Jed McCaleb is a cryptocurrency entrepreneur who co-founded Stellar Development Foundation and Ripple, and founded the early bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. Jed McCaleb's Twitter Score is 134 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #5,471 (top 5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Jed McCaleb founded Mt. Gox as a bitcoin exchange in 2010, then sold most of the operation after a few months. Mt. Gox later filed for bankruptcy after reporting the loss of $460 million to hackers and an additional $27.4 million missing from bank accounts. Jed McCaleb previously worked at Ripple Labs as CTO, departing in July 2013 while remaining on its board of directors at the time.
Jed McCaleb co-founded Stellar Development Foundation, whose native cryptocurrency is Lumens, ticker XLM. Stellar launched on July 31, 2014, and received $3 million in seed funding from Stripe. Jed McCaleb also co-founded Lightyear.io, a commercial endeavor building on the Stellar network, which launched in May 2017. Jed McCaleb was formerly affiliated with InterStellar.
Jed McCaleb was not named in the SEC's 2020 charges against Ripple and two of its executives over an alleged $1.3 billion unregistered securities offering. A U.S. district court ruled in July 2023 that Ripple's programmatic XRP sales on public exchanges did not constitute securities transactions. Per Reuters, the SEC ended its lawsuit against Ripple in August 2025, with Ripple agreeing to pay a $125 million fine. Jed McCaleb's account has 769 posts and has been active since 2015. Jed McCaleb has been mentioned by 225 accounts, with 886 total mentions.
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