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Michael Shaulov and the problem with money that moves
A South Korean exchange-hack investigation sent Michael Shaulov down an unexpected path. The Fireblocks co-founder has spent the years since trying to make digital money safe enough to use, and ordinary enough to disappear into everyday business.
Pengyu Wang and the price of one extra click
The Particle Network co-founder brought a casual-game builder’s eye to crypto’s awkward front door. His work now stretches from familiar logins to accounts that can move across blockchains without making the user manage every step.
Mark Daly Is Building the Plumbing for Money That Never Sleeps
From a Cork asset-management classroom to Chicago’s institutional crypto rails, zerohash Chief Business Officer Mark Daly has spent a decade making the exotic feel operational.
Timothy Chung
Timothy Chung is the co-founder and CEO of Unifold (YC W26), a New York based startup building multi-chain crypto and stablecoin deposit and payment infrastructure that lets any app accept on-chain deposits in under ten lines of code. He studied computer science at Columbia and Cambridge, was an early engineer at Instabase, worked on Polymarket, and co-led a central bank digital currency initiative for the Marshall Islands out of MIT. Before Unifold he co-founded Streambird, a wallet-as-a-service platform acquired by MoonPay that became MoonPay Wallets and helped onboard tens of millions of users to apps like Phantom and Polymarket.
Jack Chong
Jack Chong is the co-founder and CEO of Checker, a New York fintech that gives banks and payment companies a single API to reach the world's stablecoin and digital-asset liquidity. An Oxford PPE graduate who once trained to be a Chinese diplomat in the Arab world, he co-wrote one of the industry's first rigorous primers on real-world-asset tokenization before building Checker, which moved more than $3 billion in volume in under a year and raised $8M led by Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures and Framework Ventures.
Edward Woodford
Edward Woodford is the co-founder and CEO of Zero Hash, the Chicago-based crypto and stablecoin infrastructure company that quietly powers digital-asset features inside Stripe, Interactive Brokers, Franklin Templeton, BlackRock and Shift4. A Goldman Sachs commodities alum who bought his first Bitcoin from an ATM as an MIT grad student, he built and sold a regulated derivatives venue before turning Zero Hash into a billion-dollar 'plumbing' business that has settled more than $45 billion in volume and onboarded over five million people to crypto.
Ethan Chan
Ethan Chan is the co-founder and CEO of Allium, a New York and Singapore based company building the system of record for onchain finance. After leading machine learning and data engineering teams at Primer and lecturing at Stanford, he turned to the unglamorous work of cleaning up blockchain data, translating raw events from 150+ chains and 10,000 protocols into standardized, finance-ready datasets used by Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, Uniswap and Phantom. He cheerfully calls himself the Chief Data Plumber.
Alexander Pack
Alexander Pack is a crypto venture capitalist who co-founded Hack VC and Dragonfly Capital, pioneering early-stage Web3 investments across the U.S. and Asia. A former Bain Capital Ventures director who launched their crypto practice, he's been the first institutional investor in three unicorns and has seeded hundreds of Web3 startups. Pack manages over $425 million in crypto-focused venture funds and co-founded Imperii Partners, a global crypto-native investment bank.