Luis Buenaventura

Luis is a Filipino crypto author, artist, and entrepreneur. He was formerly the Philippine country manager of Yield Guild Games, a web3 startup, and a cofounder at BloomX, a licensed cryptocurrency exchange. He's one of the world's first NFT artists (CurioCards, 2017), and is the first Filipino NFT artist to have work sold at Christie's and Sotheby's. In September 2021, he founded the Cryptopop Art Guild, a non-profit generating sustainable income for underprivileged Filipino artists. He has authored two books on cryptocurrencies, The Little Bitcoin Book (2019) and Reinventing Remittances with Bitcoin (2017), and has presented on these topics at the UN, the OECD, and numerous international conferences since 2015. He publishes a weekly newsletter on cryptocurrencies, economics, and the culture of web3 at Cryptoday.live.