Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳

Building @SurgePerps: perps on Solana blockspace ⚡ | Rust/Anchor & exchange infra engineer | Open to Solana/backend roles 🇮🇳

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

Met Ornella Vallana @OrnellaWeb3 at Devcon 8 in Mumbai, and the energy in the room was unreal.

Great conversations, big thumbs up all around 👍👍
Looking forward to meeting again 🔥

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

Feedbacks are welcomed 🌻

[Surge Perps @SurgePerps]

Solana fees can spike in minutes, and apps can't hedge them.

Surge is a prototype for trading a Solana fee index with perps.
#Solana #web3

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

Type the exact sentence or your application won’t be considered. Bot trap or red flag? Whatttt 👀
#Hiring

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

Great to meet @AroraBhavyam from @Tangem and talk about Solana fees and hedging blockspace costs .

Conversations like this are why I’m building Surge, a Solana fee-index perps prototype.

#SolanaDefi

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

What’s not to love ❤️

#web3 #Solana #Bitcoin

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

@SKartik_SK WIN WIN 👑

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

@UrveshKavar @01_parihar @KalpeshParashar Thank you, Urvesh! Do you or your studio pay Solana fees at scale (mints, wallets, bots)? I’d love to hear what a fee spike costs you and whether you’d hedge it if you could.

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

Attended Devcon 8 in Mumbai this week and met founders and builders across Solana and Ethereum.

Building Surge to hedge network fee spikes. Prototype for now.

#Devcon8

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

@King9i_eth @01_parihar @KalpeshParashar Honestly energising. So many founders and builders in one place, and the Solana and Ethereum crowds mixing. Were you there too, or following along online?

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

Back from India Blockchain Week 2026. Best part: meeting the founder of https://t.co/INpRB8sMVI.

Builders here are shipping.

What's one problem in Indian crypto nobody's building for yet?
#IBW2026 #Web3

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

@akxh_5 @kirat_tw @SolanaSummitOrg @SuperteamIN OG’s 👑

[Akshansh Sharma @akxh_5]

I'm here at @SolanaSummitOrg , come and let's talkkkk 🪐

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

@Sylviabarick @IBWofficial @debojyotidm Excited to meet you

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

AT THE BINANCE BOOTH @BinanceForIN

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

Kimia booth 🔥 @KimiaProtocol

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

@Fricoben Love to meet you 🔥

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

Built a keeper that reads every Solana block, including the Jito tips most dashboards miss.

First target: one weekend in Jan 2025. Fees per block up nearly 4x in 48 hrs.

That's the bill @SurgePerps lets apps cap. Which week should I rebuild next?

#Solana #BuildInPublic #Solana

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

@fakharsheikhs Hi Fakhar, I’m Kartikey, a backend engineer (Node/TS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka). I’ve built payout and withdrawal pipelines for a Solana and EVM exchange, and I’ve shipped a government event platform that handled statewide traffic. GH : https://t.co/yMAUDcEngc Happy to DM.

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

Handwritten notes on crypto derivatives.

Perps never expire; funding keeps them near the market. Leverage doubles gains and losses.

Now building @SurgePerps on this.

What took you longest to understand about perps?

#SOL #SolanaEcosystem

[Surge Perps @SurgePerps]

Most traders know BTC futures. Almost nobody knows you can also trade the cost of using a blockchain.

Perps 101, the way we think about it at Surge 🧵
#SolanaEcosystem

[Kartikey Namdev 🎟️ Devcon 8 🇮🇳 @_KartikeyNamdev]

That's the key folks 👑

[Sam Altman @sama]

You can skip all the parties, all the conferences, all the press, all the tweets. Build a great product and get users and win.