GMGN Founder and Team: Who Owns GMGN? What We Know (2026)

If you are looking for the GMGN founder, the honest starting point is that GMGN has never published an official founder, CEO or corporate-owner announcement. What exists is a handful of names from press profiles and X posts, two app-store seller entities, a Terms of Service that points at the British Virgin Islands, and a very detailed public fee record on DefiLlama. This page lays out exactly that: what is sourced, what is inferred, and what is simply not known as of September 2026.

We keep it that way on purpose. Searches like "gmgn ceo", "gmgn owner" and "who owns gmgn" produce a lot of confident answers from affiliate sites, most of which cannot cite anything. This is an independent guide; GMGN AI App Guide is not affiliated with GMGN, and we have no inside information. For background on the product itself, start with what GMGN AI is.

Who is the founder of GMGN?

Three names appear in public reporting about the GMGN team:

That is the full extent of what we can point to. GMGN has no "About us" page listing leadership, no LinkedIn company page we could verify as official, and no press release naming a chief executive. When an article says "GMGN CEO Jerry Ma", it is usually paraphrasing earlier coverage rather than citing a GMGN statement. The most defensible phrasing is: Jerry Ma is the name most associated with GMGN's founding in public coverage; Haze is described as a co-founder; GMGN itself has not confirmed titles.

The "Jerry Ma GMGN" search is also worth a caution. There are several people with that name in tech and crypto, and profiles get conflated. Do not send funds, sign anything, or join a group because an account claims to be him. GMGN's official communications come from @gmgnai on X and t.me/gmgnai on Telegram, nothing else.

Who owns GMGN? The entity question

The owner of GMGN, in the corporate sense, is not disclosed. Here is what the documents say:

• Terms of Service: name British Virgin Islands law as governing law and BVI arbitration for disputes. They do not name a company, registration number or address.
• Apple App Store: the iOS app "GMGN - Meme Track" is sold by GraceMatrix Technologies Limited.
• Google Play: the Android app (package com.gmgn.app) is published by GMGN Labs Limited.
• GitHub: the open-source gmgn-skills repository is under the organization GMGNAI.

So "GMGN Labs" is a real name on a real app listing, but it is one of two seller entities, and neither is named in the Terms. Whether GraceMatrix Technologies Limited or GMGN Labs Limited is the operating company, a holding company, or a publishing shell is not public. We could not find a corporate registry filing that ties either to the gmgn.ai operation, and we will not guess.

Practically, this matters in two ways. First, there is no disclosed legal entity to serve, sue or regulate in your own jurisdiction; disputes go to BVI arbitration per the Terms. Second, there is no UK, US or EU entity, so anyone claiming to be "GMGN UK" or a regional office is not something GMGN documents. The GMGN support page covers how to reach the real team.

How is GMGN funded, and what is its valuation?

GMGN is described in public coverage as self-funded. As of September 2026:

• No venture round has been announced.
• No token sale has happened, because there is no token (see GMGN token).
• No public valuation exists.

The "GMGN valuation" question therefore has no sourced answer. What you can do is reason from the fee record. Per DefiLlama data read 8 September 2026, GMGN has collected about $303.4M in lifetime fees and ran at roughly $45.5M over the trailing 30 days. Those are gross fees, before referrer payouts (about $35.3M all-time as of August 2026), infrastructure, staff and the compensation GMGN has paid after incidents. A company with that revenue profile and no outside investors does not need to publish a valuation, and it has not. Any number you see attached to "GMGN valuation" is someone's multiple applied to the DefiLlama fee line, not a disclosure.

How big is GMGN's revenue? DefiLlama numbers

DefiLlama tracks GMGN through a fee adapter that reads the platform's on-chain fee collection, so the figures below are the closest thing to audited GMGN revenue that exists. Data read 8 September 2026:

Additional reference points from the same source:

• Peak month: October 2025, $44.6M in fees.
• Record day: 8 October 2025, $6.87M.
• Growth: lifetime fees were about $240M on 6 August 2026 and about $303M on 8 September 2026, so roughly $60M was collected in one month, well above the trailing 30-day figure because of how the windows overlap.
• First Solana fee day: 21 March 2024, which is why DefiLlama's history starts there even though GMGN launched in June 2023 as an Ethereum tracker.

Because GMGN charges a flat 1% on every buy and sell (docs.gmgn.ai), fees are a rough proxy for GMGN trading volume: $45.5M in 30-day fees implies on the order of $4.5B in monthly swap volume routed through the platform. Treat that as back-of-envelope. It ignores launchpad fees, priority fees that go to validators, and any rounding in the adapter. The live figures are at defillama.com/protocol/gmgn.

Where can you track GMGN volume: DefiLlama vs Dune

Two public data sources come up constantly in "gmgn defillama" and "gmgn dune" searches, and they are not equivalent:

1. DefiLlama (defillama.com/protocol/gmgn) publishes fees and revenue through an open-source adapter with a visible methodology. It is the source we use for every number on this site.
2. Dune hosts community-built dashboards. There is no official GMGN Dune dashboard. Searching "gmgn" on dune.com returns several user-made queries covering wallet counts, per-chain volume and referral flows. They can be useful, but each one depends on how its author identified GMGN's router and fee accounts, so numbers differ between dashboards and can go stale when GMGN changes contracts. We deliberately do not cite specific Dune figures.

If you want a chain split, note how quickly it moves. Per DefiLlama-derived figures cited by competitors, Solana was 99.5% of GMGN activity in January 2025; in early August 2026 BSC was 58.9% and Solana 31.5%; by late August 2026 Robinhood Chain led at about 58.6%, with BSC at 24.8% and Solana at 12.7%. Any "GMGN volume" chart older than a month is probably describing a different platform mix. See the GMGN chains guide for what that means for traders.

How big is the GMGN team?

BlockBeats reported roughly 20 staff as of November 2024. GMGN has not published a headcount since. Given the product surface as of September 2026 (a web terminal on ten chains, iOS and Android apps, five per-chain Telegram bots, an OpenAPI with key registration at gmgn.ai/ai, and the open-source gmgn-skills toolkit at github.com/GMGNAI/gmgn-skills), the team has almost certainly grown, but we cannot put a number on it.

What is observable is release cadence: Anti-MEV shipped in July 2025, private-key export was disabled around 19 March 2025, Robinhood Chain support arrived around the chain's 1 July 2026 launch, and the Android app was updated on 21 August 2026 per Google Play. That pace is consistent with a small, fast engineering team rather than a large organization.

Is GMGN hiring? Jobs and how to avoid fake offers

"GMGN jobs", "GMGN hiring" and "GMGN AI jobs" are common searches, and the answer is thin: GMGN posts occasional roles on X (@gmgnai), and we could not verify a careers page, an applicant tracking system or a job-board presence. If you want to work there, follow the X account and watch for posts, or reach the team through the official Telegram group t.me/gmgnai.

Three warnings, because fake recruiting is a known crypto phishing pattern:

• GMGN does not run interviews through random Telegram DMs. Anyone messaging you first, claiming to be GMGN HR, is almost certainly not.
• A real employer never asks you to install a "test build", connect a wallet, or pay a deposit to start. Those are wallet drainers.
• Check the handle character by character; scammers swap a capital I for a lowercase l in "gmgnai". The GMGN phishing check walks through verification.

What is the latest GMGN news that actually matters?

Instead of a feed, here are the dated events that shaped how GMGN operates, all covered in more depth elsewhere on the GMGN AI app guide:

Official announcements come from @gmgnai on X and the blog at gmgn.ai/blog. There is no official subreddit, and no verified official YouTube channel.

What is still unknown about GMGN's founder and team?

To be explicit, as of September 2026 the following are not documented anywhere we consider reliable:

• The legal name and registration of the operating company.
• The formal title of Jerry Ma, Haze or anyone else.
• Ownership split, cap table or any investor.
• Current headcount and office location.
• Any valuation.
• Audited financials beyond the on-chain fee record.

If GMGN publishes any of these, we will update this page and the date above. Until then, an article that fills those blanks with specifics is guessing.

Key takeaways

• There is no official GMGN founder or CEO announcement; Jerry Ma, co-founder Haze and "arthur" are the only publicly reported team names.
• The corporate owner is undisclosed. The Terms point to the British Virgin Islands; app stores list GraceMatrix Technologies Limited (iOS) and GMGN Labs Limited (Android).
• GMGN is described as self-funded, with no VC round and no public valuation.
• Revenue is visible on-chain: $45.5M in 30-day fees and ~$303.4M lifetime per DefiLlama, read 8 September 2026, with a peak month of $44.6M in October 2025.
• Use DefiLlama for numbers with a public methodology; treat community Dune dashboards as unofficial.
• Hiring happens ad hoc on X; unsolicited "GMGN job" DMs are a phishing pattern.

Questions about the GMGN founder will keep coming up as the platform grows, and the responsible answer is still the same: name what is sourced, flag what is inferred, and leave the rest blank.

Sources: GMGN documentation, DefiLlama, official app store listings and GMGN's public channels. See our methodology. Last reviewed 2026-09-22.