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Trapit Bansal is an AI researcher focused on reinforcement learning, reasoning, and natural language processing. A foundational contributor to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model, he joined Meta Superintelligence Labs in 2025 as a founding member of TBD Lab.

Justin Drake is an Ethereum Foundation researcher known for work on proof-of-stake, sharding and data availability, the “ultra sound money” meme for ETH, and his “lean Ethereum” roadmap.

Jonathan Spalletta is a Maryland cybersecurity consultant convicted in October 2026 of computer fraud and money laundering for two 2021 hacks of Uranium Finance involving over $50 million in stolen and laundered cryptocurrency.

Yevgeny Khessin is a founder and engineer who leads DIMO, a company building an open, decentralized platform and developer ecosystem for vehicle and mobility data.

Malaysian-born tech entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Tokenize Xchange and Tokenize Malaysia, with an engineering and trading background, whose tenure at Tokenize has included regional expansion, regulatory scrutiny in Singapore, and 2025 fraud charges.

Roman Fritschi is a Swiss entrepreneur and technologist who co-founds and builds fintech, Web3, cybersecurity, and digital-agency ventures, often serving as CTO or CEO and contributing to DeFi and creator-economy projects.

Andrés Soltermann is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Edel Finance who builds lending and securities‑lending infrastructure for tokenized equities and other tokenized assets.

Brennan Watt is a software engineer and CEO of Anza who builds Solana infrastructure and leads work on scaling improvements such as Alpenglow, MCP, and IBRL initiatives.

Yi He is a Chinese entrepreneur and investor best known for co-founding Binance and serving as its longtime chief marketing executive.

Michael Figge is an American creative director and technology executive who became CEO of Yuga Labs in 2026 after leading creative and product work on its NFT, metaverse, and Bitcoin Ordinals projects, including Otherside and TwelveFold.

Joy Wong is a finance and institutional sales executive who leads institutional sales and relationship management at BitMEX and has held senior institutional roles at OKX, Paradigm, Bullish and HKEX.

Vibhu Norby is a technology entrepreneur and product executive who serves as Chief Product Officer of the Solana Foundation and previously founded the retail technology company b8ta and Solana-based collectibles platform Drip Labs.

Michael Weisz is a person that is a founder and operator in private markets who builds and advises alternative-investment and fintech businesses.

Mohamed Afifi is a financial services executive who co-founded and serves as COO of HIFI, a company building infrastructure for digital-asset payments and tokenized capital markets.

Zach Walsh is an American fintech entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of HIFI, a company building stablecoin and blockchain-based payments infrastructure and APIs.

Georgios Konstantopoulos is a Greek engineer, researcher, and investor who serves as Chief Technology Officer and General Partner at Paradigm and as Chief Technology Officer at Tempo.

Matthew Hougan is a person that is Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise Asset Management and conducts research and commentary on crypto, ETFs, tokenization, and institutional adoption of digital assets.

Kash Dhanda is a person who is the Chief Operating Officer at Jupiter and a crypto industry operator who speaks, invests, and advises on DeFi and tokenization topics.

Hussein Ahmed is a person that is a fintech entrepreneur who founded and led multiple financial-technology companies, including Limited, Oxygen, and Transpose Technologies.

Kyle Samani is the Co-Founder and former Managing Partner of Multicoin Capital. He is a prominent advocate for the Solana ecosystem and currently serves as Chairman of Forward Industries.

Elroy Cheo is a Singaporean entrepreneur and CEO-co-founder of ARC Community, an Asia-based Web3 collective. His career spans commodities trading, property development, and blockchain-focused community building.

Emilie Choi is the President and COO of Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange platform, with a career background in corporate development and strategy.

Bam Azizi is the chief executive officer and co-founder of  Mesh, a San Francisco–based crypto payments network he started in 2020 with Adam Israel. 

Charles Yoo-Naut is a software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Rain and serves as its CTO, leading development of stablecoin-based card issuing and payments infrastructure after earlier roles at Microsoft, Playbook HR, and Intuit.