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Chris Maddern

Chris Maddern is CTO at OpenSea. The future is onchain. Previously built Rally, Button, Venmo, Links Golf Club, Corkbin.

He is a British entrepreneur, currently co-founder & CEO of Floor — your portal into the world of NFTs, on a mission to make NFTs understandable & accessible. Floor is the first token-gated mobile app, pioneering NFT community-driven product development. Chris is also a co-founder of LinksDAO (tokenizing sports & leisure membership) and serves on the board of the leading crypto research outlet, The Block.

Chris found his way into fintech leading mobile at social payments platform Venmo, before co-founding Button, the leading mobile commerce platform (used by Uber, Hotels.com, Walmart and more) where he served as Chief Product Officer. Prior to Button, Chris founded and built ~a half dozen companies at the intersection of culture, money and personalization with most having been successfully acquired.


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