Yogendra Sankhla

Hey!
I am a software engineer deeply focused on building secure and scalable Web3 infrastructure and cryptographic systems. My central expertise lies in bridging the gap between complicated low-level security primitives and accessible, userfacing applications. Currently, I work at Silence Laboratories, where I am deeply instrumental in the Silent Network, working on a privacy-preserving layer around agentic frameworks enabling agents to perform secure computation on encrypted data. I'm also part of policy-based signing architectures that we are building at SL.

I started my journey in distributed systems via high-impact fellowships and open-source contributions. As an ETHIndia Fellow, I explored recovery mechanisms in a decentralized fashion, while as a Summer of Bitcoin intern, I built crucial infrastructure for the management of Bitcoin nodes. I love to participate in hackathons and challenge my technical capability. Some of the projects are Silent shard safe in Eth-india 2022 and innovative proof-of-liveliness tools for NFT ecosystems at ETH Lisbon and ETH Berlin. What drives me is the challenge of creating "trustless" systems actually worthy of trust and as user-friendly as possible, always raising the bar on what can be achieved by decentralized networks.

Key Projects

0xBridge: Open source PSBT and Taproot logic for a non-custodial Bitcoin-to-Ethereum bridge, unlocking secure 1:1 asset minting. [Link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@0xbridge/bitcoin-vault?activeTab=readme]

Warden - Specter Desktop Extension: Developed a privacy-centric portfolio tracker and node monitor for Specter Desktop as a part of Summer of Bitcoin 2022. [Link: https://github.com/yogendra-17/specterext-warden]

ShardSafe (Social Recovery Wallet): Developed during the ETHIndia Fellowship, a non-custodial recovery dApp using Shamir's Secret Sharing eliminates single points of failure. https://devfolio.co/projects/shardsafe-8f80

GoerCervejaria (ETH Lisbon): Created a POC for proximity-based verification to create Proof of Liveliness to mint NFTs. [Link: https://github.com/goercervejaria/goercervejaria]

Anti-Bot NFT Mints - ETH Berlin: Designed a dApp flow with integrated external challenges to avoid bot spam in mints. Göerli Testnet URL: https://taikai.network/ethlisbon/hackathons/ethlisbon-2022/projects/cl9sowwkj60565201z25homgbju/idea Live Audio Visualizer: Engineered a high-performance real-time audio visualizer in Rust with FFT analysis and playback controls. [Link: https://github.com/brewedBorrows/oxy-viz]