# Manav Aggarwal

> Engineering manager and tech lead for distributed systems in blockchain and payments. Early Go engineer on a rollup node, then led its 5-engineer team to production; shipped 2 mainnet protocol changes; now a PM prototyping agentic payment experiments.

Contact: manavaggarwal1234@gmail.com. Based in New York, NY.

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## About this person

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## Selected work

- [Agent micropayments scheme on x402](https://cloudflare-payments.pages.dev/): co-designed scheme for paid content at the CDN edge; stateless edge verification against one threshold public key, batch settlement on a rollup
- [CIP-45](https://github.com/celestiaorg/CIPs/blob/main/cips/cip-045.md): authored and implemented in Go; single-signature token transfers routed through Celestia, shipped to mainnet
- [CIP-46](https://github.com/celestiaorg/CIPs/blob/main/cips/cip-046.md): authored and led design; on-chain ZK verification of cross-chain messages, shipped to mainnet
- [Lazybridging demo](https://blog.celestia.org/lazybridging-demo/): Celestia's cross-chain bridging protocol; owned spec and engineering roadmap
- [Evolve stack](https://ev.xyz): Go framework for launching custom blockchains; managed its 5-engineer team

## Profiles

- [GitHub](https://github.com/Manav-Aggarwal)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/manav)