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, ...
Felix Xu is the co-founder and CEO of ARPA Network, a decentralized computation platform he built after leaving a venture investing role at Fosun Group. Since 2018, Felix Xu has grown ARPA beyond privacy-focused computing into verifiable randomness, powering Randcast's use across gaming, DeFi, and AI systems.
David Ripley is the co-CEO of Kraken, a role that followed a decade-long path through crypto’s early years. He joined Kraken’s leadership team through an ...
Joey Krug is an American developer and investor best known for co-founding Augur, one of the earliest decentralized prediction market protocols, and for his current ...
Julian Koh is the co-founder and CEO of Aevo, a decentralized derivatives exchange that has processed more than $100 billion in trading volume. His journey ...
Mariana Gospodinova is Executive Vice President of Global Operations and General Manager for Europe at Crypto.com, having previously served as COO of Binance Europe.
Justin Sun is a Chinese-born entrepreneur and confirmed crypto billionaire, best known as the founder of the TRON blockchain and for his ownership stakes and ...
Nirav Murthy is the co-founder and co-CEO of Camp Network, a blockchain that lets creators register their work, license it, and earn royalties, even when ...
Robert Leshner is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Compound Finance, one of DeFi’s earliest lending protocols, and as the current CEO ...
Tuur Demeester is a Belgian economist who told newsletter readers to buy bitcoin at $5 in 2012. He later sold his hedge fund, Adamant Capital, to Blockstream and now runs Adamant Research.
