Web3 Directory

AAX AAX (Atom Asset Exchange) was a Hong Kong exchange that collapsed in November 2022, just days after the failure of FTX: withdrawals frozen, executives arrested and around two million users left without access to their funds. It is no longer operational. Abdalla Kablan Abdalla Kablan is a Maltese entrepreneur and academic active across fintech, artificial intelligence and distributed ledgers. He now leads DELTA Wealth Partners, a venture capital firm with AI-driven fund management operating in the Gulf region. Adam Back Adam Back is the British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, the proof-of-work system cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper, and CEO of Blockstream. Since 2025 he has also led Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BSTR), a Bitcoin treasury vehicle in the process of listing on the Nasdaq. Adam Cochran Adam Cochran is a Canadian investor, founder and managing partner of the venture capital fund Cinneamhain Ventures (CEHV). He is known in the crypto community for his long public analyses of exchanges, DeFi and market structure. Adam Levy Adam Levy is a web3 media entrepreneur, founder and host of the Mint podcast, dedicated to creators building communities with NFTs, social tokens and DAOs. He went on to found Bello, an onchain analytics startup, and the creator programme Blueprint. Adam Todd Adam Todd is the British former trader who founded Digitex Futures, a "commission-free" Bitcoin futures platform launched with an ICO in 2018. The platform is no longer operational: in 2023 a US federal court, acting on a CFTC lawsuit, ordered him to pay over $15.6 million and banned him from reg… Adam White Adam White was Coinbase's fifth employee and later president and COO of Bakkt, which he left at the end of 2021. Since 2022 he has been a senior advisor to Blackstone on crypto and blockchain investments. Ajit Tripathi Ajit Tripathi is an executive who has spent years bridging traditional finance and crypto, with experience at ConsenSys, Binance UK, Aave (where he led the launch of Aave Arc), Polygon and Avail. Since March 2026 he has been Executive Director of the Eigen Foundation, in the EigenLayer ecosystem. Akon Akon is the Senegalese-American singer and producer who in 2018 launched the Akoin cryptocurrency and the "Akon City" project in Senegal. The city project was officially cancelled by the Senegalese government in 2025 and the token has effectively disappeared from the market. Alameda Research Alameda Research was the trading firm founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, which collapsed in November 2022 together with the FTX exchange in one of the largest frauds in crypto history. The company is now in liquidation and its former executives have been convicted. Alejandro Regojo Alejandro Regojo Alejandro Regojo ("Reg0x") is a Spanish economist and entrepreneur, co-founder in 2017 of Bitcoin Gold, the Bitcoin fork designed to bring mining back to GPUs. Active in the Ethereum and Bitcoin ecosystem since 2016, he keeps a low public profile today. Alex Atallah Alex Atallah is the co-founder of OpenSea, the NFT marketplace he led as CTO until 2022. Today he is co-founder and CEO of OpenRouter, a platform for unified access to artificial intelligence models, which Stripe agreed to acquire in August 2026. Alex Batilin Alex Batlin is an institutional finance veteran who moved into blockchain: after the crypto labs of UBS and BNY Mellon he founded Trustology, an institutional custody platform acquired by Bitpanda in 2022 and renamed Bitpanda Custody. Today he holds advisory and non-executive director roles. Alex Kruger Alex Krüger is an Argentine economist and trader trained at Columbia Business School, one of the most followed macro voices in the crypto world on X (@krugermacro). He now leads Asgard, an advisory firm specialising in digital assets. Alex Mashinsky Alex Mashinsky is the founder and former CEO of Celsius Network, the crypto lending platform that collapsed in 2022 with billions of dollars of customer deposits. After pleading guilty to fraud, in May 2025 he was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. Alexander Fazel Alexander "Alex" Fazel is the Chief Partnership Officer of SwissBorg, the Swiss cryptocurrency wealth management platform. He is also the host of Cryptonites, a crypto education YouTube channel built on interviews with the sector's leading figures. Alexander Hoptner Alexander Höptner is the CEO of AllUnity, the German joint venture of DWS, Flow Traders and Galaxy that issues EURAU, a euro stablecoin authorised by BaFin and MiCAR-compliant. He previously led Boerse Stuttgart and then BitMEX, which he left in October 2022. Alexandre Kech Alexandre Kech is the CEO of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the organisation that runs the worldwide system of LEI codes for identifying legal entities. He got there after a career spanning BNY Mellon, SWIFT, the crypto custody of Onchain Custodian and the Swiss digital ex… Ali Raheman Ali Raheman is the founder of Autonio, a project launched in 2017 to bring algorithmic trading and market making tools to retail traders through the NIOX token. The project's public activity has thinned out, however, and his current operational role has no recent confirmation. Alistair Milne Alistair Milne is a British entrepreneur and investor, co-founder and CIO of the Altana Digital Currency Fund, one of the first cryptocurrency funds (operating since May 2014). He is a widely followed voice in Bitcoin market commentary, known for the annual predictions he publishes on X. Alysa Xu Alysa Xu is known as Chief Strategy Officer of OKEx (today OKX), where she led the exchange's strategy, business development and public relations. Her public presence has thinned out since 2022 and her current role has no recent confirmation. Amplify Exchange Amplify Exchange was a "commission-free" crypto brokerage project launched at the end of 2019 by Justin Tabb, previously the founder of Substratum. The service is no longer operational and its domain today redirects to a site that has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies. Andre Cronje Andre Cronje is the South African developer who created Yearn Finance and led the technical development of Fantom and the Sonic network. Today he is focused on Flying Tulip, a DeFi platform with which he has raised more than 200 million dollars, after leaving the Sonic Labs board in June 2026. Andreas Antonopoulos Andreas M. Antonopoulos is the author of "Mastering Bitcoin" and one of the most widely heard educational voices in Bitcoin's history. In March 2026 he announced he was stopping the production of new content for health reasons: his library of books, videos and workshops remains available. Andreessen Horowitz Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is one of the world's largest venture capital firms and, through the a16z crypto arm led by Chris Dixon, the biggest institutional investor dedicated to Web3. In May 2026 it closed its fifth crypto fund at 2.2 billion dollars. Andy Cheung Andy Cheung is the former COO of OKEx (today OKX), which he left at the end of 2019 to found the derivatives exchange ACDX, inactive since 2022. Angela Tong Angela Tong is one of the key figures in Chinese crypto media: former editor-in-chief and partner of Jinse Finance, then COO of CoinTime, and today Chief Marketing Officer of the Web3 investment firm Jsquare. Animoca Brands Animoca Brands is the Hong Kong conglomerate that has built the world's largest portfolio of Web3 gaming and digital assets, from The Sandbox to more than 600 holdings. It has announced a Nasdaq listing via a reverse merger with Currenc Group, expected by the end of 2026. Anthony Pompliano Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano is today chairman and CEO of ProCap Financial, a Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin treasury company (ticker BRR) born of a billion-dollar SPAC merger. His role at Morgan Creek Digital dates from the 2018-2020 period. Anthony Xie Anthony Xie is the founder of HodlBot, the automatic crypto portfolio rebalancing tool, but since 2020 he has moved into product management at major exchanges: today he leads Kraken's onchain product. Anycoin Direct Anycoin Direct was a Dutch crypto broker active since 2013 and shut down in 2025: its EU customers were migrated to the Dutch platform Finst, which took over its business. The domain anycoindirect.eu now redirects to finst.com. Ari Meilich Ari Meilich is the co-founder of Decentraland and the founder of Big Time Studios, the studio behind the action RPG Big Time and the web3 distribution platform Open Loot. Since 2020 he has shifted his centre of gravity from the metaverse to gaming. Ari Paul Ari Paul co-founded BlockTower Capital in 2017, one of the first institutional funds dedicated to cryptocurrencies. After BlockTower's merger with Arca, completed in 2025, he moved to an advisory role and is a venture partner at Strobe Ventures, the spin-out of the venture arm. Ark Invest ARK Invest is the asset management firm founded by Cathie Wood, specialised in active ETFs on disruptive innovation and among the first issuers of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US (ARKB, with 21Shares). Since 2024 it also operates in Europe with UCITS ETFs through ARK Invest Europe. Arthur Breitman Arthur Breitman is the co-creator of Tezos, the proof-of-stake blockchain with on-chain governance launched in 2018. Today he serves as director of Trilitech, the London research and development hub of the Tezos ecosystem, and drives the evolution towards Tezos X and Etherlink. Arthur Cheong Arthur Cheong, known online as "Arthur0x", is founder, CEO and CIO of DeFiance Capital, a Singapore fund among the most recognised in Asia on DeFi and crypto gaming. A survivor of the 3AC and FTX collapses, he still leads the fund today and is a strategic advisor to OpenEden. Ascensive Assets Ascensive Assets is a private investment firm founded in 2019 and dedicated exclusively to digital assets, known for its early-stage bets on DeFi and web3 gaming. The last publicly known deal dates back to mid-2024: the firm's current activity is undocumented. Atul Ajoy Atul Ajoy founded the micro-fund Horseshoe Capital at the age of 20, while a student at USC, to finance early-stage web3 startups. Today he leads Horseshoe, a private holding company that invests "at the intersection of technology and the real economy", after a stint as an institutional investor … Bakkt Bakkt, created in 2018 by Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE), is no longer the consumer platform of its early days: after selling its loyalty arm (October 2025) it is a digital asset infrastructure company led by CEO Akshay Naheta. It is not a retail exchange available in the EU. Balaji Srinivasan Balaji Srinivasan is the former CTO of Coinbase and the theorist of the "network state", today founder and CEO of the Network School. After the closure of the Malaysian campus in July 2026, the project signed an agreement with Kazakhstan. Barry Silbert Barry Silbert is founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group, the holding company behind Grayscale, Foundry and Luno, and since 2024 he also leads Yuma, the subsidiary dedicated to decentralised AI. The collapse of subsidiary Genesis (2023) left him with litigation that is still open. Ben Delo Ben Delo is the British mathematician who in 2014 co-founded the derivatives exchange BitMEX, becoming the United Kingdom's youngest self-made billionaire. Convicted in the US for anti-money-laundering violations and pardoned by Trump in 2025, today he devotes himself mainly to philanthropy. BigONE BigONE is a crypto exchange launched in 2017, hit in July 2025 by a supply-chain attack worth around 27 million dollars, which it said it covered in full. It is not MiCA-authorised: it is not an EU-regulated option. Binance Binance is the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, but since 1 July 2026 it has suspended services for residents of the European Union: it did not obtain a MiCA licence by the deadline. Here is what that means for users in the EU and where things stand today. Bit.com Bit.com was the crypto derivatives exchange launched in 2020 by the Matrixport group, a spin-off of Bitmain. It ceased operations on 31 March 2026 with a three-phase shutdown: the platform no longer exists, while parent company Matrixport remains active. Bitbuy Bitbuy is one of the longest-standing regulated Canadian exchanges, the first crypto marketplace registered with the Ontario Securities Commission in 2021. Since June 2026 it has been part of Robinhood, which acquired parent company WonderFi and is moving customers under its own brand. Bitfinex Bitfinex is one of the sector's longest-lived exchanges (2012), tightly bound to Tether, and remains a traders' platform with margin trading and peer-to-peer funding. At the MiCA deadline of 1 July 2026, however, it did not appear in the European CASP register: here is what that means for users i… Bithumb Bithumb is one of South Korea's largest exchanges, the country's second by volume behind Upbit, and operates only in the Korean market with real-name bank accounts. In 2025 it split into two companies ahead of a stock market listing, now targeted for 2028. BitMEX BitMEX, the exchange that invented the perpetual swap with 100x leverage in 2016, is closing on 23 September 2026 after eleven years of operation. Withdrawals remain possible after the closure, but with a holding fee for those who do not withdraw: here are the dates and the things to know. Bitspark Bitspark was a Hong Kong startup that pioneered cryptocurrency remittances, the first of its kind in the world (2014). It shut down all operations on 4 March 2020, after a failed internal restructuring, the Hong Kong protests and the arrival of the pandemic. Bitstamp Bitstamp is the oldest cryptocurrency exchange still in operation (2011) and since June 2025 has been part of Robinhood, which acquired it for 200 million dollars. It holds a Luxembourg MiCA licence and operates in Europe as "Bitstamp by Robinhood". Bittrex Bittrex no longer exists: the American exchange closed in 2023 after the SEC's charges — bankruptcy in the US in May, Bittrex Global shutting down in December. Bity Bity is a Swiss crypto broker from Neuchâtel active since 2014: fiat-crypto buying and selling for individuals and companies under Swiss rules. Be aware, though: Switzerland is outside the MiCA perimeter and since 2024 leadership has passed from co-founder Alexis Roussel to CEO Melissa Song. Bloccelerate Bloccelerate VC is a Seattle venture capital fund specialising in blockchain and Web3 startups, led by founder Kate (Mitselmakher) Laurence. It is still active with its second fund of 20 million dollars, closed in 2022. Blockchain Capital Blockchain Capital, founded in 2013 by brothers Bart and Brad Stephens, is one of the oldest venture capital firms dedicated to blockchain, with roughly 2 billion dollars under management. Its early investments include Coinbase, Kraken and Ripple. BlockVC BlockVC was a Chinese blockchain investment firm founded in 2016 by Kevin Hsu, very active between 2018 and 2020. Today it shows no recent public activity and its historic domain is up for sale: anyone encountering it cited as a "leading blockchain fund" is reading dated material. Brad Garlinghouse Brad Garlinghouse is the CEO of Ripple, the payments company linked to XRP, which he steered through the SEC lawsuit definitively closed in 2025. Today he is driving Ripple's expansion across the RLUSD stablecoin, the Hidden Road acquisition and an application for a US federal banking charter. Brad Yasar Brad Yasar is an entrepreneur and angel investor active in blockchain since the mid-2010s, founder of the advisory firm Beyond Enterprizes and CEO of the CeDeFi banking platform EQIFi. He is also co-founder of the Blockchain Investors Consortium. Brendan Eich Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript, a co-founder of Mozilla and today co-founder and CEO of Brave Software, the company behind the Brave browser and the Basic Attention Token (BAT). He is one of the few figures who connects the history of the web to that of cryptocurrency. Brett Harrison Brett Harrison is the former president of FTX US, a role he left in September 2022, two months before the group's collapse. Today he is founder and CEO of Architect Financial Technologies, an institutional trading infrastructure company that launched the perpetual futures exchange AX at the end o… Brian Armstrong Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the largest US cryptocurrency exchange and the first crypto stock to enter the S&P 500 (May 2025). Since 2025 Coinbase has served the entire EU under a MiCA licence issued in Luxembourg. Brian Fu Brian Fu is the co-founder of zkLend, the lending protocol on Starknet that shut down in June 2025 after a hack of around 9.6 million dollars. Before Web3 he had built a fifteen-year career across investment banking and private equity. Brian Kelly Brian Kelly is the founder and CEO of BKCM LLC, an investment firm specialising in digital assets, and a long-standing face of cryptocurrency on CNBC, where he appears regularly on Fast Money. In 2014 he wrote one of the first books on Bitcoin, "The Bitcoin Big Bang". Brock Pierce Brock Pierce is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist, co-founder of Tether and Blockchain Capital and chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation. In recent years his activity has centred on speaking, investments and a series of legal disputes tied to his ventures in Puerto Rico. BTSE BTSE is a crypto exchange founded in 2018, today led by CEO Henry Liu and with its corporate base in the British Virgin Islands. It does not appear among the MiCA-authorised CASPs: it is not an EU-regulated option. ByBit Bybit is among the world's largest exchanges and since May 2025 has held a MiCA licence issued by Austria, with its European headquarters in Vienna. After the mega-hack of February 2025, fully reimbursed, it has bet everything on regulation and transparency. C-Trade C-Trade was a small crypto derivatives exchange with perpetuals up to 150x, registered in the British Virgin Islands. Today the trading platform is not operational: the site is a static page with a notice that "a brand new platform" is under development. ChangeNOW ChangeNOW is a non-custodial instant exchange service active since 2017: swaps between more than 1,500 assets without registration, straight from your own wallet. It is not, however, a MiCA-authorised CASP: that is the difference to be aware of. Charles Hoskinson Charles Hoskinson is the founder of Cardano and CEO of Input Output (IOG), as well as a co-founder of Ethereum. After Cardano's governance passed to the community in 2024, he is leading the development of the privacy sidechain Midnight. Charlie Lee Charlie Lee is the computer scientist who created Litecoin in 2011 and today leads the Litecoin Foundation. In 2025 Litecoin obtained the first spot ETF in the United States and Lee joined the board of the first listed company with an LTC treasury. Charlie Shrem Charlie Shrem is one of Bitcoin's pioneers: founder of BitInstant and co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation, he served a sentence linked to Silk Road in 2015-2016. Today he is a podcaster (The Charlie Shrem Show) and an early-stage investor with Druid Ventures. Coingecko CoinGecko is one of the leading independent cryptocurrency data aggregators, founded in Singapore in 2014 by TM Lee and Bobby Ong. Since August 2025 the CEO has been Bobby Ong, and in 2026 the company confirmed it is weighing "strategic opportunities" including a possible sale. Craig Cobb Craig Cobb, known as TraderCobb, is an Australian trader and educator who became popular with his cryptocurrency trading podcast. His course platform tradercobb.com shut down abruptly in early 2023, amid complaints from paying customers. Craig Wright Craig Wright is the Australian computer scientist who claimed for years to be Satoshi Nakamoto: in March 2024 the British High Court ruled that he is not. Today he has a contempt of court sentence suspended until December 2026 and a ban on starting new cases on the matter in the United Kingdom. Crypto.com Crypto.com is among the world's largest crypto ecosystems — exchange, app, Visa card and the CRO token — and was the first major global operator to obtain a full MiCA licence, from Malta in January 2025. Its headquarters is in Singapore, no longer Hong Kong. Currency.com Currency.com is a crypto trading platform launched in 2019 in the Belarusian orbit and today based in Gibraltar, sold in 2024 by the Capital.com group to a group of investors led by CXNEST. Since the change of ownership it has been led by Konstantin Anissimov and has relaunched its activity with … Dan Held Dan Held is one of the most followed Bitcoin communicators, co-founder of ZeroBlock and former head of growth marketing at Kraken, a role he left in 2022. Today he invests in Bitcoin DeFi as a General Partner at Asymmetric and advises projects such as Trust Machines and Taproot Wizards. Dea Yu Dae Yu is a US entrepreneur and investor with more than 25 years in telecommunications, co-founder of the Windshield Time podcast and an angel investor with Yellow Umbrella Ventures. The podcast, devoted to Bitcoin and finance in non-technical language, published 109 episodes between 2019 and 2023. Decoin Decoin was an exchange founded in 2017 around the revenue-sharing token DTEP, with a company registered in the Seychelles and an Israeli team. The platform has ceased operating: anyone searching for "Decoin" today finds only the domain reused for generic content. Deribit Deribit is the leading exchange for Bitcoin and Ethereum options, founded in 2016 in the Netherlands and headquartered in Dubai since 2024. Since August 2025 it has been part of Coinbase, which acquired it in a 2.9 billion dollar deal. Dolomite Dolomite is a non-custodial DeFi lending and trading protocol born as a DEX on Loopring and relaunched on Arbitrum and Berachain, where it has become one of the leading lending platforms by TVL. In April 2025 it launched the DOLO token, also distributed through a Binance HODLer airdrop. Dune Dune is the on-chain data analytics platform most used by analysts and journalists: it queries the decoded data of more than 100 blockchains with SQL and turns them into public dashboards. Founded in Oslo in 2018, in 2026 it reorganised around AI agents and institutional clients. FTX FTX no longer exists as an exchange: it collapsed in November 2022 in the largest fraud in crypto history and founder Sam Bankman-Fried is serving 25 years in prison, with his appeal rejected in June 2026. The legacy is the FTX Recovery Trust, which since 2025 has been repaying creditors — in som… Gemini Gemini is the digital asset exchange and custodian founded in 2014 by the Winklevoss twins, listed on Nasdaq (ticker GEMI) since September 2025. In Europe it operates with a MiCA licence obtained in Malta, on top of its MiFID II authorisation for derivatives. Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs is one of the world's largest investment banks (New York, 1869) and one of the most active traditional institutions in digital assets: cash-settled crypto trading for institutional clients and the GS DAP tokenisation platform, whose spin-off is planned for 2026. It does not offer cr… Guy Turner Guy Turner is the face and co-founder of Coin Bureau, the world's most followed crypto education YouTube channel with around 2.7 million subscribers. Since 2019 he has presented videos of analysis and explanation on cryptocurrencies, regulation and macroeconomics. Huobi Global Huobi no longer exists under that name: since September 2023 the exchange has been called HTX and sits in Justin Sun's orbit, after founder Leon Li sold his stake in 2022. For EU users the matter is settled: HTX has no MiCA licence, has excluded all 27 member states from its services and has ende… Ivan Liljeqvist Ivan Liljeqvist, known as "Ivan on Tech", is a Swedish blockchain educator and the CEO of Moralis, a Web3 API and data platform for developers. His YouTube channel, launched in 2017, made blockchain programming popular with hundreds of thousands of viewers. Jacob Canfield Jacob Canfield is a US trader and entrepreneur, co-founder of the Signal Profits trading community and a widely followed voice in crypto technical analysis on X. In 2020 he admitted to having doctored some screenshots of his own profits, a precedent worth knowing when assessing his content. Kraken Kraken is one of the world's longest-running exchanges (2011) and among the first with a full MiCA licence in Europe, granted by the Central Bank of Ireland in June 2025. Spot, derivatives and staking for retail and institutional users, with a path to a stock market listing under way. Ledger Ledger is the leading maker of hardware wallets: devices that keep private keys offline in a secure chip. A French company founded in 2014, it has sold more than seven million devices; in 2025 it launched the Nano Gen5 and, according to press reports, is considering a New York listing. MetaMask MetaMask is the most widely used self-custody wallet for Ethereum and compatible networks, developed by Consensys. In 2025 it launched the mUSD stablecoin and in June 2026 the Money Account with yield and a payment card; the MASK token has been announced but has no date. MeterQubes MeterQubes was a decentralised exchange project based in Amsterdam, launched with an IEO in 2019 and never taking off. The project is no longer operational: the official domain today redirects to a site unrelated to the crypto world. Nash Nash is a European non-custodial fintech founded in 2017 (formerly Neon Exchange): the user always keeps control of their own funds. After years with a Liechtenstein registration, it now operates from the Netherlands, where its MiCA licence application is under review by the AFM. OKX OKX is among the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges and since January 2025 has held one of the broadest MiCA licences in Europe, issued by the Maltese authority MFSA. In 2025 it closed its dispute with the US justice system over unlicensed operations with a mega-penalty. Overbit Overbit was a margin trading platform for Bitcoin, forex and commodities, with leverage up to 100x on cryptocurrencies. It suspended all activity in November 2023 and today its site is no longer reachable: the platform is no longer operational. Pantera Capital Pantera Capital is the oldest US investment firm dedicated exclusively to blockchain and digital assets: in 2013 it launched the first US crypto fund, with Bitcoin at 65 dollars. Today it manages around 5 billion dollars across venture capital, liquid tokens and hedge strategies. Phemex Phemex is a cryptocurrency and derivatives exchange based in Singapore, founded in 2019 by former Morgan Stanley professionals. In January 2025 it suffered a hack of around 70 million dollars on its hot wallets, restoring withdrawals within days; it has no MiCA licence and since July 2026 cannot … Poloniex Poloniex is one of the oldest exchanges still active (2014), today controlled by entrepreneur Justin Sun and operating from an offshore jurisdiction. In November 2023 it suffered a hack of more than 100 million dollars; it has no MiCA licence and since July 2026 cannot legally serve EU clients. Reflective Ventures Reflective Venture Partners was a Seattle venture capital firm created in 2018 out of a partnership with RChain Cooperative, with the aim of investing more than 190 million dollars in blockchain startups. The RChain cooperative is now dissolved and the fund is no longer active. Revolut Revolut is the European fintech with more than 65 million customers that pairs banking services with cryptocurrency buying and selling. Since November 2025 it has operated in crypto with a MiCA licence issued by Cyprus's CySEC, valid across the entire European Economic Area. Rhino.fi rhino.fi, born as DeversiFi out of a Bitfinex spin-off and renamed in 2022, is no longer an exchange in the classic sense: today it is a self-custodial cross-chain infrastructure for bridging and stablecoin payments across dozens of blockchains. Since 2024-2025 leadership has passed from co-found… Riccardo Curatolo Riccardo Curatolo is an economist and digital entrepreneur, founder and editorial director of SpazioCrypto, an information platform on cryptocurrencies and Web3 active in nine languages. He is also the creator of the Sicily Crypto Summit. ShapeShift ShapeShift, launched in 2014 as an instant cryptocurrency conversion service, has not been a company since July 2021: it is an open-source, non-custodial platform governed by the ShapeShift DAO. Founder Erik Voorhees now leads the artificial intelligence startup Venice AI. ShortHop ShortHop was a US exchange aggregator launched in 2019 by Velocity Markets, promising zero fees by routing orders across multiple platforms. The service has been discontinued: today the shorthop.com domain is simply a parked domain and the parent company is listed as closed. SmartFi SmartFi was a US crypto lending and trading platform built around the SMTF token, launched from Utah with the promise of a "buyback guarantee". As of September 2026 the official site is no longer reachable and the token does not appear listed on the main market aggregators. SwissBorg SwissBorg is the Swiss crypto wealth management app with more than 900,000 verified users and around 1.2 billion dollars in assets. Since March 2026 it has served Europe under a MiCA licence issued by France's AMF to its subsidiary BlockNodes SAS. Uniswap Uniswap is the largest decentralised exchange: a protocol on Ethereum and dozens of other networks that lets users swap tokens without intermediaries, through liquidity pools. Velo Trust Velo Trust presented itself as a London-based instant swap platform with more than 100 cryptocurrencies, born as an OTC and escrow desk. As of September 2026 the velotrust.com website is a parked domain: the service no longer appears to be operating. WazirX WazirX, India's largest exchange, returned to operation on 24 October 2025 after more than a year of standstill following the $234 million hack of July 2024, attributed to the Lazarus group. The reopening took place under a restructuring plan sanctioned by the Singapore High Court; the exchange i… ZBX ZBX is a Maltese cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2018 in St Julian's, among the very first to obtain a MiCA licence from the MFSA. Today it presents itself as a regulated crypto services platform for corporate and private clients, with euro fiat channels. ZebPay ZebPay is India's longest-standing cryptocurrency exchange (2014), registered with FIU-India and led by CEO Rahul Pagidipati. It does not operate in the European Union: it is a platform designed for the Indian market, with crypto-INR pairs and Bitcoin accumulation programmes.