Meet Russian Federation’s 34 Top Founders in the Blockchain 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 Blockchain 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.

Alexander Bich

Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Coin Metrics

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About Coin Metrics: Coin Metrics is a provider of crypto financial intelligence providing network data, market data, index, and network risk solutions.

Aleksei Nokhrin

Co-Founder and CTO of Coin Metrics

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About Coin Metrics: Coin Metrics is a provider of crypto financial intelligence providing network data, market data, index, and network risk solutions.

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.

Yaroslav Belkin

Founder & CEO of Belkin Marketing

Yaroslav Belkin established Belkin Marketing as Founder & CEO in 2007. With his extensive experience in PR and GR, he chalked another milestone in 2018 with the Cointelegraph team where he worked as Head of Marketing for Cointelegraph events and Chief Marketing Officer at NewsBTC Media Group. Mr. Belkin focuses exclusively on Digital Marketing and Marketing Strategies with extensive experience in ICO Marketing and PR. As ICO Advisor with a meticulous sense for details, he is well known in major US, European and Asian regions. He is regularly mentioned in crypto news media as one of the top providers of ICO Marketing services. While he has gained animosity with his no-holds-barred reviews as an ICOBench Expert, Yaros welded close friendships with similar advocates for truth and transparency: Ameer Rosic, Ivan On Tech, and many more stalwarts of the blockchain and crypto community.

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About Belkin Marketing, NEWSBTC, Utopian Capital: International Marketing Agency

Evgeny Ponomarev

Co-Founder and COO of Fluence Labs

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About Fluence Labs: A Decentralized Database Platform for Web 3

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

Tania Cherniсk

Founder & CEO of Arcona

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About Arcona: Arcona is an information space that unites the virtual and real worlds.

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

Nikita Akimov

Founder and CEO of Dare App (by Eristica)

Founder of Eristica. He is an avid entrepreneur and marketing guru. He is a graduate of Mobile Only Accelerator (MOX) which is the number 1 startup accelerator in Asia. Akimov is a winner of the startup competition Winter Capital & McKinsey. He is also an advocate of decentralization and democratic anonymous organizations (DAO). He is a Graduate of the Department of Mathematical Methods for Economic Analysis at Moscow State University

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About Dare App (by Eristica): Entertainment app where people challenge others to do amazing things on video & earn rewards

Aleksey Petrov

Founder & Head of Finance of SilentNotary

Has remarkable financial skills and over 15 years of experience in the Investment Banking sector with companies like State Street, VTB group, and Alfa-Bank.

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About SilentNotary: SilentNotary is a multiplatform decentralized service for confirmation of event existence.

Maxim Breus

Founder & Head of Legal of SilentNotary

A strategist in business management, legal, risk analysis, and risk mitigation. Over 16 years of experience in the private- and public sector.

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About SilentNotary: SilentNotary is a multiplatform decentralized service for confirmation of event existence.

Anton Cherepanov

Co-Founder, Managing partner of Evrone

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About Evrone: Web design and development company

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.

Sergey Prilutskiy

Founder and Head of Sofware Research of MixBytes

Sergey Prilutskiy is the Founder and Head of Sofware Research at MixBytes.

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About MixBytes: MixBytes is a team of experienced developers providing top-notch blockchain solutions, smart contract security audits and tech advisory.

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.

Ivan Rodionov

Founder of BitRussia

Ivan Rodionov is the founder of BitRussia.

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About BitRussia: BitRussia fin-tech ecosystem based on distributed ledger technology (DLT)

Sergei Litvin

Co-Founder and CIO of Zeus Exchange

Sergei Litvin is the co-founder and CIO of Zeus Exchange.

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About Zeus Exchange: Zeus Exchange is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of blockchain, financial exchanges, and information technology.

Oleg Obolenskiy

Co Founder & CTO of Introa

Over 15-year IT experience. In 2005/2012. he worked in Yandex, the leading Russian search engine, where he supervised several software development divisions.

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