F2Pool Co-Founder Leads SpaceX’s Fram2 Mission

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun has embarked on an orbital journey as part of SpaceX’s Dragon Fram2 mission.

Today, we become the 681st humans to fly above the Kármán line, and the 626th to orbit the Earth.

— Chun (@satofishi) April 1, 2025

The entrepreneur noted that he became the 681st person to cross the Kármán line and the 626th to orbit the Earth.

The F2Pool co-founder is the first known figure from the crypto industry to venture into space aboard a spacecraft he funded.

SpaceX’s 36th flight of 2025 launched from Kennedy Space Center (LC-39A). The Crew Dragon C207 “Resilience” embarked on a global journey via the South and North Poles, with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.

Elon Musk’s company confirmed the successful launch of the Falcon 9 rocket with the reusable spacecraft into a polar orbit, traveling at a speed of 27,589 km/h at an altitude of 435 km above the Earth’s surface.

From Mining to the Stars

Wang Chun is a pioneer in the crypto industry, having started mining digital gold back in 2011. He later co-founded F2Pool and the validator and staking service provider Stakefish for Proof-of-Stake blockchains. 

In 2017, the entrepreneur opposed the activation of Segregated Witness. 

Chun led the mission as part of the Fram2 project. Accompanying him on the Dragon Resilience spacecraft are cinematographer and transport module commander Janike Mikkelsen, electrical engineer and pilot Rabea Rogge, and polar regions researcher and medical specialist Eric Phillips. 

During the multi-day expedition, the crew will conduct 22 studies aimed at “expanding humanity’s capabilities for long-term space missions and studying the effects of space on human health.” Among the experiments are the first X-ray in space, maintaining muscle and bone mass in microgravity, and growing fungi in orbit.

Preparation for the mission began in August 2024 and included comprehensive training from SpaceX.

The project’s cost remains undisclosed.  

As reported in December, the Spacecoin team announced the launch of a satellite designed to ensure the security of blockchain protocols in space.

Earlier, Geometric Energy Corporation had rebooked a SpaceX launch to the Moon for the DOGE-1 satellite. The flight was fully paid for with Dogecoin cryptocurrency.

Prior to this, another space mission by the DOGE community ended in failure—the attempt to send a physical wallet with the meme coin to the Moon. The initiative was part of Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One project.