Harsh Rajat | Founder of Push Protocol — Market Sentiment, Fundraising, and the L1 Wars

In this episode of BeaconLayer Podcast, Kenzi Morikawa, Diksha Wells, and Sachi Miyasaki speak with Harsh Rajat about the real mechanics behind building infrastructure in crypto: how market sentiment changes what founders can ship (and what investors will fund), what it takes to raise in noisy cycles, and how the L1 “wars” look when you’re trying to stay chain-agnostic.Push Protocol bills itself as the communication layer of Web3 — enabling cross-chain notifications and messaging for dapps, wallets, and services, all tied directly to wallet addresses. Harsh breaks down why messaging is still one of the most underbuilt primitives in crypto, what’s hard about building a protocol that has to work everywhere, and how distribution works when your “users” are both builders and ecosystems.He also shares how the team approached the Ethereum Foundation for funding, what they learned (the hard way) about community building, the mentors and relationships that mattered most, and the principles they use to keep building when the market is either euphoric or brutal.