Crypto Personalities

The people behind the names you keep reading: founders, developers, investors and regulators who shaped how crypto works today.

These are profiles, not tributes. Each one follows a person's career from the start, with what they built and what went wrong along the way: the disputes, the claims that did not hold up and the questions that are still open. Every fact is numbered against a source at the foot of the article, and where the sources disagree, we say so rather than pick the version that reads best.

That makes them different from our Crypto Community section, where people tell their own story in their own words. Here we tell it, and the subject has no say in what goes in.

We start with Charles Hoskinson: one of Ethereum's eight co-founders, the man behind Cardano and Midnight, and one of the most visible and most argued-about figures in the field.

Nothing here is investment advice. Knowing who runs a project tells you something about it; it does not tell you what to buy.