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Jed McCaleb Keeps Rebuilding the Map
Files, money, and now people in orbit: the programmer behind eDonkey, Mt. Gox, Ripple, Stellar, and Vast has spent a quarter-century asking the same dangerous question - why must the system work this way?
Chris Larsen Has Spent 30 Years Making Money Move
Before crypto had a culture war, Larsen was prying open credit scores and mortgage fees. Ripple is the third act in a career built around one stubborn idea: financial systems should reveal their machinery.
Hovhannes Kuloghlyan
Hovhannes Kuloghlyan is a co-founder and Head of Operations at Wirestock, a San Francisco-based platform that sits at the intersection of the creator economy and AI data infrastructure. With a PhD in Cosmology from Yerevan Physics Institute and early career stints in blockchain development with Ripple, he transitioned into building one of the world's leading platforms for ethically sourced multimodal AI training data. Wirestock now serves over 700,000 creators globally and surpassed a $40M annual revenue run rate, closing a $23M Series A in May 2026. Kuloghlyan also chairs Grōksmith, a software design and development company with clients including PwC, the Ethereum Foundation, and UEFA.