Sheldon is the founder of BitMart, a cryptocurrency exchange he established in 2017. Sheldon's Twitter Score is 31 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #30,828 (top 10%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Sheldon founded BitMart and serves as its CEO. The exchange reached a valuation of $300 million following a Series B financing round led by Alexander Capital Ventures. In December 2021, BitMart suffered a security breach in which hackers stole $196 million from the platform; Xia attributed the incident to a stolen private key and committed to compensating affected users. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission subsequently opened an investigation into BitMart over the loss of customer funds, though that matter was dismissed in 2023.
Sheldon has been active in Bitcoin since 2013. His account has accumulated 45,167 followers as of September 2026 and 719 posts. Sheldon has been mentioned by 41 accounts a total of 67 times.
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The accounts that follow Sheldon include 129 founders, 32 angel investors, 81 influencers and 1 VCs, among them ZachXBT, Laura Shin, H.E. Justin Sun, The Crypto Dog, MoonPay and Matthew Graham.