Larry Cermak is Larry Cermak, CEO of The Block, a crypto media company. He was appointed to the role on March 31, 2023, replacing interim CEO Bobby Moran amid a leadership shakeup that also saw The Block lay off roughly one-third of its staff. Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy joined The Block's board alongside Cermak's elevation at that time. Larry Cermak's Twitter Score is 759 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #84 (top 0.1%) out of 483,944 accounts tracked on this platform.
Larry Cermak had been with The Block from the start and was its head of research before becoming CEO. As Director of Research and Analysis, he managed a 30-person research team covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, and DeFi macro analysis. Before The Block, he previously worked at Diar, a crypto data newsletter, as Head of Analysis. Larry Cermak has 228,374 followers as of August 2026 on Twitter and has posted 25,921 times since 2008.
Larry Cermak has overseen significant changes at The Block since taking the CEO role. In November 2023, The Block sold more than an 80% stake to Singapore-based Foresight Ventures in a $56 million deal at a $70 million valuation. In February 2024, The Block and Wintermute backed crypto index provider GMCI, and Cermak sits on GMCI's board of directors. The Block and Foresight Ventures also hosted the Emergence crypto conference in Prague in December 2024. Prior to Cermak's appointment, The Block became embroiled in a scandal in 2022 after undisclosed Alameda Research loans totaling $43 million to then-CEO Michael McCaffrey were revealed following FTX's collapse.
Larry Cermak's tracked portfolio includes Everclear, Timeswap, ClayStack, Agent Exchange, Flip, Holograph, Contango and Kresko.
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