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Adam Back

Adam Back is an internationally recognized cryptographer and cypherpunk. Back was known as an early pioneer of the digital currency movement prior to his involvement in the Bitcoin space.

Alex Atallah

Alex Atallah, a co-founder of OpenSea and the Chief Technical Officer of the company, is notable for developing a market for non-fungible tokens, often known as NFTs

Andreas Antonopoulos, a British-Greek Bitcoin enthusiast, entrepreneur and author of the book "Mastering Bitcoin". He serves as the host of the Speaking of Bitcoin podcast and a teaching fellow for the University of Nicosia

Balaji Srinivasan

Balaji Srinivasan is an American entrepreneur and investor, known for his roles as the former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Coinbase, the co-founder of Counsyl, and a former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He is currently engaged in angel investing, according to his LinkedIn profile

Barry Silbert

Barry Silbert is a New York-based entrepreneur, investor, and founder. He is a former CEO and Chairman of SecondMarket. He is best known as the founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group (DCG), which is the parent company of Genesis, a troubled crypto firm. He is also the founder of Grayscale Investments and Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT)

Brian Armstrong

Brian Armstrong is known in the crypto industry as the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, a major cryptocurrency business that offers exchange, brokerage, and custody services to 100M+ verified users in more than 100 countries. Coinbase, which was established in 2012, went public on the NASDAQ in 2021 with the ticker COIN

Brock Pierce

Brock Pierce is an American entrepreneur known for his work in the cryptocurrency industry. Also, he was a former child actor who appeared in several famous Disney movies.

Caitlin Long

Caitlin Long is the Founder and CEO of Custodia Bank, which is a chartered US bank that specializes in digital assets and is set to begin operating soon.

Cameron Winklevoss

Cameron Winklevoss is an American entrepreneur and venture investor. Together with his twin brother of Tyler Winklevoss, he founded Winklevoss Capital Management and Gemini cryptocurrency exchange.

Cathie Wood

Cathie Wood is an American investor who also serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer of Ark Invest. Ark Invest is an investment management firm that focuses on investing in creative companies and disruptive technologies.

Chamath Palihapitiya

Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist, and entrepreneur, known for his early involvement in Facebook. He is also the founder and CEO of Social Capital

Changpeng Zhao

Changpeng Zhao, popularly known as CZ, is a Chinese-Canadian entrepreneur who founded Binance, one of the most important cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Binance is also regarded as one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world

Charles Hoskinson

Charles Hoskinson is an American entrepreneur and expert in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. He is notable for co-creating Ethereum and founding Cardano, which is a third-generation blockchain platform.

Charlie Lee

Charlie Lee is a computer scientist and software engineer who is best known as the creator and founder of Litecoin, a popular cryptocurrency that is often referred to as "the silver to Bitcoin's gold"

Chris Larsen

Chris Larsen — an American entrepreneur and angel investor, known for his role in co-founding Ripple, global payments and digital asset exchange platform.

Dan Schulman

Dan Schulman is an American business executive who now serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the digital payments company PayPal

Danny Ryan

Danny Ryan is an researcher who currently works at the Ethereum Foundation. He is also known for his contributions to Ethereum 2.0 upgrade which aims to improve the network's scalability and security

Devin Finzer

Devin Finzer is the CEO of OpenSea, a popular platform for the creation and trade of nonfungible tokens. Finzer co-founded the Ethereum-based platform in 2017 with Alex Atallah.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk is a South African-born entrepreneur and business magnate who is best known as the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, Inc.

Fred Ehrsam

Fred Ehrsam is a businessman, investor, and software developer from the United States. He is best known as the co-founder and managing partner of the cryptocurrency investment firm Paradigm, as well as the co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase