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Cryptocurrency company founders take up almost one-third of the finance category of the Forbes 30 under 30 list.
Forbes’ annual 30 under 30 list features 10 men and four women from the crypto sector—nine out of the 30 people in the list’s finance category. The list was published on Wednesday and is focused on North American business personalities who achieved great success before the age of 30.
The list also features 26-year-old Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan, after his decentralized prediction market saw high volumes in connection to bets on the United States presidential elections. Dune data shows that volume on that particular market reached over $925 in a month, dominating activity on the platform.
Polymarket leaned towards a Donald Trump victory for most of the time, even when competing platforms were not as decisive. More recent data indicates that the prediction market kept many new users onboarded through interest in election betting.
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The list includes multiple decentralized exchange (DEX) founders, including Ostium Labs co-founders Kaledora Kiernan-Linna and Marco Antonio Ribeiro. Also Osmosis’ founders Sunny Aggarwal and Dev Ojha is included alongside Drift Labs co-founder Cindy Leow.
Decentralized exchanges are exchanges that rely on decentralized infrastructure. In most cases, they rely on smart contracts on blockchains to serve as their backbone while the user interface is a simple website and allow usage with no documents or know-your-customer rules.
The three founders of Cortex Labs — Soroush Ghodsi Boushehri, Stefan Stokic and Jake Sylvestre — took another spot for their blockchains featuring artificial intelligence (AI). Entropy founder Tux Pacific was also listed for his efforts in creating on-chain AI agents.
Co-founders of the multichain decentralized app protocol Omni Network Austin King and Tyler Tarsi are also featured.
Succint, a firm helping developers program zero-knowledge proofs, also earned its founder, Uma Roy, another seat at the 30 under 30 table. This is not the first time that crypto founders took up nine spots in the list, with the same number taken in 2024.
