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 Germany based CTO’ operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Vlad Karl
CTO of MXC Foundation
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About MXC Foundation: MXC is building a global data network that allows the devices of tomorrow to connect, commit and communicate.

Benjamin Jones
CEO , CTO & Co-Founder of Nuri
Benjamin Jones is a self-taught programer with over 5 years of experience in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. A London School of Economics graduate, Ben previously taught programming in Ghana, founded a web agency for early-stage startups, and was an economist in the UK civil service.
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About Nuri: Nuri empowers people to manage and grow their wealth through innovative technologies.
Olivier Beddows
Co-Founder, CTO and Vice President of Lisk
The global financial crisis helped to make Oliver realize that he wanted to create something of bigger significance than the projects he was involved in at the time. With twelve years of development experience, he understood that digital technology, put into the hands of more people than the elite, can be a powerful tool to make the world more just and honest. Oliver saw that blockchain technology offered great opportunity, but that the platforms available for developers were far too complex. This was when he set out on a mission to lower barriers and support everyone with a vision to apply blockchain technology. Together with his team, Oliver hopes to inspire developers globally to freely create, collaborate and change the way connected systems work today and tomorrow.
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About Lisk: Lisk is a blockchain application platform based in Zug, Switzerland.
Thomas Felber
Co-Founder and CTO of SMART VALOR
Thomas Felber is the co-founder and CTO of Smart Valor.
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About SMART VALOR: SMART VALOR is European regulated digital asset investment platform and blockchain infrastructure provider
Christof Elbrechter
Co founder & CTO of Margin
Before moving to the cryptocurrency space, Christof worked for 11 years in the Neuroinformatics Group at Bielefeld University. With a focus on robotics, computer vision and machine learning he made contributions to the domain of robotic manipulation of paper during his PhD, led the Computer Vision Group and created the open source computer vision library ICL.
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About Margin: Margin is a bitcoin trading terminal.
Alexey Utin
CTO of Tangany
Alexey is the technical lead of our infrastructure solution. He is the brain that guarantees the highest simplicity of our product which is so loved by our clients.
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About Tangany: Tangany is a regulated European blockchain custody provider for companies (B2B SaaS).
Lotharr Meffert
CTO of Blockchain HELIX AG
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About Blockchain HELIX AG: We are the Home of Digital Identity. With the platform we increase data quality, reduce operating costs and mitigate risk in KYC processes.
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