Professional Summary
Bryce Ferguson is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Turnkey, a leading company providing secure, flexible, and scalable cryptocurrency wallet infrastructure. He is based in New York City and possesses extensive experience in building cryptographic infrastructure for large-scale adoption within the blockchain space.
Ferguson's professional trajectory reflects a strong focus on secure, flexible infrastructure to make crypto usable at scale. Prior to founding Turnkey, he served as the first product manager at Coinbase Custody, where he contributed significantly over four years to grow assets under custody from zero to over $100 billion and led the launch of pioneering products involving staking and governance. Following Coinbase, Ferguson led crypto product initiatives at Trade Republic, where he was responsible for developing and scaling their crypto minimum viable product (MVP) across Europe.
Ferguson co-founded Turnkey in 2022 alongside Jack Kearney (CEO and CTO), whom he met during his tenure at Coinbase. Both founders leveraged their prior experience in key management infrastructure at Coinbase and Trade Republic to address critical challenges in existing crypto wallet management infrastructure. Their combined expertise resulted in innovative solutions tailored toward developers and institutional clients requiring programmatic wallet control with uncompromising security.
Education and Languages
- Bachelor’s degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with an Outstanding Senior Award in Industrial and Systems Engineering (April 2014).
- Languages: Native or bilingual proficiency in English, full professional proficiency in French, and limited working proficiency in Spanish.
Role and Responsibilities at Turnkey
As CEO and Co-Founder, Bryce Ferguson leads Turnkey's vision and execution regarding the development of cryptographic key management and wallet infrastructure. His key responsibilities include:
- Overseeing product strategy focused on creating secure, scalable, programmable crypto infrastructure.
- Leading efforts to build non-custodial embedded wallets that eliminate traditional complexities such as seed phrases, enabling seamless user onboarding experiences.
- Driving innovations in onchain transaction automation via fine-grained control policies for secure asset management.
- Ensuring enterprise-grade security by leveraging trusted hardware secure enclaves, cryptographic verification, and open-source platforms.
- Spearheading open-source initiatives such as QuorumOS (QOS), a verifiable computing environment that provides real-time auditability for wallet operations.
- Expanding modular infrastructure with features such as the Embedded Wallet Kit for simplified wallet integration and the Solana Policy Engine for granular programmable policies.
- Engaging with strategic clients and partners in sectors including DeFi, stablecoins, AI agents, payments, and Web3 consumer applications.
Company Performance and Market Position
Under Ferguson's leadership, Turnkey has achieved notable milestones:
- Raised $30 million in Series B funding in June 2025 led by Bain Capital Crypto, building on a $15 million Series A in October 2023 (Lightspeed Faction and Galaxy Ventures) and a $7.5 million Seed round in May 2022 led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Coinbase Ventures and other prominent investors.
- Secured infrastructure supporting billions of dollars in crypto assets across multiple blockchains.
- Powering millions of automated weekly onchain transactions via their wallet and policy management systems.
- Established 99.9% uptime reliability and processing capacity at scale capable of signing millions of transactions in minutes.
- Recognized as a future-proof infrastructure provider able to rapidly scale and adapt alongside fast-moving crypto innovations such as AI agents for crypto trading and emerging stablecoin payment rails.
Strategic Differentiators
Bryce Ferguson highlights Turnkey's key differentiators as:
- Security by design, using secure enclaves for end-to-end private key generation and hardware-based encryption.
- Full non-custodial model ensuring user control over private keys.
- Verifiability and transparency, implementing cryptographically auditable and open-source components.
- Flexibility and scalability tailored for sharp increases in user and transaction volume, supporting emerging crypto use cases with low-latency wallet creation and transaction signing.
- Infrastructure designed to serve both developers building new crypto-native products and enterprises requiring robust security and compliance.
Customer Impact and Use Cases
Under Ferguson’s direction, Turnkey has delivered significant customer value by simplifying and securing crypto wallet infrastructure in complex environments:
- Moonshot, an app allowing crypto trading with Apple Pay, leveraged Turnkey to implement “zero-touch” onboarding through non-custodial wallets without seed phrases, enabling easy authentication via email or biometrics and seamless fiat-to-crypto funding access.
- DIMO, a decentralized transportation network, improved crypto user onboarding experiences substantially by reducing onboarding time by 90%, increasing onboarding completion by 30%, and cutting account creation time by 85%, effectively making Web3 technology easier for non-crypto-native users.
Recent Activities and Public Presence
- Ferguson is active on LinkedIn with over 6,200 followers, regularly sharing updates on Turnkey’s funding, product, and client successes.
- Featured in industry interviews and podcasts throughout 2024 and 2025, including a notable May 2025 Pulse 2.0 interview detailing Turnkey’s infrastructure powering billions in crypto transactions.
- Frequently discusses Turnkey’s modular infrastructure, open-source contributions, and vision for enabling the next generation of crypto wallets and transaction automation.
- No specific conference speaking engagements or publications related to Turnkey in 2025 were identified, though his media presence remains focused on product leadership and crypto infrastructure innovation.
Summary
Bryce Ferguson brings a deep technical and product management background from Coinbase and Trade Republic into his role as Co-Founder and CEO of Turnkey, a rapidly growing leader in crypto wallet infrastructure. His leadership has enabled Turnkey to secure significant venture funding, develop highly advanced yet user-friendly wallet and transaction automation solutions, and establish strong market positioning by combining enterprise-grade security, operational scalability, and developer-friendly APIs. Turnkey’s infrastructure supports a broad range of clients across the blockchain ecosystem, powering billions in assets and millions of transactions, with a strong emphasis on secure, non-custodial wallets free from typical user friction.
Bryce’s expertise in key management security, cryptography, and scalable product design, combined with proven success scaling assets beyond $100 billion at Coinbase Custody, positions him as a pivotal figure driving the adoption of programmable crypto infrastructure for both consumer and enterprise applications.
