crypto-compliance
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Allen Osgood
A former Coinbase product manager went looking for a neglected corner of finance. He found dormant accounts, fifty-state rulebooks, and a chance to keep customers connected to their own money.
Chris Lipowicz
Chris Lipowicz is the CEO of Elementus, a New York based blockchain intelligence company that helps hedge funds, financial institutions, government agencies, and legal teams interpret what happens on-chain. An enterprise operator with more than 20 years of experience building revenue and operations teams, he came up through real estate and security technology firms including Building Intelligence and Cherre before moving into crypto data. He argues that on-chain activity is public but hard to read without the right tools, and positions Elementus as the layer that turns raw blockchain data into real-time, compliant, risk-aware decisions.
Mriganka Pattnaik
Mriganka Pattnaik is the co-founder and CEO of Merkle Science, a blockchain transaction monitoring and forensics company he started in 2018 after seeing, from inside crypto exchange Luno, how badly banks and regulators wanted a way to track illicit crypto flows. Under his lead, Merkle Science has raised over $24 million in Series A funding from investors including Kraken Ventures, Digital Currency Group, BECO Capital, and Susquehanna's Darrow Holdings, and now sells its 'Know Your Transaction' tools to VASPs, financial institutions, and law enforcement.
Nikos Andrikogiannopoulos
Nikos Andrikogiannopoulos is the founder and CEO of Metrika, a Cambridge, Massachusetts SaaS company that measures the reliability of blockchains the way a control tower watches air traffic. A Greek-born MIT engineer who spent a decade in telecom strategy consulting, he built Metrika to answer a plain question institutions kept asking about crypto rails: how do you know it is working, and how do you prove it. He served on the U.S. CFTC's Technology Advisory Committee and helped author its landmark 2024 DeFi report, and his platform now underpins risk work with names like S&P Global Ratings, Zodia Custody, Hedera, Algorand and Solana.
Rahul Raina
Rahul Raina is the Co-Founder and CTO of TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence company that helps governments, financial institutions, and crypto businesses detect and investigate financial crime on the blockchain. Born out of a failed game startup, TRM Labs now serves 600+ government agencies across 75+ countries, achieved unicorn status in February 2026 with a $70M Series C at a $1B valuation, and is recognized as a leading force in making the crypto ecosystem safer. Rahul was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022.
Lindsey Argalas
Lindsey Argalas is the CEO of TaxBit, the leading enterprise-grade crypto tax and accounting platform, where she leads the company's mission to bring regulatory trust to the digital asset economy. With 25+ years across global FinTech, SaaS, and consumer companies — spanning Intuit, Banco Santander, and Boston Consulting Group — she brings rare cross-disciplinary depth to one of the most complex intersections in finance: crypto meets compliance. A Duke-Kellogg-Georgetown polyglot who has run businesses on four continents, Argalas took the CEO helm in June 2023 and has since positioned TaxBit as the compliance infrastructure layer for governments, enterprises, and digital asset brokers worldwide.
Esteban Castano
Esteban Castano is the Co-founder and CEO of TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence company he built into a billion-dollar unicorn on a mission to fight crypto crime. A Dartmouth-educated, Stanford MBA dropout, Castano co-founded TRM in 2018 after recognizing that the coming wave of digital asset adoption would need a trust layer - a platform to detect fraud, trace illicit funds, and keep crypto safe for governments, banks, and legitimate users. With $279.9M raised, clients including Goldman Sachs, Coinbase, and the US Department of Justice, and the world's first FedRAMP High-authorized blockchain intelligence platform, TRM Labs now sits at the center of crypto's fight against money laundering, terrorism financing, and organized crime.