The crypto market is huge. At its most recent peak in October 2025, its market cap reached over $4 trillion, rivalling the market caps of some mega companies and dwarfing the economies of nations.

In 2008, Jeremy Neuner and Ryan Coonerty, two city-hall employees in Santa Cruz, California, decided to open a co-working space. They leased a cavernous building a few steps from a surf shop and a sex ...