Jasper Zhang, also known as Yue Zhang, is a mathematician and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Hyperbolic, a company building decentralized ...
Jacob Robert Steeves is the co-founder of Bittensor, the decentralized network that pays contributors in TAO for training and validating AI models across the blockchain. ...
Ivan Liljeqvist, known online as Ivan on Tech, is a Swedish developer and entrepreneur best known for his crypto and blockchain YouTube channel, which has ...
Hayden Adams is the founder and CEO of Uniswap Labs, the company behind Uniswap, the decentralized exchange protocol that popularized the automated market maker model ...
Nick Szabo is a computer scientist, cryptographer, and cypherpunk who invented the concept of smart contracts and proposed Bit Gold, a digital currency widely regarded ...
Craig Sellars is a blockchain technologist widely reported as a co-founder of Tether (USDT), the dollar-pegged stablecoin that launched on the Omni Layer in 2014. ...
Guy Young is the founder and CEO of Ethena Labs, the company behind the synthetic stablecoin USDe. In its December 16, 2025 Most Influential feature, ...
Erik Voorhees is a Bitcoin entrepreneur and co-founder of Venice AI, a privacy-focused artificial intelligence startup that raised $65 million in Series A funding in ...
Meltem Demirors is the Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, a publicly listed digital asset investment firm, after helping build Digital Currency Group. Meltem Demirors is known for holding bitcoin personally and for her cautious public stance on Bitcoin treasury company premiums.
Yoni Assia is the co-founder and CEO of eToro, the Nasdaq-listed trading platform he built with his brother in 2007. Known for buying Bitcoin at around $5 and for inspiring Vitalik Buterin, Yoni Assia has steered eToro through its 2025 IPO and continued expansion into 2026.
Vinny Lingham is co-founder and chairman of Praxos Capital, a crypto-focused hedge fund he helped launch in 2024. He also founded Gyft, the digital gift ...
Kris Marszalek is the co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com, the Singapore-based exchange he has run since founding it as Monaco in June 2016. He is known for the $700 million Crypto.com Arena deal, a 12% AI-driven workforce reduction in March 2026, and steering the company to $1.5 billion in annual revenue.
Jeffrey Quesnelle is the co-founder and CTO of Nous Research, known for his work on decentralized AI training systems and his earlier research into the ...
