About
Adam Howell: builder, operator, early crypto founder.
Canadian founder, in crypto since 2014. I build real products, and I’ve been at it long enough to have a track record anyone can look up.
I got started online in 2012 doing affiliate marketing, then moved into cryptocurrency in 2014 with DopeCoin, one of the earliest meme coins and the 103rd cryptocurrency ever listed on CoinMarketCap. Over the next decade I started and ran a string of crypto companies. Most of them I bootstrapped and kept lean long before I took a dollar of outside money.
Along the way I’ve shipped 105,000+ lines of production code, delivered more than a billion ad impressions through a partnership with Bitcoin.com, and built SuperDoge, a charity token that sent over $150,000 to vetted causes in its first 72 hours, automatically through the smart contract. My companies have been written up in Business Insider, the Huffington Post, Fox Business, Bloomberg and CNBC, among others.
Today I’m building from Dubai, working on infrastructure for institutional digital-asset flows under the UAE’s VARA and ADGM frameworks. It is compliance-grade architecture for the next phase of the industry. I care about doing the work over talking about it, and I keep the receipts.
Career
The full timeline.
Founder · Stealth (Dubai)
Web3 infrastructure for institutional digital-asset flows under VARA and ADGM frameworks. Compliance-grade architecture; pre-launch.
Founder · SuperDoge
The first crypto superhero charity token, on BNB Chain. Over 150,000 dollars went to charity in the first 72 hours through the smart contract, with more after that. Liquidity locked until 1 January 2100.
Founder · Grow Advertising
A PPC ad exchange for the crypto industry. Production RTB infrastructure delivering 1B+ lifetime ad impressions through partnership with Bitcoin.com and other crypto-native publishers.
Founder · Crypto Billings
An early commercial crypto payment gateway. Zero fees for merchants and customers, with plugins for major shopping carts and a listing on the official WordPress plugin store.
CEO / Founder · Unacell
Mobile product company building subscription-based affiliate products. Infrastructure serving 100M+ daily ad impressions and 1M+ daily clicks; 75+ products across six languages.
Founder · DopeCoin
One of the first meme-coins ever developed and the 103rd cryptocurrency listed on CoinMarketCap. Ran through multiple market cycles.
Senior Supervisor · Cathedral Energy Services
Ten years in the Canadian oilfield running production-testing crews and equipment across Alberta and the high-pressure fields of the northern Arctic. I was responsible for crew safety and getting the job done in hard conditions. This is where I learned to run things.