Taha Dhailey, FOUNDER AND CEO, TXCITY
Every entrepreneurial journey begins with a quiet rebellion, the moment one decides that the familiar no longer feels enough. Sometimes, it isn’t a grand plan that ignites change but a flicker of curiosity that refuses to die out, urging one to step off the well-trodden path. Reinvention, after all, is not born in comfort; it thrives in the tension between what is known and what could be. It’s here, in that delicate balance of doubt and daring, that the true architect of innovation emerges.
Meet Taha Dhailey, founder and CEO of TxCity, a visionary entrepreneur who turned that flicker into a force. Once grounded in the rigors of chemical engineering, Taha chose to rewrite his destiny through code, teaching himself JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and building early customer management systems long before the concept of “no-code” became a trend. His curiosity soon gave way to conviction when he encountered Ethereum in 2016, recognizing it as the foundation for a new kind of digital trust. “I didn’t just see technology, I saw a future rewriting itself in real time,” Taha remarks.
Today, through TxCity and its ventures TxCity.io, AstraSync.ai, and he’s weaving blockchain, AI, and digital economies into one living ecosystem. Each platform bridges transparency with intelligence, redefining how decentralized systems visualize, verify, and interact. In a world chasing disruption, Taha isn’t following the wave; he’s quietly building the tide beneath it.
Building the City of Transactions
The idea behind TxCity was never to build just another blockchain platform; it was to create clarity in a world clouded by complexity. That vision was rooted in experience, not theory. Long before the name existed, Taha was an engineer-turned-coder selling CRM systems he built from scratch. That early spark of enterprise, though modest in success, taught him the language of resilience, the kind only learned by doing, failing, and daring again.
His next chapter unfolded at KPMG Malaysia, where he served as a blockchain consultant for one of the world’s most respected advisory firms. There, he immersed himself in the architecture of trust, advising global clients on how blockchain could redefine transparency. At the same time, Taha collaborated with Ivan on Tech at Moralis, expanding his reach into the global crypto and developer ecosystem. Those experiences sharpened his understanding of the industry’s paradox: blockchain was revolutionary, yet inaccessible to the average user.
That realization became the genesis of TxCity, a blockchain visualization platform designed to make the invisible visible. By transforming complex transactions into intuitive visuals, TxCity turns the cryptic into the comprehensible. “People don’t trust what they can’t understand. So, I built a way for them to see trust in motion,” Taha reflects.
When Code Found Its Pulse
At its core, TxCity is where blockchain data learns to breathe. What once lived as sterile strings of code now moves, glows, and interacts in real time, an entire digital city built on the rhythm of transactions. Every trade becomes a flicker of life: a car darting through a neon street, a tower illuminating with the hum of exchange. “I wanted blockchain to feel human, because only when people can see movement can they feel meaning,” shares Taha.
The concept was born from a simple question: What if blockchain could be experienced, not just explained? For Taha, the answer lay in transforming cold data into a visual narrative. By combining web technologies and PHASER-based gamification, he turned on-chain activity into an immersive world, where learning meets play, and curiosity meets clarity. Running his own blockchain nodes allowed him to manage enormous data flows, ensuring that every virtual moment mirrored a real one. The result is a platform that bridges art and analytics, turning blockchain from a maze of numbers into a living city of trust, where technology finally speaks the language of people.
Engineering the Impossible
Innovation, for Taha, has always lived on the edge of complexity. Building TxCity and AstraSync meant navigating the collision point of blockchain visualization, AI intelligence, and decentralized data pipelines, a space where disruption and difficulty coexist. Synchronizing live, on-chain data from Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana into an animated 3D world demanded real-time streaming, caching, and multi-node coordination. Then came AstraSync, layering AI agents that interact with on-chain data, amplifying the challenge with latency, inference costs, and cross-chain composability. “When you’re building at the edge of technology, you don’t solve problems, you choreograph them,” Taha states.
To engineer the impossible, Taha restructured TxCity’s backbone into modular microservices with a message queue architecture, using lightweight WebSocket streaming and cached UTXO layers. For AstraSync, he shifted agent inference to stateless cloud functions, trimming costs and cold-start delays. When massive user traffic tested his systems, he deployed Kubernetes, Kibble, and Docker to distribute the load, keeping his virtual city alive under pressure.
But Taha’s story isn’t just one of code, it’s one of conviction. With limited capital and no room for costly hires, he built through strategic collaborations, integrating with ecosystems like Bitcoin Cash, DASH, Lumia, and Litecoin for grants and co-marketing. Transparency became his leadership cornerstone: every financial move and project goal was shared openly with his team. “Clarity builds trust,” he asserts, “and trust builds momentum.” His task-reward model and openness to new tools fostered a culture where innovation isn’t commanded, it’s cultivated.
Beyond the Code
In the whirlwind of innovation, where every idea demands attention, true balance lies not in doing more but in choosing wisely. Taha embodies this philosophy with quiet precision. He stays attuned to emerging tech through social media while grounding himself in structured intent, crafting three-to-six-month product roadmaps that keep his focus steady amid the noise. When a breakthrough appears, he doesn’t chase it impulsively; he folds it seamlessly into his ecosystem, turning novelty into functionality. “I stay grounded by knowing what to chase and what to ignore,” he notes.
After a decade of building at the edge of blockchain and AI, Taha has learned that innovation without balance burns bright but fades fast. His days now follow a disciplined rhythm, strict work hours, long walks, and evenings reserved for family and friends. “Work is my passion, but peace is my power,” he explains.
As TxCity prepares to launch its next evolution, an AI agents platform connecting verified human and digital entities in a gamified, tradable world, Taha’s vision feels both futuristic and deeply human. For him, technology is not the destination but the dialogue, a living bridge between creativity, connection, and collective progress. In a world racing toward automation, Taha reminds us that the most powerful systems are still the ones built with intention and heart.