Arka Datta is a DeFi risk-management co-founder who co-founded Chainrisk (formerly UNSNARL) and contributes to AFI Protocol. Arka Datta's Twitter Score is 12 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #79,897 among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Arka Datta co-founded Chainrisk alongside Sudipan Sinha, with the company having pivoted from its earlier identity as UNSNARL toward Web3 risk management. The pre-seed round for Chainrisk was led by Antler in India, and Arka Datta was previously part of the Antler India Fellowship. Under its earlier UNSNARL branding, the company built DetectBox, a smart-contract audit marketplace, with support connected to Antler, Starknet, and ETHIndia.
Arka Datta has contributed substantively to on-chain risk research. He co-authored the Compound V3 Economic Audit Report, applying simulations to assess Value at Risk and Liquidations at Risk, and led an economic audit of Compound V3's USDC market on Arbitrum One, stress-testing collateral assets including WETH, WBTC, GMX, and ARB to produce risk-parameter recommendations. He also co-authored research proposing an on-chain credit risk score for estimating the probability that a wallet's loan may face liquidation. Separately, Arka Datta contributes to AFI Protocol, which describes itself as Proof-of-Reserve infrastructure for real-world assets, providing auditable vaults and cryptographic reserve verification for composable DeFi instruments. Arka Datta has published 12,518 posts on the platform.
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