Ryan Sean Adams
Ryan Sean Adams is a crypto investor and entrepreneur, and Co-founder of Bankless, a cryptocurrency media brand and community that focuses on educating and empowering individuals to navigate the decentralized financial landscape. He is also a Co-founder of the early-stage crypto venture fund Bankless Ventures.[5]
Education
Adams attended Brock University where he studied for a BA, Honors in Business Administration.[1]
Career
Ryan Adams began his career as a Vice President and Principal of Vivus Software from 2003 to 2009. He was also the Vice President of Sales at Meddius, a startup focused on improving patient care by helping organizations make healthcare information universally accessible. In 2016, he joined Premier Inc. as Vice President for Integrated Platform & Analytics.
In November 2017, he founded Mythos Capital, an investment company that holds, keeps, and makes cryptoassets. In March 2023, Adams became a General Partner at Bankless Ventures, an early-stage crypto venture fund.[5]
Bankless
Adams founded Bankless Media alongside David Hoffman in September 2020. Bankless is a cryptocurrency media brand and community that focuses on educating and empowering individuals to navigate the decentralized financial landscape.[3] In May 2026, crypto media reports claimed that Bankless had laid off most of its team, while Adams described on X that "the first era of Bankless has ended" following years of collaboration with co-host David Hoffman.[7]
According to his Blockworks speaker profile, Adams describes himself as an "open finance maximalist" focused on financial sovereignty, with a stated mission to help onboard the first billion people to crypto through memes, media, and education.[4]
Bankless Ventures
Ryan Adams is also a crypto investor. In April 2023, he started a venture fund called Bankless Ventures with David Hoffman.[5]
"The relationships we’ve (Hoffman & Adams) built through the podcast have helped us meet more and more pioneers with a shared vision for crypto’s ultimate potential. Through our angel investments, Ryan and I have helped finance small teams that eventually grew to become pillars of the crypto industry.
We’ve been fortunate that the growing network of Bankless has given us access to a substantial amount of dealflow, and it’s become much more than two individuals can handle." - the team said in a blogpost[5]
In early 2023, CoinDesk reported that the Bankless hosts were raising a venture capital fund of up to $35 million to invest in seed-stage Web3 companies, structured as a separate legal entity from the Bankless podcast but sharing its brand.[6]
The Bankless Ventures team includes the hosts, Ryan Sean Adams & David Hoffman, Ben Lakoff, Kimberly Adams, and Brent Matterson. Advisors of the venture fund include Justin Drake and Anthony Sassano.[5]
Views and Public Profile
Adams is publicly positioned as an Ethereum
- and open finance-focused commentator, emphasizing financial sovereignty and the role of decentralized finance.[4] He is best known as a co-host of the Bankless podcast and related media channels, where he discusses crypto, DeFi, and Ethereum developments.[4] Adams is also active on X and contributes long-form writing to Bankless, where his author page lists articles on crypto, Ethereum, and broader Web3 topics.[1][8]
