WazirX co-founder wants to fix blockchain gaming

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Editor's note: Siddharth Menon is a calm man. That’s a rare sight among crypto founders during a bear market. Part of the reason why he’s able to maintain his cool is because this isn’t the first time Menon has had to sell an idea to a room of sceptics. Having built one of India’s early cryptocurrency exchanges, WazirX, he says he knows what that feels like to be doubted.  “WazirX was built during perhaps the worst time for cryptos,” he says. “So I’m not surprised if people are now looking at Tegro with suspicion too.”  In late 2019, Binance—the Cayman Islands-headquartered crypto exchange that is the largest in the world by trading volumes—announced that it was acquiring WazirX; earlier this year, it looked like Menon and another co-founder, Nischal Shetty, were moving out to work on new crypto projects. (We’ve written about Shetty’s Shardeum before.) Menon’s new venture—built in partnership with the founders of Pune-based gaming startup SuperGaming—is called Tegro, a startup that will create a marketplace and tools to build blockchain games. The core idea behind blockchain gaming is to create …