Elizabeth Stark

Lightning Network: billions in BTC payment volume

Co-founder and CEO of Lightning Labs — building Bitcoin's payment and asset layer. The Lightning Network enables instant, near-zero cost Bitcoin payments by routing transactions off-chain. Also building Taproot Assets, enabling stablecoins and other assets to be issued natively on Bitcoin and transferred over Lightning.

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Jacob Steeves@const_reborn

Bittensor: $1.2B+ market cap, 256 AI subnets

Co-founder of Bittensor — the decentralised machine learning network where AI models compete and earn TAO tokens based on informational value. Former Google Brain ML engineer. Bittensor runs 256 specialised AI subnets as of Q1 2026, with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang explicitly endorsing the network. Stepped back from Opentensor Foundation in early 2026 to build Crucible Labs.

Anna Kazlauskas@annakaz

140K+ Reddit DAO contributors

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.

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Harry Grieve@_grieve

6,500+ active nodes

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.

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