About
The Monsoon Ledger is a weekly publication on policy, regulation and Ethereum across Asian finance, written by Rohit Malekar.
It covers how banks, market infrastructure and regulators across India, Singapore and Hong Kong could use Ethereum for tokenisation, settlement and verification. Alongside the weekly commentary, the site keeps living pages that update as rules change, a regulatory watch and a scorecard of institutional pilots.
Why this exists
Policy, regulation and technology in Asian finance tend to be discussed in separate rooms. Regulators write rules without seeing how a public chain settles a trade. Builders ship products without reading the circular that decides whether a bank can use them. The Ethereum ecosystem hears about Asian pilots late and second-hand.
The Monsoon Ledger puts the three side by side. Each entry links a rule or a pilot to the technical choice behind it and to its source, so builders, regulators and the Ethereum ecosystem can work from the same understanding of what is happening in each market.
About Rohit
Rohit Malekar researches how banks, market infrastructure and regulators in India, Singapore and Hong Kong could use Ethereum for tokenisation, settlement and verification. He was lead researcher on Ethereum and Indian Institutional Finance, a seven-module briefing published by ETHIndia.
Before this he spent four years allocating and measuring capital inside Ethereum: co-running Gitcoin grant rounds, designing Ethereum’s first interop standards funding round, and building the analytics behind Metagov’s governance review of ENS DAO. His earlier career spans twenty years of strategy, product and analytics, including Deloitte and Medallia. He is based in Bangalore.