At Bleeding.Technology we track over 100,000 web 3.0, NFT, DeFi & crypto startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top China based CEO’ operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Sunny Lu
Co-Founder and CEO of Vechain
Sunny Lu is the Founder at VeChain.
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About Vechain, VeChain: VeChain leverages Blockchain to solve the problem of counterfeits and product traceability across supply chains and logistics.
Zhong Gengfa
Founder and CEO of Chainup
He once served as the technical director of Baidu SNS Division and formed Baidu’s technical team from the very beginning. Prior to the foundation of CHAINUP technology, he worked as CTO at the P2P car rental platform START (PP car rental) which is well know in China.
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About Chainup: Chainup is the one-stop blockchain technology service company,the Chainup has established a set of systems .
Terry Tai
Co-Founder, CEO of Nervos Network
Core developer at Yunbi & Peatio, co-founder of Teahour.
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About Nervos Network: Nervos Network is the Multi-asset, Store of Value Blockchain.
Kyle Lu
Founder and CEO of Dapp.com
Kyle Lu is Founder and CEO of DAPP.com. Kyle is a serial entrepreneur in big data and mobile Internet bringing technology transformation and innovation in traditional business. Kyle was the former Partner and VP at Achain, an Asia-based blockchain platform that enables develop-ers of all levels of experience to deploy tokens, smart contracts, and blockchain network. Kyle is also a regular speaker at crypto conferences, in particular on topics including blockchain technology adoption and application. Kyle is an expert in global business development and investment with a bachelor degree at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business.
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About Dapp.com: Where the blockchain comes alive
Erick de Moura
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cartesi
Erick de Moura is the Founder and CEO at Cartesi.
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About Cartesi: Cartesi is a developer of a Linux infrastructure designed for scalable decentralized applications.
Eric Gu
Founder & CEO of Metaverse
Eric Gu worked in Canada and the USA for more than 20 years and served as a senior programmer and project manager for large enterprises in Ontario, Canada before returning to China in 2012. Individually he has spent a lot of his spare time studying financial derivatives, religion, law and quantum physics. From the beginning of 2013, he started to participate in the bitcoin and Blockchain community and joined many early international projects and cutting-edge research on Blockchain. Eric wrote and translated many related articles and books including the Chinese version of Blockchain Blueprint for a New Economy (2015) by Melanie Swan. After founding Viewfin in 2014, given the market’s fast-growing need for Blockchain in China, and favorable market conditions and technical trends, Eric successfully launched the first public Blockchain, Metaverse, in China. Metaverse, while still in its infancy, is perceived as a Chinese version of Ethereum which has created great awareness among the Chinese public media and financial institutions from 2016. As the Chairman of the Metaverse Foundation, Eric has committed to expanding the various industry use cases in the Metaverse eco-system to explore more Blockchain applications in different categories.
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About Metaverse, ViewFin: Metaverse is a leading public blockchain based in China.
Frank Lyu
CEO of MultiVAC
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About MultiVAC: MultiVAC is the next-generation public blockchain platform designed for large-scale and complicated decentralized applications.
Alyssa Tsai
Founder & CEO of PANONY
Alyssa Tsai is the Founder and CEO of PANONY and PANews and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in “Media, Marketing & Advertising”. PANONY is a leading media and consulting services in Asia, working to bridge the knowledge and resources gap experienced by entrepreneurs and innovators in the blockchain and fintech industry. With a management and advisory team made up of experienced industry veterans and leading experts, it has to date consulted over a hundred worldwide clients spanning the entire spectrum of the blockchain and fintech industry, including both startups and Fortune 500 companies. PANONY also runs award-winning blockchain and fintech media outlet and think tank PANews which produces original content with actionable insights for industry professionals. Alyssa is a communication specialist and seasoned consultant. She has rich experience in serving top-notch companies across a variety of industries and developed strong specializations in branding, PR, marketing and market entry & expansion strategies. Her experience includes among others Ogilvy, Isentia, VOGUE, LVMH, Huawei and high-tech law firms. Alyssa is also an experienced speaker and moderator at many industry events on a range of topics facing the blockchain and fintech industry, including Distributed, Token Fest and several Asia-based conferences. She received an LL.B. degree from National Taiwan University.
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About PANews, PANONY: Your Blockchain Insider & Advisor
Shixing Mao
Co-Founder and CEO of Cobo
Discus Fish is the CEO and co-founder of Cobo, a leading global developer building the infrastructure that makes cryptocurrencies and decentralized apps easily accessible to anyone. Cobo’s flagship product, launched in February 2018, is Cobo Wallet, the first mobile wallet that offers proof-of-stake pooling services for users, a groundbreaking innovation that assimilates to interests and dividends. Considered to be China’s cryptocurrency pioneer, for first introducing cryptocurrency to China in 2011 with his widely viewed mining tutorials, Discus Fish was a moderator of the first Chinese Bitcoin forum, BTCMAN, and the first Litecoin forum, LTCBBS. He later contributed to the marketing of Avalon, the first cryptocurrency ASIC miner from Canaan, which filed for an IPO in May 2018, and became co-founder and COO of Yibite, the first Bitcoin portal in China. In 2013, Discus Fish was most well known for co-founding F2Pool, the first mining pool in China, where he shifted the reliance on oversea mining pools to China and also pioneered the 24 hour settlement protocol, which is now considered a global standard today. Now the largest multi-currency mining pool in the world, F2Pool is globally the #1 Ethereum and Litecoin miner, and the 5th largest Bitcoin miner.
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About Cobo: Cobo is a leading producer of hardware and software blockchain products that make it easy for anyone to own and use cryptocurrencies.
Haobo Ma
CEO & Founder of ælf
Founder of ælf, founder/ CEO of Hoopox, Blockchain expert, early adopter of digital assets, Ex-CTO of GemPay. He is also a member of Blockchain Experts’ Commission of Chinese Institute of Electronics and China Computer Federation.
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About ælf: ælf is a decentralized Cloud Computing Blockchain Network, featuring parallel processing and nodes clustering to enable scaling…
Jared Psigoda
CEO of BitGuild
Prior to founding BitGuild, Jared was the co-founder and CEO of Reality Squared Games (R2Games), an international developer and publisher of browser and mobile games which he took public in China in 2016. He is also the founder of Livestar, a development studio focused on building live streaming and other social media apps for a global audience. In 2014, Jared was recognized as the only non-Chinese member of the Forbes China “30 under 30.”
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About BitGuild: BitGuild is creating a decentralized platform for gamers.
Tony Cui
Founder and CEO of Achain
Tony Cui is the founder of Achain and Goopal. He was an early investor in blockchain and is a veteran of the industry. He was later awarded the “Future Star” by Zhongguancun Alliance and was listed 30 under 30 on famous venture capital magazine “CYZONE”. Under his leadership, Goopal was listed on the world-famous technology business magazine Red Herring Global as a Top 100 technology award recipient. In 2017 Goopal became the founder member of Zhongguancun Blockchain Industry Alliance. Achain won the “Most Valuable” award issued by the 6th China financial summit, “Excellent Blockchain Enterprise / Community” issued by Finwise global blockchain summit and “2018 Most Investment Value Blockchain Project” by Hurun Hundred Fortune.
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About Achain: Achain is a public blockchain platform.
Matej Michalko
Founder, Chairman, CEO & President of DECENT
Matej is the CEO of DECENT and is on a mission to redefine the internet through an open-source, decentralized content distribution platform. Matej’s interest in online privacy was fueled first while studying Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne where he completed a project implementing privacy protection for mobile devices at Nokia Research Center. Since 2011 he became extensively involved with Bitcoin. Mining at his own laptop in the beginning, later switching to GPUs and ASICs. He served as the CEO of many Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency conferences in Austria, China, Belgium, UK (BitcoinExpo, Central European Bitcoin Expo, BTC2B Congress) and more. Matej founded the first Bitcoin Marketing agency in the world. He also founded the first Cryptocurrency e-Gaming Consulting Firm and served as a consultant in the Isle of Man. Matej is a regular speaker at major conferences about the immense potential and vertical integration of Blockchain Technologies into various industries.
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About ALAX.io, DECENT: DECENT is focused on using the power of blockchain to take on some of the biggest issues of our digital age.
Rui Guo
Co-founder & CEO of Ultrain
As the former technical director of Alibaba Security Group, he led the team to establish one of the world’s top three risk control data product systems and ensured the security of the platform on Double Eleven every year, helping companies affiliated to the Alibaba group and corporate customers establish a trusted network ecosystem. He was the former technical director of the IBM Global Consulting Service Department and head of the Innovation Development Center. He served dozens of large state-owned and private enterprises in various industries, including China Mobile and State Grid, showing an in-depth insight of the bottlenecks of various business and enablement of enterprises by informatization. He is committed to uniting global community forces to build a Blockchain 3.0 ecosystem that energizes the real economy and promoting the realization of a programmable society.
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About Ultrain: Ultrain, a next generation public-blockchain technology venture that focuses on builds a high performance decentralized blockchain platform.
Jane Zhang
Founder & CEO of ShellPay
Jane Zhang, the founder and CEO of the Pioneer of blockchain company Shellpay . Jane Zhang is a famous angel investor and entrepreneur from Shanghai. She was an early investor of Alibaba, UT Starcom and VIPS(NYSE listed company), graduated from Georgetown University and Harvard MBA. She used to work in McKinsey, is strong at strategy planning.
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About ShellPay: ShellPay is a blockchain based fintech company.
Haozhi Chen
CEO of Cocos Blockchain Expedition
Co-founder of Cocos-BCX, CEO of Chukong Technologies – the main sponsor of Cocos2d-x (world’s #1 open-source game development platform) and CocoaChina (the biggest iOS developer community in China). Previously, Haozhi founded Joyo.com (acquired by Amazon), Xcar , IT168 and Yeeyan.org. Cocos2d-x is the most widely adopted game engine in Asia and is #2 worldwide by market share, with a 1.1 million game developers in its community, many awesome games including Angry Birds, Badlands, Fight! and Clash of Kings were built using the Cocos development platform and many amazing game publishers including Zynga & Big Fish Games rely on Cocos2d-x everyday.
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About Chukong Technologies, Cocos Blockchain Expedition: Cocos-BCX is a blockchain game development platform.
Henry Wang
Founder and CEO of SmartMesh Foundation Pte. Ltd.
Henry Wang is the Founder and CEO of SmartMesh. He is also the Founder and President of International Blockchain Application Federation (IBAF). Henry’s drive and vision is to build SmartMesh (www.smartmesh.io) the InterPlanetary Decentralized Autonomous Mobile Mesh Network and promote the next generation application ecosystems, which can build the global sharing platform of interconnection and interoperation based on blockchain. Henry founded the International Blockchain Application Federation (IBAF) to promote worldwide blockchain applications. Henry earned his M.S. in Beijing University, and he pursued PHD study at Physics Department in Northwestern University with a full scholarship. In 2000, Henry transferred to Washington University in St. Louis for PHD study in Computer Science. He earned the Master Degree with expertise in Internet Tunneling Protocol Design. Henry is a thought leader and an expert on Internet Protocols, Blockchain, IoT, ASIC Design, Artificial Intelligence, and Edge Computing.
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About SmartMesh Foundation Pte. Ltd.: infrastructure, communication protocol, mesh network, blockchain, off-internet communication, off-internet payment
Yinghao Jia
Founder & CEO of Hash World
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About Hash World: Blockchain games platform In China.
Peng Peng
CEO of ByteTrade
Mr. Peng Peng had worked for well-known Internet companies such as Baidu. After choosing to start his own business, he founded BaoXianShenQi. At present, Mr. Peng Peng is the CEO and founder of ByteTrade and he had led his team to independently develop and launch the first cross-chain value exchange lightning network – ByteTrade. He received his Bachelor degree of Computer Science from Zhejiang University and had very rich experiences in software development.
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About Baoxianshenqi, ByteTrade: Word leading public blockchain technology development company.
Yong He
CEO of DeepBrain Chain
Yong He was once enrolled Ph.D in East China Normal University and Ph.D in Chinese Academy of Sciences Artificial intelligence expert, is honored a title of innovation character of Shanghai computer industry, research on bitcoin and blockchain technology since 2014. Proficient in product design and machine learning algorithms. The inventor of intelligent semantic error correction engine for game translation. The first batch of entrepreneurs in the field of artificial intelligence in China. He had presided over the research and development of the first Chinese voice assistant smart 360, whose registered users exceeded 17 million. Presiding over the development of the world’s first artificial intelligence sound box Small Zhi (half a year earlier than Amazon Echo), and the development of the country’s first cloud of the brain system—DeepBrain. He led the DeepBrain Chain team to win the innovation and creativity award in 2017 ZhongGuanCun Second Blockchain Competition.
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About DeepBrain Chain: DeepBrain Chain is aiming on providing a fundamental platform for AI facilities.
Ben He
Founder & CEO of imToken
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About imToken: imToken is the world’s largest Ethereum digital asset wallet.
Charlie Xu
Founder and CEO of Hashgard
Founder Partner of BKFUND，Founder of Hashgard. He graduated from Anhui University and was employed at high-tech companies such as iFLYTEK, HUAWEI and ZTE. He has 13 years of experiences in research and development, marketing and management. He is an early start-up incubator. In 2017, he was selected as “National Outstanding Innovative and Entrepreneur Mentor” by National Education Department. He is a trail blazer and investor in blockchain industry.
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About BKFUND, Hashgard: Hashgard is a Blockchain Start Up.
Lei Chen
CEO of Xunlei
Lei Chen has been Xunlei Limited (Nasdaq: XNET) chief executive officer since July 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Chen served as Xunlei’s co-chief executive officer and chief technology officer. In 2015, Mr. Chen created Onething Technologies, Xunlei’s cloud computing division. Prior to joining Xunlei in 2014, Mr. Chen was the President of Tencent Cloud, where he spearheaded Tencent’s cloud computing, open platform and social advertisement efforts. Mr. Chen also worked at Google and Microsoft in the US focusing on cloud computing and big data research and development, before returning to China to join Tencent. Mr. Chen holds a bachelor agree of science in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University in China, and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in the US. Mr. Chen was awarded China’s Most Influential People for Cloud Computing in 2014, Annual Luminaries in Internet Industry in 2015 and Most Influential People for CDN in 2016. In 2017, he won the prize of Annual Leader of Global Blockchain. In April 2018, he was invited to speak at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference and shared opinions on shared computing and blockchain innovation.
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About OneThing Technologies, Xunlei: Xunlei Limited is a global innovator in shared computing and blockchain technology.
Shenglong Zou
Founder and CEO of Xunlei
Shenglong Zou is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Xunlei Network, a company developing downloads manager software. Zou along with Cheng, a fellow alumnus from Duke University and a former senior manager of Chinese search engine Baidu.com founded Xunlei in October 2002. Prior to Xunlei, Zou worked as the manager of core products in Nuasis Corporation. Later, he started three companies of his own: IPNet, Chinaflow and MuseTech in Silicon Valley. Zou received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Duke University.
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About Xunlei: Xunlei Limited is a global innovator in shared computing and blockchain technology.
Joy Wan
Founder, CEO of BestSign
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About BestSign, Paycor: BestSign is the industry’s leading online electronic signature, electronic contract signing and electronic signature cloud service platform.
Duan XinXing
Founder & CEO of bytom.io
Xinxing Duan the founder of the BYTOM, a researcher of Fintech industry, the scholarship winner of The Gates Foundation, and was the senior engineer of The Lucent Bell Laboratories. He used to work as the vice president and the chief researcher of OKCoin, which is the largest digital assets exchange platform in China. He is the author of the significant book ‘BLOCKCHAIN: RESHAPE THE ECONOMY AND THE WORLD’ (published by China CITIC in 2016). In MAY 2017, he joined the 8BTC.COM and became as the Executive President, fully response for the R&D of Blockchain products and the brand development.
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About 8btc.com, bytom.io: bytom.io is a blockchain protocol specifically for the area of asset management, financial and digital asset applications.
Yuan Dawei
Founder and CEO of Coldlar
Dawei Yuan, graduated from the Department of Mathematics, China University of Petroleum, one of the TOP 100 universities in China. With his great sensitivity in numbers, as an early adopter and believer in Blochchain tech, he co-founded Huobi in 2013. It was him who built the customer service team and operation team of Huobi, and he was also deeply involved in the product design, project operation and promotion. He worked and resigned as COO of Huobi until 2015 to start his own business. Academic Member of Fintech Innovation Lab, Peking University.
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About Coldlar: Coldlar is a technology company dedicated to the solutions for the safe storage of cryptoassets.
Brian Cai
Founder & CEO of FORTUNA
Brian graduated from Yale University and majored in Computer Science. He has worked in investment banking, corporate finance, and private banking in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Before launching Fortuna, he was managing more than 5 billion USD as the director of private banking with the Zhejiang Provincial Branch of Bank of Communications.
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About FORTUNA: FORTUNA is the first blockchain platform for global OTC derivatives market. FORTUNA is a platform for OTC derivatives transactions.
Richard Foster
CEO & Founder of Digital Asset Network
Founded and raised funding for a financially regulated payments company. Twelve years’ experience as a Cisco CCIE freelance network architect in finance and energy in London. Deep knowledge of payment systems, launching online marketplaces, and growth techniques. Founder and CEO of blockchain talent site Moneo.io. Active investor and supporter of the crypto community and blockchain technology.
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About Digital Asset Network: DAN facilitates deal-flow between investors, issuers, and key players. Built-in due-diligence and primary source market intelligence.
Duan Kai
CEO & Chief Architect of AICHAIN
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About AICHAIN: AICHAIN is a public chain that is specially designed as a blockchain infrastructure for AI applications.
Psymon Li
Founder and CEO of BonusCloud
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About BonusCloud: BonusCloud provides community with different kinds of computing environments, so as to meet the requirements of different developers.
Michaelia St.
Founder & Co-CEO of ProChain般若
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About ProChain般若: Based on Ethereum, lightning network and IPFS technology, ProChain is dedicated to build a precision advertisement market on blockchain…
Michaelia St.
Founder & Co-CEO of ProChain般若
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About ProChain般若: Based on Ethereum, lightning network and IPFS technology, ProChain is dedicated to build a precision advertisement market on blockchain…
Ting Yan
CEO of PeerSafe China
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About PeerSafe China: PeerSafe is a blockchain solutions and service providers.
Zhu Fei
Chief Executive Officer of Zeepin
Current Founder and CEO of Zeepin Foundation and Zeepin Cultural and Creative Co., Ltd. Former CEO of Arting365, with 15 years of experience in the creative industry; Director of Shanghai Top Young Creative Talents Association; Director of Shanghai-Jiangnan Intelligent Manufacturing Park Creative Industry Promotion Center; Director of Shanghai Industrial Design Association; Awarded as “20 Top Young Creative Talents in Shanghai in 2011”; Founded Internet companies involving creative e-commerce, creative media, and design education, and has successfully created and operated a creative community with over 1.2 million designer users; Led his team to successfully serve more than 200 large and medium-sized creative projects; Has paid continuous attention to the development of the creative industry, and made his own contributions to turning creativity into values.
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About Zeepin: Zeepin develops a decentralized network for creators and creative assets.
Sean Chen
Co-Founder and CEO of FunJumping
Sean Chen is the Co-Founder and CEO of FunJumping.
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About FunJumping: FunJumping is a blockchain-based gaming community platform that focuses on the gaming industry.
Ling Tang
CEO of Ink Labs Foundation
Ling Tang is the President of Ink Labs Foundation. An early blockchain enthusiast in China and intellectual property expert, Tang’s vision is to build an intellectual property asset exchange through the blockchain to solve problems that exist in the cultural and creative industry. The decentralized solution promotes IP protection, cash generation and maximum proceeds for artists and creators. Tang is also a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum.
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About Ink Labs Foundation: Ink Labs Foundation is a blockchain based ledger where artists and content creators can register works and generate businesses.
MQ Huang
Founder CEO of GXS Foundation
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About GXS Foundation: GXS is a company dedicated to providing data economy solutions.
Xi Wang
CEO and Co-Founder of Ecom Chain
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About Ecom Chain: Ecom Chain builds a decentralized lifestyle sharing community based on blockchain technology.
Wei Li
CEO of Qulian Technology
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About Qulian Technology: Hyperchain is a blockchain platform developer based in china.
Andy Zheng
Co-Founder and CEO of BeeCast
Andy Zheng is the Co-Founder and CEO at BeeCast.
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About BeeCast: BeeCast is a comprehensive service platform providing integrated news & other blockchain information.
Andy Zheng
Co-Founder and CEO of BeeCast
Andy Zheng is the Co-Founder and CEO at BeeCast.
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About BeeCast: BeeCast is a comprehensive service platform providing integrated news & other blockchain information.
Ye Mao
Founder and CEO of CHAINDIGG
A continuous entrepreneur, a postdoctoral fellow in computer science at Peking University, worked for Oracle and Founder Group. He has rich experience in artificial intelligence, natural language processing and blockchain. He has published more than 20 high-level academic papers and applied for more than 20 domestic and international invention patents.
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About CHAINDIGG: Zhifan Tech is a service provider of blockchain big data analysis platform dedicated to enabling everyone to benefit …
Yuan Li
CEO of Beijing Thinkyoung Technology
Serial entrepreneur & blockchain technology expert, after joining Thinkyoung as CEO in 2016, Yuan led team to win the First Prize of 1st China Blockchain Innovation Contest & First Prize of 1st Blockchain Development Contest. In 2017 he launched SelfSell, an individual capitalization platform aiming at redefining human’s value and leading a revolution of human value investment. SelfSell’s business model gained great supports from China Binary & Goopal Group, as well as Thomas Sargent, the 2011 Nobel Prize winner in economics and the leader of the Rational Expectation School.
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About Beijing Thinkyoung Technology: Beijing Thinkyoung Technology is a technology company specialized in basic research and industrial application development of blockchain.
Bai Qiang
CEO of vSport
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About vSport: vSport is the world’s first non-profit, open-source and blockchain empowered platform which is completely dedicated to the sports industry.
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