Every Telegram group is built on years of work: content created, audiences cultivated, communities nurtured. When a new person wants to join, they pass through a verification that generates no value for anyone. A CAPTCHA that proves nothing, asked by no one, for no reason.
Canvas replaces that moment with something useful. The new member answers a question. The advertiser gets a verified, contextual human response. The group owner gets paid. The attention that was already being spent starts generating returns.
The verification market is the first step. The longer-term project is building the infrastructure that lets any digital community monetize its membership directly, on fair terms, without surrendering data to a platform, without chasing brand deals, and without making their members the product.
Communities are the new media channels. The group owner who has 4,000 engaged DeFi traders deserves revenue infrastructure as serious as what any media company has access to. That's what we're building.
The idea for Canvas is older than the name. For several years, Rohit had been trying to build a market for human attention inside the CAPTCHA flow, replacing the arbitrary bot-check with something valuable, and paying the people who host it.
At DevConnect 2024 in Buenos Aires, the Ethereum Foundation and EigenLayer hosted a hacker house with fifteen teams. Canvas was selected as one of five finalists and given a spotlight to present the technical architecture to the cohort.
The original build used EigenLayer for trust and verification. The current version runs on Base mainnet, with USDC settlements, a live escrow contract, and an AI scoring layer that validates every response before a payout releases. The core idea, sponsored verification that pays the community, is the same one that stood out in Buenos Aires.
Two founders. One built the product. One built the audience that proves there's demand for it.
Rohit has spent five years embedded in the infrastructure layer of crypto, at 0x (the swap infrastructure powering Bankr, Coinbase, MetaMask, and Robinhood), at Caldera (Rollup-as-a-Service), and at InfStones. He has a background in statistics and has been building the Canvas concept for three years.
He owns product design, marketplace architecture, advertiser-side business development, and go-to-market. He left 0x in June 2026 and is fully committed to Canvas.
With 110,000 followers on X and a track record of building crypto-native audiences from scratch, gritcult is the supply side of the Canvas thesis in person. He runs Telegram communities that are exactly the kind of groups Canvas was built for.
He owns community development, creator relationships, supply-side growth, and the distribution network that gets Canvas in front of group owners worth reaching. Based in London, relocating to NYC.
Every platform where communities gather has the same unmonetized verification moment. Canvas is building the infrastructure to capture it.
If you run a Telegram group, want to run a campaign, or just want to follow along, we'd love to hear from you.