Named amongst the top Cryptocurrency Philanthropists of 2023, alongside Alex Estorick for helping raise over £500,000 for charity: https://thegivingblock.com/resources/faces-of-crypto-philanthropy/Dr Foteini Valeonti is a Computer Scientist with a PhD in Digital Humanities, specialising in revenue generation for the cultural sector with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and blockchain technology. She is a Research Fellow at UCL and a curator of reGEN (regencurates.org), a curatorial initiative that has raised over £500,000 for charities in the UK and the US. Dr Valeonti is also the co-founder of USEUM Collectibles. A UCL spin out company consulting cultural institutions on navigating NFTs and web3, USEUM Collectibles’ clients include world-class organisations, such as the Natural History Museum in London. Dr Valeonti is the lead researcher and author of the AHRC-funded study “Crypto Collectibles, Museum Funding and OpenGLAM: Challenges, Opportunities and the Potential of Non-Fungible Tokens” (Valeonti et al. 2021) which counts over 200 citations. In the past, Dr Valeonti founded USEUM.org a platform developed as part of her PhD studies at the UCL Bartlett Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis. USEUM.org democratises access to art, providing amongst other features, 23,000 copyright-vetted images of artworks, including famous masterpieces (by Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Manet and others), for download and unrestricted reuse. Foteini holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science (University of Piraeus) and an MFA in Interactive Digital Media from Ravensbourne (City University), which she attended on scholarship and earned with distinction (dissertation awarded with A+). Foteini is regularly invited to present her research and work to conferences and events, whilst her PhD project USEUM has been featured on The Times and Wall Street International. In 2021, USEUM Collectibles was featured on Yahoo!Finance as one of five projects that change people's view of the NFT industry.