Peter Smith

CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder @ Blockchain.com

United Kingdom

About

Peter Smith is the CEO & Co-Founder of Blockchain.com, a global crypto infrastructure platform that serves tens of millions of consumers and thousands of institutional customers around the world. Peter is a 2016 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and noted thought leader in the FinTech space, having been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, TechCrunch, and spoken at conferences around the world including Techcrunch Disrupt, Money 20/20, Web Summit, Collision, Wired Money, among many others. He is also a member of the CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC). If you are working on something hard and want to be in touch - please be in touch; but include a book recommendation. I do not provide investment advice via messaging platforms such as WhatsApp or Telegram, please verify any message you believe is from me. Most messages are in fact scammers. We're hiring across engineering, product, design, legal, operations, growth, data, and security - get in touch at blockchain.com/careers ! https://twitter.com/onemorepeter [email protected] www.blockchain.com/careers

Experience

  • Blockchain (12 yrs 6 mos)
    • Co-Founder, Executive Chairman & CEO
      Feb 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 6 mos

      At Blockchain, our mission is to build the software platform that will power the world's open financial future. We are re-engineering money and banking for the Information Age. Blockchain currently provides the world’s most popular Bitcoin wallet, the most widely used Bitcoin API, and the most trafficked Bitcoin network data platform. We are backed by 75M in venture capital, from some of the worlds leading investors in NYC, London and Silicon Valley. www.blockchain.com

    • Partner, Venture Fund
      Jan 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

      Our first actively managed, separately capitalized investment fund focused on investing across the crypto ecosystem at the earliest stage of a project, company, or token's inception. I actively lead the deals and the investment committee of the fund. Working on something crazy? email me!

  • Director, Board Member at UK Finance
    May 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

    UK Finance represents nearly 300 of the leading firms providing finance, banking, markets and payments-related services in or from the UK. https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/