Tag: influential
Most Influential 40: Antonio Juliano
In the world of crypto, exchanges rule. Antonio Juliano is chief executive of dYdX Trading Inc., the company behind one of the fastest growing dece [...]
Most Influential 40: Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-Canadian programmer, is the co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain and (nearly as important) “Bitcoin Magazine.” Some of [...]
Most Influential 40: Gavin Wood
Polkadot, the proof-of-stake blockchain Gavin Wood built after co-founding the world’s largest blockchain Ethereum, is gearing up for launch. Desig [...]
Most Influential 40: Arianna Simpson
Arianna Simpson’s trip to Zimbabwe in 2013 changed her life. But it was the experience of using Western Union, and the platform’s extortionary fees [...]
Most Influential 40: Charles Hoskinson
Just like his co-founder Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson went on to do his own thing after developing Ethereum. With Cardano, which hit an all-time h [...]
Most Influential 40: Stani Kulechov
Both Stani Kulechov and Aave, the decentralized finance (DeFi) money market he founded, enjoyed a fruitful 2021. In April, the launch of a liquidit [...]
Most Influential 40: Ryan Selkis
CEO of Messari Ryan Selkis is boisterous and sometimes brash, but few are as informed. Perhaps this is because of his institution-grade data firm, [...]
Most Influential 2021: Elon Musk
So does Elon love crypto or not? The affair has been torrid and wild and emotionally draining. But then again, the most passionate romances tend to [...]
CoinDesk Most Influential 2021
The top 10 (the “Most Influential”) are recognized for outstanding contributions across development, business building, regulation, gaming, art and [...]
Most Influential 40: All Seeing Seneca
The digital artist All Seeing Seneca, the creative lead behind the Bored Apes Yacht Club, has seen her creation reach escape velocity. The collecti [...]
Most Influential 40: Michael Shaulov
Michael Shaulov is CEO of decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure firm Fireblocks. Shaulov’s company isn’t as exciting as many crypto startups [...]
Most Influential 40: Roneil Rumburg
Audius, a music streaming platform based on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains, grew from having 500,000 monthly listeners at the end of 2020 to n [...]
Most Influential 40: Polynetwork Hacker
There is still much that is unknown about the largest decentralized finance (DeFi) security breach to date, the sophisticated attack that drained $ [...]
Most Influential 40: Naveen Jain
Co-founder of Yat Labs Naveen Jain essentially built a global identity solution using emojis, and one being leveraged by many in the crypto industr [...]
Most Influential 40: Tim Beiko
Ethereum 2.0, the most significant feat of engineering ever attempted in crypto’s short history, has been a multi-year endeavor. Ethereum developer [...]