Sasha Ivanov

Team at Units.Network · Founder & CEO at Waves

Sasha Ivanov is the Founder and CEO of Waves. He is a technology entrepreneur and has been working to improve business, banking, and public administration systems for the past decade, developing electronic payment mechanisms. In , he founded Waves Platform, a global public blockchain platform with a market capitalization of $. billion (as of December , ), which was crowdfunded with , BTC ($ million), making it the second- largest successfully crowdfunded blockchain project after Ethereum. The name of the platform alludes to Ivanov's background as a theoretical physicist and to the recently-discovered gravitational waves predicted by Einstein a century ago. Waves Platform has since grown into one of the largest tech communities with , active users in countries, and has formed partnerships with a variety of renowned international organizations. Recently, Ivanov initiated a new project, Vostok, to create the first usable blockchain solution for scalable digital infrastructure, helping to expand global access to blockchain.