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 Product operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a Product 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.
Madhu Muthukumar
Head of Product Management of Robinhood
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About Robinhood: Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Seong Seog Lee
Product Manager of Robinhood
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About Robinhood: Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.

EJ Emeagwali
Product Manager of Robinhood
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About Robinhood: Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Qiao Wang
Head of Product of Messari
Qiao Wang is a believer in decentralized technologies such as cryptocurrencies that shift the balance of power from the elite to the commoner.
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About Messari: Messari provides market intelligence that drives high-conviction participation in the crypto economy.
Allen Piscitello
Vice President Of Product Management of Blockstream
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About Blockstream: Blockstream provides Bitcoin and blockchain technology solution for financial markets.

Dan Flanegan
Vice President Of Product of Snowball Money
Entrepreneur, product guy, mobile expert, gamer, dad & film nut. Co-founder at Butter, an app to make new friends through photos and messaging. The app creates meaningful friendships by connecting people from all over the world who share similar interests. In 2007 founded Brand Anywhere, a mobile marketing agency that managed the mobile campaign strategy and execution for brands including Comcast, Qualcomm, UC Berkeley Fund, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and Meguiar’s Auto to name a few. Also directly managed mobile campaigns for P&G with an emphasis on youth focused female brands including CoverGirl, Tampax and Herbal Essences. In 2005 co-founded Soapbox Mobile, a mobile marketing platform provider. As CEO was responsible for the company’s vision and mission of helping companies improve customer engagement through mobile. Instrumental in creating a next generation mobile marketing and CRM platform that has powered the mobile campaigns of numerous brands including Levis, MobiTV, Guinness, The Vans Warped Tour, Procter & Gamble, W Hotels, General Motors and many others. Soapbox was acquired in 2007.
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About Butter, SHEnetics, Snowball Money: Snowball Money operates as a crypto investment automation platform that provides access to professionally curated portfolios.
Eric Saraniecki
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Digital Asset
Eric was part of the founding team for Digital Asset. Eric joined DRW Trading Group in 2006 and has more than six years of experience managing a commodities trading desk. Eric began trading bitcoin in 2011 and is one of the Cumberland Mining founders, one of the largest crypto-asset liquidity providers in the world for bitcoin.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Alex Carusillo
Head Of Product of Roll
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About Roll: Roll is building blockchain infrastructure for social money on Ethereum.
Rafael Cosman
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering and Product of TrustToken
Rafael graduated from Stanford where his focus was on artificial intelligence and cryptography. He got interested in cryptocurrency after studying with Professor Dan Boneh, one of the world’s leading experts in applied cryptography. Rafael went on to work at Palantir and Google Brain before leaving Google to found TrustToken. TrustToken is creating a platform that bridges blockchains and the $256 trillion of real-world assets. Rafael holds multiple patents in machine learning.
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About TrueFi, TrustToken: TrustToken is a platform to create asset-backed tokens that can be used for buying and selling around the world.
Scott Hurff
Head Of Product Design of Casa
He is the Head Of Product Design at Casa Inc.
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About Casa: Casa helps consumers and companies securely store cryptocurrencies and manage private keys.
Wills de Vogelaere
Co-Founder and Head of Product of SpankChain
Co-founder @ SpankChain.
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About SpankChain: SpankChain is an adult entertainment ecosystem powered by blockchain technology.

Washington Sanchez
Co-Founder & Mobile Product Manager of OB1
Washington Sanchez is the Founder at OpenBazaar. He also the Co-Founder and Mobile Product Manager at OB1.
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About OB1, OpenBazaar: OB1 is a developer of a peer-to-peer trading platform used to offer a cryptocurrency marketplace.
Dane Lyons
Chief Product Officer of HackerNoon
Co-founder of knowtify.
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About HackerNoon: Hacker Noon is a technology publishing platform.
Magatte Wade
VP of Product of Atlas Holdings
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About Atlas Holdings: Atlas provides mobile banking online.

Brandon Forant
Head of Product Design of Vault12
Award-winning entrepreneurial digital product design ( UX / UI ) professional with 14+ years of experience. Passionate about collaborating with innovative startups and brands looking to craft better user journeys. Brandon started Alchemy50 in Brooklyn NY at 27 years old with two friends and continued to grow the team over 5+ years until leaving in 2014. With that team, he built products for enterprise clients like United Healthcare, Thompson Reuters, Nike, Walmart as well as for successfully funded startups like Dataminr, Reonomy, Artivest, and One Second Everyday. In 2014, Brandon started InfiltrateNY as a boutique product design and branding agency with a focus on startup partnerships and MVP product launches. In 2018, he left InfiltrateNY to be the Chief of Design at Vault12
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About Vault12: Vault12 is the first to deliver decentralized digital custody to protect your most precious digital assets.
Ophelia Snyder
Chief Product Officer of 21Shares
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About 21Shares: 21Shares makes investing in cryptocurrencies easy by using conventional brokers or banks.
Jon Farjo
Founder and Chief Product Officer of LunarCrush
Jon Farjo is the Co-Founder and CPO at LunarCRUSH.
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About LunarCrush: Social Intelligence for Crypto

Tegan Gaan
Founder, CEO, Chief Product Officer of Ecoverse
Tegan monique gaan is the Head of Ideation & mTech Partnerships at Hifi Labs.
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About Ecoverse: Ecoverse provides eco-friendly proof of stake blockchain experiences.

Jackson Fall
VP Product & Design of Keza
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About Keza: Keza has been acquired by Satoshi Citadel Industries
James Putra
Head of Product Strategy of TradeStation Crypto
James Putra is the Director of Product Strategy and Innovation for TradeStation Sandbox, TradeStation’s strategic innovation hub. His team is responsible for driving the company’s innovation vision, strategy, and growth. He has worked on a range of financial technology themes, from idea generation to improving trader performance. His longstanding passion for financial entrepreneurship and trading has led him to create a methodology that is helping to propel the company in new directions while promoting rapid learning, excitement, and possibilities for tomorrow. James Putra is a cryptocurrency specialist and blockchain thought leader focused on helping people find innovative ways to participate in this space. James is actively involved in cryptocurrency investing as well as a key industry advocate for the launch of the exchange-listed blockchain products. James is TradeStation Technologies blockchain guru, resident innovator, and FinTech expert. He is often described as the guy with the crazy idea that might actually work! As Director of Strategy and Innovation for TradeStation Technologies, James leads a number of projects in blockchain relating to investing, mining and strategy. James has over 14 years’ experience in FinTech and innovation through a number of startups and corporate roles. He’s very focused on solving challenging problems wrapped in extreme uncertainty.
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About TradeStation Crypto: Crypto Asset Brokerage
Nate D’Amico
Product Design and Architect Expert of Tech Bureau
Nate D’Amico is a product design and architect expert on the TechBureau team, focusing on distributed applications and services. TechBureau runs Zaif, one of the first regulated crypto exchanges in the world under Japan’s FSA. TechBureau recently launch the ICO platform, COMSA. Nate is an accomplished developer and product manager.
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About Tech Bureau: Tech Bureau provides cryptographic currency and Blockchain technology using exchange API to handle currency encryption.
Jon Lewis
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Emerging Impact
Jon Lewis is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Emerging Impact and Circa Victor.
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About Emerging Impact: Emerging Impact modernizes financial services in emerging markets through blockchain technology.
Anzor Nishnianidze
Co-Founder, Product Architect & CTO of Reddocoin
Anzor Nishnianidze is the Co-Founder, CTO, and Product Architect at Reddocoin.
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About Reddocoin: Reddocoin is a decentralized all in one e-commerce platform that provides full automatization in dropshipping.
Christian Arita
Product Lead of StakerDAO
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About StakerDAO: StakerDAO is a platform for governing financial assets in a decentralized, secure, and compliant manner.
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