# Tarun Gupta

> Tarun Gupta is the Dubai-based founder and CEO of Coinshift. A Chandigarh University alumnus, he co-founded the secondhand-book venture Vevsa before building cryptocurrency infrastructure, developing CoinSafe, working at Biconomy and co-founding Parcel. He launched Coinshift in June 2021, initially serving crypto finance teams with payments and treasury software. Its subsequent work spans csUSDL and, by October 2026, onchain private credit.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Coinshift
- **Organizations:** Coinshift, Parcel, Biconomy, CoinSafe, Vevsa Technologies
- **Education:** Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Chandigarh University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Vevsa, whose Android app had more than 2,000 users by July 2017, according to contemporary reporting., Published Bitcoin-Lightning-Nodejs, a Node.js implementation of LND gRPC API references., Helped build Biconomy’s gasless transaction infrastructure.

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Co-founded Vevsa with Rajat Dhiman, connecting buyers with secondhand books in Chandigarh and surrounding cities.
- **2017** — Vevsa launched its Android app; Gupta began helping Bitcoin exchanges operate nodes during the ICO period.
- **2018** — Worked on Lightning Network developer tooling and subsequently built CoinSafe, a social key-recovery protocol.
- **2019-2020** — Worked on gasless transaction infrastructure at Biconomy.
- **2020-2021** — Co-founded Parcel and served as COO before separating over differing product visions.
- **2021-06** — Launched the first version of Coinshift.
- **2021-09** — Coinshift announced a $2.5 million seed round and its rebrand from MultiSafe.
- **2022-05** — Coinshift announced a $15 million Series A led by Tiger Global.
- **2024-11** — Coinshift announced csUSDL with Paxos International, Morpho and Steakhouse Financial as key parts of its architecture.
- **2025-02** — Explained the decision to prioritize csUSDL after difficulties making a crypto accounting product commercially sustainable.
- **2026-03** — Coinshift Business had a publicly announced sunset deadline of March 31.
- **2026-10** — Discussed Coinshift’s private-credit focus in an interview published October 14.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Vevsa, whose Android app had more than 2,000 users by July 2017, according to contemporary reporting.
- Published Bitcoin-Lightning-Nodejs, a Node.js implementation of LND gRPC API references.
- Helped build Biconomy’s gasless transaction infrastructure.
- Founded Coinshift, which announced a $2.5 million seed round in 2021 and a $15 million Series A in 2022.
- Coinshift reported $80 million in payouts and more than 1,000 Safes on its platform in May 2022; these are historical company figures.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — An October 14 FINTECH.TV interview presented his current focus on bringing private credit onchain, with attention to issuers, curators and visibility into loan books.
- **2026-03** — The Coinshift Business login page announced a March 31, 2026 sunset deadline and asked users to export data.
- **2025-10** — Paxos announced it would wind down USDL, the underlying stablecoin used by Coinshift’s historical csUSDL product.
- **2025-02** — Returned to The Accountant Quits to discuss csUSDL and the commercial lessons behind Coinshift’s change in focus.

## Links

- Website: https://coinshift.xyz/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarun-gupta-1a0973a1/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/tarungupta1475
- GitHub: https://github.com/tarun1475

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Last updated: 2026-10-25