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Hardhat Chad is a pseudonymous Solana developer known as the founder and lead developer of ORE, a token distribution and mining protocol.

Ruslan Fakhrutdinov is an entrepreneur and crypto executive known for founding Extended and leading X10, self-custody exchange projects.

Spencer Yang is a technology and cryptocurrency entrepreneur, investor, and executive known for co-founding companies, working at Coinbase and CoinMarketCap, and founding BlockSpaceForce.

Jeff Yan is the co-founder and public face of Hyperliquid, a decentralized exchange built on a custom Layer-1 blockchain.

Kishori Konwar is a data scientist and distributed-systems researcher known for work on fault-tolerant storage, computational biology, and blockchain infrastructure as a co-founder of Optimum.

Muriel Médard is a French-American information theorist and electrical engineer known for research in network coding and for co-founding Optimum, a blockchain infrastructure company.

Yuta Tsurusaki is a software and blockchain engineer known for co-founding Flovia and building blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, and onchain analytics.

Keita Kuroiwa is a software engineer and entrepreneur known for developing Ethereum protocols and founding Flovia, an API group-purchasing company.

Nick Thoma is a software engineer and entrepreneur known for co-founding Turtle and serving as its chief technology officer.

Pedro Verdades is a marketing professional known for leading marketing at Turtle and working on go-to-market strategy, community building, and growth for Web3 projects.

Essi Lagevardi is a DeFi entrepreneur and finance professional known as the founder and CEO of Turtle.xyz and for his work on decentralized-finance liquidity infrastructure.

Angelo D’Alessandro is a banking and fintech executive known for founding buddybank and building digital banking and on-chain finance ventures.

Will Beeson is a fintech founder and digital-asset infrastructure executive known for founding Multiliquid and developing institutional tokenization and liquidity infrastructure.

Ray Lee is a cryptocurrency executive known as the co-founder and CEO of Toobit, an exchange launched in 2022.

Kelly W. is a marketing executive and entrepreneur known as a co-founder and chief operating officer of the cryptocurrency exchange Toobit.

Dom Dosu is an entrepreneur known for co-founding Dream and founding The Vyper Network.

Andrew Ambrosino is an American founder, design engineer, and product leader who co-founded Catch and leads the Codex application at OpenAI. His career includes senior roles at MITRE, Microsoft, Upthere, and Noyo.

Jackson Fu is a business executive and blockchain investor who co-founded DeepCubation and Trill.

William Entriken is a software architect and blockchain standards contributor known as the lead author of Ethereum’s ERC-721 non-fungible token standard.

Luana Lopes Lara is a Brazilian entrepreneur and the co-founder of the prediction market platform, Kalshi. In December 2025, she became the world's youngest fem...

Dawn Song is a UC Berkeley computer science professor and AI-security researcher who founded Oasis Labs and co-founded Virtue AI.

Sebastian Pfeiffer is a business strategist and executive known for leading strategy and business development at Impossible Cloud Network and working on GPU cloud infrastructure.

Kai Wawrzinek is a German entrepreneur and executive known for co-founding Goodgame Studios, Impossible Cloud and Impossible Cloud Network, and for leading Laureus Capital.

Jonathan Shaffer is an investor and entrepreneur known as the co-founder and CEO of Fission Labs, which provides liquidity for tokenized investment funds.