Ian is a crypto founder who co-founded CENTRAL, a high-performance blockchain built for stablecoins, payments, and on-chain foreign exchange. Ian's Twitter Score is 14 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #69,576 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Ian co-founded CENTRAL, which was previously known as XLD Finance and X Network before adopting its current name. He also co-founded MAITRIX, a decentralized-AI financial infrastructure project, and co-founded XLD Finance, which raised a US$13M pre-Series A round led by Dragonfly Capital and Infinity Ventures Crypto. Under that earlier iteration, Ian scaled a cross-border crypto-to-fiat solution across five countries, achieving transaction times under two minutes.
Ian previously worked at GCash, Globe Telecom, JG Summit, Cashalo, and BPI Globe BanKO before turning his focus to building financial infrastructure in the crypto space. His account has published 1,730 posts and has been mentioned by 16 accounts a total of 26 times, reflecting consistent engagement within the crypto builder community. Ian has 4,282 followers as of August 2026 on the platform.
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The accounts that follow Ian include 53 founders, 21 angel investors, 22 influencers and 5 VCs, among them Matthew Graham, Shaw Spiritacc, Cuy Sheffield, 0xSammy, Gabby Dizon and Leap.