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.

Elon Musk is the founder of Tesla, SpaceX, and CEO of X. Elon Musk has talked about Bitcoin and Dogecoin many times.

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.

Jack Dorsey is the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter. He is also the founder of Square, Bluesky, and the CEO and Chairman of block. Jack Dorsey has been recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People and was named a Distinguished innovator under 35 by MIT's Technology Review.

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.

Anatoly Yakovenko is Co-Founder and CEO of Solana. He has over 10 years of experience in developing high-performance operating systems, and is a world-class underwater hockey player. He is an alumnus of Qualcomm, Mesosphere, Dropbox, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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

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.

Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave. He is an experienced entrepreneur with extensive knowledge in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech sectors. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain, and cryptocurrency events.

Hayden Adams is the founder of Uniswap and an Ethereum developer. He is also the inventor of the Uniswap Exchange Protocol.

Joseph Lubin is the co-founder of Ethereum and the founder of ConsenSys, a blockchain application development firm. He also helped to establish the non-profit Ethereum Foundation and the VC fund ConsenSys Mesh, which invests in decentralized blockchain applications. Lubin holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University. He is building the decentralized Web 3.0 on Ethereum.

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.

Andre Cronje is a prolific coder, best known for creating Yearn Finance and Keep3rV1, as well as his involvement in other high-profile DeFi projects, such as Hegic, Pickle, Cover, PowerPool, Cream V2, Akropolish, Sushiswap, and others.

Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, the digital asset manager. She is also a cryptocurrency investor, advisor, and advocate, with a unique blend of experience in both legacy and blockchain-based finance and cryptocurrencies. At CoinShares, Ms. Demirors builds asset management products to provide institutional investors with exposure to crypto assets and blockchain companies. Prior to this, she held a senior strategic and investing role at Digital Currency Group.

Barry Silbert is the Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group (DCG). He is at the epicenter of the bitcoin and blockchain industry, and DCG is a global enterprise that builds, supports, and invests in companies worldwide. As an early and active investor in the industry, Barry established himself in 2012. He founded DCG in 2015 and the company is now one of the industry's most prolific investors, backing hundreds of companies globally. In addition to its investment portfolio, DCG owns Grayscale Investments, Genesis, CoinDesk, Foundry, Luno, TradeBlock, and HQ. DCG also invests directly in digital currencies and other digital assets. Before DCG, Barry was the Founder and CEO of SecondMarket, a venture-backed technology company that was acquired by Nasdaq. He has been recognized with several awards and honors, such as Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and Crain's, and being selected to Fortune's "40 under 40" list. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Barry worked as an investment banker in New York. He graduated with honors from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University.

Su Zhu is the co-founder of Three Arrows Capital and OPNX and was previously a trader at Deutsche Bank and Flow Traders. He graduated in mathematics from Columbia University.

Since the age of 12, Mark has been a natural businessman. Selling garbage bags door to door, the seed was planted early on for what would eventually become long-term success. After graduating from Indiana University - where he briefly owned the most popular bar in town - Mark moved to Dallas. After a dispute with an employer who wanted him to clean instead of closing an important sale, Mark created MicroSolutions, a computer consulting service. He went on to later sell MicroSolutions in 1990 to CompuServe. In 1995, Mark and long-time friend Todd Wagner came up with an internet based solution to not being able to listen to Hoosiers Basketball games out in Texas. That solution was Broadcast.com - streaming audio over the internet. In just four short years, Broadcast.com (then Audionet) would be sold to Yahoo for $5.6 billion dollars. Since his acquisition of the Dallas Mavericks in 2000, he has overseen the Mavs competing in the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history in 2006 - and becoming NBA World Champions in 2011. They are currently listed as one of Forbes' most valuable franchises in sports. In addition to the Mavs, Mark is chairman and CEO of AXS tv, one of ABC's "Sharks" on the hit show Shark Tank, and an investor in an ever-growing portfolio of businesses. He lives in Dallas with wife Tiffany, daughters Alexis and Alyssa, and son Jake.

Robert Leshner is the founder of Compound and Superstate, and he also founded Robot Ventures, which invests in early stage blockchain projects.

Mike Novogratz is currently an investor and CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners, which invests in emerging blockchain startups. Previously, he was a principal and board member of Fortress Investment Group LLC, and the Chief Investment Officer of the Fortress Macro Fund.

Kain Warwick is the founder of Synthetix and Infinex. Prior to that Warwick also founded Blueshyft, an online service cash payment gateway based in Australia.

Emin Gün Sirer is the co-founder and CEO of AVA Labs and a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on Operating Systems, Networking, and Distributed Systems. Additionally, G¨¹n serves as co-director of the Blockchain Alliance IC3 (Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts), which was funded by the National Science Foundation in 201

Raoul Pal is the Founder/CEO at Global Macro Investor. He also is the CEO & Co-Founder at Real Vision, Board Member at Sui Foundation. Raoul Pal is a graduate of Plymouth University, UK.

Sandeep Nailwal is a co-founder of Polygon, a leading Ethereum scaling and infrastructure platform. He began his career as a software engineer and in 2015, launched ScopeWeaver, India's largest marketplace for professional services, where he designed blockchain-based decentralized application architecture. Before that, Sandeep led the technology department at Welspun, the largest textile company in Asia, and worked as a consultant at Deloitte. In 2017, Sandeep co-founded Polygon with Jaynti Kanani and Anurag Arjun.

Gavin Wood, a London-based blockchain expert, is the founder of Parity Technologies, a company that develops cutting-edge blockchain applications. Gavin is widely recognized as one of the co-founders of Ethereum, having coded its first functional implementation. He is also the co-founder of Grid Singularity, a company that aims to develop a decentralized energy management platform. Gavin is passionate about all things Web 3.0 and has dedicated his career to advancing the field of blockchain technology.

Before she started investing, Arianna was a Product Manager at BitGo, where she was the third employee. Now, she works for Crystal Towers Capital or Autonomous Partners. I have spent my career in various areas of tech, including two early-stage startups, Facebook, and now venture capital. I developed a strong interest in cryptocurrencies about five years ago, which is when I started investing in Bitcoin. Before joining BitGo, I worked at Facebook in Global Marketing Solutions, based out of the New York office. I often speak about tech-related topics, particularly Bitcoin, and am a regular contributor to several publications. On those rare occasions when I'm not thinking about startups, Bitcoin, or some other tech-related topic, I enjoy skiing, riding my motorcycle, and travelling as much as possible.

Cathie Wood is the founder, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest. Previously, she joined Alliance Capital, which she co-founded, from Tupelo Capital Management, where she managed an $800 million global thematic strategy fund. He spent 18 years at Jennison Associates, where he served as Chief Economist, equity research analyst, portfolio manager and director.

Do Kwon is Co-Founder and CEO of Terra and was named to Forbes 30 under 30. He was formerly Founder and CEO of Anyfi, and worked at Microsoft and Apple.

Willy Woo is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Crest Fund. Willy was an early investor in Bitcoin since 2013 and has been labelled one of the most influential people in crypto by Fortune Magazine and a top 5 crypto analyst by CoinDesk. Willy is a serial entrepreneur with 21 years of experience in the emerging technology sector. His first venture, SnapperMail, put mobile email onto the first generation of smartphones.

The Crypto Dog is a cryptocurrency trader and commentator who has been mining bitcoin since 2011. He dropped out of his medical doctoral program to begin a career in cryptocurrency.

Elizabeth Stark is the founder of Lightning Labs, which develops Lightning, an open protocol layer for blockchain technology. She is also a Fellow at Coin Center, a cryptocurrency policy institute. Stark is an advisor to numerous AI and blockchain startups, and has previously taught at Stanford and Yale Universities. She holds a law degree from Harvard.

PlanB is one of the most revered analysts in the cryptocurrency space. Sheltering under a pseudonym he has used everywhere from social media to video interviews, the quantitative analyst has spent several years examining and forecasting Bitcoin price action. Hailing from the Netherlands, he came to Bitcoin with a background in law and quantitative finance. In addition to his now world-renowned Stock-to-Flow Bitcoin price models, PlanB also works as an investment manager, adding that he is part of the team that handles a balance sheet worth billions of dollars.

Caitlin Long is the Founder and CEO of Custodia, Co-founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition, and responsible for the recent groundbreaking crypto-friendly legislation in Wyoming. She is a Harvard Law School graduate and a 22-year Wall Street veteran, and is often asked to provide expert commentary on the SEC. Institutional Investor named her one of the most influential people in pensions from 2013 to 2015.

Devin Finzer is Co-founder and CEO of OpenSea, a decentralized marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). He previously worked on growth teams at Google, Flipboard, and Pinterest. He also co-founded Claimdog, a personal finance app that was acquired by Credit Karma in 2016.

Cuy Sheffield is Head of Crypto at Visa. Partnerships at Visa, Cryptoasset enthusiast.

Antonio Julianno is the Founder and CEO of dYdX and a former software development engineer at Coinbase, Uber, and MongoDB.

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.

Emilie Choi is President and Chief Operating Officer of Coinbase. She was formerly Vice President of Corporate and Business Development, Business Operations, and Strategy at Coinbase. She is also a board member of both public and private companies, as well as an angel investor. Her specialties include consumer internet, SaaS, crypto, M&A, venture investments, corporate strategy, business operations, business development, data analytics, and international.

Roham Gharegozlou is the Founder and CEO of Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties and upcoming projects such as NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain. He was formerly the CEO of Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio based in Vancouver, BC, that created ZenHub, Routific, Timeline, and more. He is an investor and advisor to several great startups, was a former VC, and is an unwavering optimist. His interests are focused on entrepreneurship, technology, bio-medicine, and economic development.

Anthony Scaramucci is an American entrepreneur, the founder of Skybridge and the SALT Conference, and the host of Mooch FM.

Samson Mow is the CEO at JAN3 and formerly CSO of Blockstream, CEO of Pixelmatic. Previously at BTCC, one of the largest bitcoin exchanges and mining pools in the world, Samson's role as COO was to oversee the day-to-day operations of the company and directly manage the exchange and mining pool business units. Previously, Samson was a director of production and executive producer at Ubisoft, where he spearheaded expansion into Asian markets for web, social, and mobile games.

Kris Marszalek is the Co-Founder & CEO at Crypto.com. Kris is a seasoned and passionate entrepreneur, having grown two companies from $0 to $100 million in revenue. Driven by his desire to build a product that users love and a world-changing company, he views blockchain and cryptocurrency as building blocks for innovation in the somewhat stagnant and not particularly customer-centric financial services industry.

Anton Bukov is the co-founder of the 1inch Network. He has been involved in software development since 2002 and in DeFi since 2017. Prior to 1inch, he contributed to several crypto projects, including MultiToken, NEAR, and Synthetix.

Michael Egorov is the CEO of Curve Finance and co-founder and CTO of NuCypher. Prior to launching NuCypher, Michael worked on infrastructure tools at LinkedIn, where he encountered some of the most difficult scaling issues in the world. He has experience as a scientist and physicist, specializing in a field closely related to quantum computing and cryptography. Michael was a bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad and graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

MMCrypto is the social media brand name for Christopher Jaszczynski — a crypto trader who has his hand in a number of crypto industry activities. Jaszczynski went from cab driver to striking gold in crypto within a five-year time span, according to his posts on social media. The crypto personality has an active Twitter feed composed largely of content related to crypto price action, charts and other more general crypto comments.

CryptoBirb (Adrian Zduńczyk) is a crypto KOL and the founder of The Birb Nest, a trading education platform that provides a range of content and communications from multiple market analysts, including cryptocurrencies and commodities. He holds a Master of Engineering from Warsaw Polytechnic University.

Kristin Smith is the CEO of the Blockchain Association, a 23-company trade association that is the most influential policy organization focused on blockchain and cryptocurrency issues. She is a growth-oriented leader who built both a membership roster and a team from the ground up, while leading the development of a strategic roadmap for public policy in one of the most innovative areas of financial technology. Smith is a deeply experienced policy professional with senior-level experience in both House and Senate offices, private sector experience advocating for companies in telecommunications, Internet, and other tech-focused industries, and top academic credentials including an MBA in Finance from NYU Stern and a graduate degree from Georgetown University. She is also a frequent commentator in print and on television, with recent appearances that include CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Fox Nation, and Cheddar.

Vanessa Grellet is a managing partner at Aglaé Ventures and was previously head of portfolio growth at CoinFund and executive director at ConsenSys. Prior to joining ConsenSys, she was the CEO of IIH, an innovative Wealth Management firm, a key member of PwC's global wealth management team, and a Corporate Strategy Executive for the NYSE, focusing on M&A.

Kathleen Breitman is the CEO of Dynamic Ledger Solutions, the company developing the Tezos public blockchain. Tezos is a unique and original implementation of a blockchain which can seamlessly amend the rules governing the protocol. Previously, Kathleen was a Senior Strategy Associate for R3, a blockchain consortium of more than fifty financial firms. She also worked at Accenture, Bridgewater Associates, and the Wall Street Journal. She is a graduate of Cornell University.

Dawn Song is the founder and CEO of Oasis Labs, and a professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known as the "Godmother of Computer Security".

Bob Loukas is a well-known cryptocurrency trader who helps run Bitcoin Live, a membership website designed to educate users about cryptocurrencies’ cyclical theories.

Alexandre Dreyful is the CEO of Chiliz.

Kieran Warwick is Co-founder of Illuviumio and the Founder & CEO of The Burger Collective. I have been results-oriented and driven to achieve my goals from a young age, having competed semi-professionally in tennis during my teenage years. In 2007, I became a manager and after a few years of working my way up the corporate ladder, I earned my first Harvey Norman franchise at the age of 22. With my customer-focused approach to sales, the location quickly increased its revenues and profitability. Wanting to create something of my own, I co-founded an online retail startup, where I managed all sales, marketing, PR, and customer relations. Recognizing my passion for developing young startups, I then joined blueshyft in my current role as Sales and Marketing Director. My ability to motivate and engage even the most skeptical clients has resulted in a business that counts world-renowned payment and logistics companies as its partners and has over 1,100 locations across Australia. In my free time, I enjoy cooking and live music and stay active by regularly boxing.

Yoni Assia is the founder and CEO of eToro, and is passionate about economics, the internet, technology, and blockchain. He has been interested in finance and computer science since he was young, which led to the establishment and development of the eToro investment network. In this network, users can connect, share, trade, and invest in global financial markets. He aims to disrupt the old banking industry with new online transparent and social financial systems for the benefit of everyone.

Trung Nguyen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Axie Infinity. He was previously a Software Engineer at Anduin Transactions and Co-Founder and CTO at Lozi.

Steve is the former CEO of Algorand and responsible for overall business vision and strategy. Steve is a serial entrepreneur, most recently co-founder and Executive Charmain of Fuze, where he was responsible for corporate strategy. Under his direction, the company transformed the way enterprises view collaboration as a key driver of business visibility, process improvement, and results. Today, Fuze has over 700 employees servicing over 1500 enterprise customers around the world. Prior to Fuze, Steve was co-founder of BladeLogic, Inc., a recognized leader in the data center automation market with a Fortune 500 client list including GE, Time Warner, Microsoft, Cable & Wireless, Walmart, and Sprint, among others. Bladelogic held a successful IPO and was later acquired by BMC Software for ~$800M. Prior to BladeLogic, Steve was co-founder and CEO of Web Yes, Inc., an early market leader in the Web hosting and application service provider arena that provided infrastructure services for Sun Microsystems, Netscape, and Lycos, among others. Web Yes was acquired by Breakaway Solutions in 1999.

Marwan Alzarouni is the CEO of AI at the DET, where he leads the department's efforts to harness the power of AI to drive economic growth and innovation in Dubai. Marwan Alzarouni is the CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center. He is one of the Middle East’s crypto pioneers, founding OTC Supply, the United Arab Emirates’ first over-the-counter exchange, and setting up Dubai’s first Bitcoin ATM. He is recognized internationally as an advocate of blockchain technology, a strategic advisor and a keynote speaker.

Sanja Kon is Vice President of Europe at Circle and was previously CEO of xMoney. She has a Master's degree from Bocconi University.

Pat Duffy is the co-founder of The Giving Block and Managing Director of BlockShop. He graduated from Wikforst University.

Charles Cascarilla is the co-founder and CEO of Paxos, a regulated blockchain technology company that allows companies to trade, hold, and tokenize assets in the crypto space, achieved through the company's array of software solutions. Cascarilla is a certified financial analyst and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame. His experience in the finance industry dates back to 1999, when he began his career as an analyst at Bank of America, followed by a brief stint as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs in 2000. Since then, he has worked with a number of other notable companies, including Claiborne Capital Management, Cedar Hill Capital Partners, Liberty City Ventures, and the Association for Digital Asset Markets.

Alex Mashinsky is an Israeli-American entrepreneur and business executive. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Celsius Network, and the Founder and Managing Partner of the venture fund Governing Dynamics.

Roneil Rumburg is Co-Founder and CEO of Audius. He most recently co-founded Kleiner Perkins' early-stage seed fund, where he was responsible for seed investments into Blockchain and AI companies, including Lightning Labs. Roneil attended Stanford University and previously co-founded a Bitcoin peer-to-peer payment company called Backslash.

Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management, which was founded in 2004 and currently manages close to $2 billion in discretionary and non-discretionary assets. He is also the Managing Partner of Morgan Creek Digital, which was formed in 2018 and is an early stage investor in blockchain technology, digital currency, and digital assets. Prior to founding Morgan Creek, Mr. Yusko was CIO and Founder of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Endowment investment office, UNC Management Company (UNCMC). Before that, he was Senior Investment Director for the University of Notre Dame Investment Office, where he was an early investor in alternative asset classes. The Endowment Model of investing, which he brought to UNC, contributed to significant performance gains for the Endowment. This model is the cornerstone philosophy of Morgan Creek, as is the mandate to Invest in Innovation. Mr. Yusko holds a BA with Honors from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the University of Chicago.

Michael is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. Prior to Fireblocks, he co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, and he was then appointed the Head of Products, Mobile and Cloud Security for Check Point. Michael is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and investor, as well as a recognized industry speaker, delivering talks at RSA Conference, BlackHat, and Infosec. Before his commercial endeavors, Michael pioneered the mobile security field in an elite military technological unit (8200), for which he received the Israeli Presidential Excellency Honor. He holds a BSc in Computer Sciences and Physics from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

Tom Brady is the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Board at Autograph. He is an NFL Legend and a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Kerry Wong is head of investor relations at Pantera Capital and was previously head of investor relations at Scalar Capital. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.