Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Investors
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Investors
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Investors
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Founders
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Founders
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Investors
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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… Exchanges
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Exchanges
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago 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. Exchanges
Riccardo Curatolo · 4 years ago ZBG Launched in July 2018, ZBG is a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange, a subsidiary of ZB.COM. Exchanges
