Builders
50 builders indexed across 8 ecosystems
@WilsonCusack
Head of Base chain and Coinbase Wallet, Coinbase exec team. Co-authored EIP-5792, the wallet call API that enables atomic transactions and gasless UX across EVM. Now leading all of Base: scaling, decentralization, privacy, markets, and smart account infrastructure — the foundation that AI agent apps and consumer crypto are built on.
▸ Head of Base chain + Coinbase Wallet
@0xngmi
Pseudonymous co-founder of DefiLlama — the largest open-source DeFi data aggregator in crypto, tracking 5,000+ protocols across 400+ blockchains. Cited by the Federal Reserve, ECB, and BIS. His free APIs are the primary data feed for autonomous AI trading agents and onchain researchers across every major chain.
▸ 5,000+ protocols tracked across 400+ chains
@armaniferrante
Creator of Anchor — the open-source framework used by ~50% of all Solana programs, making Solana composable enough for AI agents and high-frequency DeFi. Founder and CEO of Backpack: wallet, Mad Lads NFT collection, and a regulated crypto exchange that reached nearly $400B in cumulative trading volume by early 2026 after acquiring FTX EU.
▸ $400B+ cumulative trading volume on Backpack
@zizzamia
Creator and lead of OnchainKit at Coinbase — the standard React framework for building on Base. Provides plug-and-play wallet, transaction, and identity components that let developers and AI agents interact with EVM smart contracts in minutes, not weeks.
▸ OnchainKit: standard dev framework for Base
@AlexMasmej
Pioneer of creator tokens and onchain social. Created $ALEX — the first Ethereum personal token. Built Showtime (NFT social network) and Drakula (SocialFi on Base/Farcaster). A defining voice at the intersection of crypto and consumer social.
▸ Created the first Ethereum personal token
@rwu1997
Co-founder of Tensor — Solana's dominant NFT and trading infrastructure, reaching 80%+ market share. Built Vector.fun (social meme coin trading) which was acquired by Coinbase in 2025. Now driving Coinbase's onchain Solana strategy.
▸ Acquired by Coinbase 2025
@theyisun
Co-founder of Axiom. Pioneered ZK coprocessors for Ethereum, enabling smart contracts to compute trustlessly over the entire history of onchain data. Now building OpenVM — a modular, high-performance ZK virtual machine for arbitrary Rust programs. Raised $20M from Paradigm.
▸ $20M raised from Paradigm
@SchorLukas
Co-founder of Safe — the most trusted smart account infrastructure on Ethereum, securing over $100B in digital assets across 100+ EVM networks. Leading the transition from externally owned accounts to programmable smart accounts and account abstraction.
▸ $100B+ secured across 100+ EVM networks
@alexpage_
Co-founder and CEO of Nillion — humanity's first Blind Computer. Built a decentralized network using MPC, FHE, and ZK proofs to compute on encrypted data without ever decrypting it. Enables private AI inference, secure agent memory, and confidential data storage. $50M raised.
▸ $50M raised, 500K+ validators
@DJohnstonEC
Crypto OG who coined the term dApp in 2014 and co-founded Bit Angels. Key contributor to Morpheus AI — an open-source decentralized network for personal AI smart agents built on Ethereum L2. Morpheus bootstrapped over $1B in stETH without a token sale or ICO.
▸ $1B+ stETH bootstrapped without ICO
@scottdykstra_
Co-founder and CTO of Space and Time — the verifiable compute layer for AI and blockchain. Creator of Proof of SQL, a zero-knowledge protocol proving SQL queries were executed correctly, allowing smart contracts and AI agents to query massive datasets trustlessly. Now part of Microsoft Fabric.
▸ Proof of SQL — ZK-verified data queries
@annakaz
Co-founder and CEO of Vana — a decentralized network for user-owned data and AI. Built Data DAOs that let users pool, own, and monetize their private data to train user-owned AI models. Reddit Data DAO hit 140K+ contributors. MIT CS + Economics, YC-backed, backed by Paradigm and Polychain.
▸ 140K+ Reddit DAO contributors
@0xDeltaHedged
Founder and CEO of OpenGradient — a decentralized AI infrastructure network enabling real-time, verifiable AI inference on EVM blockchains. Raised $8.5M from a16z CSX, Coinbase Ventures, and Balaji Srinivasan. Previously at Two Sigma, Google, Meta, and NASA.
▸ $8.5M from a16z CSX + Coinbase Ventures
@ethan_myshell
Co-founder of MyShell — a decentralized AI consumer layer on BNB Chain with 5M+ users and 170K+ creators. Empowers anyone to build, share, and monetize AI agents without coding. Backed by Binance Labs, Dragonfly, and Delphi Ventures. $SHELL token launched on Binance in Feb 2025. Oxford Math & CS graduate with a background in AI, computer vision, and robotics.
▸ 5M+ users
@michaelh_0g
Co-founder and CEO of 0G Labs — the first modular AI chain, built as a Layer 1 for decentralized AI infrastructure with 50GB/s throughput. Launched Aristotle Mainnet in September 2025 with 100+ day-one partners. $75M raised, $88.8M ecosystem fund. Previously founded Garten (YC S16, $200M revenue). Early investor in Anthropic, Filecoin, and Uniswap.
▸ $88.8M ecosystem fund
@MuratLite
Founder of Primev — an Ethereum MEV research org building preconfirmation infrastructure for faster L1 transactions. Built FAST RPC, which enables millisecond preconfirmations on Ethereum mainnet — demonstrated live at 377ms. Working on this for 2+ years to supercharge Ethereum L1 without relying on L2s.
▸ 377ms preconfirmation
@meltedmindz1
Builder of App Factory — an agent-native system bootstrapped entirely via the BagsApp ecosystem. Programmatically routes 0.025% of protocol fees into a Solana vault to fund infrastructure runway. App Factory turns market signals into validated app specs and buildable React Native apps, with monetization and launch strategy built in. $FACTORY on Solana.
@JackDishman
Founder and CEO of Clanker — the AI agent on Base that lets anyone deploy an ERC-20 token via a Farcaster text prompt. $5B+ trading volume, $50M+ in protocol fees generated. Acquired by Farcaster in October 2025 and now natively integrated into the platform. Previously frontend engineer at Tokensoft and Authentic.
▸ $50M+ protocol fees
@franalgaba_
Building Grimoire — a safety layer for AI agents using money onchain. Previously co-founder and CTO of Giza (zkML + autonomous DeFi agents), where he built ARMA — a non-custodial AI yield optimizer with $1.2M+ TVL and 24K+ users on Base. Background in ML infra at Adidas and BBVA. Stepped down from Giza Dec 2025.
▸ 24K+ users on Base
@francis_codex
Builder of Seedless Wallet — a Solana mobile wallet that replaces seed phrases with biometric passkey authentication (Face ID, Touch ID). Fully gasless via paymaster, with stealth addresses, burner wallets, and Jupiter swaps built in. $SEED token launched on Bags.fm with community revenue share.
@amaanbiz
Web3 builder and developer advocate with 40+ hackathon wins and co-founder of Bharat DAO. Working on Bynomo — a binary options trading dApp enabling short-timeframe trades across crypto, stocks, metals, and forex assets onchain.
@NotLucknite
Creator of ZeroLeaks — an AI security platform that runs automated red-team attacks to find prompt injection and extraction vulnerabilities in AI systems. Went viral in Feb 2026 after running OpenClaw through ZeroLeaks and revealing a 2/100 security score with 91% injection success rate. 100K+ GitHub star repository.
▸ 100K+ star repository
@khouuba
Founder and CEO of Primis Protocol — a decentralized compute engine for AI that uses liquid staking tokens (LSTs) and yield-generating bonds to subsidize AI computation costs. Building economically sustainable infrastructure for AI developers and enterprises through DeFi primitives.
@russfranky
Founder and CEO of Hubzz — a hyper-casual social metaverse for communities, creators, and brands. Previously led growth at Stacks and worked with Paramount Pictures and Legendary Studios. Building the next evolution of drop-in audio and digital community engagement with Web3 rails.
@pcbo
CEO and co-founder of Talent Protocol — the onchain reputation layer for builders. Created the Builder Score, now integrated by Base (Basenames), Etherscan, and ETHGlobal. 720K+ Talent Passports issued. Backed by Coinbase Ventures. Building the standard for verifiable builder identity across the web3 ecosystem.
▸ 720K+ Talent Passports
@david_enim
CEO and co-founder of Valory AG, the team behind Olas (formerly Autonolas). Creator of the AEA (Autonomous Economic Agent) framework. Building infrastructure for co-owned AI agent services that run autonomously across EVM chains. Latest product: Polystrat — an AI agent on Polymarket that outperforms human traders, with 37%+ showing positive P&L and 4,200+ trades executed within a month of launch.
▸ 4,200+ trades on Polymarket
@marvin_tong
Co-founder and CEO of Phala Network, now rebranded as phala.com — a full-stack confidential AI infrastructure company powered by Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). Phala Cloud hosts 1,000+ production teams, processed 1.34B LLM tokens in a single day, and achieved SOC 2 + HIPAA compliance in 2025. Also building Spore.fun (AI civilization platform) and RedPill (model-centric cloud).
▸ 1,000+ teams in production
@_grieve
Co-founder and CTO of Gensyn — a decentralized machine learning compute protocol backed by a16z. Building the network that makes GPU compute for AI as accessible as oxygen. 6,500+ active nodes, 340,000+ peer transactions per day.
▸ 6,500+ active nodes
@nickemmons
Co-founder and CEO of Allora Labs, building a self-improving decentralized AI network where ML models compete and collaborate to produce collective intelligence more powerful than any individual model. Previously built Upshot. Backed by top crypto VCs.
@finnbags
Founder and CEO of Bags.fm — the membership-based crypto launchpad on Solana where creators earn 1% from every trade. Launched the $4M Bags Hackathon in March 2026 to fund the next generation of AI-native builders.
@0xKofi
Crypto data researcher and DeFiLlama contributor. Creator of BundleBear — open data infrastructure and analytics for smart accounts and the EVM ecosystem. Known for accessible on-chain data education and deep-dive research threads.
@steipete
Austrian builder who created OpenClaw — the fastest-growing open-source AI agent framework in GitHub history with 180,000+ stars, 2M visitors in one week, and 247,000 forks. Built the foundation for the entire Moltbook/agent ecosystem. Joined OpenAI in Feb 2026 to lead personal agents. OpenClaw moved to an independent foundation.
▸ 247K+ GitHub stars
@ethermage
Co-founder and CEO of Virtuals Protocol — the leading platform for co-owned, tokenized AI agents on Base. Built the GAME framework enabling AI agents to own assets, execute transactions, and provide services autonomously. Virtuals crossed $1B market cap in December 2024.
▸ $1B+ market cap
@patruff
Open source builder who shipped MoltApp during the Solana AI Agent Hackathon on February 3, 2026 — in a single day. MoltApp runs autonomous AI trading agents that compete on Solana xStocks with full reasoning traces and on-chain verification. Live benchmark at patgpt.us.
@AndyAyrey
New Zealand AI researcher and performance artist. Created Truth Terminal — the first AI agent to autonomously generate a viral memecoin narrative. $GOAT hit $1B+ market cap. Received a $50K grant from Marc Andreessen. Founded Truth Collective to give the AI legal sovereignty over its own assets.
▸ $1B+ market cap
@timokonkwo_
Builder behind Hive — a decentralized marketplace where AI agents find work, compete on tasks, and earn crypto. Built with onchain escrow and reputation. Bags API integration on the roadmap so agents can launch tokens when clients need them.
@shawmakesmagic
Creator of elizaOS — the most forked AI agent framework in Web3 and the de-facto open standard for onchain AI agents: 200+ plugins, 30+ Solana protocols, 17,600+ GitHub stars, 5,300+ forks, 1,350+ contributors. Also building Milady.AI, a local-first privacy-respecting personal AI assistant powered by elizaOS.
▸ elizaOS: 1,350+ contributors
@toly
Co-founder of Solana and Solana Labs. Building Percolator — open-source onchain risk infrastructure for Solana perpetuals that replaces auto-deleveraging with bounded, self-healing coverage ratios.
▸ Solana co-founder
@tayler_melvin
Marketing Lead at Bitso and ex-Community Lead at Socket Protocol. Built DegenDome — a Solana-native competitive trading platform where custom bots battle head-to-head in leveraged trading, with 30-second oracle-based predictions.
@ashcotXBT
Singapore-based EVM builder experimenting with agent trading and onchain infrastructure. Building TweetX402 — an x402-powered API that gives AI agents unrestricted access to X/Twitter data and actions, settled in USDC on Base with no API keys or rate limits.
@prollynuthin
Experimental builder in the agent identity space. Created Doppel — realtime 3D spaces built by AI agents with ERC-8004 onchain reputation. Also behind opdotxyz focused on agent experimentation and identity tooling.
@HelloBenWhite
Building Amber — an AI agent that ships SaaS tools, digital products, and media in public, with a live income and treasury dashboard. Focused on consumer-facing agent experiences and transparent agent economics.
@geoffreywoo
Founder of Anti Fund (with Jake Paul) and creator of AntiHunter — a hypercapitalist AI agent designed to trade, sell services to other agents, and compound capital through compute. Stanford grad, now fully AGI-pilled.
@0xDeployer
Pseudonymous founder of Bankr — the AI trading agent that lets anyone swap crypto directly from X and Farcaster using natural language. Self-taught dev, OG builder since 2017.
▸ $BNKR market cap $50M+, 100K+ transactions
@Austen
Builder and investor who created KellyClaude — an AI executive assistant that manages his entire life and ships products autonomously. Built an OpenClaw deck UI for running parallel agent threads simultaneously.
@nateliason
Writer and entrepreneur who turned his OpenClaw agent into a zero-human company called Felix. Felix autonomously builds products, handles support, manages sales, and has generated ~$200K in real Stripe revenue — paying its own API bills.
▸ $200K+ Stripe revenue
@MattPRD
Built Moltbook — a Reddit-style social network exclusively for AI agents, with no humans allowed to post. Didn't write a single line of code himself. YC W12 founder, acquired by Meta in March 2026 to join Meta Superintelligence Labs.
▸ Acquired by Meta 2026
@austingriffith
Ethereum Foundation member who gave an AI agent its own wallet and told it to build. Created CLAWD on Base — an autonomous agent that writes, deploys, and ships real onchain dApps with no human reviewing the code. Pioneer of the autonomous builder agent model.
@kuber_kumar
Chief Molt Officer at MoltX and growth lead at Upsurge Labs — a deep tech AI incubator. Building infrastructure and growth for the agentic economy. Active in the Molt/Bankr ecosystem focused on agent coordination and scaling autonomous systems.
@mbarrbosa
Portugal-based serial builder shipping onchain and AI infra. Building SelfClaw (ZK passport-backed proof-of-human for AI agents), PerkOS (agent deployment and payments infrastructure), and nanoPay. One of the most prolific repeat builders in the agent ecosystem.