CZ is the founder and CEO of Binance, presently the world's fastest-growing crypto exchange. Previously the CTO of OKCoin and a developer for Blockchain.info, CZ has been involved in the crypto spa...

Brian is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world that also happens to offer a wide range of products and services for institutional investors. He was fe...

Vitalik is known as the godfather of Ethereum, and he's one of the key programmer's that's driving development of the platform forward. This year, Vitalik began to focus on making ICOs safer as wel...

Tyler is the Principal of Winklevoss Capital and co-founder and CEO of Gemini, a next-generation digital asset exchange. Winklevoss was the world's first bitcoin billionaire, and this year he helpe...

Brad is now the CEO of crypto payments startup Ripple, which launched its xCurrent international payment protocol earlier this year. He was previously the CEO of file-sharing startup Hightail, and ...

Roger was one of the earlier investors in the first crop of Bitcoin startups. He's now heavily involved with Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of the original Bitcoin protocol that is intended to be used a...

Barry is the founder and CEO of the Digital Currency Group, a crypto incubator and investment fund that's already been in operation for several years. In addition, he's the CEO of Grayscale Investm...

Jihan is one of the co-founders of Bitmain, the world's largest crypto mining company. With a net worth estimated at more than $2B, he's one of the most influential members of the blockchain indust...

Formerly a hedge fund manager with Fortress Investment Group, Michael is now the CEO of crypto investment firm Galaxy Investment Partners. Roughly 20% of Novogratz's network is held in cryptocurren...

Adam is a renowned cryptographer and inventor best known for inventing hashcash, a proof of work system that is used by numerous email providers to combat spam. He's now the CEO of Blockstream, a s...

Kathleen is the cofounder of Tezos, a decentralized governance platform, and she also plays an active role in its nonprofit entity, the Tezos Foundation.

One half of the dynamic Winklevoss brothers, Cameron is a Co-Founder and President of the Gemini Exchange, and he's also a Principal at crypto investment fund Winklevoss Capital.

Pieter is a renowned developer who focuses on Bitcoin Core, and he was instrumental in getting SegWit added to the protocol early on. He's also the co-founder of crypto startup Blockstream, which i...

After co-founding Ethereum, Lubin then became the founder of ConsenSys, which works on blockchain infrastructure and software projects. In addition to setting up ConsenSys VC and the Ethereum Found...

A renowned cryptographer and computer scientist, Nick helped develop the entire concept of "smart contracts", and was the inventor of Bit Gold - a predecessor to Bitcoin that was release in the lat...

Brendan is the CEO of Block.one, the company behind EOS's distributed ledge software. The Hong Kong-based entrepreneur raised more than $4B in funding for EOS's ICO, and he's now helping to build t...

Former Coinbase employee Charlie Lee is perhaps best known for creating Litecoin, which is now one of the largest cryptocurrencies in the world today in terms of market cap. Lee now spends the majo...

Peter is the CEO and co-founder of Blockchain, the world's most popular crypto wallet. Earlier this year, Peter launched Blockchain Principal Strategies, an institutional platform that helps invest...

Juan is the founder and CEO of Protocol Labs, the company behind innovations like IPFS (a hypermedia protocol) and Filecoin (a crypto-driven file storage network). He's a serial entrepreneur that h...

Craig is a computer scientist and entrepreneur perhaps best known for his involvement as one of the key pioneers behind Bitcoin. He's now one of the leaders of the Bitcoin SV protocol, created in l...

Brandon is the CEO of CoinMarketCap, a website which tracks crypto prices and data for more than a thousand cryptocurrencies. It's now one of the world's top sources for crypto data, and has signif...

Elizabeth is the founder and CEO of Lightning Labs, a San Francisco-based blockchain development startup. Earlier this year, she became a fellow at the Coin Center, a research center focused on dev...

Charles is a serial entrepreneur in the crypto industry, having founded three crypto startups (IOHK, Invictus Innovations, and Ethereum) in the past several years. He is also involved in developing...

Olaf is the billionare CEO and founder of Polychain Capital, a crypto hedge fund that manages hundreds of millions in assets. Prior to founding Polychain, Olaf spent several years as a Product Mana...

John McAfee is a crypto investor and entrepreneur. His ventures range from serving as CEO of enterprise crypto startup Luxcore, to doing influencer marketing for emerging cryptocurrencies.

The serial Russian entrepreneur is perhaps best known for orchestrating Telegram's record-setting ICO last year, but he also founded VKontakte (Russia's equivalent to Facebook) and is involved in a...

After an extensive career in banking at Goldman Sachs, Yuzo founded bitFlyer, one of Japan's longest-running crypto exchanges (and the fourth-largest in the world in terms of annual turnover). He's...

Laura is Forbes's senior editor covering crypto and blockchain technology, writing regularly for both its website and Forbes magazine. In addition, she also hosts Unchained - one of the most popula...

Kathryn is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and is an independent director at Coinbase, where she helps lead its Audit and Risk divisions. Prior to her time in the crypto industry, Kathryn...

Jed is the cofounder and CTO of the crypto startup Stellar. Prior to helping startup Stellar, Jed was the CTO of Ripple, and he's perhaps best-known for creating the ill-fated Mt Gox exchange (whic...

Dan is the founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, one of the best-performing crypto hedge funds in the world and one of the first hedge funds to launch blockchain-focused products for investors. He's ...

Nejc is the cofounder and CEO of Bitstamp, one of the world's highest-volume crypto exchanges. Involved in crypto since 2011, Nejc was an early adopter of Bitcoin and eventually built Bitstamp into...

Italian entrepreneur Dominik Schiener is the co-founder of blockchain startup IOTA, which is building a next generation blockchain that operates on a trustless basis. He's also the co-chairman of t...

Bryan is a well known developer focused on Bitcoin Core, and he's also a key source of updates on crypto for the Bitcoin development community. Earlier this year, Bryan made waves for his letter to...

Jesse is the founder and CEO of the Kraken Bitcoin exchange, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world in terms of trading volume. He's been involved with digital currencies for more than 15...

Arianna is the Managing Director and Founder of crypto hedge fund Autonomous Partners, which has already raised more than $10M from investors like Coinbase and Union Square Ventures. Arianna also a...

Bart is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Blockchain Capital, a VC investmend fund focused on the crypto and blockchain space. In addition, he also heads up his own family fund, Stephens Investm...

Legendary entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen has long been on the cutting edge of crypto, and this year he extended his stake in the technology by setting up a16z Crypto, a $300M VC fund tha...

Daniel is a serial crypto entrepreneur and the CTO of Block.one, which oversees development of the EOS protocol and platform. He's also the inventor of DPOS, a revolutionary proof of stake-driven c...

Tricia is the founder and CEO of Wala, a blockchain-based financial services app that's seeking to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrencies in emerging markets. The Cape Town-based entrepreneur ...

Arther is the co-founder and CEO of BitMex, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges. With years of experience in the banking industry at Citigroup, Arthur is now helping the Hong Kong-based exc...

Bobby is the co-founder of BTCC (formerly BTC China), one of Asia's leading digital asset exchanges. He's also a board member of the Bitcoin Foundation and remains highly active in China's crypto c...

Valery is the co-founder and CEO of Bitfury, Europe's largest Bitcoin mining company. In addition to conducting mining, Valery also helps the Bitfury Group develop its software and hardware solutio...

Adam is the CEO of Interstellar, a blockchain startup formed by Chain (another of Adam's companies) and Lightyear to accelerate development of applications for the Stellar platform.

Charlie Shrem is a Bitcoin pioneer. A social economist. A digital currency trader who has made millions. His work in this field is legendary. In 2011, at the dawn of the crypto era, he founded BitI...

Star is the co-founder and CEO of OKEx, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges. He recently announced plans to release a stablecoin pegged to the Chinese Yuan, which would be the first of its ...

Perhaps best known as the founder of TechCrunch, Michael Arrington has now gotten involved in crypto in a big way. His investment fund, Arrington XRP Capital, invests in blockchain startups, with m...

A widely-respected thinker in the tech community, Naval looms large in the world of crypto as well - he's a prolific advisor and investor in numerous crypto startups. After founding AngelList in 20...

Justin is the founder and CEO of TRON (one of the largest cryptocurrencies in the world in terms of market cap), and he also heads up its nonprofit arm, the Tron Foundation. Prior to founding TRON,...

Blythe is the CEO of Digital Asset Holdings, a fintech startup that's developing distributed ledger technology for the financial industry. Previously, Blythe spent time as an executive at JP Morgan...

Erik is the CEO and founder of Zug-based Shapeshift - an instant, decentralized exchange for digital assets. He is also the cofounder of bitcoin startups Coinapult and SatoshiDice, and formerly was...

Don is a world-renowned author and pubilc speaker, and in recent years he's become more passionate about blockchain than ever. He's the founder of the Blockchain Research Institute, which helps org...

Eight-time US Olympic gold medalist Apolo Ohno recently began foraying into crypto when he founded HybridBlock, a crypto trading platform designed for novice and institutional investors alike. Ohno...

Vinny is a crypto investor and entrepreneur who's the CEO and co-founder of Civic, an identity management platform. He's also the founder of SiliconCape, a nonprofit focused on attracting startups ...

Anthony Pompliano is the founder of Morgan Creek Digital Assets, an investment firm that helps provide access to blockchain technology for institutional investors. He previously founded venture inv...

Jimmy is a well-known Bitcoin educator, developer, and entrepreneur. Based in Austin, he runs the wildly popular "Programming Blockchain" course, which teaches the basics of blockchain development ...

Ari is the CIO and Managing Partner of BlockTower Capital, an investment firm that leverages professional trading and portfolio management in the crypto markets. Prior to his time in crypto, Ari wa...

Tuur is the founder and CEO of Austin-based Adamant Capital, a crypto fund focused on investing in Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Tuur is also a widely-read cryptoeconomist, and he also spea...

Tim Draper is one of the world's best-known venture capitalists, and he's perhaps most famous for his prescient 2014 purchase of 30,000 Bitcoins at a US government auction. He's well-known for his ...

Connie is the founder and Executive Director at BitGive, the world's first government-recognized Bitcoin nonprofit. The organization is aimed at leveraging cryptocurrencies and blockchain technolog...

Ryan is the Founder and CEO of Messari, an open data library for crypto assets. Prior to founding Messari, Ryan was the Managing Director of CoinDesk, one of the world's largest crypto news website...

Riccardo is a critical member of the Monero Core team, and as its project lead, he's one of the key members maintaining the platform. With a background in software development, Riccardo is the most...

Jon Matonis is the founding director and executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, an organization that's driving awareness around Bitcoin and establishing best practices around the platform fo...

Blockchain researcher Vlad Zamfir has been involved in crypto for years, and he's presently a full-time researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. He's now working on a solution for sharding the Ethere...

A true pioneer in Asia's crypto ecosystem, Da is the co-founder of NEO (formerly known as AntShares), one of the most widely-used cryptocurrencies in the world. He's also the founder and CEO of Chi...

Mick is the founder and CEO of Mainframe, a blockchain-based communication network that's impervious to censorship or surveillance. He's also a budding angel investor, having made several investmen...

Jeremy is the co-founder of Circle, a P2P crypto payments platform that allows users to store both fiat currency and crypto in one place. Prior to entering the crypto industry, the serial entrepren...

Linda is the cofounder and Managing Director of San Francisco-based Scalar Capital, a cryptoasset hedge fund that's already raised more than $20M in funding from institutional and private investors...

James is the Global Head of Business Development at Cumberland, a division of DRW that acts as one of the largest Bitcoin trading desks in the world. Prior to his time in crypto, James spent nearly...

Mark is the founder and CIO of Morgan Creek Capital Management (parent company of Morgan Creek Digital), an investment firm that advises pension funds and family offices.

Jill is a Cryptocurrency Consultant at Juno, her consulting firm focused on providing advisory services to crypto and blockchain startups. Prior to setting out on her own, Jill was a strategy lead ...

Formerly a VP at JP Morgan Chase, Tone is now a crypto pundit, analyst, and investor who's most famous for hosting the CryptoScam YouTube podcast, which has more than 75K subscribers.

Kris is the CEO of Crypto.com accelerating the world's transition to cryptocurrency. In 2018, Crypto.com rebranded, shipped its MCO Visa Cards in Singapore, and announced Crypto.com Chain and Crypt...

Jeff Wilcke is a co-founder of Ethereum and a co-founder of Amsterdam-based Grid Games. He's a prolific developer who's also quite active on Twitter, sharing frequent insights and updates from the ...

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn is a cybersecurity specialist and the CEO of privacy-focused cryptocurrency zCash. As a well-known cyberphunk, Zooko was also responsible for the creation of the decentralized ...

Pierre is a software engineer and CEO of Bitcoin Advisory, a New York-based advisory firm that helps hedge funds and crypto investing groups make better investment decisions. He's also the co-found...

Matt is a Bitcoin developer who works full-time on open-source Bitcoin projects at Chaincode Labs, a crypto incubator that helps coordinate efforts among disparate Bitcoin development startups.

Lon is the CEO of Gibraltar-based blockchain streaming platform ProximaX. He's also the President of the NEM.io foundation, which seeks to promote the further development of NEM technology. Lon is ...

Adam is the founder and Managing Director of Boost VC, a venture capital firm focused on the crypto industry. As part of Boost, Adam also runs Boost Incubator, an incubator focused on helping crypt...

Stephen is the cofounder and CEO of BitPay, one of the very first companies founded in the Bitcoin payments arena. With tenures at companies like IBM and others, Stephen has long been involved in t...

Matthew is the CEO and Founder of Etherscan and Blockscan - both Blockchain API and analytics platforms. With more than two decades of experience in the high tech industry, Matthew also acts as an ...

Tushar is a Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, an Austin-based cryptofund that uses venture capital strategies to achieve market liquidity in the crypto markets. Prior to Multicoin, Tushar help...

Luis is the co-founder of the Aragon Project, an Ethereum-based blockchain collaboration tool - and he also heads up its for-profit entity, Aragon One. Luis is an active advisor, and presently ment...

A longtime computer science and programming specialist, Mike is the co-founder and CEO of Bitgo, an institutional-grade crypto investment service. He was also the inventor of SPDY (now known as HTT...

Josh is the co-founder of Origin Protocol, a protocol for building decentralized sharing economy marketplaces using Dapps. A seasoned crypto investor and entrepreneur, Josh speaks frequently at con...

Marco is the founder and CEO of Genesis Mining, which, with more than 2 million customers worldwide, is now the world's largest cloud-based crypto mining company. He's a frequent public speaker on ...

Matthew is the founder of the AION Network, a multi-chain blockchain platform designed to address many of the key scalability challenges posed by traditional blockchain development efforts today.

Andreas is a world-famous author, entrepreneur, and speaker who's passionate about bringing the excitement of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency to the world. He co-hosts the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast, an...

Micah is the CEO of Gem that built one of the first multisig cryptocurrency wallets and a platform that provided core cryptocurrency processing, transaction, and security services to companies incl...

Eric is the CEO and co-founder of Ledger, a Bitcoin security startup that focuses on building end to end security solutions for blockchain-based applications. Eric also founded la Maison du Bitcoin...

Ran is the host of CNBC's widely-viewed CryptoTrader TV show, one of the most popular crypto-related shows on television. He's also the founder of Onchain Capital, a crypto investment and advisory ...

Meltem is a cryptocurrency investor and advisor that's perhaps best known for her involvement with crypto treasury startup CoinShares, where she serves as its Chief Strategy Officer. She also is a ...

'Blockchain Dan' is the founder and CEO of Blockchain Foundry, an organization that helps enterprises build blockchain-based software applications. He's also a core contributor to the Syscoin proto...

Julian is the CEO and co-founder of Golem Factory, an organization that's building what it describes as "the first truly decentralized supercomputer". In addition to being a crypto entrepreneur, Ju...

Carolyn is the Head of Operations and Client Services at Casa, a dApp startup building a blockchain-based cryptographic key platform. Prior to Casa, Carolyn was the Director of Global Operations fo...

Catherine is Ripple's Head of XRP Institutional Liquidity. With more than a decade of experience in the international financial markets, she's now focused on helping Ripple hone its institutional p...

Elizabeth is a freelance blockchain business development and marketing consultant who also advises crypto companies. She presently advises startups like Crypto Media Hub and Biterra Capital on thei...

Preethi is a longtime blockchain engineer who transitioned from a career at Goldman Sachs to becoming the founder and CEO of TruStory, a startup that helps organizations detect (and stop) ICO scams...

A serial entrepreneur, Sherman is the co-founder of Raven Protocol, a decentralized deep-learning training platform. He's also a Partner at Zeroth.ai, a Hong Kong-based VC fund that's focused on in...

Thomas Lee is a crypto expert and the co-founder of FundStrat, a market strategy and research firm. He's a noted proponent of cryptocurrency, and speaks widely at events and in the media about the ...

Amber was formerly JP Morgan's head of blockchain initiatives, but this year she set out on her own to launch Clovyr - a startup that's designed to help individuals and businesses navigate the incr...

Richard is a cryptocurrency thought leader, entrepreneur, and blockchain investor. In addition to authoring several books on crypto, he's also involved with growing BitcoinHEX, a blockchain startup...

A professor at Cornell and blockchain researcher, Emin is a renowned academic within the crypto community. He's also a co-director of IC3, an initiative to advance the science and applications of b...

Jameson is currently the CTO of Casa, a distributed key and node startup. He's also the creator of Statoshi.info, a website that provides detailed analytics and statistics on Bitcoin nodes in real-...

Tiffany is a widely-respected expert on Ripple's XRP protocol, and she's also an independent consultant who helps small businesses make sense of blockchain (and find practical uses for the technolo...

Mai Fujimoto is a crypto video blogger more commonly known as "Miss Bitcoin" among her follower base, which tracks her closely for the latest crypto news and insights from Japan. She's also the CEO...

Formerly an executive on Wall Street, Caitlin is now a full-time blogger and crypto investor. She also started Symbiont, a smart contracts platform which seeks to solve for key use cases in the fin...

Joseph is an influential journalist and investor within Asia's crypto landscape. He presently writes on a variety of crypto and blockchain-related topics for a number of news outlets, including For...

Carl is the co-founder of Status, an open source mobile client for Ethereum. The Singapore-based entrepreneur has been developing applications on Ethereum since 2016, and he's transformed Status fr...