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Peter Smith

Peter Smith

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Peter Smith is a notable thought leader in the fintech space and the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Blockchain.com, the world's leading and fastest-growing crypto company that connects the world to the future of finance. After co-founding and advising the company in its early days, Peter stepped into the role of CEO in 2014 and immediately raised $40M, the largest venture capital round for any crypto company at the time. Under his leadership, Blockchain has become the market leader in digital currency and distributed ledger technology, empowering millions of users across the globe to store and transact digital value quickly and without costly intermediaries. Prior to co-founding Blockchain, Peter lived, studied, and worked in the US, Europe, MENA, East Africa, and Asia. Since 2017, he has been a Board Member and Director of UK Finance, a collective voice for the banking and finance industry representing around 300 firms.

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BLOCKCHAIN.COM

  • Blockchain currently provides the world’s most popular Bitcoin wallet, the most widely used Bitcoin API, and the most trafficked Bitcoin network data platform.

  • Blockchain.com has evolved into a leading crypto partner in both the retail and institutional domain.

  • Retail operations include a global exchange with more than $100M in daily trading volume and a robust brokerage with over 80M crypto wallets across 200 countries.

  • In 2019, he added an Institutional Markets arm that has since partnered with thousands of clients to trade $15B+.

  • The Institutional Markets arm provides $8B+ of credit and structured debt, and creates bespoke solutions for active trading, lending, mining, and DeFi.


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