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Founder of La Maison du Bitcoin (now Coinhouse), aimed at promoting cryptocurrency-related projects, Larchevêque founded leading Web 3.0 security solution company Ledger in 2014, stepping down from the role of CEO in 2019.

A former software engineer and now founder and CEO of Quantstamp, a leading smart contract security firm engaged in network security auditing and the development of automated security tools.

Jae Kwon is co-founder of Tendermint, a consensus algorithm seeking to overcome drawbacks associated with proof-of-work, and president of the Interchain Foundation, founded to promote Cosmos, a project intended to enable blockchain interoperability and scalability.

Founder and CEO of Curve Finance, a significant exchange and automated market maker on Ethereum, Egorov started at LinkedIn before co-founding as CTO NuCypher, producing protection and encryption software for data platforms.

A computer scientist and cryptographer, Chaum is regarded as the the inventor of digital currency with Digicash in 1995, plus ‘the godfather of cryptocurrency’ for his 1982 research paper of the first known proposal of a blockchain protocol, which complete with code, contained all but one element of the blockchain detailed in Satoshi Nakamoto’s whitepaper for Bitcoin.

Co-founder of CoinGecko, an analytics platform for tracking cryptocurrencies and blockchain assets established in 2014, Ong has built Coingecko into one of the largest crypto asset data aggregators in the world.