10 blockchain people were selected for the 2021 Forbes "30 Under 30 Elite List", let's see what they are doing? -

List | 10 blockchain people were selected for the 2021 Forbes "30 Under 30 Elite List", let's see what they are doing? New

Summary: The youngest person on the list is 21-year-old Charlie Noyes, partner of Paradigm. FTX founder SBF and BlockFi co-founder are also on the list of Flori Marquez. BlockFi is preparing for an IPO.

The youngest person on the list is 21-year-old Charlie Noyes, a partner at Paradigm. FTX founder SBF and BlockFi co-founder are also on Flori Marquez's list. BlockFi is preparing for an IPO.

Forbes has just announced the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

The list includes 10 elites from the Bitcoin and blockchain fields, including 7 from the financial field, 1 from the venture capital field, 1 from the energy field, and 1 from the manufacturing field. Forbes reporter Michael del Castill wrote,

While Forbes has spent several years identifying “Bitcoiners” and entrepreneurs using blockchain technology, this year’s list shows just how important the industry created by Satoshi Nakamoto has become. The most talented young leaders in cryptocurrency are truly some of the most talented young leaders in the world.

Mars Finance APP compiles the complete list exclusively for you.

1. Soona Amhaz, 27, founding partner of Volt Capital

Amhaz is the founder of Volt Capital, a reverse crypto fund that manages capital on behalf of investors such as USV’s Albert Wenger and Founders Fund’s Brian Singerman. She has led eight investments so far, backing startups including Magic, Valiu, Cozy, BuyCoins, and Matrix League.

2. Sam Bankman-Fried, 28, founder of FTX

SBF is the founder and CEO of quantitative crypto trading firm Alameda Research and manages $2.5 billion in assets, most of which comes from SRM, a cryptocurrency he helped create. In 2019, he founded crypto derivatives platform FTX, which recently raised $40 million at a $1.2 billion valuation. He owns about 50% of the company, which has generated about $50 million in revenue and $30 million in profit so far this year.

3. Joseph Krug, 25, Co-founder of Augur

Joseph Krug , co-chief investment officer at Pantera Capital, manages three crypto funds with about $442 million in assets. One of the largest funds has grown 240% to $227 million in initial coin offerings (ICOs) this year, and its portfolio includes Ethereum competitor Polkadot, which is currently valued at $5 billion.

4. Alexander Liegl, 28, co-founder, Layer1 Technologies

“Mining bitcoin is about converting electricity into money,” says Alexander Liegl. He raised $50 million in funding from the likes of billionaire Peter Thiel and found the cheapest electricity in West Texas. In exchange for cheap power, Layer1 helps the local grid manage load. If the wind stops blowing, Liegl shuts down his bitcoin mining rigs. “We are the insurer of the energy grid,” Liegl says.

5. Jack Mallers, 26, founder of Zap Solutions

Jack Mallers is the CEO of Zap, who got into the space in 2013 after his father introduced him to Bitcoin. Zap is a Bitcoin investment and payment company that conducts transactions over the Lightning Network. Zap recently closed a $3.5 million seed round led by Greenoaks Capital and employs about 20 people. The company recently announced that it is working with Visa.

6. Flori Marquez, 29, Co-founder of BlockFi

Co-founder of BlockFi, a cryptocurrency lending platform that allows cryptocurrency holders to lend cryptocurrencies at interest rates of up to 8.6%. The platform also provides crypto trading services and has raised more than $100 million in capital from venture capital firms such as Galaxy Digital, Susquehanna, and Winklevoss capital. After generating $4.5 million in revenue in 2019, BlockFi has 100,000 funded accounts, is on track to generate $120 million in revenue this year, and is preparing for an IPO.

7. Charlie Noyes, 21, partner at Paradigm

As an investment partner at crypto venture fund Paradigm, Charlie Noyes currently manages a $100 million position in the world's largest crypto fund. Noyes was a personal seed investor in institutional cryptocurrency trading platform Tagomi, eventually exiting when the company received a $12 million Series A investment, and exited Coinbase in 2020. He also provided a $1 million seed investment in Uniswap, which is currently valued at approximately $3 billion.

8. Brian Tubergen, 29, co-founder of CoinList

Brian Tubergen is the founder of CoinList. CoinList helps promising crypto companies raise funds and allows investors to trade their cryptocurrencies. Since its founding in 2017, CoinList has raised more than $800 million for crypto companies backed by venture capital firms including Sequoia, a16z, USV, GV, Bain, and Lightspeed. Tubergen interned at Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, and after graduating from Princeton University, he began his career as Angellist's Director of Product.

9. Amiti Uttarwar, 28, Bitcoin Protocol Engineer, Bitcoin Core Team

In June, the first known female Bitcoin Core contributor, Amiti Uttarwar, received a $150,000 joint grant from OKCoin and HDR Global, making her one of the few paid coders developing Bitcoin's underlying code. Uttarwar, the daughter of Indian immigrants, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and a veteran of Silicon Valley startups, founded Bitcoin Zine, a more accessible publication covering Bitcoin's development.

10. Andre Yang (27), Jeong Woo Park (25), Athanasios Karachotzitis (26), co-founders of Authenticiti

Authenticiti, a blockchain-powered supply chain data platform, launched in 2016. The three co-founders have raised $2.1 million to centralize the siloed enterprise systems that manage modern supply chains and bring data to a single source. The company is serving GE Aviation and Lockheed Martin and expects to generate $2.6 million in revenue in 2020.