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Anthony Di Iorio
Co-Founder of the Ethereum Project, Founder of Decentral
Anthony Di Iorio is a Canadian entrepreneur and one of the co-founders of Ethereum.
Born in Toronto in 1975, he earned a marketing degree from Ryerson University, now Toronto Metropolitan University, and worked in his family's patio door business before selling rental properties in 2012 to buy Bitcoin. That year he started the Toronto Bitcoin Meetup Group, and in 2013 he co-founded KryptoKit, a Bitcoin wallet browser extension. He helped fund and organize Ethereum in its earliest phase in 2013 and 2014.
He founded Decentral Inc. in Toronto, which built the Jaxx multi currency wallet announced in February 2016, and served briefly in 2016 as the first chief digital officer of the Toronto Stock Exchange. In 2021 he said he intended to step back from crypto, citing personal safety concerns.
In November 2022 he announced Andiami, a project intended to make running blockchain nodes easier through dedicated hardware. His Consensus 2025 speaker profile lists him as CEO of Decentral, with Andiami still in stealth development.
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Latest interview · Oct 20, 2014Anthony Di Iorio on Ethereum and building the crypto community in TorontoWatch the episode →
Key points
- Bitcoin Alliance of Canada raised approximately 80 bitcoins from a Toronto expo in April and planned to hire staff for day-to-day operations.
- Ethereum's 42-day crowdsale was launched without advance warning to avoid speculation on other sites and keep momentum.
- Decentral is being trademarked in five countries with plans to develop an accelerator program using an international mentorship base.
- CryptoKit's flagship product is a Chrome extension Bitcoin wallet enabling one-click payments without login credentials or credentials.
- Di Iorio predicted Bitcoin would reach $1,200 by January 15th, 2015, based on its previous all-time high.
In their own words
“After the expo we did in toronto in april we ended up making about 80 bitcoins in the process.”
