Meet Russian Federation’s 21 Top Founders in the Cryptocurrency Startup Space

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 Russian Federation based Founder operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a Founder 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.

Ruslan Smirnov

Founder of Kript

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About Kript: Kript is a decentralized mobile app to invest in crypto assets.

Alexey Bashlykov

Co-Founder, CTO of Zerion

While studying computer science and distributed systems at university, I won the first blockchain hackathon in Moscow back in 2015. It got me extremely excited about the potential of the technology, and later I co-founded Zerion, a company that builds the simplest interface to the world of decentralized finance and aims at bringing DeFi to the masses. Today I lead the development of the Zerion product.

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About Tokenbox, Zerion: Zerion is an all-in-one interface that allows technical and non-technical users to acquire, track and manage DeFi assets.

Vadim Koleoshkin

Co-Founder & COO of Zerion

Co-Founder at Zerion.

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About Jufy Projects, Zerion: Zerion is an all-in-one interface that allows technical and non-technical users to acquire, track and manage DeFi assets.

Yuriy Sorokin

Founder of 3Commas

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About 3Commas: 3Commas provides a platform for cryptocurrency investors to trade with minimal risks, limit losses, and increase profits.

Vladimir Tikhomirov

CEO & Founder of MyWish

Crypto enthusiast and serial entrepreneur, Vladimir has over 10 years of experience leading IT businesses. Former Product Manager in Motorola Soluitons (for 7 years). Vladimir is a founder of DDG – software development center with 50 employees. Ph.D in Computer Science.

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About MyWish: Smart-contract as a service Smart: contracts library, graphic interface, scheduled contract calling

Bogdan Leonov

Co-Founder & CCO of DeHedge

In the past, Bogdan Leonov was Vice President of the Military Industrial Bank (until June 2016). Experience in banking for more than 20 years. He held executive positions in such banks as “Russian capital”, “Mosprombank”, etc. Graduate of the Moscow School of Management “Skolkovo”. A graduate of MSUESI in finance and credit.

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About DeHedge: DeHedge is the risk-hedging platform for cryptocurrency investors.

Alexandr Safonov

CEO & Co-Founder of BUTTON Wallet

Alexandr Safonov is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at BUTTON Wallet.

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About BUTTON Wallet, Moscow State University: BUTTON Wallet is multi crypto currency wallet with exchange in Telegram

Dima Starodubcev

Founder of cyber • Fund

Founder at Cyber Fund

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About cyber • Fund: Investment Platform For Decentralized (Blockchain) Assets

Vitaly Lvov

Founder of cyber • Fund

Founder at Cyber Fund

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About cyber • Fund: Investment Platform For Decentralized (Blockchain) Assets

Andrey Peshkov

CEO, Founder of USDX Wallet

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About USDX Wallet: USDX Wallet is a blockchain-based payment system without Banks, Borders or Fees.

Evgeny Sapunov

Co-Founder, Head of Growth of USDX Wallet

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About USDX Wallet: USDX Wallet is a blockchain-based payment system without Banks, Borders or Fees.

Alexander Bogdanov

Co-Founder and Legal Supervisor of Cindx

Alexander Bogdanov is the Co-founder and Legal Supervisor of CINDX Platform.

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About Cindx: Cindx is a fund management hub to prosper in crypto.

Vladislav Bulochnikov

Co-Founder & CEO of Chatex

Vlad Bulochnikov is the Co-Founder and CEO at Chatex.

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About Chatex: Chatex is the simplest wallet in the messenger.

Anar Babaev

Founder and Managing Partner of ICObox

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About ICObox: ICOBox is a service provider for companies seeking to sell their products via ICO crowd sales.

Vlad Mitrofanov

Founder & CEO of BitCAD

Vlad Mitrofanov is the CTO at SonoCoin.

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About BaYnxt, BitCAD, SecureCall Technology, Sono.Media, SonoCoin: is a unified operating system for business

Farit Kadyrov

Co Founder of BitCAD

Farit Kadyrov is the Co-Founder at SecureCall Technology.

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About BitCAD, SecureCall Technology: is a unified operating system for business

Olesya Egozina

Co-Founder, CEO of OkayCrypt

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About Cryptonomos, OkayCrypt: World’s first scoring ecosystem for Bitcoin

Vladimir Smerkis

Managing Partner And Co- Founder of Tokenbox

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About Tokenbox: It undertakes to perform of KYC/AML for user-investors as well liaising with the requisite data verification systems.

Denis Salangin

Founder of Payfair

Denis is an entrepreneur and a start-up founder with experience in marketing and commercial projects. He has vast experience in project management and wonderful understanding of principles of decentralized systems based on blockchain.

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About Payfair: Payfair is a decentralized escrow platform for making cryptocurrency transactions between two parties.

Arseniy Poyarkov

Co-Founder of DigRate

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About DigRate: Digital Rating Agency is the first professional provider of independent evaluation of ICO projects, digital assets and cryptocurrencies.