Crypto influencers: Founder
This page lists the 15 crypto personalities we currently document in the category “Founder”. Founders, traders, analysts and the loudest voices on Crypto Twitter. Each links to a full profile: who they are, how they got here, and where to find them (mostly on X).
- Alon Cohen@a1lon9
Co-founder of pump.fun. co-founded pump.fun, the Solana launchpad that made minting a memecoin take less time than making coffee, and is now the public face of the most divisive product in crypto.
Co-founder of Solana. is the engineer who co-founded Solana, the fast, cheap blockchain that became the home of the memecoin era.
Co-founder of BitMEX, macro essayist. co-founded BitMEX and popularized the perpetual swap, and is now one of crypto's most-read macro writers.
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. co-founded Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange in the United States and a bellwether public stock.
Founder of Binance. founded Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world by trading volume.
Investor, podcaster, founder of Echo. is the everyman tastemaker of Crypto Twitter, a trader and builder with a real track record.
Founder of Terraform Labs (Terra / LUNA). founded Terra, whose May 2022 collapse wiped out roughly 40 billion dollars and triggered a wave of crypto bankruptcies.
Founder of DeLabs (DeGods, y00ts). founded DeLabs, the studio behind DeGods and y00ts, two of the defining NFT projects of the Solana era.
- Jesse Pollak@jessepollak
Creator of Base. created Base, the Coinbase layer-2 that became the home of Brett, Toshi and the entire non-Solana memecoin scene, then launched his own creator coin and discovered exactly how that goes.
Founder of TRON. founded the TRON blockchain and is one of crypto's most relentless and controversial self-promoters.
- Meow@weremeow
Founder and CEO of Jupiter. is the pseudonymous founder of Jupiter, the Solana aggregator that routes the overwhelming majority of the chain's DEX trades, which means most memecoin buys on Solana pass through his product whether the buyer knows it or not.
- Richard Heart@RichardHeartWin
Founder of HEX and PulseChain. created HEX, the blockchain certificate of deposit that made him one of crypto's most argued-about figures, beat the SEC outright in federal court, and is nonetheless still on Europol's most wanted list.
Founder of FTX. founded the FTX exchange, whose November 2022 implosion became the defining fraud scandal in crypto history.
- Shaw Walters@shawmakesmagic
Founder of ElizaOS and ai16z. founded ai16z and ElizaOS, the project that started the AI agent token mania, rode it to a multi-billion dollar valuation, and is now defending a class action alleging the whole thing was hype wearing a lab coat.
Co-founder of Ethereum. is the programmer who co-created Ethereum, the smart-contract blockchain that made most of crypto beyond Bitcoin possible.