Blockchain Entrepreneurship and Web3 by Muneeb Ali
Muneeb Ali is co-founder of Stacks and CEO of Trust Machines, a company developing Bitcoin-native applications that integrate smart contracts and decentralized identities. Holding a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton, Ali led the first SEC-qualified token offering under Regulation A+ in 2019. Stacks has grown into a top-50 crypto network by developer activity, processing more than 750,000 smart contract deployments as of mid-2025.
Ali forecasts Bitcoin scaling through trust-minimized layers rather than consensus changes. In 2025, he stated that Stacks aims to onboard 1 billion users to Bitcoin, framing it as the ultimate settlement layer for global internet-native assets. With over 120,000 Twitter followers, frequent keynote slots, and investor briefings for a growing DeFi-on-Bitcoin thesis, Ali remains one of the most structurally influential figures in the Bitcoin ecosystem.