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.

Erik Voorhees is the founder and CEO of Venice and the founder and former CEO of ShapeShift. Voorhees has been involved in crypto since 2011 and has been behind several unique Bitcoin ventures, such as SatoshiDICE, Coinapult, Bitinstant, and FeedZeBirds. Some of his projects have resulted in a series of fines and legal troubles with the SEC.

Michael Saylor is the Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy (MSTR), a publicly traded business intelligence firm that he founded in 1989. He is also the founder and inventor of Alarm.com (ALRM), with 40+ patents to his name, and author of the book "The Mobile Wave". He founded and serves as trustee for the Saylor Academy (saylor.org), a non-profit organization that has provided free education to over one million students. He is an advocate for the Bitcoin Standard (hope.com). He holds dual degrees from MIT in Aerospace Engineering and History of Science.

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.

Justin Sun is the founder of TRON and a global consultant of Huobi. He served as the chief representative of Ripple Labs in Greater China in 2014. He also served as former Grenada's Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization.

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

Ansem (Zion Thomas) is a well-known cryptocurrency trader who started trading cryptocurrencies in 2017. He has served as a software engineer at Capital One and head of research at TCG Crypto.

Eric Wall is the Board Member at StarkNet Foundation and former Chief Investment Officer at Arcane Assets. He also is the Co-founder of Taproot Wizards.

Sreeram Kannan is an information scientist, entrepreneur, and associate professor at the University of Washington. He is the founder of Eigenlayer and has expertise in information sciences and its applications in blockchains, AI, wireless, and computational biology. Sreeram earned his Ph.D. in information theory of wireless networks and distributed computation from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has also completed internships at Qualcomm and Microsoft, and holds a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Rune Christensen is the founder of MakerDAO. Since 2015, he has been working on the vision of building a distributed autonomous organization, as well as stabilizing the economic foundation of digital currencies. Previously, he co-founded Try China, an international recruitment company.

Udi Wertheimer is the Co-founder of Taproot Wizards.

Paolo Ardoino is CTO at Bitfinex and Tether, a computer scientist, a geek, an innovator, and a creative.

Pavel Durov is the CEO and founder of Telegram, a messaging application that has attracted over 60 million active users in less than two years since its launch in 2013. Before that, Pavel founded VK – the most popular social network in Russia and some other countries, with over 100 million active users. In early 2014, Pavel left Russia and VK to focus on developing Telegram.

Shayne Coplan is the founder and CEO of Polymarket.

Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, is building a sharded blockchain protocol with usability. He also currently serves as a consultant to Ringfence. He previously worked on the MemSQL, Google AI, and Tensorflow teams. While at Google, he was a major contributor to TensorFlow and led the team that produced Q&A solutions for core Google search. He is passionate about machine intelligence and natural language processing and is a former ICPC finalist.

Luca Netz is an entrepreneur with an extensive background, acquired Pudgy Penguins in April 2022 for $2.5 million and is currently the project's CEO, as well as a core contributor to Abstract.

Lily Liu is Co-founder at Earn.com.Formerly KKR & Co, McKinsey, Stanford, Harvard. 5 years in China. She also is President of the Management at Solana Foundation. Contributor at Osmosis Labs. Lily Liu graduated from Stanford University and Harvard University.

Keone is a software developer and blockchain researcher. Prior to joining Monad, he spent eight years at Jump Trading, where he led an HFT team. In 2021, Keone joined Jump's crypto division and led a team of engineers focused on blockchain research and DAPP development. He graduated from MIT.

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.

Hunter Horsley is the Co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management, a leader in crypto index funds. Previously, he was a Product Manager for Monetization at Facebook and Instagram. Before that, he attended Wharton. He is an explorer.

Jinglan Wang is the Co-Founder of Optimism. Previously, she was involved with Handshake, the MIT Bitcoin Club, NASDAQ, and IDEO.

Ray Chan is the co-founder and CEO of 9GAG and co-founder and CEO of Memeland. He is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong.

Richard Teng is the CEO of Binance and has over thirty years of financial services and regulatory experience. Richard joined Binance in August 2021 as CEO of Binance Singapore and shortly thereafter took on the role of Head of Regional Markets at Binance, responsible for the MENA region, Europe, and eventually all regions outside the United States. Prior to joining Binance, Richard served as CEO of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), Chief Regulatory Officer of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Director of Corporate Finance at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. His educational experience includes Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and The University of Western Australia, University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School of Business, USA.

Evan Cheng is the co-founder and CEO of Sui/Mysten Labs. He was formerly the R&D director at Novi Financial.

Matthew Hougan is the chief investment officer of Bitwise Asset Management and co-founder and board member of Advisor Circle. He graduated from Bowdoin College

Greg Osuri is Founder & CEO of Overclock Labs and Akash Network, where he develops protocols, tools, and infrastructure to make foundational elements of the internet open, decentralized, and simple. Previously, Greg founded AngelHack and was the CTO for the world's largest hackathon-accelerator with over 80K developers in the ecosystem. He is the author of several prominent open source toolkits that are well-regarded by the DevOps community and downloaded over 25M times. He has been ranked amongst top 20 programmers worldwide on several occasions for authoring open-source libraries used by widely-adopted projects like Ubuntu and Kubernetes.

Avery Ching is the co-founder, CEO and CTO of Aptos. He has worked at Meta as a lead software engineer for over 10 years and was the technical lead of the Novi team, the original Meta-owned crypto wallet. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Avery studied at Northwestern University where he also received a PhD in Computer Engineering specializing in the area of supercomputing, parallel computing frameworks, and high-performance file systems.

David Tse is the Co-Founder of BabylonChain. He graduated from MIT and is the Thomas Kailath and Guanghan Xu Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and has received the 2017 Claude E. Shannon Award from the Information Theory Society and the 2019 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. His research interests include information theory, computational genomics, machine learning, and blockchains.

Sergio Demian Lerner is co-founder of Fairgate and Chief Scientist at Rootstock. He is a computer security and cryptocurrency researcher, and more recently serial entrepreneur.

Robin Linus is a core contributor to ZeroSync and the creator of BitVM.org.

Mahesh Ramakrishnan is the Co-Founder of Escape Velocity Ventures. Previously, he was an investor in Apollo Global Management's Private Equity division, specializing in leveraged buyouts and the establishment of new businesses.

Steve Yun is the founder of TVM Ventures and serves as the Board Member of the TON Foundation. Prior to this, he worked at Koinvestor and InterCP.

Frank Mong is Chief Operating Officer at Nova Labs / Helium. With over 20 years of technology industry experience, Frank is leading the global go to market organization at Helium Inc. Frank joined Helium from Palo Alto Networks, where he led all product, industry and solutions marketing. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Frank was VP/GM at HP enterprise security products where he led go-to-market.

Luuk Strijers is CEO at Deribit. Dedicated Capital Markets professional with over 15 years experience in listed products, ETFs, Warrants, Equities, Derivatives, Exchange matching and Corporate Finance.

Fred Thiel is the Chairman and CEO of Marathon Digital. He has over 25 years of experience leading companies in the cryptocurrency, digital assets, semiconductor, data communications, Internet, IoT, automation, AI, digital media, and software industries.

Tigran Gambaryan, who served as Binance’s global director of intelligence and investigations, accused Nigerian government officials of corruption in 2024 and was detained for months until Congress intervened. Prior to that, he worked as an agent for the Internal Revenue Service for a decade.

Adam Sullivan is the CEO at Core Scientific. He presively was Managing Director, Head of Digital at XMS Capital Partners.