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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Raj Chowdhury
Co-Founder and CEO of HashCash Consultants
Raj Chowdhury is the CEO of HashCash Consultants and a Blockchain pioneer. He is the author of the book The Dark Secret of the Silicon Valley. He is the co-founder of several high tech and web based companies. Chowdhury is an eminent voice in Blockchain and cryptocurrencies globally. He is a contributor to Economic Times, Business World and advises industry leaders in adoption of Blockchain. He is a member of Asha Silicon Valley chapter, a non-profit committed to the spread of education for children in emerging countries.
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About Bitrump, HashCash Consultants, Satoshi Angels: HashCash Consultants is a software company offering Blockchain, AI, Big Data and IoT products, platforms and services.
Vlad Tenev
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Robinhood
Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and co-CEO of Robinhood. A first-generation immigrant from Bulgaria, Tenev earned his B.S. in Mathematics at Stanford University before starting two finance companies in New York City, selling trading software to hedge funds. In 2013, Tenev and longtime friend Baiju Bhatt co-founded Robinhood, a zero commission brokerage dedicated to democratizing the finance system. The company has millions of users across the country and is currently valued at $5.6 billion.
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About Robinhood: Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Baiju Bhatt
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Robinhood
Baiju Bhatt is the co-founder and co-CEO of Robinhood, the fastest growing brokerage in the world. Bhatt earned his B.S. in Physics and M.S. in Mathematics at Stanford University before starting two finance companies in New York City. In 2015, Bhatt co-founded Robinhood with Vlad Tenev, aiming to democratize the financial system. The company has millions of users across the country and is currently valued at $5.6 billion.
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About Robinhood: Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Robert Leshner
Founder and CEO of Compound
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About Citywide Special, Compound, Robot Ventures, Safe Shepherd: Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications.
Leif Abraham
Co-CEO of Public.com
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About AND CO, Prehype, Public.com: Public.com is the fractional investing platform where members build a modern portfolio of stocks & ETFs, crypto & NFTs, and collectibles.
Timi Ajiboye
CEO & CTO of Buycoins
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About Buycoins: Buycoins is a cryptocurrency exchange that allows Africans buy and sell cryptocurrencies instantly using their local currency.
Charles Hoskinson
Chief Executive Officer of Input Output
Charles Hoskinson is a Colorado based technology entrepreneur and mathematician. He attended Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Colorado at Boulder to study Analytic Number Theory prior to moving into cryptography via industry exposure. His professional experience includes founding three Cryptocurrency related start-ups, Invictus Innovations, Ethereum and IOHK- and a variety of colorful positions in the public and private sector. He was the founding chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation’s education committee and established the Cryptocurrency Research Group in September of 2013. His current projects focus on education of cryptocurrency topics, evangelism of decentralization and making cryptographic tools easier to use for the mainstream.
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About Cardano Foundation, Input Output: Input Output is a technology company committed to using peer-to-peer innovations to provide financial services.
Sheldon Xia
Founder & CEO of BitMart
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About BitMart: BitMart is a digital asset trading platform that focuses on cryptocurrency.
Ryan Selkis
CEO & Co-founder of Messari
Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG’s investing efforts.
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About Messari: Messari provides market intelligence that drives high-conviction participation in the crypto economy.
Charles Cascarilla
CEO and Founder of Paxos
Charles Cascarilla is the CEO and co-founder of Paxos, a financial technology company delivering blockchain solutions for global financial institutions. With over 15 years of experience in financial services, Charles has a unique perspective on integrating blockchain technology with traditional systems. He co-founded institutional asset management complex Cedar Hill Capital Partners in 2005 and its venture capital subsidiary, Liberty City Ventures, in 2012. He also sits on the Governing Board of the Hyperledger Project. Earlier in his career, Charles was a portfolio manager at Claiborne Capital and worked at both Bank of America Securities and Goldman Sachs. He serves on the board of several charities and private companies including Project ALS and The Centurion Foundation. Charles holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Notre Dame and is a CFA charterholder.
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About Association for Digital Asset Markets (ADAM), Liberty City Ventures, Paxos: Paxos is a regulated financial institution building infrastructure to enable movement between physical and digital assets.
Bill Barhydt
Co-Founder and CEO of Abra
William (Bill) Barhydt (born in New York City) is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of Abra, a new type of digital cash payments app and network enabling the transfer of cash between any two smartphones. Barhydt attended The Stevens Institute of Technology (BS, Computer Science, 1990) and has done graduate work (non-degree) at Stanford (Mathematics) and NYU (Finance.) After working for the CIA, NASA and Goldman Sachs, Barhydt decided to join Netscape working on telecom and Internet banking deals, mostly in Europe. After the AOL acquisition of Netscape Barhydt founded WebSentric. The technology for WebSentric exists today in SAP’s online portal service. Barhydt was CEO of KnowNow, VP Market Development for Plaxo and has been a Director or adviser to numerous start-ups including Meeting Maker, Ignite Racing, Particle Code, Sennari, Plaxo, Kopo Kopo and others. Barhydt co-founded m-Via, a mobile banking start-up in 2008, now part of Digicel. As a recognized expert in Internet and Mobile technologies Barhydt has presented at The World Economic Forum, The US State Department, The Mobile World Congress, TED, and many Internet and mobile technology conferences.
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About Abra: Abra is a digital wallet that makes it easy to access, manage, and earn interest on cryptocurrencies.
Denelle Dixon
CEO and Executive Director of Stellar Development Foundation
Denelle Dixon is the CEO and Executive Director of the Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit organization using blockchain to unlock the world’s economic potential by making money more fluid, markets more open, and people more empowered. Before joining Stellar, Dixon served as COO of Mozilla, one of the most successful mission-driven open-source organizations. During her tenure at Mozilla, she led the organization’s business, revenue and policy teams including the ongoing fight for Net Neutrality and the global effort to ensure that people can control their personal data. She also pushed Mozilla to understand how to partner with commercial entities while staying true to its core mission of openness, innovation, and opportunity on the web. A lawyer by trade, Denelle previously served as a general counsel and legal advisor in private equity and technology. Throughout her career, Denelle has been a vocal advocate for net neutrality, encryption, the disclosure of vulnerabilities by governments, and greater user choice and control.
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About Stellar Development Foundation: Stellar Development Foundation supports the development and growth of Stellar, a blockchain network that connects financial infrastructure.
Michael Gronager
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Chainalysis
Michael Gronager PhD in Quantum Mechanics, MSc in Chemical Engineering is CEO and Co-Founder of Chainalysis Inc., the leading company in investigation and compliance services for distributed value transfer, with customers from international banks, leading law enforcement agencies and fintech companies. Prior to founding Chainalysis Michael was the COO of Payward Inc., the leading euro to bitcoin exchange where he was in charge of banking relations, overseeing the global engineering team, and crypto currency expert. Before entering the bitcoin scene in 2011 Michael was running international research infrastructure projects, latest as CEO for the Nordic DataGrid Facility at that time the biggest distributed storage installation world wide. Michael has served as member of the research infrastructure EGI Project Management Board, the EGI Technical Collaboration Board and at present he is member of the Board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center, NSC. Michael is also Co-Founder of Kraken in San Francisco.
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Chris Wang
CEO & Co-Founder of ThunderCore
Chris spent two years as a Google engineer before founding Playdom. Before officially joining Google, Chris received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon—completed in a record-breaking two years and ten months—and interned at, you guessed it, Google. Chris also holds a BA in computer science from Berkeley. However, his knack for programming and obsession with gaming goes much further back: As a high schooler, Chris took 14th place in the USA Computing Olympiad and spent countless days trying to program his first 3D RPG.
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About Playdom, Sentri, ThunderCore: Thunder Token is a new crypto token that is high throughput and confirms transactions in seconds.
MacLane Wilkison
Co-Founder & CEO of NuCypher
MacLane Wilkison is the cofounder and CEO of NuCypher, a Y Combinator and Polychain Capital-backed company that provides decentralized key management and cryptographic access controls for decentralized applications. He is a software engineer and former investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where he provided M&A and financing services to enterprises in technology, media, and telecommunications. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and certified Financial Risk Manager.
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About NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Tammy Camp
Founder & CEO of Stronghold
Tammy is the CEO of Stronghold, an API platform that creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks. Tammy served as the first Head of Growth at Stellar, helping the network grow to 4 million users in its first two months. A former partner at accelerator 500 Startups, she invested in portfolio companies and ran the growth and marketing curriculum for its flagship Silicon Valley location. She is a graduate of Singularity University’s GSP11 in Exponential Technologies at NASA Ames where she first learned about Bitcoin from legendary cryptographer Ralph Merkle.
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About Action Factory, Stronghold: Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that give developers access legacy and next-generation payment networks through a simple API.
Jeffrey Byun
CEO, Co-Founder of BLADE
Jeffrey Byun is the CEO of BLADE – a new cryptocurrency derivatives exchange. Previously, he was the CEO of OrderAhead – a mobile ordering/payments startup that was acquired by Square. Prior to that, Jeffrey was a fixed income trader at Morgan Stanley and BofA Merrill Lynch. Jeffrey is a graduate of MIT and Penn.
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About BLADE: BLADE is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange
Jon Lerner
Co-Founder and CEO of CoinTracker
Co-Founder and CEO of CoinTracker.
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About CoinTracker: CoinTracker is a portfolio and tax manager for cryptocurrency that enables seamless cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance.
Parul Gujral
Founder and CEO of Snowball Money
Parul Gujral is the founder and CEO of Snowball Money.
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About Snowball Money: Snowball Money operates as a crypto investment automation platform that provides access to professionally curated portfolios.
Yuval Rooz
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Digital Asset
Yuval was part of the founding team of Digital Asset. Yuval managed an electronic algorithmic trading desk for more than three years and has held positions at DRW Trading Group and Citadel. He has experience investing in successful startups and has significant experience managing large teams of developers in financial products and operations.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Raullen Chai
CEO, Co-Founder of IoTeX
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About IoTeX: IoTeX is the leading decentralized network to power billions of machines at scale, drive the machine economy (machinefi) applications.
Bradley Miles
CEO and Co-Founder of Roll
Bradley previously led research for CoinDesk, the world leader in news and information on digital currencies, and architected their State of Blockchain report and spotlight study on ICOs. He is the CEO of Turing Advisory Group, a sell-side advisory firm for token sales with an emphasis on research and best practices. Bradley is the best selling author of #BreakIntoVC: How to Break Into Venture Capital and Think Like an Investor and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Techstars in New York City.
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About Roll, Techstars: Roll is building blockchain infrastructure for social money on Ethereum.
Edward Woodford
Co-Founder and CEO of Zero Hash
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About Zero Hash: Zero Hash is a B2B digital assets-as-a-service technology platform that offers turnkey solutions such as NFTs for its clients.
Jeremy Born
Founder & CEO of CoinGenius
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About CoinGenius, NFT Genius: CoinGenius is an advanced intelligence and analytics platform specifically intended for cryptocurrency traders.
Xavier Hawk
Founder CEO of Phireon
Xavier Hawk is an entrepreneur, block-chain expert, permaculture design expert, complementary currency consultant, renewable energy advocate, artist, and humanitarian. Key highlights in Xavier’s career include founding Permacredits, a vanguard digital currency whose main architecture provided solutions for a range of economic based challenges, while fostering growth in the clean energy, sustainable housing, and regenerative agriculture sectors. The success of Permacredits led to Xavier becoming C.E.O. and founding partner of Hermes Global Partners- alongside the chief architect of the Euro’s convergence and exchange mechanisms, Bernard Lietaer. A keen speaker and advocate of sustainability projects, humanitarian causes, and complementary currencies, Xavier has shared his vision and expertise across a range of key media platforms around the world, including; magazines, radio and television.
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About Phireon: Phireon is a decentralized autonomous corporation that supports regenerative businesses around the world.
Jai An
CEO & Co-Founder of TrustToken
Jai is the CEO and co-founder of TrustToken
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About TrustToken: TrustToken is a platform to create asset-backed tokens that can be used for buying and selling around the world.
Anthony Citrano
Founder & CEO of Acquicent
Citrano is founder & CEO of [Acquicent](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/acquicent) and a mentor at [Amplify](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/amplify-la), a startup accelerator and multi-faceted entrepreneurial campus in Los Angeles. He is also an angel investor and photographer. He was VP Communications & Chief Evangelist for Verizon’s digital unit, a position created when [Verizon acquired EdgeCast Networks](https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/07/verizon-edgecast/), where he was a key executive. He co-founded fama PR, a Boston-based communications agency. He served as chief technology advisor to Maine Governor Angus King (now US Senator) and was a member of Barack Obama’s 2008 finance committee.
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About Acquicent: Acquicent provides a marketplace for investing in digital and real-world collectibles via NFTs.
Soham Garud
Co-founder & CEO of FanTrade
Co-founder, CEO @ FanTrade | Fantasy Crypto & Stocks | Building FanTrade where we combine the fun and excitement of fantasy sports with the forecasting skills of stocks and crypto being a real-time game with curated rewards for winning.
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About FanTrade: FanTrade is a mobile app where users earn money by playing real-time daily contests based on fantasy crypto and stocks.
Matt Galligan
Co-founder & CEO of XMTP
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About 1% of Nothing, XMTP: XMTP is a communication protocol and network that connects communities, creators, protocols, applications, and users.
Kevin April
CEO of SportsCastr
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About PANDA Interactive, SportsCastr: SportsCastr is a live video platform for sports that includes real-time score-bugs, broadcast quality motion graphics and augmented reality.
Jennifer Campbell
Co-Founder & CEO of Tagomi
Jennifer Campbell is the Co-Founder and CEO at Tagomi.
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About Tagomi: Tagomi is a cryptocurrency trading platform that provides access to priced liquidity, low commissions, and maximized client return.
Martin Floreani
Founder and CEO of Rokfin
Martin Floreani is the Founder and CEO of Rokfin, a creator-first subscription media company and a (live) digital platform that rewards content creators for the full value they generate. Martin focuses on delivering a product that creates the world’s most efficient content network. He previously founded FloSports, a leading subscription-based sports media company. He ran the company for 12+ years as its CEO, and raised more than $40MM in funding through a combination of debt and equity rounds. He grew the company from zero to 250 employees while expanding the company’s network to more than 20 sports verticals.
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About Rokfin: Rokfin is a platform for creators and content owners to bundle their offerings in a subscription.
Stephen George
CEO of Amaze
Stephen’s career began as a founding team member and Head of Global Operations at Groupon, building their operational foundation and seeing them through their IPO in 2011.
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About Amaze, IndiCard: HyperLocal, Crypto Rewards
John Karantonis
CEO of Geopay.me
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About Aiolos Holdings, Geopay.me, Hydrogen Innovations Co, iBlockchain Bank & Trust Technologies Co., Realbloc Holdings, Sustainability Creative Co.: Geopay.me, is a privately held US alternative payment network based on Blockchain technologies
Mason Jappa
Co-Founder & CEO of Blockware Solutions
Mason Jappa is the Co-Founder and COO of Blockware Solutions.
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About Blockware Mining, Blockware Solutions: Blockware Solutions is a blockchain infrastructure company that provides bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining services.
Hisham Khan
CEO & Founder of Cryptocurrencies.Ai
Hisham Khan currently works as the CEO and Co-Founder for Cryptocurrencies.Ai. He previously worked at Bloomberg LP as the Project Manager.
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About Aldrin, Cryptocurrencies.Ai: Cryptocurrencies.Ai is a cryptocurrency company that operates a trading platform with both centralized and decentralized components.
Ray Youssef
CEO & Co-Founder of Paxful
Ray is the co-founder and CEO of Paxful, the peer-to-peer global finance platform with over seven million users. Ray and his co-founder Artur started Paxful in 2015 to help everyone gain financial freedom through equal access to finance. Ray started out as an entrepreneur in 2001, when he founded a successful ringtone business and then had a series of start-ups before setting up Paxful. At Paxful, Ray is CEO and looks after growth, marketing, customer service and operations. Ray also founded the Built With Bitcoin Foundation that uses Bitcoin to create opportunity and thriving communities by providing access to clean water, quality education, and healthy food and a healthy environment via sustainable farming.
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About Paxful: The global peer-to-peer platform building a financial system for the 100%— one Bitcoin at a time.
Robert Dykes
CEO & Co-Founder of CASPIAN
Robert Dykes is the CEO at Caspian.
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About CASPIAN, The Carey School, Tora Trading Services: CASPIAN is a full stack crypto asset management solution.
Joe Roets
CEO and Founder of Dragonchain
Joe Roets is a successful Software Architect with experience as CIO, CTO, and Senior Vice President in many industries. For over 25 years at such companies as Disney, Lockheed Martin, Sprint, FBI, DoD, and createTank, he has spearheaded new technology programs and led software teams large and small. He has contributed to blockchain and cryptocurrency projects since 2010 at Overstock, Coinbase, Symbiont, and the Walt Disney Company. Most recently, he founded the Dragonchain Blockchain Platform (open sourced from Disney).
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About Dragonchain, Dragonchain Foundation: Dragonchain offers users with the potential of blockchain through accessible, flexible, and secure platform.
Neil Bergquist
Co-Founder and CEO of Coinme
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About Coinme: Coinme is a digital currency exchange on a mission to be the worlds trusted gateway to digital currencies and a better financial future.
Ameen Soleimani
Co-Founder and CEO of SpankChain
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About SpankChain: SpankChain is an adult entertainment ecosystem powered by blockchain technology.
Hunter Horsley
CEO of Bitwise
CEO & Cofounder at Bitwise, leading provider of crypto index funds. Previously product manager on branded content and creator monetization at Facebook, and monetization at Instagram. Prior to that studied at UPenn.
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About Bitwise: Bitwise is a crypto index fund manager for individuals, investment managers, and institutions navigating cryptocurrency.
Jude Regev
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Jointer
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About Jointer: World’s first COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BACKED DeFi
Julien Genestoux
Founder & CEO of Unlock
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About Unlock: Unlock is an access control protocol built on blockchain that let creators monetize their content without relying on a middleman.
Brian Hoffman
Co-Founder & CEO of OB1
Brian Hoffman is the CEO and co-founder of OB1.He also the Founder and CEO of OpenBazaar.
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About OB1, OpenBazaar: OB1 is a developer of a peer-to-peer trading platform used to offer a cryptocurrency marketplace.
Michael Feng
Co-Founder & CEO of Hummingbot
Co-founder & CEO of Hummingbot
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About Hummingbot: Hummingbot is an open-source crypto trading bot that enables decentralized market making; liquidity mining for centralized exchanges.
Rex Wong
CEO & Co-Founder of AIVON
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About AIVON, Famecast Media, Intelligent Video Solutions: AIVON is a decentralized blockchain platform and protocol built on an Artificial Intelligence (AI) network.
William Heyn
CEO of trade.io
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About trade.io: trade.io’s mission is to democratize the financial markets through the world’s first ever blockchain-based trading platform.
Hossein Azari
Founder, CEO of cmorq
My mission is to contribute to leveling the financial playing field. This involves developing financial management tools and novel products for establishing and maintaining ownership for consumers. I have been contributing to this space since 2015. Currently, I am Founder and CEO of cmorq. I was a Senior Research Scientist at Google Research where I initiated and led multiple projects in collaboration with product teams such as Ad-Exchange. I was also a co-founder at Clarity Money (Acquired by Goldman Sachs), building a trusted financial advocate. I have a PhD in Computer Science (EconCS group) from Harvard University, advised by Professor David Parkes, and a Siebel Scholar, Class of 2014. I have an MBA from Columbia University (2016), MA in Statistics from Harvard University (2012) and BS in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.
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About cmorq: cmorq organizes blockchain data into standard products that empower institutions and individuals.
Evan Shapiro
CEO of O(1) Labs
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About O(1) Labs: O(1) Labs is a software development company working on Mina Protocol, a tiny, portable blockchain.
Alexander Leishman
Co-Founder and CEO of River Financial
Alexander Leishman is a Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of River Financial. Prior to that, he was the Engineer and Investor at Polychain Capital and the Security Software Engineer at Airbnb.
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About River Financial: River Financial is a Bitcoin financial institution allowing long-term investors to buy, sell, and manage Bitcoin.
Dean Tribble
CEO of Agoric
E. Dean Tribble, Agoric CEO, designed the negotiation process and contract for the first smart contracting system, AMiX. As a Principal Architect at Microsoft, he designed the Midori distributed object-capability operating system. As founder and CTO for Agorics (acquired by Microsoft), he developed the brokerage information system for Schwab’s active traders, the WebMart system for electronic contracts, and the first electronic check project by the FSTC for the DoD. As CTO of VerifyValid and VP of Deluxe, his echeck systems have carried billions of dollars.
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About Agoric: Agoric provides a framework for programming smart contracts securely and with ease, beyond anything available today.
Tom Mizzone
Chief Executive Officer of Sweet
Tom Mizzone is the founder and CEO of Sweet, a social fan club platform for artists and brands. Tom is an entrepreneurial technology executive with years of experience launching, growing, and operating successful organizations. He previously served as vice president of product development at MediaSentry Inc., developing and managing multi-million-dollar digital content protection and promotion products for entertainment and media companies. Tom earned a degree in bachelor of science in accounting, information systems focus at Messiah College.
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About Sweet: Sweet is a blockchain-based social loyalty platform that aims to improve fan engagement.
Dan Gunsberg
Co-Founder & CEO of Hxro
Daniel Gunsberg is Founder at HXRO
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About Gordian Block, Hxro: Hxro is a company that focuses on crypto trading and bitcoin for gaming and entertainment to its customers.
Zubin Koticha
CEO of Opyn
Zubin Singh Koticha is the CEO and Co-Founder at opyn.co.
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About Opyn: Opyn allows users to earn a premium or take views on assets by trading options on ETH and ERC20s.
Will Warren
Co-founder & CEO of 0x
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About 0x: 0x is an open protocol that enables peer-to-peer trading of assets.
Tavonia Evans
Director, Founder & CEO of Guap Coin
Tavonia Evans is the founder of GUAP Coin, a cryptocurrency created to boost black and community economics (marginalized communities globally). She is a self proclaimed “mompreneur” and technology specialist with almost 20 years of experience in development, business analysis, marketing, and startups. She is the Co-Founder of Safe2meet, a peer-to-peer reputation platform. She was featured in the Glamour May Money Edition entitled ” Meet The women of Cryptocurrency “ and Black Enterprise for her work in blockchain. She is an avid crypto-evangelist and believes that blockchain/cryptocurrency can open up a new world of financial opportunities for underserved and underprivileged people globally. She has spoken at Blockchain conferences worldwide and is very passionate about participating in projects that can further the humanitarian aspect of Blockchain.
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About Guap Coin: Guap Coin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency created to promote economic growth and wealth.
Alex Adelman
CEO and Co-Founder of Lolli
Alex Adelman is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Lolli. Alex was previously the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Cosmic (acquired by PopSugar, then Ebates). He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently resides in New York, New York. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Economics.
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About Lolli: Lolli is a rewards app that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.
Meg Nakamura
Co-Founder and CEO of Apto Payments
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About Apto Payments, Hard Yaka: Apto Payments is a card issuance platform that helps companies issue new kinds of cards in new ways.
Zach Kelling
Founder and CEO of Hanzo
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About Hanzo: Hanzo enables businesses to launch and operate blockchain networks, develop decentralized applications and deliver compelling experiences.
Andrew Lee
CEO & Cofounder of Purse
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About Purse: Purse provides real incentive to use Bitcoin to the largest selection at the lowest price points.
Patrick White
CEO of Bitwave
Pat White, CEO and Co-Founder of Bitwave. As a serial entrepreneur and cryptocurrency enthusiast, Pat is passionate about the potential for blockchain technology to change the world, and is on a mission to enable that change. He combined his expertise in enterprise software, accounting, and cryptocurrencies to co-found Bitwave in 2018, which provides a complete, end-to-end back office solution for businesses that use Crypto. Over the last decade, Pat White has built enterprise software at companies such as Intuit, Microsoft, VistaConnect, Fortify Software (now HP Security). As Fortify’s Group Product Manager, Pat oversaw the development of award winning security products before leaving to start his first company. Later he co-founded Synata, an enterprise search platform that was acquired by Cisco in 2016, where he worked as the Chief Architect for their Webex Teams Product. Pat has contributed code to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and several other crypto-currency projects.
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About Bitwave: Bitwave is a digital asset management platform that supplies back-office software solutions to enterprises that accept cryptocurrencies
Patrick Larsen
CEO & Cofounder of ZenLedger
Former Amazon business manager ($100M P&L). M&A investment banking, marketing analytics, and e-commerce startups. Chicago Booth MBA. US Air Force Academy grad and former Navy helicopter mission commander.
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About ZenLedger: ZenLedger is an analytics startup that simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax professionals in portfolio management.
Ryne Saxe
Co-Founder and CEO of Eco
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About Eco: Eco provides a digital cryptocurrency platform that can be used as a payment tool for daily-use transactions.
Nicolás Arqueros
CEO / Co-Founder of dcSpark
Nicolás Arqueros was CEO and founder of one of the top app development companies in Chile. Within less than three years the company generated income over $1M and produced over 40 different projects. Additionally, he worked as a senior engineer for various Silicon Valley startups before joining EMURGO as an Entrepreneur in Residence.
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About dcSpark, Emurgo: DcSpark is a product-based blockchain company that builds products and solutions for crypto projects in the space.
David Cohen
Founder and CEO of Taekion
David A. Cohen is founder and Chairman of Taekion, a blockchain-based Cybersecurity company. He is internationally renowned for his pioneering work on Smart Systems Software platforms. In 2012, David was named as one of the Top 100 Movers and Shakers in the SmartGrid by Greentech Media. David was the founder and CEO of Infotility where he pioneered “the Grid Edge” and unlocked a multi-billion dollar SmartGrid market. David is founding Member Emeritus of the GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC) which was instrumental in launching the vision for the SmartGrid industry. He wrote The Electrinet: A Communications Architecture for a Competitive Electric Power Industry. On June 13th, 2017, David was a member of the IOTA Foundation and the IOTA Token Cryptocurrency launch which broke all previous records by reaching a $1.7 Billion market cap on the first day of trading on the international exchange, Bitfinex as reported by Forbes. He also is advisor to several Cryptocurrency blockchain ventures (Wireline.io, FarmaTrust, Money Token, WePower, Patron, BandZ) and others. He is an Executive Advisor and early member of Hedera Hashgraph David has 24 years of management, software platform development, and business development experience for emerging energy technology companies. He has specialized in the areas of Decentralized Software Systems. David founded four start-up companies and has a track record in building, scaling, and selling innovative and profitable ventures. He has completed numerous joint ventures and partnerships in the US, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Australia, India, and Asia-Pac. David has developed and commercialized over 20 enterprise software products. He is an expert on decentralized software and control systems including AI-Based Analytics, Transactive Energy, Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, Internet of Things (IoT), Peer-to-Peer (P2P), and Blockchain technology. David has presented at venues such as REFF Wall Street, MIT, TEDx, Singularity University, and other global conference venues.
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About Taekion: Blockchain-based Cybersecurity Software
Dan Hannum
CEO of Hannum Capital Management
Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Hannum Capital Management
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About Hannum Capital Management, ZenLedger: A capital management company focused on digital and blockchain-based assets exclusively on the blockchain technology sector.
David Smooke
Founder & CEO of HackerNoon
David Smooke is the Founder and CEO of HackerNoon, the technology publishing platform. He is a writer, designer, and entrepreneur.
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About ArtMap Inc dba HackerNoon, HackerNoon: Hacker Noon is a technology publishing platform.
J.P. Thieriot
CEO of Uphold
J.P. Thieriot is Vice Chairman at Uphold. J.P. received a BA from Yale College.
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About Uphold: Uphold’s technology enables individuals and businesses to invest, exchange, spend and transfer currencies, commodities, equities, and more.
Jesse Proudman
Co-Founder and CEO of Makara Digital
Jesse Proudman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Makara.
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About Makara Digital, Strix Leviathan: Makara Digital is a cryptocurrency investing platform that offers a secure proprietary trading technology that was built for digital assets.
Gilles Gade
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of Cross River Bank
Gilles Gade is a founder of Cross River Bank (CRB) and has served as its Chairman, President and CEO since its inception in 2008. Gilles is steering CRB as an innovation-driven state-chartered bank and a provider of fully compliant financial solutions to the marketplace lending and payments sectors. Gilles possesses over 20 years of experience in investment banking and venture capital including Co-Founder and Managing Director of Chela Technology Partners and Chela Internet Ventures, a boutique investment bank and venture fund focusing on emerging technologies and telecommunications; technology investment banker at Barclays Capital; and FIG investment banker at Bear Stearns. Gilles started his career in 1990 at Citicorp Venture Capital. Gade graduated from the MBA Institute IMIP (Groupe IPESUP) in Paris with an MS in International Management.
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About Cross River Bank: Cross River is a financial institution that offers technology and banking services to consumers and businesses.
Amy Wan
Founder and CEO of Bling
Amy Wan, Esq., is CEO of Bling, a bitcoin rewards platform. Previously, she has been a Partner as securities law firms, general counsel at fintech platforms, and founded Bootstrap Legal, a real estate syndication legal document automation platform. She hosts The Law and Blockchain Podcast (a podcast through the American Bar Association) and has authored the Bloomberg Law practice guide to ICOs and Lexis Nexus’ Private Equity practice guide. Amy founded Legal Hackers LA, which programs around the intersection of law and technology; was named one of ten women to watch in legal technology by the American Bar Association Journal in 2014 and one of 18 millennials changing legaltech by law.com in 2018; and was nominated as a Finalist for the Corporate Counsel of the Year Award 2015 by LA Business Journal. Amy has also worked in international regulatory and trade policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Transportation. She holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, and a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California.
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About Bling, Bootstrap Legal: Bling allows users to earn bitcoin rewards by playing games.
Mickey Costa
Co-founder and CEO of Atlas Holdings
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About Atlas Holdings: Atlas provides mobile banking online.
Matt Bailey
Founder and CEO of GameOn
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About GameOn: The future of engaging superfans. If it’s on, it’s on.
Dave Weisberger
Co-Founder & CEO of CoinRoutes
David Weisberger, CEO of CoinRoutes Inc has over 30 years of experience in market structure, quantitative finance, and trading automation. David Weisberger started his career in technology, where he built the first program trading system for Morgan Stanley before moving to the sales and trading business. He subsequently started the non-dollar program trading desk for Salomon Brothers, was the global architect of the firm’s equity trading platform where he designed their first trading algorithm and quantitatively managed central risk book before becoming responsible for the statistical arbitrage trading business. He later ran their smart order routing business before joining Two Sigma to develop their wholesale market making business, which he ran for several years. Most recently, David Weisberger joined ViableMkts to provide consulting services and co-founded CoinRoutes to provide Smart Order Routing and Consolidated market data for Crypto-Asset trading.
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About CoinRoutes: CoinRoutes is a crypto trading software provider.
Alex Lightman
CEO of Token Communities
MIT and Harvard trained entrepreneur, inventor and artist. Advisor to 20+ Blockchain companies and have been advisor to over 40 national governments, plus UN and NATOHave given keynotes at crypto conferences in dozens of countries. Received1st Economist magazine Reader’s Award (2nd to Steve Jobs).
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About Token Communities: Token Communities Plc is fast establishing itself as a market leader in the emerging fields of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.
Jonathan B. Handler
Founder and CEO of YINC
Jonathan B. Handler is the founder & CEO at YINC.
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About YINC: YINC leverages Blockchain technology to transform the service-to-hire industry for consumers & real estate mgmt companies.
Anthony Emtman
CEO of Ikigai Asset Management
Deliberately honing philosophies to live by.
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About Ikigai Asset Management: Ikigai Asset Management is a long/short multistrat hedge fund investing in crypto assets.
Max Skibinsky
CEO and Co-Founder of Vault12
Max Skibinsky is serial entrepreneur, angel investor & start-up mentor. He is currently a Venture Partner with Andreessen Horowitz. Max was founder and CEO of Hive7, a social gaming company known for its smash hit game “Knighthood” that grown to 6M players on Facebook. In 2010 Hive7 was sold to Playdom/Disney. Later Max become one of the co-founders of Inporia that secured funding from YCombinator, SV Angels, Clearstone & NEA to launch number of consumer products that used machine learning algorithms for online and mobile e-commerce. Max is also one of resident mentors of 500 Startups. Max holds Masters degree in theoretical physics from Moscow State University. When not designing, brainstorming, advising, and building startups Max can be found flying in general vicinity of Palo Alto airspace.
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About Vault12: Vault12 is the first to deliver decentralized digital custody to protect your most precious digital assets.
Benny Nachman
CEO, Founder & President of Jassby
Benny is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record in building a global bank with over 30 licenses all over the world.Managing hundreds of employees, thousands of merchants with over $6bn in volume and $120m in revenues.
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About Credorax, Jassby: Jassby is a mobile payment system designed for families, kids, and teens.
Alan Curtis
CEO of RADAR
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About RADAR, Radar Relay: We build products for our next financial system
Tom Bachar
Founder & CEO of Pei
Tom Bachar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pei, an app for automatic retailer cash back, in bitcoin or cash, on existing credit and debit cards. Originally from Los Angeles, Tom moved his startup to Austin to participate in the Sputnik ATX accelerator during the January 2018 batch. Tom met his co-founder, Michael Jannain, in college while the two studied Finance and Computer Science and worked together to trade derivatives based on data set strategies. This passion ultimately led them to explore solutions for making finance work for people in convenient ways. Prior to Pei, Tom led Financial DevOps at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and was pivotal in merging the Global Delivery Department with Computer Science Company into what is now DXC, a Fortune 500 enterprise IT company. Six months since moving their startup to Austin, Pei has the largest merchant support for cashback rewards and the team has been growing exponentially with expertise from Anaconda, Uber, and JP Morgan. Having currently raised their Seed round, Pei has disintermediated the card rewards market and is on track to innovate an archaic industry.
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About Pei: Unlock automatic cashback in Bitcoin or USD on your debit or credit cards!
Eric Solis
Founder & CEO of MovoCash
Mr. Eric Solis Co-Founded MovoCash, Inc. in 2014 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Solis has over 15-years of senior level management experience in digital finance including; payments, micro-investing, securities, money transfer systems, transfer agents and record keeping. With a long track record of success as an entrepreneur and innovator, he was selected by The Center for Financial Service Innovation and Fortune Magazine as being one of the top innovators in the country and he is featured in the New York Times, BusinessWeek and many other national publications for his contribution in the advancement of digital finance. He has extensive experience in all phases of executive management including business and corporate development, financial management, strategic planning, M&A, capital structure, treasury management, agile project management, operations, executive coaching and mentoring as well as expert public speaking skills with local and national media experience.
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About MovoCash: MovoCash is a financial services company that specializes in P2P Payments, Mobile Banking, Fintech, and Finserv.
Hugo Renaudin
Co-Founder & CEO of LGO Group
Entrepreneur. CEO and Co-Founder of LGO Group.
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About LGO Group: Building the next generation of financial exchanges.
Chetan Manikantan
Co-Founder & CEO of Tengu
Chet is a polymath, artist, designer, software engineer, inventor and a serial entrepreneur. He is currently the founder @gurug and @tenguID, President of Boston Blockchain Association, Director at MIT Bitcoin Club, Entrepreneur In Residence at UMass Boston, and ex Microsoft.
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About CornerTable, DeFacto Venture Partners, Guru-G Learning Labs, mySpark Technologies, Tengu: Tengu is transforming the financial services industry using blockchain technologies.
Talip Ozturk
Founder & CEO of Evercoin
Talip Ozturk is the founder and CEO of Evercoin, a non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange. Prior to Evercoin, he was the CEO/CTO of Hazelcast, a distributed database to enable applications scale and run faster. Talip founded Hazelcast in 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey, moved the company to Silicon Valley in 2012 and raised more than $13m.
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About Evercoin, Google: Evercoin is a mobile application that provides a cryptocurrency exchange service.
Micah Winkelspecht
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Gem
Micah Winkelspecht is the CEO and Founder of Gem, a simple and secure platform for blockchain developers. Gem’s mission is to empower individuals to be in control of their digital assets, starting with bitcoin. An active Bitcoin community organizer and thought leader, Micah regularly speaks, moderates, and hosts at Bitcoin and startup events, and is co-organizer of the Los Angeles Bitcoin meetup group of over 1,000 members. Micah is also a significant contributor to the Bitcoin developer community as the author of MoneyTree, a popular open-source library used to create Bitcoin wallets and the first Ruby implementation of a Bitcoin HD wallet. Prior to his contributions to the Bitcoin world, Micah spent 10+ years developing software for companies including AT&T Interactive, Guide Financial and Pose.
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About Gem: Gem is one of the most trusted cryptocurrency and blockchain brands in the world.
Bram Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO of Chia Network
Mr. Cohen is the inventor of BitTorrent, which is the most used protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing over the internet. In 2009, BitTorrent accounted for 43% to 70% of all internet traffic and has recently seen a resurgence in use accounting for nearly 21% of global upstream internet bandwidth in 2018. Mr. Cohen is often accused of being Satoshi Nakamoto – a claim he denies. Bram founded and was the initial CEO of BitTorrent, Inc in 2004. During his time at BitTorrent, he worked in various roles as an Engineering Manager, Product Manager, and member of the board of directors at BitTorrent. While there he managed BitTorrent Labs, a research and development department of BitTorrent where he presided over a successful re-architecture of a new BitTorrent client: uTorrent Web. He left BitTorrent in August 2017 to found Chia Network. He has served as Chairman and CTO of the Chia Network since its founding and, since June 2019, as CEO. He is currently an Advisor at Flibe Energy, an engineering company working to design and develop the liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR). Bram is one of the top-selling puzzle designers in the world.
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About Chia Network: Chia Network is building a blockchain platform based on Proofs of Space and Time.
David Fields
Founder & CEO of Afterparty
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About Afterparty: Afterparty is a technology company that enables creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships.
Bill Ottman
CEO and Co-founder of Minds
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About Minds: Minds is a crypto social network and secure messaging app that rewards users with crypto for their efforts online.
Michael Dunworth
Chief Executive Officer of Wyre
Michael Dunworth Formerly CRM Manager and Analyst at Midwinter Financial. Co-Founded FullSociety.com in 2011 and merged with TimeOut.com in 2012.
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About The Daily Meme, Wyre: Wyre develops a wide variety of payment APIs that offer a fast and cost-effective way of transferring money.
Ioannis Giannaros
CEO and Co-founder of Wyre
Ioannis Giannaros Co-Founder of snapCard, Founder of ASPRO SEO, Exp. w/ both Enterprise (SafeNet) & Start-up (WebMechanix) Online Marketing.
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About Wyre: Wyre develops a wide variety of payment APIs that offer a fast and cost-effective way of transferring money.
Dendi Suhubdy
CEO of Bitwyre
Research Scientist, Founder
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About Bitwyre, Deep Technology Laboratories, Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute: Cryptocurrency Spot and Derivative Exchange
Denis Goriainov
Founder & CEO of Estereum
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About CoinCentre, Estereum, IVENGA: Estereum is a crypto startup that is creating a new direction in blockchain commerce for small and medium businesses in a legal framework.
Dwight Torculas
Co-founder & CEO of Mint Songs
Dwight Torculas is the Cofounder/CEO of Mint Songs.
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About CHANNEL, Mint Songs: Mint Songs is the largest music NFT marketplace helping music artists build web3 communities
Jeff Galloway
Founder | CEO of SafeCoin
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About SafeCoin: SafeCoin is a new cryptocurrency that places a high emphasis on privacy and security.
Hu Liang
Co-Founder & CEO of Omniex
Hu Liang is the founder and CEO of Ominex, the institutional investment and trading platform for crypto-assets. Most recently Hu was a Senior Managing Director and founder of the Emerging Technologies Center (ETC) at State Street Bank & Trust. ETC focused on the prototyping of emerging technologies, such as machine learning, blockchain, augmented reality and others. From 2011 to 2015, Hu was in Hong Kong, where he led State Street Global Market’s electronic platforms and State Street Global Exchange’s analytics businesses for State Street Asia Pacific. A long time Silicon Valley veteran, Hu joined State Street in 2007 through the acquisition of Currenex, the first Internet based large scale eFX (foreign exchange) platform targeting institutions and HFT (high frequency trading) market. He was one of the earliest members of Currenex, designing its automated trading platform and enabling its sale to State Street. Prior to Currenex, Hu was the founder of a failed managed security startup, Forion, and started his career programming at IBM Almaden Research Center. Hu holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University in New Jersey and received his MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
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About Omniex, State Street: Omniex develops software infrastructure that integrates front, middle, and back-office services to simplify access and remove fragmentation.
Vladimir Lounegov
Co-Founder, CEO of Mbanq
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About Mbanq: Mbanq builds digital banking technology that enables you to create a better bank for your customers
Victor Fang
Founder and CEO of AnChain.ai
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About AnChain.ai: AnChain.AI : Next Generation AI-powered Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering
Bharath Rao
CEO of Leverj
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About Coinpit Inc, Leverj: Leverj decentralizes the most desirable features of derivatives trading by implementing them in crypto and eliminating points of friction.
Steven Steiner
Founder & CEO of FreeBitcoins.com
Founder and CEO of FreeBitcoins.com & SnailsInTheMail.com.
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About FreeBitcoins.com: We are a Universal Income Company (UIC).
