Place of residence: New York, USA
Activity: lawyer, entrepreneur
Chairman, Global Blockchain Technologies Corp. Founder and CEO of Alchemist, CloudParc, Maple Ventures. He was also the founder and leader of five more startups. Thanks to his venture capital company, he became the leading investor in many successful blockchain-based cryptocurrencies.
"The public is showing great interest, and there are all new areas in which they can invest, even in Bitcoin, so you can observe expansion (blockchain) in the whole space."
A pioneer and one of the most influential leaders in the field of cryptocurrency. He is a senior adviser to Ethereum and Lisk, and he personally coined the term “gas” to describe the functionality in the ether protocol. He consulted and contributed to Ethereum from the earliest days, created the original legal structure, participated in the development of the crowdsale model, which set the standard for many followers. He was a senior consultant for several of the most promising cryptocurrencies, including Factom, Lisk, ZCash and Bancor. Predicts a threefold increase in the rate of Ethereum in 2018 due to the many new successful projects on its platform.