Nichanan Kesonpat is a Research Principal at 1kx, focused on middleware where her work expands across wallet infrastructure, developer tooling, data infrastructure and decentralized identity. Before 1kx she was a smart contract developer (Upstate Interactive acq. DCG Foundry, mochi.game) working on projects across NFTs, DeFi, and DAO tooling.

Nichanan studied Neuroscience and Psychology at UC Berkeley and began her career in the industry as a blockchain incubator program manager in Bangkok. Since then, she has been working on educating and onboarding people to crypto as a ConsenSys Academy Bootcamp mentor, Devcon Scholar, OnDeck Writers Fellow, KERNEL Fellow, and summoner at Meta Gamma Delta DAO, a grants DAO funding and supporting women-led projects in web3.