Jed McCaleb is a notable digital currency advocate who helped help establish 'stellar'. He is also an American programmer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Also, in the years paving the way for his work with XLM, Jed filled in as the CTO of Ripple. He is also known for creating the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange, the peer-to-peer eDonkey, and Overnet networks as well as the eDonkey2000 application. In January 2018, it was accounted for that McCaleb's Ripple token proprietorship was valued at $20 billion, which would place him at the 40th spot in Forbes' rundown of the world's most extravagant individuals.