William Quigley is an American venture capitalist and cryptocurrency entrepreneur who co-founded Tether and now serves as CEO of WAX, a blockchain platform built for ...
Gavin Wood is a British computer scientist who co-wrote the Ethereum Yellow Paper and was the former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Ethereum Foundation. ...
Tone Vays is a Bitcoin analyst, derivatives trader, and event producer who spent a decade on Wall Street before transitioning into cryptocurrency analysis and education. ...
Eowyn Chen is a technology executive who served as CEO of Trust Wallet from 2022 until stepping down in February 2026, growing the self-custody wallet ...
Nic Carter co-founded Coin Metrics and Castle Island Ventures after becoming Fidelity Investments’ first cryptoasset analyst, and has since built a reputation for data-driven Bitcoin ...
Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal, founded SpaceX and xAI, and became an early major investor and later CEO of ...
Gavin Andresen is the American software developer that Satoshi Nakamoto chose to lead Bitcoin’s development after stepping back from the project in 2010. Over the ...
Sergey Nazarov is a Russian-American entrepreneur best known as co-founder of Chainlink, the decentralized oracle network that connects smart contracts to real-world data. He was ...
Rune Christensen co-founded MakerDAO in 2015 and built its Dai stablecoin into one of crypto's largest decentralized dollar assets. He later rebuilt the protocol into Sky, and by 2025 helped push its annualized profit to $338 million.
Paul Brody is EY‘s Global Blockchain Leader and Chair of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, leading the professional services firm’s blockchain strategy since 2015 and building ...
Jesse Powell is the co-founder and chairman of Kraken, the cryptocurrency exchange he built after watching Mt. Gox collapse. He stepped down as CEO in 2022 and remains Kraken's largest shareholder as parent company Payward moves toward a 2026 IPO.
Arthur Hayes went from trading derivatives at Deutsche Bank and Citibank to inventing the tool that reshaped crypto trading: the perpetual swap. That invention turned ...
Matthew Niemerg is a mathematician and distributed ledger technology specialist who serves as President of the Aleph Zero Foundation, a Swiss foundation supporting Aleph Zero, ...