Brendan Blumer | |
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| Born | August 8, 1986[citation needed] Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S. |
| Citizenship | Hong Kong[1] |
| Known for | EOS.IO Co-founder of Bullish |
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Brendan Blumer (born August 8, 1986) is a Hong Kong billionaire businessman who has served as chief executive officer of Block.one since 2016, which developed the EOS.IO blockchain platform and launched crypto exchange Bullish.[2]
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Blumer was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.[3]
When Blumer was 15 years old, he developed Gamecliff (stylized as GaMeCliff), a website to sell virtual economy assets to be used in multiplayer online gaming.[4] It displayed different characters, weapons, and houses for massively multiplayer online role-playing games including EverQuest and World of Warcraft.[2]
Career
[edit]In 2005, just after graduating high school, Blumer sold Gamecliff to IGE and relocated to Hong Kong to continue to run its operations.[2]
Blumer founded The Accounts Network in 2007, a company that sold in-game MMORPG avatars and reached $1 million in monthly revenues.[2][5]
In 2010, Blumer and Kokuei Yuan launched Okay.com, an enterprise data sharing platform for real estate brokers in Asia.[2] In October 2013, the company was acquired by Asia Pacific Properties.
His next business project, ii5, also focused on real estate. Founded in 2013, the startup was dedicated to real estate listings in India.[3]
In 2016, Blumer along with Dan Larimer, formed Block.One, a blockchain company, based in part on funding from ii5, his Hong Kong real estate firm.[6]
In May 2017, Blumer announced EOS.IO, a blockchain platform which launched a record setting initial coin offering (ICO), raising over $4 billion.[2][3][6][7]
In February 2018, he was listed by Forbes as one of the "richest people in cryptocurrency".[8]
In 2020, he launched Bullish with Kokuei Yuan; its initial public offering in August 2025 made Blumer a billionaire.[9]
Personal life
[edit]In 2020, Blumer renounced his US citizenship.[6] In 2025, he bought a 28-bedroom seafront residence in Sardinia for €160 million.[10][11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Brendan Blumer". Forbes.
- ^ a b c d e f Ambler, Pamela (February 7, 2018). "Ethereum Challenger Brendan Blumer Breaks Biggest Token Sale Record With EOS". Forbes.
- ^ a b c Vigna, Paul (December 18, 2018). "Chasing the Next Bitcoin, Investors Shell Out $700 Million for Coins With 'No Purpose'". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Carlon, Katharine (January 9, 2018). "CR native is building the future, block by block". Mixergy.
- ^ Warner, Andrew (August 9, 2011). "At 15, He Sold Game Avatars. Today, He's Selling Asia". Mixergy.
- ^ a b c Volpicelli, Gian M. "EOS Was the World's Most Hyped Blockchain. Its Fans Want It Back". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028.
- ^ Huang, Zheping (September 25, 2018). "How Block.one founder Brendan Blumer went from magic swords to the world's biggest initial coin offering". South China Morning Post.
- ^ "The Richest People In Cryptocurrency". Forbes. February 6, 2018.
- ^ Sloan, Dylan (August 14, 2025). "This 39-year-old just became a billionaire after stunning Wall Street debut". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ Nikas-Boulos, Catherine (April 4, 2025). "Sardinian seafront villa sells for more than €160 million in record-breaking deal". Elite Agent.
- ^ Levin, Bess (August 26, 2025). "A College Dropout, an Ex–Investment Banker, a Guy With a 28-Bedroom "Mega-Villa": Meet Crypto's Newly Minted Billionaires". Vanity Fair.