Thirteen years on one problem

It's simple: people deserve to buy and sell in peace. That has been the reason for OmniBazaar since 2013, because commerce shouldn't require handing your money to a stranger in the middle. We kept building until the tools caught up.

Instead of investing in financial gains, we invested in people.

How did we get here?

2013: too early, on purpose. v1 shipped on BitShares technology, a working decentralized marketplace with about 10,000 real users, years before "DeFi" was a word. The idea was right and the decade was wrong.

Then, around 2022, v1 wound down. About 5,000 users' balances were preserved on the blockchain. They are still there, waiting to be reclaimed, because abandoning user funds was never on the table.

2024–2026 was the rebuild. From scratch: our own blockchain where users pay no fees, 100+ programs running on it, an exchange, prediction-market and earning tools, a marketplace, and a wallet for 80+ chains. Built solo with AI-assisted development, at a cost of a few hundred dollars a month.

April 2026: live. The new network launched and has run ever since, and the three clients (web, extension, Android) ship in lockstep.

You deserve OmniBazaar. Did we mention joining's free?

The team

Rick Crites

Founder, CEO & System Architect

Serial founder (1975–1996) in international franchising, equipment supply and retail packaging, with four profitable exits. He spent thirteen years in financial services as a branch manager and securities principal (Series 7, 63, 24), then served as Director, Legal Officer and EVP Operations at LinkTek from 2011 to 2017. He holds an MS in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford. Active in blockchain since 2013: he built OmniBazaar v1, then rebuilt v2 solo with AI-assisted development, producing a live L1, 100+ contracts in source, and three shipped clients.

Chris Keathley

Co-founder, CMO

Co-founder and first hire, with 8+ years in digital marketing. In his own words: a marketing entrepreneur with a passion for startups, a fervor for communal growth, and a tolerance for Microsoft Excel. He owns how people find OmniBazaar and what they read when they get here: growth and distribution, content and brand, and the community across every channel, plus the launch story for the web app, the wallet extension and the mobile app in the ten languages we ship.

Schohaib Mehran

Legal & Compliance Advisor

15+ years in AML and fintech compliance; advises on KYC architecture, sanctions screening and jurisdiction posture.

Yes, it's a small team. Deliberately. The build is done and shipped, and the capital and hiring go to distribution. The operating entity is Omni Administration Ltd (BVI).

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