Nalin Bhardwaj
Nalin Bhardwaj is an individual software developer, researcher and open-source creator, not an organization. His work focuses on playful and practical applications of cryptography/zero-knowledge proofs, developer tooling, and small web experiments; his personal site describes the ethos as “happy technology.”
At a Glance
- Independent developers and open-source contributors
- Web/application developers handling AI-agent and crawler traffic
- Cryptography, zero-knowledge and blockchain researchers
- Privacy and security software users
AI Tools by Nalin Bhardwaj
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Botscent
AI Agent Detection for Websites
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Open-source detector that tells a website whether an AI agent, crawler or HTTP client is browsing it and, where evidence permits, names the agent. It has server and page halves, is about 5 KB gzipped with zero dependencies, makes no network requests from the page half, and is MIT licensed and free to use.
Rust middleware that compiles Circom R1CS constraints and witnesses into the Nova recursive-prover workflow. It supports recursive circuits, examples including a Bitcoin proof-of-work chain, and browser proving/verification through WebAssembly.
A Wordle-like game using zero-knowledge proofs so players can prove that their guesses correspond to a shared grid without revealing the words; the project uses Halo 2 and includes an in-browser proving client.
A zero-knowledge voting/governance experiment using user signatures and recursive SNARK construction; the site says it was developed with lermchair on the frontend.
Market Position
Bhardwaj's projects are primarily experiments and open-source developer tools rather than a conventional company portfolio. Botscent differentiates itself from managed bot-management products such as Cloudflare Bot Management by being a small, self-hosted, MIT-licensed detector that reports the type/name of an agent and lets the site decide whether to adapt or block; Cloudflare instead describes a network-scale, ML/behavioral-analysis product that mitigates bots at the edge.
Leadership
Founders
Nalin Bhardwaj
Solo creator and software developer. He completed high school at Delhi Public School Faridabad; represented India at the 2017 International Olympiad in Informatics, won a bronze medal for India at APIO 2018, won Google Code-In's Grand Prize, and has contributed to open-source software. CypherHunter describes him as a co-founder at Daimo and formerly a software engineer at Lunchclub.
Founding Story
This is a personal developer portfolio rather than a founded company. The available biographical material traces Bhardwaj's path from competitive programming and open-source work into blockchain scalability and zero-knowledge applications; his zero-knowledge essay says he was drawn in by the idea of proving a Sudoku solution without revealing it and then began building practical ZK applications.
Business Model
Revenue Model
No commercial revenue model is stated for Nalin's personal work. Botscent is explicitly free, open source and MIT licensed, with no account, API key or hosted service required; users install and run it themselves.
Pricing Tiers
MIT license; no account, key or service.
Target Markets
- Independent developers and open-source contributors
- Web/application developers handling AI-agent and crawler traffic
- Cryptography, zero-knowledge and blockchain researchers
- Privacy and security software users
- Website owners and developers who want to detect, log, adapt to or block AI-agent traffic
- Developers integrating AI-agent detection into Next.js, React, Vue, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Astro, Express, Hono, Cloudflare Workers, Netlify, Vercel, FastAPI, Django or Flask applications
- Zero-knowledge and blockchain developers experimenting with recursive proving, Circom, Nova and Halo 2
- Users and researchers interested in privacy-preserving games, voting and identity/proof applications
- People seeking experimental password-management approaches based on device secure enclaves