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 United States based CTO’ operating in the Bitcoin 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.
Timi Ajiboye
CEO & CTO of Buycoins
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About Buycoins: Buycoins is a cryptocurrency exchange that allows Africans buy and sell cryptocurrencies instantly using their local currency.
Daryl Puryear
CTO of Abra
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About Abra: Abra is a digital wallet that makes it easy to access, manage, and earn interest on cryptocurrencies.
Andy Milenius
CTO of MakerDAO
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About MakerDAO: Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.
Valery Nebesny
Founder and CTO of Bitfury Group
Founder and CTO of BitFury Group.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Francesco Agosti
CTO & Co-founder of Phantom
CTO & Co-founder Phantom | Engineering at 0x, Yelp | Computer Science at Duke
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About Phantom: Phantom is a digital wallet reimagined for DeFi and NFTs.
George Melika
CTO / Co-Founder of SFOX
George Melika is a fintech expert with over 20 years of software development experience building algorithmic, proprietary, and cryptocurrency trading platforms. He is the Co-Founder and CTO of SFOX, a cryptocurrency trading platform backed by Social+Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Y Combinator. He holds an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Loyola Marymount University.
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About SFOX: SFOX is a cryptocurrency prime dealer for professional traders and institutional investors.
João Almeida
CTO of OpenNode
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About OpenNode: OpenNode offers accessible way for e-commerce businesses to process bitcoin payments.
Matthieu Riou
Founder & CTO of BlockCypher
Co-founder of BlockCypher and software architect with 15+ years of experience working on complex platforms at banking, software and Saas companies. Former Apache Software Foundation member and VP with extensive open source development experience. He’s founded and mentored various open source projects, from distributed databases to build tools. Matthieu has developed many software systems at MommaZoo, C3, Intalio, BEA, Reef, BNP, and Societe Generale. Matthieu knows 10+ programming languages and all tools ranging from Lisp to Java and Node.js. He holds a BS and MS in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Ecole des Mines d’Ales.
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About BlockCypher, Joyent, MommaZoo, The Apache Software Foundation: BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized platform powering blockchain applications reliably and at-scale.
Tyler Evans
CTO of BTC Media
Tyler Evans is the CTO of BTC Media
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About Bitcoin Magazine, BTC Media, BTC Media, Coincart, UTXO Management, yBitcoin: BTC Media is Bitcoin media group, providing education and information through its family of products and services.
Marco Peereboom
Chief Technology Officer of Decred
Marco Peereboom is currently the New Systems Development Lead for Decred, a cutting-edge crypto currency that provides advancement in blockchain technology while also offering true governance. He is an avid open source developer who has been actively involved in Decred since its inception. Prior to Decred he worked on and around several Bitcoin projects. He originated several innovations such as on-chain voting which set Decred apart from other digital currencies. He serves as the CTO of Company Zero and continues to hack on Decred’s next generation digital governance tools. When not plastered in front of a screen Marco enjoys cooking, brewing, baking and farming chickens.
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About Decred: Decred is an open and progressive cryptocurrency with a system of community-based governance integrated into its blockchain.
Matt Senter
Co-Founder and CTO of Lolli
Matt Senter is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Lolli. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder and CTO of Cosmic, Founder and CEO of Phream, Co-Founder and CTO of SeedMatrix, Founder and CEO at Kungfuters, and Founder and CEO at Senternet.
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About Lolli: Lolli is a rewards app that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.
Christopher Jeffrey
CTO of Purse
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About Purse: Purse provides real incentive to use Bitcoin to the largest selection at the lowest price points.
Daniel Robenek
Co-Founder & CTO of BitOasis
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About BitOasis: BitOasis is a cryptocurrency trading platform offering a digital asset wallet and exchange to buy, sell, and trade.
Shannon Holland
CTO of CipherTrace
Shannon Holland is a founder and CTO of CipherTrace where he leads research and development of CipherTrace’s advanced cryptocurrency forensics tools. He has 20 years of experience in developing secure and scalable computer technology. He is a distinguished software engineer with a broad range of experience, ranging from low-level software and hardware design to large-scale application servers. Additionally, He was an early bitcoin miner. Prior to CipherTrace Senior, He was the Lead Threat Intelligence Engineer at Marble Security where he led the R&D of mobile app threat intelligence and analyzed over 2 million IOS and Android apps across various marketplaces. He also led the research and development of the IronKey security devices, including their cryptography, key management, firmware and hardware design. Shannon is the co-inventor of numerous security and cryptography patents, and produced the first certified tamper-proof, FIPS 140-2 Level 3 mobile device.
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About CipherTrace: CipherTrace is a cryptocurrency intelligence company that delivers delivers cryptocurrency AML compliance solutions.
Jake McGraw
Co-Founder & CTO of The Block
Jake McGraw is the public policy coordinator at the William Winter Institute and the editor of Rethink Mississippi.A native of Oxford, Jake studied public policy and economics at the University of Mississippi and economic history at the University of Oxford.
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About The Block: The Block is the first and final word in digital assets.
Chris Martin
CTO of Fold
CTO at Card for Coin
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About Fold: Fold is a rewards app where users can earn bitcoin back on every purchase.
Gideon Samid
Chief Technology Officer of BitMint
GIDEON SAMID is the inventor of BitMint – Non-Speculative Digital Currency, which won First Prize in an International Contest. He specializes in cyber security, cryptography, artificial intelligence, and the general theory of innovation. Gideon serves as the Chief Technology Officer for BitMint, LLC, and for AGS Encryptions Ltd. His recent focus is designing a comprehensive framework for global digital currency – banking and payment: cryptographic protocols, online, and off-line payment interchange, and chemical cryptography. Professor Samid writes a monthly column for Digital Transactions Magazine. He authored the critically acclaimed technology books Elsevier publisher: “Tethered Money — Managing Digital Currencies”, “The Unending CyberWar”, “Computer-Organized Cost Engineering” and “The Innovation Turing Machine,” as well as dozens of peer-reviewed technical articles. He teaches computer security and cryptography at the University of Maryland UC, and is a researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering And Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University. Prof. Samid earned his three academic degrees at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He claims several pending patents, and three granted US patents #6,823,068, #8,229,859, #9,471,906. Earlier in his career Gideon worked for NASA, The Pentagon, and Exxon.
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About BitMint: BitMint, like gold, is protected from disappearance by physics, while ownership is secured by modern cryptography.
Joe Ventura
Co-Founder & CTO of AlphaPoint
Joe Ventura is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at AlphaPoint. He has over 15 years of software architecture experience specializing in secure, scalable, and high performance financial systems. Joe previously worked for Mantara, where he successfully designed and implemented multiple large, complex, high speed, and low latency software systems for multiple financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank, UBS, and Merrill Lynch, connecting to all major equity venues, such as the NYSE, NASDAQ, and DirectEdge. In addition, Joe architected PhotonTrader, a futures and options trading front end for FuturePath, a Chicago based brokerage connecting to CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX, Eurex, Liffe, and BATS.
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About AlphaPoint: AlphaPoint is a white-label software company powering crypto exchanges worldwide.
James Hormuzdiar
CTO of BlockApps
James Hormuzdiar is the CTO of BlockApps. He has a bachelor’s degree in Math, Physics, and Engineering at University of Connecticut.
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About BlockApps: BlockApps is a Blockchain as a Service company with customers ranging from startups to Fortune 500 organizations.
Joseph Fiscella
Co-Founder, CTO of My Coin Solution
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About My Coin Solution: My Coin Solution helps make Bitcoin accessible and beneficial to all businesses
Abhishek Sehgal
CTO of PocketInns Inc.
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About PocketInns Inc.: The first of a GenNxt decentralized accommodation rental marketplace built around the blockchain technology.
William Cotton
CTO & Co-Founder of QuickCoin
CTO & Co-Founder at QuickCoin
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About QuickCoin: QuickCoin is a software development company building apps to trade Bitcoins in social media platforms.
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