Brendan Blumer
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 | edit source]Early life
[edit | edit source]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 | edit source]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 | edit source]In 2020, Blumer renounced his US citizenship.[6] In 2025, he bought a 28-bedroom seafront residence in Sardinia for €160 million.[10][11]
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External links
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