Gajesh Naik, a 13-year-old from Goa, has established himself in the crypto world with his two ventures — Gaj Finance, formerly PolyGaj, a decentralized finance platform built on the Polygon blockchain for crypto staking, and StableGaj, a stablecoin swap platform. Back when Mark Cuban invested in Polygon, Gaj Finance was managing US$7 million. Today, that number has come down to less than US$200,000.
Nevertheless, for an Indian teen, it is a noteworthy achievement. So how did a teen from a small tourist city in India come to handle hundreds of thousands of dollars? According to his father, Siddhivinayak Naik, Gajesh showed interest in computers early in life.
This is an interesting new development for India, I seek for a brighter future for our young minds in technology developments, we had many sharp and sound young teenages in Nigeria who could have help to deliver a prolific solution to our economy if their talents and gift had earlier been noticed and an avenue is created for them to work on such embedded gifts by their parents, community and government at large.
In Nigeria, some organizations organizes student/teen exhibition and talent haunt for new improvisation but at the long run the implementation is fully lacking, you can imagine how this 13yrs old boy is fully into crypto with all passion and fully supported by his parent.
Unlike parents who ask their children to stay away from electronics, Siddhivinayak encouraged his son to use computers if he wanted to.
This gave Gajesh early exposure to computers and the digital world
It is obvious that our parents here are only stereotype once it comes to child upbringings and education, we don't have to focus on one direction, my friend's child is the best in class mine too must do the same, let's give room for discovery of potentials in young ones especially we the parents of tomorrow.
This is what I mean when I said it has to be a collective efforts of both parents, community and the government to ensure a proper, quality and sound true identity of a child is discovered.
As a patriotic Nigerians, I've brought in this article for us to have the challenge of taken full responsibility for our upcoming generation, we are far better than India in many ways and for some of us who will be giving back to the society, such is expected of us.