CO-FOUNDER · CO-CHAIR & GLOBAL CEO
Networks for Humanity
I co-founded NFH in January 2025 and became Co-Chair & Global CEO on 8 October 2026. We build open infrastructure for discovery, verification, and exchange.
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I’m Siddharth Shetty. I work on open digital infrastructure, from consented data sharing to financial systems and networks that agents can use on our behalf.
Co-Chair & Global CEO, Networks for Humanity.
Co-creator of the Finternet.
Current thinking
When agents act for us.
What would it take for an agent to find a seller, check a credential and arrange a payment on someone’s behalf? I’ve been exploring how open networks and programmable assets could make that possible.
Read all five notesSelected work
Open technology, institutional design and real-world adoption.
CO-CREATOR
The Finternet
I co-created the Finternet and previously led Finternet Labs. The work explores how people and businesses can hold and use assets across financial systems.
Explore the FinternetCO-CREATOR, WITH BRYAN ZHANG
C:\>DIR
I co-created the Cambridge Digital Innovation and Regulation Initiative with Bryan Zhang in June 2025. It brings regulators, researchers and builders together to test how rules can evolve with technology.
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Writing & research
Google Scholar
2026
2025
2024
2022
2025
NETWORKS FOR HUMANITY · CO-AUTHORED PAPER
The Future of Giving
WORLD BANK · WDR 2025 BACKGROUND PAPER
Digital public infrastructure: setting standards with the hourglass model
FINTERNET · TECHNOLOGY PAPER
Finternet: technology vision and architecture
BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS · BIS PAPERS NO. 124
The design of a data governance system
FINTERNET LABS · ESSAY
Toward Technology-Aware, Neutral Regulation
Conversations
ETHINDIA AT DEVCON 8
4 NOVEMBER 2026
In conversation with Vitalik Buterin
On building public infrastructure, coordinating across organisations, and how an agent might arrange escrow when buying across an open network.
Watch the firesideTHE ARCHITECTS
7 JANUARY 2026
The Finternet, GenAI and tokenisation
With Michael Lee, Julie VerHage-Greenberg and Kabir Kumar. At 38:49, I describe what an agent could do with a wallet, a spending limit and a way to resolve disputes.
Listen or read the transcriptBackground
I’m the Co-Founder, Co-Chair and Global Chief Executive Officer of Networks for Humanity. I co-created the Finternet and previously served as CEO of Finternet Labs.
Earlier, I helped build India’s Account Aggregator ecosystem as a co-founder and later Director and CTO of Sahamati. I advised the Department of Economic Affairs at India’s Ministry of Finance on digital public infrastructure and was a fellow at iSPIRT.
EARLIER CHAPTERS
Sahamati
Co-Founder; later Director & Chief Technology Officer. Helping build India’s Account Aggregator ecosystem.
Ministry of Finance, India
Advisor on Digital Public Infrastructure, Department of Economic Affairs.
iSPIRT
Fellow working on India Stack, the Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture, and the Account Aggregator framework.
View earlier work
Exotel
Product Manager.
Fundlined
Founder & CEO. A crowdfunding platform for Indian creators, start-ups and causes.
What could we
build together?
For conversations about open infrastructure, research, or building something useful.
siddharth@siddharthshetty.com