Ashley Youdan is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Hot Drops. Hot Drops is a female-led, female-founded, inclusive, digital collectible marketplace, created by creators for creators with fans in mind. Hot Drops is disrupting how creators and fans connect with next-gen content, exclusive, limited-edition collectibles, community, and loyalty rewards.

Ashley is a former award-winning adult film actress, internationally published model, SiriusXM radio host, and influencer. She has also been featured in numerous mainstream media outlets such as Yahoo News, Washington Post, Daily Mail, New York Post, Gothamist, Blockchain Wire, etc.

She is a self-proclaimed nerd and is passionate about making a positive global impact. At 35 years old, Ashley is a young, first-time, female founder in the blockchain, crypto, Web3, and content creation technology spaces. As an avid advocate for online child protection, Ashley is pioneering first-of-their-kind solutions to effectively implement age verification on adult content platforms, while maintaining customer data privacy, empowering content creators to exercise their First Amendment rights without fear of de-platforming while receiving fair compensation and royalties for their work, implementing piracy reduction strategies, providing equitable access to emerging technologies to marginalized groups and access to financial solutions to the historically unbanked.

She has successfully done extensive fundraising for for-profit and non-profit organizations.

Being a travel junkie, foodie, epistemophiliac, and seeker of unique experiences are some of her other interests.

Ashley is a Christian, mother, wife, underdog, an embodiment of female empowerment, and exemplifies being resilient to overcome adversity.