In certain rooms - rooms where rulers of countries plan the future, billionaires decide what comes next, and culture quietly shifts, Gurps Rai is already there. He’s not loud. He doesn’t need to be. Rai isn’t part of the Web3 conversation - he’s beyond it. Armed with his signature black hat and black t-shirt, he’s writing the code, signing the contracts and delivering the infrastructure governments and Fortune 500 companies rely on today. The Co-Founder and CEO of droppGroup, Rai has spent the past decade building what the likes of Google are only starting to imagine - an intelligent, tokenized global operating system - one where AI agents transact, value flows freely and governments plug into programmable economies as easily as launching an app. The Architect With No Blueprint Long before crypto had coin tickers and crypto VCs had Telegram groups, Rai was making his own rules. Raised with nothing, he learned to navigate the world by instinct, hunger and sheer force of will. That same drive still burns today - only now it propels a company with active Web3 deployments inside Saudi Aramco, Cisco, Oracle and multiple governments across the Middle East, Asia and the Americas. From oil to AI to tokenization, droppGroup has become the invisible infrastructure behind the next internet. And the world’s most powerful people are paying attention - even if the public hasn’t caught on yet. The Infrastructure Beneath It All At the heart of Rai’s empire is droppOne - an AI-native, quantum-resistant blockchain stack that doesn’t just enable Web3... it powers nations, automates industries and monetizes machine intelligence at scale. The platform connects enterprise-grade systems with decentralized finance, real-world asset tokenization and autonomous agents. We're not talking beta launches. We’re talking deployed systems inside sovereign infrastructure, with single source contracts signed at ministerial levels and integrations stretching from smart cities to central banks. We're not talking beta launches. We’re talking deployed systems inside sovereign infrastructure, with single source contracts signed at ministerial levels and integrations stretching from smart cities to central banks. Engineering the Agent Economy NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang predicts that billions of AI agents will reshape our world, working alongside humans in real time. Rai is building the system that makes that prediction executable. Through droppOne, autonomous agents can already trade, negotiate, settle contracts and complete complex tasks, with full wallet functionality and cross-chain interoperability. This isn’t a vision board. It’s running infrastructure - today. And Rai believes that in a decade, we won’t call this the “agent economy.” “We’ll just call it the economy.” From Homeless to Head of the Table Rai wasn’t born into access - he earned it. Raised with nothing, he came up hustling through the City of London FX world, moved into crypto before it had a name and never looked back. After purchasing his first Bitcoin in 2011, Rai co-founded The Bitcoin-VEN Syndicate Fund in 2013, built off of his early involvement with VEN, the world’s first digital currency launched by Hub Culture in 2007. That early financial backbone afforded Rai something most don’t have - the freedom to think generationally. Not for the quarter. Not even for the decade. But for the next century and the systems that will shape it. To ensure the continued growth of innovation technology globally He’s been helping sovereigns design tokenization frameworks ever since - including Bermuda in 2016 and multiple GCC governments today. Global Access. Local Impact. Unmatched Velocity. You won’t find Rai on the conference circuit giving panel soundbites. You’ll find him flying between Riyadh, New York and London - wherever decisions are actually made. He’s inside blockchain advisory meetings with world leaders. He’s helped stand up sovereign infrastructure. He’s closing multi-billion dollar partnerships at the intersection of data, AI and capital markets. But what makes it uncanny is how fast it’s all happening. droppGroup isn’t a whitepaper and a vision board, it’s a functioning ecosystem with a global footprint, delivering across industries while most Web3 companies are still stuck in pilot purgatory or the MeMe coin rollercoaster. One night he’s ringside in Riyadh watching Usyk vs Fury whilst rubbing shoulders with the likes of His Excellency Turki Al-Sheikh and Cristinao Ronaldo, the next he’s in a closed-door session with central banks, engineering the next layer of sovereign digital rails. The Economy - Redesigned From the Ground Up What Rai is building isn’t just infrastructure - it’s a full redesign of how the economy works. He’s launching systems that allow AI agents to negotiate, execute and settle transactions on behalf of people, companies and even governments. He’s putting intellectual property owners and AI developers into the same loop, enabling fair attribution, monetization and adaptive licensing, turning the chaos of generative AI into a functioning creative economy. He’s even tokenizing sovereign assets at scale - real estate, energy, infrastructure, through the same stack that lets machines communicate value at machine speed. In the future Rai’s actively building, value flows at the speed of light - and everyone, human or machine, holds the keys to own it… Built to Outlast the Buzz Call it infrastructure. Call it a protocol. Call it the rails for a programmable world. droppGroup is building the layer zero for the next internet, with Rai setting the tempo - fast, global and just far enough out in front to remain untouchable. You might not see his name trending. But if you look hard enough - at the documents, the deals and the pipes beneath the hype - you’ll find Gurps Rai’s fingerprints everywhere. Because when you’re building something that will outlive hype, headlines and even platforms - you don’t need to talk about it. You just make sure the world runs on it. In certain rooms - rooms where rulers of countries plan the future, billionaires decide what comes next, and culture quietly shifts, Gurps Rai is already there. He’s not loud. He doesn’t need to be. Gurps Rai Rai isn’t part of the Web3 conversation - he’s beyond it. Armed with his signature black hat and black t-shirt, he’s writing the code, signing the contracts and delivering the infrastructure governments and Fortune 500 companies rely on today. The Co-Founder and CEO of droppGroup , Rai has spent the past decade building what the likes of Google are only starting to imagine - an intelligent, tokenized global operating system - one where AI agents transact, value flows freely and governments plug into programmable economies as easily as launching an app. droppGroup The Architect With No Blueprint The Architect With No Blueprint Long before crypto had coin tickers and crypto VCs had Telegram groups, Rai was making his own rules. Raised with nothing, he learned to navigate the world by instinct, hunger and sheer force of will. That same drive still burns today - only now it propels a company with active Web3 deployments inside Saudi Aramco, Cisco, Oracle and multiple governments across the Middle East, Asia and the Americas. From oil to AI to tokenization, droppGroup has become the invisible infrastructure behind the next internet . droppGroup the invisible infrastructure behind the next internet And the world’s most powerful people are paying attention - even if the public hasn’t caught on yet. The Infrastructure Beneath It All The Infrastructure Beneath It All At the heart of Rai’s empire is droppOne - an AI-native, quantum-resistant blockchain stack that doesn’t just enable Web3... it powers nations, automates industries and monetizes machine intelligence at scale. droppOne The platform connects enterprise-grade systems with decentralized finance, real-world asset tokenization and autonomous agents. We're not talking beta launches. We’re talking deployed systems inside sovereign infrastructure, with single source contracts signed at ministerial levels and integrations stretching from smart cities to central banks. We're not talking beta launches. We’re talking deployed systems inside sovereign infrastructure , with single source contracts signed at ministerial levels and integrations stretching from smart cities to central banks. deployed systems inside sovereign infrastructure Engineering the Agent Economy Engineering the Agent Economy NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang predicts that billions of AI agents will reshape our world, working alongside humans in real time. Rai is building the system that makes that prediction executable. Through droppOne, autonomous agents can already trade, negotiate, settle contracts and complete complex tasks, with full wallet functionality and cross-chain interoperability. This isn’t a vision board. It’s running infrastructure - today. And Rai believes that in a decade, we won’t call this the “agent economy.” “We’ll just call it the economy.” From Homeless to Head of the Table From Homeless to Head of the Table Rai wasn’t born into access - he earned it. Raised with nothing, he came up hustling through the City of London FX world, moved into crypto before it had a name and never looked back. After purchasing his first Bitcoin in 2011, Rai co-founded The Bitcoin-VEN Syndicate Fund in 2013, built off of his early involvement with VEN , the world’s first digital currency launched by Hub Culture in 2007. VEN Hub Culture That early financial backbone afforded Rai something most don’t have - the freedom to think generationally. Not for the quarter. Not even for the decade. But for the next century and the systems that will shape it. To ensure the continued growth of innovation technology globally He’s been helping sovereigns design tokenization frameworks ever since - including Bermuda in 2016 and multiple GCC governments today. Global Access. Local Impact. Unmatched Velocity. Global Access. Local Impact. Unmatched Velocity. You won’t find Rai on the conference circuit giving panel soundbites. You’ll find him flying between Riyadh, New York and London - wherever decisions are actually made. He’s inside blockchain advisory meetings with world leaders. He’s helped stand up sovereign infrastructure. He’s closing multi-billion dollar partnerships at the intersection of data, AI and capital markets. But what makes it uncanny is how fast it’s all happening. fast droppGroup isn’t a whitepaper and a vision board, it’s a functioning ecosystem with a global footprint, delivering across industries while most Web3 companies are still stuck in pilot purgatory or the MeMe coin rollercoaster. One night he’s ringside in Riyadh watching Usyk vs Fury whilst rubbing shoulders with the likes of His Excellency Turki Al-Sheikh and Cristinao Ronaldo, the next he’s in a closed-door session with central banks, engineering the next layer of sovereign digital rails. The Economy - Redesigned From the Ground Up The Economy - Redesigned From the Ground Up What Rai is building isn’t just infrastructure - it’s a full redesign of how the economy works. He’s launching systems that allow AI agents to negotiate, execute and settle transactions on behalf of people, companies and even governments. He’s putting intellectual property owners and AI developers into the same loop, enabling fair attribution, monetization and adaptive licensing, turning the chaos of generative AI into a functioning creative economy. He’s even tokenizing sovereign assets at scale - real estate, energy, infrastructure, through the same stack that lets machines communicate value at machine speed. In the future Rai’s actively building, value flows at the speed of light - and everyone, human or machine, holds the keys to own it… In the future Rai’s actively building, value flows at the speed of light - and everyone, human or machine, holds the keys to own it… In the future Rai’s actively building, value flows at the speed of light - and everyone, human or machine, holds the keys to own it… Built to Outlast the Buzz Built to Outlast the Buzz Call it infrastructure. Call it a protocol. Call it the rails for a programmable world. droppGroup is building the layer zero for the next internet, with Rai setting the tempo - fast, global and just far enough out in front to remain untouchable. droppGroup You might not see his name trending. But if you look hard enough - at the documents, the deals and the pipes beneath the hype - you’ll find Gurps Rai’s fingerprints everywhere. Because when you’re building something that will outlive hype, headlines and even platforms - you don’t need to talk about it. You just make sure the world runs on it.

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