Who's Micky Malka, the entrepreneur behind the Cryptopunks acquisition from Yuga Labs?

Micky (Moisés) Malka is a Venezuelan-born fintech investor and entrepreneur best known as the founder and managing partner of Ribbit Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has backed companies like Coinbase, Robinhood, Nubank, and Revolut. Before Ribbit, he co-founded and led multiple financial services businesses across Latin America and the U.S., building his reputation around the thesis that technology would radically reshape global finance. Through Ribbit, he was an early institutional backer of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Coinbase, positioning him at the intersection of traditional finance, crypto, and financial infrastructure. Malka is also the co-founder and chair of the Infinite Node Foundation (NODE), the nonprofit that acquired the full CryptoPunks intellectual property from Yuga Labs in May 2025. NODE was formed in 2025 by Malka and fellow Ribbit managing partner Becky Kleiner as a nonprofit endowment dedicated exclusively to preserving, studying, and exhibiting digital art. In April 2025, NODE received a $25 million grant from Malka and Kleiner to “build the future of digital art,” capital that helped make NODE the most well-capitalized U.S. nonprofit focused solely on digital art when it purchased the CryptoPunks IP for around $20 million. Malka has described CryptoPunks as having “sparked a cultural movement,” and under his chairmanship, NODE’s strategy is to keep the collection as the artists intended while embedding it in major museums and institutional contexts worldwide.

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