Rishik Pulhani

Commonly used aggregators What Is an Aggregator Business? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, aggregation refers to the act of bringing together different items, amounts, or entities into a single group or total. An aggregator business applies this idea to a market: it collects a fragmented set of independent sellers or service providers from a particular industry or segment and brings them together under a single platform. By doing so, it abstracts away the scattered, unorganized nature of the m...

SecGit — A highly Automated and Secure version of Gitcoin TL;DR: We propose a blockchain-native protocol to protect open-source contributors and incentivize fair bounty distribution. The design combines a two-way staking mechanism, verifiable and decentralized AI for automation and dispute resolution, and privacy-preserving identity verification to reduce owner collusion, PR overruns, and unverifiable automated decisions. Check out the project here: Rishikpulhani/SecGit Disclaimer This project is in an ...

Motivation For the past month, I’ve been grinding hard for the LFX Mentorship program. This was my very first step into open source — learning how to navigate intimidating codebases and contribute meaningfully. For almost a year, I wanted to dive into open source, but fear kept holding me back — fear of failure, fear of being judged, and fear of not being good enough. That same hesitation had stopped me from even attempting GSoC. But when I discovered the LFX program, I decided this time had to be differ...