Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-born Canadian programmer and writer who is best known as one of the co-founders of Ethereum. He became involved with cryptocurrency early on, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.

Changpeng Zhao is the Founder and former CEO of Binance. He is originally from Guiyang, Guizhou, and was born in Lianyungang, Jiangsu. He was a member of Blockchain.info and the chief technology officer of OKCoin, and also served as the technical director of Bloomberg. Changpeng Zhao is best known for founding cryptocurrency exchange Binance. His wife is He Yi, the co-founder of Binance, and they have two children together. On November 21, 2023, Changpeng Zhao announced his resignation as CEO.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is an angel investor, tech founder, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Network State. He was formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and is an early investor in many successful tech companies and crypto protocols, including Alchemy, Ava Labs, Bitcoin, Cameo, Chainlink, Clubhouse, Dapper Labs, Ethereum, Instadapp, NEAR Protocol, OnDeck, Opensea, Solana, Soylent, Superhuman, Synthesis, and Zora. Dr. Srinivasan is also the cofounder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center. He holds a BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.

Chris Dixon is a partner at a16z and leads the investments of the a16z Crypto Fund. His investments in companies such as Coinbase have earned him the top spot on Forbes magazine's "2022 World's Best Venture Capitalists List".

Cobie is a prominent pseudonymous figure on crypto Twitter as well as in the broader crypto sector. He is also the founder of echo.

Arthur Hayes is the co-founder and former CEO of BitMex, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges. With years of experience in the banking industry at Citigroup, Arthur is now aiding the Hong Kong-based exchange in executing its ambitious growth strategy.

ZachXBT is a crypto detective and Council members at Polygon Labs.

Samuel Bankman-Fried, also known by his initials SBF, is an American entrepreneur, billionaire, and investor. He is the founder and CEO of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange.

Nic Carter is a partner at Castle Island Ventures and co-founder of coinmetrics.io. Previously, he was Fidelity's first analyst in the cryptocurrency space and pioneered its research on public blockchains. Nic holds a Master of Philosophy in Philosophy from the University of St Andrews and a Master of Science in Finance and Investment from the University of Edinburgh.

Punk 6529 is an angel investor and holder of Cryptopunk #6529.

Zooko Wilcox is the founder and former CEO of Zcash and the head of product at Shielded Labs. He has more than 20 years of experience in secure distributed systems, free and open source software, and startups. He is known for his work on DigiCash, Mojo Nation, ZRTP, “Zooko’s Triangle”, and more. He is one of the co-founders of the Tahoe-LAFS project. He started Least Authority Enterprises because he wanted a convenient and safe way to store his files in the cloud.

Ryan Wyatt is the Chief Growth Officer at Optimism. He was the Global Head of Gaming Partnerships at Google and Head of Gaming at YouTube, where he also led their Virtual and Augmented Reality business. Wyatt is the former CEO of Polygon Labs.

Eva Beylin is a director at The Graph Foundation and previously led strategy and research at OmiseGO.

Yat Siu is the co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands and serves as a director of ApeCoin DAO、Open Campus (EDU) committee member.

Kanav Kariya is the former President of Jump Crypto and was previously Director of Digital Asset Strategic Initiatives at Jump Trading. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Erick Calderon is the CEO and Founder of Art Blocks.

Greg Solano was one of the two original founders of Yuga Labs.

Wylie Aronow was one of the first two founders of Yuga Labs.

Brantly Millegan is developing the Ethereum Follow Protocol. Previously, he was the former Director of Operations at ENS and previously the founder and editor-in-chief of ChurchPOP.

Keith Grossman is the president of MoonPay. He was also previously global chief revenue officer at Bloomberg. Keith Grossman is a graduate of Cornell University.

Guo Hongcai proposed the idea of ETHW on Twitter on July 27, 2022. He had previously founded the Bitangel Fund and Blockchain Whampoa Military Academy. Guo Hongcai graduated from high school and gave himself the English name "Chandler Guo," which means "happy when he gets money."

Amir Haleem is the founder of Helium and CEO of Helium Mobile, and prior to that, he was co-founder and CTO of Diversion.

Alexey Pertsev is co-founder of Tornado Cash. He was arrested and jailed in the Netherlands in August 2022 on suspicion of money laundering.