Developer Relations Engineer · Open to roles

Akshat Gada

I turn complex infrastructure into things developers can use — tools, documentation, demos, and communities that move technology from an idea to adoption.

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Selected work

Recent work building the agentic payments stack at Polygon.

01 Polygon Agent CLI One install gives an AI agent a session wallet, an onchain identity, stablecoin payments, swaps, bridging, and pay-per-call API access — no private keys exposed. x402ERC-8004Polygon TrailsSession wallets
02 Agentic Services A directory of x402 services an agent can find and call, paying per request in USDC with no keys. Part of Polygon's Open Money Stack. x402USDCOpen Money Stack
03 AgentConnect Links an agent to a real, user-approved Polygon wallet, and serves the machine-readable skill agents fetch to learn the full onchain lifecycle. SKILL.mdSequencex402
04 Agentic docs The developer guide for agents that pay onchain — how they negotiate price, sign intents, and settle per request with x402 and ERC-8004. x402ERC-8004MCP
05 PIP-82 — Gas Program Co-authored Polygon Improvement Proposal — the Agentic Commerce Gas Program — recycling up to $1M in base-fee rebates to public x402 facilitators to cut gas friction for agent-to-agent commerce. x402PIPGas rebates
06 Polygon Facilitator Polygon's x402 facilitator (x402-rs) — the engine that verifies and settles every payment. Server middleware gates a route behind a price; client middleware pays it transparently. Production Rust. x402 v1 + v2AxumEVM

Impact at Polygon

The developer and ecosystem layer behind 24M+ x402 transactions.

I joined when agentic payments on Polygon were still early and helped turn them into a developer-facing product surface. I led work across the Agent CLI, Agentic Services, and AgentConnect; brought pay-per-use services into Polygon's discovery layer; and worked directly with ecosystem teams on integrations, documentation, demos, and launches.

The result was a clearer path for developers to build agents that can hold funds, discover services, and pay over x402—with the tools, integrations, and distribution needed to bring those services live on Polygon.

View network analytics Explore pay-per-use services

24M+: x402 transactions processed on Polygon
6: public tools, infrastructure, and developer initiatives shipped
$1M: agentic-commerce gas program co-authored through PIP-82

Selected partnerships

Ecosystem adoption

01 AgentMail

Added Polygon as an x402-supported chain for machine-payable email infrastructure.

View announcement 02 Mastercard

Polygon joined Agent Pay for Machines to advance trusted agent-to-agent payments.

View announcement 03 Cloudflare

Brought x402 payments to web pages, datasets, APIs, and MCP tools through its Monetization Gateway.

View announcement

And many more service providers, infrastructure teams, and ecosystem integrations.

Network-wide transaction total reported by the linked Dune dashboard; ecosystem outcome reflects the work of multiple teams and service providers.

The settlement pipeline. Each cell is an x402 micro-payment — packed into a block, sealed, and added onchain.

Experience

Agentic payments, protocol engineering, research, and community.

Polygon Developer Relations Engineer Worked on agentic payments — giving AI agents wallets, identity, and the ability to pay over x402 and settle onchain.
Ethereum Protocol Fellowship Protocol ContributorImplemented the EIP-4881 deposit-snapshot interface in the Lodestar (ChainSafe) consensus client; worked deep in execution and consensus client internals.
Witness Chain Software Engineering InternBuilt an RSA-accumulator proof of transaction inclusion and smart contracts for an EigenLayer AVS.
JP Morgan Research InternResearched zero-knowledge proof systems and built circuits to verify ML models in Circom, Noir, and Rust.
BOBDAO Co-founderGrew a student Web3 developer community — 10+ workshops, 50+ campus partners, and one of India's largest online Web3 cohorts.

What I'm obsessed with

Swarm intelligence: simple agents using only local information can collectively adapt, coordinate, and solve problems no agent understands alone.

Each agent sees only its neighbors and continuously adapts to their motion. No leader holds a map of the whole; intelligence emerges as local perception becomes collective direction. Move your cursor to perturb it. Ref: Xiao et al., “Perception of Motion Salience” · Nature Communications 2024

Talks & demos

Workshops, product walkthroughs, partnerships & developer community

Giving your LLMs their own crypto wallets Workshop · ETHGlobal Buenos AiresA hands-on workshop with Bruno Škvorc on giving LLMs wallets and enabling autonomous onchain payments.
Polygon Tracks 101 Technical talk · PolygonA walkthrough of building on Polygon, recorded for developers getting started.
Polygon Agent CLI — product demo Product demo · Polygon Agent CLIA one-minute walkthrough of smart wallets, token operations, onramps, swaps, bridging, x402 APIs, and onchain identity.
Launching the Polygon Agent CLI Product launch · Polygon Agent CLIThe launch walkthrough for a single toolkit covering agent wallets, payments, swaps, bridging, identity, and x402.
LLM Wallet MCP Open-source demo · MCP + x402A recorded demo giving Claude and Cursor agents wallets that can pay for APIs with stablecoins over x402.
x402 payments for MCP servers Integration demo · MCPay + x402A demo of adding stablecoin payments to MCP tools in minutes with MCPay and Polygon.
Polygon = Payments Talk clip · PaymentsA short recorded talk on why Polygon is positioned as payments infrastructure.
ETHGlobal New Delhi Developer community · ETHGlobal New DelhiDeveloper conversations and hands-on ecosystem support from the Polygon booth at ETHGlobal New Delhi.
Polygon Agent CLI — launch story Technical content · LinkedInA developer-facing launch post explaining how one toolkit brings wallets, payments, swaps, bridging, onchain identity, and x402 to agents.
Polygon at ETHGlobal New Delhi Developer community · EventCommunity engagement and developer conversations from a high-traffic day at the Polygon booth.
PIP-82 — $1M Agentic Commerce Gas Program Technical education · Agentic paymentsA plain-English breakdown of the proposal I co-authored to recycle up to $1M in gas base fees for eligible agentic-commerce transactions.

About

I'm a Developer Relations Engineer who likes making difficult technology easier to understand, use, and adopt. I work across developer tools, documentation, technical content, demos, and community feedback.

Most recently, I led agentic payments work in Developer Relations at Polygon, where I joined as an intern and moved to full-time nine months later. I build in the open — mostly where agents, payments, and cross-chain infrastructure meet.

I'm currently open to roles across agentic payments, developer relations, and product-focused engineering.

Long-term goal: make agents self-sufficient enough to do the work themselves. Then I finally get to nap.

Let's build the
machine-payable web

I'm open to roles in agentic payments, developer relations, and product engineering — or simply a good conversation about x402.

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