List of Public Figures in Crypto
List of Public Figures in Crypto
Builders and Influencers
Alex Adelman: CEO and co-founder of Lolli.
Akon : Founder of Akon Lighting Africa and the AKoin cryptocurrency .
Muneeb Ali: Founder and CEO of Blockstack (Needs Slight Editing).
Jeremy Allaire: CEO and founder of Circle.
Marc Andreessen : Co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz .
Gavin Andresen: Founder of the Bitcoin Foundation.
Andreas Antonopoulos: CTO of Third Key Solutions.
Paolo Ardoino: CTO Tether & Bitfinex.
Brian Armstrong: Co-founder of Coinbase
Ben Goertzel: CEO and founder of SingularityNET (AGI)
Michael Arrington: Founder of XRP Capital.
Adam Back: CEO of Blockstream. Developed Hashcash.
Amber Baldet: CEO and Founder of Clovyr (Needs Slight Editing).
Brian Behlendorf : Executive Director at Hyperledger .
Mike Belshe: Co-founder and CEO of BitGo.
Juan Benet: CEO and co-founder of Protocol Labs.
Omar Bham, cryptocurrency vlogger (Crypt0).
Bryan Bishop : Software consultant .
Mike Blandina: CEO of Bakkt.
Jon Rice: Editor-in-Chief of CoinTelegraph
Brendan Blumer: CEO of Block.one.
Spencer Bogart : General partner of Blockchain Capital .
Dan Boneh : Professor of cryptography and computer science at Stanford University .
Perianne Boring : President of the Chamber of Digital Commerce .
Peter Brandt: Veteran trader.
Kathleen Breitman: CEO of Tezos (Needs Slight Editing).
Paul Brody: Blockchain Lead at Ernst & Young.
Jake Brukhman: Founder of CoinFund (Needs Editing).
Vitalik Buterin: Founder of Ethereum.
Preston Byrne : Partner at Byrne & Storm, P.C.
Olaf Carlson-Wee: Founder of Polychain Capital.
Wences Casares: CEO of Xapo.
Jay Cassano: Editor in Chief at CoinTelegraph.
Michael del Castillo: Reporter at Forbes.
Heidi Chakos, cryptocurrency vlogger (Crypto Tips).
David Chaum: CEO of Elixxir.
Jake Chervinsky : General Counsel at Compound Finance.
Andy Cheung : Co-Founder & CEO at BitWork .
Brandon Chez: Founder of CoinMarketCap (Needs Editing).
Juthica Chou: Founder of LedgerX
Rune Christensen: Founder of MakerDao.
Catherine Coley: CEO of Binance America (Needs Slight Editing).
Matt Corallo : Open-source software engineer at Square Crypto .
Cryptocobain: Social media influencer [6].
Cryptohustle: Social media influencer [5]
Leigh Cuen : Journalist at CoinDesk .
Lark Davis: cryptocurrency vlogger (Crypto Lark)-
Christian Deciga: Co-founder of Everipedia
Tuur Demeester: Founding partner of Adamant Capital.
Meltem Demirors : Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares .
Chris Dixon: On the board of Coinbase.
Jack Dorsey: Founder of Square and CashApp
Adam Draper: Founder of BoostVC (Needs Editing)
Timothy C. Draper: Founder of Draper Associates
Mike Dudas : Founder and CEO of The Block
Pavel Durov: Founder of VK and Telegram
Fred Ehrsam: Co-founder of Coinbase
Umar Farooq: Head of Blockchain Initiatives at JPMorgan Chase
Theodor Forselius: Co-founder of Everipedia
Josh Fraser: CEO of Origin Protocol
Brad Garlinghouse: CEO and Chairman of Ripple
Jeff Garzik : Co-founder and CEO of Bloq, founder of Spacechain
Alice Lloyd George: Principal at RRE Ventures
J. Christopher Giancarlo: Director of the Digital Dollar Project
Mati Greenspan : Founder of Quantum Economics
Helen Hai : Head of the Binance Charity Foundation
Mance Harmon : Co-founder and CEO of Hedera Hashgraph and Swirlds Inc.
Katie Haun: General partner at Andreessen Horowitz's crypto division
Tiffany Hayden: Crypto blogger (Needs Editing)
Arthur Hayes: Founder of BitMEX
Richard Heart: Founder of HEX
Marc Hochstein: Executive Editor at CoinDesk
Ben Horowitz: Co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz
Hunter Horsley: CEO of Bitwise Asset Management
Charles Hoskinson: Co-founder of Cardano
Tushar Jain: Managing partner at Multicoin Capital (Needs Slight Editing)
Jonathan "JJ" Johnson: Interim CEO of Overstock.com
Yuzo Kano: CEO of bitFlyer
Preethi Kasireddy: CEO and founder of TruStory
Mike Kayamori : Founder & CEO at Quoine and Liquid
Sam Kazemian: Co-founder of Everipedia and Frax
Sunny King : Chief architect at V Systems
Travis Kling : Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Ikigai Asset Management
Nejc Kodrič: CEO of Bitstamp
Christine Lagarde : President of the European Central Bank, former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Eric Larchevêque: CEO and founder of Ledger
Dan Larimer : Chief technology officer of Block.one
Chris Larsen: Co-founder of Ripple
Bobby Lee: CEO of BTCChina (Needs Slight Editing)
Charlie Lee: Creator of Litecoin
Leon Li : Founder and CEO of Huobi Global, CEO of Pantronics Holdings Ltd.
Ivan Liljeqvist (Ivan on Tech), blockchain influencer and entrepreneur
Vinny Lingham: Founder and CEO of Civic
Ted Livingston : Founder & CEO at Kik, Founder at KIN Foundation
Kelly Loeffler: CEO of Bakkt
Caitlin Long: Chairman of WyoHackathon
Jameson Lopp: Bitcoin core developer
Joseph Lubin: Co-founder of Ethereum
David A. Marcus: Libra Director
Kris Marszalek: CEO of crypto.com
Carl Eric Martin, cryptocrrency analyst (Moon Youtube channel)
Jon Matonis: Chief Economist at Cypherpunk Holdings (Needs Slight Editing)
Trace Mayer : Host of the podcast "Bitcoin Knowledge"
John McAfee: CEO of Luxcore
Jed McCaleb: Founder of Stellar
Peter McCormack : Host of the podcasts "What Bitcoin Did" and "Defiance"
Sam McIngvale: CEO at Coinbase Custody
Nicholas Merten, cryptocurrency entrepreneur, analyst and vlogger (Data Dash)
Silvio Micali: Founder of Algorand
Aya Miyaguchi: Executive director at the Ethereum Foundation
Ronnie Moas: CEO of Standpoint Research
Edward Moncada: Founder and CEO of Blockfolio
Travis Moore: Co-founder of Everipedia
Dan Morehead: CEO and founder of Pantera Capital (Needs Slight Editing)
Sergey Nazarov: Founder of Linkchain
Ran Neu-Ner: CEO of OnChain Capital
Catheryne Nicholson: Runs BlockCypher
Michael Novogratz: CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners
Stephen Pair: CEO and co-founder of BitPay (Needs Slight Editing)
Ari Paul: CIO of BlockTower Capital
Linda Pawczuk, Principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP
Marta Piekarska : Director of Ecosystem at Hyperledger
Brock Pierce: Co-founder of Block.one
Nic Carter: Partner at Castle Island Ventures and the cofounder of Coinmetrics.io
Anthony Pompliano: Co-founder and Partner at Morgan Creek Capital
Joseph Poon: Co-auithored the Lightning whitepaper
Jesse Powell: Founder of Kraken (Needs Slight Editing)
Zac Prince: CEO and co-founder of BlockFi
Rhomaios Ram: CEO of Fnality International
Naval Ravikant: Angel list Founder
Alex Reinhardt: Founder of Platincoin
Matthew Roszak: Co-founder and chairman of Bloq
Nouriel Roubini: Professor of Economics
Mark Russinovich: CTO of Microsoft Azure
Marco Santori : President and chief legal officer at Blockchain.com
Valerie A. Szczepanik: Senior Advisor for Digital Assets at the SEC
Dominik Schiener: Co-founder of IOTA (Needs Editing)
Ryan Selkis : Founder & CEO at Messari
Laura Shin : Journalist and host of the "Unchained" podcast
Charlie Shrem : Founder at CryptoIQ, Host of Untold Stories podcast
Barry Silbert: CEO of Digital Currency Group (Needs Editing)
Arianna Simpson: Managing director at ASP
Emin Gün Sirer: CEO of AvaLabs
Peter Smith: Co-founder and CEO of Blockchain.com (Needs Editing)
Jimmy Song: Blockchain lecturer
Riccardo Spagni: Lead maintainer of Monero
Balaji Srinivasan : Angel investor
Elizabeth Stark (Entrepreneur): Founder of Lightning Labs (Needs Editing)
P. Bart Stephens: Founder at Blockchain Capital (Needs Slight Editing)
Justin Sun: Founder of TRON
Tyler Swope, cryptocurrency investor and vlogger (Crypto Chico)
Nick Szabo: Cryptologist and lawyer who developed smart contract technology
Don Tapscott: Co-founder and executive chairman of Blockchain Research Institute
Heath Tarbert: Chairman of the CFTC
Michael Terpin : Founder of Transform Group and BitAngels
Jean-Louis van der Velde: CEO of Bitfinix
Valery Vavilov: CEO of BitFury
Tone Vays: Host of CryptoScam podcast
Roger Ver: CEO of Bitcoin.com (Needs Slight Editing)
Erik Voorhees: Founder and CEO of ShapeShift
Dovey Wan: Founding Partner at Primitive Capital
Livio Wang: CEO of HuobiGlobal
Sheila Warren : Head of Blockchain and DLT at World Economic Forum
WhalePanda: Social media influencer [7]
John Whelan: CEO of Banco Santander
Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn: Founder of Zcash
Tyler Winklevoss: Founded Winklevoss Capital Management
Gavin Wood: Founder of Parity Technologies
Craig Steven Wright: Trying to claim he's Satoshi Nakamoto
Jihan Wu: Founder of Bitmain
Pieter Wuille: Founder of Blockstream (Needs Slight Editing)
Linda Xie: Co-founder and Managing Director of Scaler (Needs Editing)
Frank Xiong: Group VP Blockchain Development at Oracle
Andrew Yang : 2020 U.S. presidential candidate suppored crypto
Haipo Yang: CEO of ViaBTC
Joseph Young: CoinTelegraph Journalist
Vlad Zamfir: Ethereum Developer (Needs Editing)
N.G. Zhang: Founder of mining company Canaan
Changpeng Zhao: Founder of Binance
Mark Zuckerberg: Building Libra
Jaynti Kanani: Founder of Polygon (formerly Matic Network)
Sandeep Nailwal: Founder of Polygon (formerly Matic Network) and India’s Crypto Covid Relief Fund
Passive Investors and Celebrities
Johnny Depp: Involved with blockchain startup TaTaTu
Snoop Dogg: Sold albums at.03 bitcoin in 2013
Jamie Foxx: Promoted token sale of Cobinhood [2]
Bill Gates: Spoke positively about bitcoin in 2014
Paris Hilton: Participated in the ICO of LydianCoin
Ghostface Killah: Invested in Cream Capital
Ashton Kutcher: Invested in UnikoinGold (cryptocurrency)
Hugh Laurie: Invested 5k in bitcoin in 2015
Madonna: Teamed up with Ripple
Floyd Mayweather Jr.: Has promoted several ICOs
Mel B: Accepted bitcoin as payment for 2014 single
Lionel Messi: Brand ambassador for Sirin Labs
Gwyneth Paltrow: Face of Abra Wallet
Pitbull (rapper): Launched Smackathon coin
William Shatner: Bitcoin holder
Mike Tyson: Launched a Bitcoin ATM system in 2015