Brendan Blumer is an American-born, Hong Kong-based entrepreneur born on August 8, 1986, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His entrepreneurial journey began at the age of 15, when he developed GaMeCliff, a website for selling virtual assets like characters and weapons in multiplayer games such as World of Warcraft.

Immediately after high school graduation in 2005, Blumer sold GaMeCliff to IGE and relocated to Hong Kong at just 19 years old to lead its operations. He eventually renounced his U.S. citizenship in 2020 and is now a citizen of Hong Kong.

• Core Business: Bullish (Crypto exchange).
• Early Success: Founded The Accounts Network in 2007, reaching $1 million in monthly revenues selling game avatars.
• Education: Self-made entrepreneur who entered the global business stage as a teenager.

Brendan Blumer’s career is defined by his transition from gaming economies to large-scale blockchain technology. In 2016, he co-founded block.one, which launched the EOS.IO blockchain platform in 2017. The project’s Initial Coin Offering (ICO) was record-setting, raising over $4 billion.

In 2020, he launched the cryptocurrency exchange Bullish with business partner Kokuei Yuan. Bullish successfully went public on the New York Stock Exchange in August 2025, a debut that officially made Blumer a billionaire. He remains the CEO and sole owner of block.one and serves as a director of Bullish.

• Blockchain Milestone: Led the largest ICO in history for EOS.IO.
• Exchange Leadership: Co-founder of Bullish, which has billionaire Peter Thiel and Mike Novogratz as prominent backers.