{"id":"siddhartha-dutta","version":1,"language":"en","title":"Siddhartha Dutta","hidden":false,"content":"**Siddhartha Dutta** is a software engineer, co-founder, and CEO of Marlin Labs, creators of the [Marlin Protocol](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin), a verifiable computing protocol. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-z6xn135xbc)  \n  \n# Education  \n  \nDutta graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-z6xn135xbc)  \n  \n# Career  \n  \nDutta began his tech career as a researcher at Adobe in 2015. While there, he gained two US patents for automatic illustration and text enrichment. In 2016, he became a researcher at Inria, the French national digital science and technology research institute. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-z6xn135xbc)  \n  \nAfter leaving Inria, Dutta became a software engineer at Microsoft, working for the Cloud and Enterprise Group until 2017. In the same year, he became a core developer for [Zilliqa](https://iq.wiki/wiki/zilliqa), a high-throughput public [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) platform. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-z6xn135xbc)  \n  \nHe left [Zilliqa](https://iq.wiki/wiki/zilliqa) in 2018 and founded [Marlin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) alongside Prateesh Goyal and [Roshan Raghupathy](https://iq.wiki/wiki/roshan-raghupathy). Together, they gained support and financial backing from large venture capitals and exchanges, including [Binance](https://iq.wiki/wiki/binance), [Electric Capital](https://iq.wiki/wiki/electric-capital), and Michael Arrington. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-z6xn135xbc)[\\[2\\]](#cite-id-uq7lw9mgrl)  \n  \n# Interviews  \n  \n## About Marlin  \n  \nOn June 10th, 2019, [CoinDesk](https://iq.wiki/wiki/coindesk) published an article about [Marlin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) gaining $3 million in seed funding from [Binance Labs](https://iq.wiki/wiki/binance-labs), Arrington XRP, [Electric Capital](https://iq.wiki/wiki/electric-capital), NGC, and other investors. In the article, Dutta discussed how the [Marlin Protocol](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) was making improvements to bandwidth on [blockchains](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) using relayers: [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-9wtetu7tvyi)  \n  \n> “[Marlin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) is a leader in a new class of infrastructure startups in [crypto](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) that are [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain)-agnostic and will dramatically increase network performance...If anyone is able to bribe just those single-digit relayers, you have brought down the network because they’re the ones responsible for all this communication. Now, if every [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) tries to do this, every [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) introduces these single points of failure.”  \n  \n> “Most of the [Ethereum](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ethereum) miners, [Bitcoin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/bitcoin) miners or even those professional [staking](https://iq.wiki/wiki/staking) companies, they already have good bandwidth connections. All those [nodes](https://iq.wiki/wiki/node) would be interested in merging [mining](https://iq.wiki/wiki/mining) along with [Marlin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) so that they can also get paid for that bandwidth their spending anyways.”  \n  \nAt the end of the article, he shared [Marlin’s](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) main focus: [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-9wtetu7tvyi)  \n  \n> “The project itself is about high-performance networking infrastructure for the decentralized ecosystem. … The faster [nodes](https://iq.wiki/wiki/node) can communicate, the faster you can get things done.”  \n  \nIn an Accesswire article from June 12th, 2019, Dutta commented on the future of [Marlin](https://iq.wiki/wiki/marlin) and their service to [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) communities, stating: [\\[4\\]](#cite-id-2eq0wuk5bx7)  \n  \n> “Networks are the backbone of [peer-to-peer](https://iq.wiki/wiki/peer-to-peer-trading-p2p) applications. Several billion-dollar networking enterprises have enabled the largest Web 2.0 companies of today. The opportunity to be at the forefront of building the foundational technology necessary for the fast growing [P2P](https://iq.wiki/wiki/peer-to-peer-trading-p2p) industry excites us the most.”","summary":"Siddhartha Dutta is an Indian software engineer, founder and CEO of Marlin Labs, and a former researcher at Adobe and Inria.","categories":[{"id":"people","title":"People in crypto"}],"promoted":0,"tags":[{"id":"Founders"},{"id":"Developers"}],"metadata":[{"id":"references","value":"[{\"id\":\"z6xn135xbc\",\"url\":\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/duttasiddhartha/?originalSubdomain=aq\",\"description\":\"Siddhartha Dutta | LinkedIn\",\"timestamp\":1713548901225},{\"id\":\"uq7lw9mgrl\",\"url\":\"https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/news-and-trends/leveraging-the-power-of-blockchain-4-indian-entrepreneurs/357693\",\"description\":\"Leveraging the Power of Blockchain | Entrepreneur\",\"timestamp\":1713549129635},{\"id\":\"9wtetu7tvyi\",\"url\":\"https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2019/07/10/binance-labsbacked-startup-boosting-blockchain-speeds-raises-3-million/\",\"description\":\"Marlin Raises $3 Million | CoinDesk\",\"timestamp\":1713549170102},{\"id\":\"2eq0wuk5bx7\",\"url\":\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/layer-zero-scalability-solution-marlin-163500563.html\",\"description\":\"Marlin Announces Binance Labs' Funding | Yahoo! 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