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Founder of Stellar, Ripple co-founder, and Mt. Gox founder
A veteran crypto operator who founded Mt.
Gox, co-founded Ripple, and later launched Stellar as a separate payments-focused network.
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Vitalik Buterin
Co-founder of Ethereum
Carl From the Moon
Founder & Executive
Satoshi Nakamoto
Creator of Bitcoin
Charles Hoskinson
Founder of Cardano and IOG, and Ethereum co-founder
Justin Sun
Founder of TRON and adviser to HTXOctober 7, 2026
Bitmine has a ceiling. Tom Lee, the firm's chairman and co-founder, has stated that Bitmine will stop purchasing Ethereum once its holdings reach 5% of the cryptocurrency's total circulating supply, setting a defined upper limit on one of the most aggressive corporate ETH accumulation strategies in the market.
October 6, 2026
The expansion builds on an existing relationship between Ripple and Brevan Howard, the macro-focused alternative asset manager.
October 6, 2026
A $25 billion figure puts OKX in rare company among crypto exchanges. Kraken's parent company Payward recently attracted a $21 billion valuation in a Nasdaq-led investment round , making OKX's reported number a meaningful step above its closest publicly benchmarked rival.
October 5, 2026
Donald Trump has tapped Jay Clayton, the former Securities and Exchange Commission chair who launched the agency's landmark lawsuit against Ripple, to lead a newly described "Super Intelligence" force.
October 5, 2026
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse took to X to admit his team came up short in its push to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a rare public acknowledgment of a legislative stumble from one of crypto's most vocal policy advocates.