in production. It is how we earn the right to build yours.
Validator
Monitored around the clock by the engineers who wrote the stack. 187+ delegators, 0% commission.
Where finance, math and product meet.
The hardest problems in web3 and AI sit between disciplines. We put protocol engineers, quants and product designers on the same problem — then build it, ship it and keep it running.
Protocols and smart contracts
Contract architecture through audit-ready code in Cairo, Solidity and Rust, with the testing, monitoring and upgrade paths we run on our own products.
- Vaults, LSTs and DeFi primitives
- Account abstraction
- Audit prep and reviews
- Upgrades and migrations
Token economics
Supply, incentives and fee design modelled before launch and stress-tested with simulations, so the token still works when markets do not.
- Supply and emission models
- Staking and incentive design
- Agent-based simulations
- Treasury and liquidity policy
Trading and quant systems
Execution, rebalancing and hedging engines where the math has to be right and the failure modes have to be boring.
- Execution and market making
- Rebalancing and hedging
- Risk and PnL monitoring
- Backtesting and research tools
AI systems and agents
Agents, copilots and workflow automation wired into your data, tools and wallets, with evaluations and guardrails from day one.
- LLM agents and tool use
- Onchain and AI automation
- Internal copilots
- Evals and guardrails
Product and UX design
Complex financial products made legible: research, flows and design systems that turn protocol mechanics into something people trust and use.
- Product strategy and discovery
- Web3 onboarding flows
- Design systems
- Dashboards for dense data
Staking and node infra
Validators, delegation and liquid staking integrations for treasuries, funds and protocols that need uptime they can report on.
- Validator operations
- Treasury and institutional staking
- Liquid staking integrations
- Monitoring and alerting
- Step 1
Discover
Scope the problem, the risks and what success looks like.
- Step 2
Design and model
Mechanics, math and UX worked out together — before code.
- Step 3
Build and ship
Hardened, reviewed and deployed to production.
- Step 4
Maintain
We run it with you, or hand it over cleanly.
Verify, don't trust. Then build on it.
How we think about systems that hold other people's money.
code_is_law()Predictable by design
Systems that execute exactly as written, with the math checked first. Fewer intermediaries, fewer surprises.
transparency()Open and auditable
Open-source code and onchain flows anyone can inspect. Trust is earned in public.
coordinate()Simple for everyone
Powerful financial tools only matter if everyday people can use them. Design is part of the engineering.
Disciplines we combine
- Smart contract engineering
- Token economics
- Mechanism design
- Quant and trading systems
- Math and algorithms
- Applied AI and agents
- Product and UX design
- Risk and monitoring
- Data pipelines
Small team. Deep stack.
Engineers and designers from DeFi and fintech, out of IIT Madras and IIT Bombay — fluent in everything from Cairo to LLMs to market microstructure.
Venkat Kunisetty (Akira)
IIT Madras. Former DeFi protocol engineer and fintech consultant; saw the Terra collapse up close and has built risk-first ever since.
Jitesh Kamble
IIT Bombay. Product designer, ex-PayU. Turns dense financial products into interfaces people trust.
Neelkanth Tandel
Full-stack engineer, ex-Neev.finance. Web, mobile and the backends that keep them honest.
Questions, answered.
What does Unwrap Labs do?
We design, build and maintain web3 and AI infrastructure for teams that need more than one discipline at once: smart contracts, token economics, trading and risk systems, AI agents, and the product and UX work that makes them usable. We also build and operate our own products, Endur and Troves, and run a Starknet validator.
Do you only work on Starknet?
No. Starknet is where our own products live, but we are chain-agnostic. We write Cairo, Solidity and Rust, work across Ethereum and EVM L2s and Bitcoin-adjacent ecosystems, and build plenty that runs off-chain: trading engines, data pipelines and AI systems.
What kind of projects are a good fit?
Problems that sit between domains: a protocol whose token economics and contracts must be designed together, a trading or rebalancing system that needs solid math and safe execution, an AI agent that touches money, or a complex financial product that needs a clear interface. We take projects from discovery and prototype through launch and ongoing operation.
What have you built?
Endur, a liquid staking protocol for STRK and BTC; Troves, a set of automated onchain yield strategies; and the Unwrap Labs validator, the second largest on Starknet by staking power. Together they secure tens of millions of dollars for more than 15,000 users.
Who is on the team?
A small senior team of engineers and designers from DeFi and fintech, with backgrounds from IIT Madras and IIT Bombay. Venkat Kunisetty (Akira) is co-founder and CEO.
How do I start a project with you?
Send a short note through the contact form on this page with what you are building and where you are stuck. We reply within a few working days, usually with a call to scope the problem.
Have a hard problem? Let's unwrap it.
A protocol, a token model, a trading system or an AI product that needs to hold up under real money — tell us what you are building.
- 01A founder reads every message.
- 02We reply within a few working days.
- 03First call is about your problem, not a pitch.