Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Programmers
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Programmers
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Programmers
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Programmers
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Programmers
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Programmers
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Founders
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Programmers
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Investors
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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". Investors
