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CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022 list gathers important figures and events that have a great impact on the entire industry.
- Founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance – Changpeng Zhao
- Founder, former CEO of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried: Ambition to take over the market and then collapse
- Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum Developers: Successfully Performed The Most Important Merge Upgrade In Ethereum History To Date.
- Do Kwon, Zhu Su, Alex Mashinsky, Stephen Ehrlich – CEO of Terraform Labs, Three Arrows Capital, Celsius Network, and Voyager Digital respectively: Four crypto companies that caused a chain crash in the crypto industry during the year 2022.
- NFT Bored Ape Yacht Club Project Co-Founders – Wylie Aronow, Nicole Muniz and Greg Solano
- KOL was named “Web3 detective” ZachXBT for Exposing a series of scams and scams in the crypto industry
- Polygon Studios CEO – Ryan Wyatt with a series of cooperation deals with Nike, Reddit, Starbucks, …
- Zcash (ZEC) Founder Zooko Wilcox
- Molly White and crypto skeptics: point out the many problems the crypto industry needs to solve.
- Rishi Sunak UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with a roadmap for UK regulatory and crypto adoption.
- Balaji Srinivasan
- Founder and CEO of Animoca Brands Yat Siu – who has brought billions of dollars in investment capital into Web3.
- Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman laid out the framework for the regulation and taxation of cryptocurrencies in the country of billions of people.
- Punk6529
- Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell
- Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev
- Director of the People’s Bank of China Digital Currency Research Institute Mu Changchun
- Former lead of the Ethereum Name Services (ENS) project Brantly Millegan.
- NFT Milady Community
- United States Congressman, working for the House Finance Committee Maxine Waters and Patrick McHenry with the promotion of the US stablecoin regulation bill.
- European Parliament Commissioner Mairead McGuiness: Advocating for the EU’s MiCA crypto regulation bill to be passed.
- Ian and Dylan Macalinao: The developer brothers were revealed to have “inflated” more than 75% of TVL on Solana.
- Hacker Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein: Arrested by US authorities for allegedly being behind the Bitfinex hack of more than $3 billion.
- Tamara Lich: Organizer of the “Liberty Convoy” protest movement in Canada, run through blockchain
- Victor Langlois: The NFT artist sold his collection for $20 million despite being only 19 years old.
- Bobby Kim: The man behind the NFT project “The Hundreds”.
- President of Jump Crypto Investment Fund – Kanav Kariya
- Carol House: Advisor to US President Biden Issues “Historic” Executive Order on Building Crypto Regulatory Framework
- Hodlonaut v. Craig Wright
- Tyler Hobbs: NFT artist successfully sold 17 million USD collection.
- Arthur Hayes
- CEO of Helium Project Amir Haleem
- Chandler Guo: Support for the EthereumPoW (ETHW) project to keep the Ethereum Proof-of-Work version for miners after The Merge event.
- TIME Magazine President Keith Grossman
- New York Bankruptcy Court Judge Martin Glenn
- Lawmakers Behind Crypto Regulatory Bill Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand
- Cobie: Report insider trading at Coinbase
- BlackRock Asset Management CEO Larry Fink
- Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mikhailo Fedorov
- Fatman Terra: A compilation of evidence and information about the fall of Terra (LUNA) and UST.
- A16z Crypto investment fund management partner, Chris Dixon: bringing billions of dollars more money into the crypto industry.
- Matt Damon
- Nic Carter
- NFT Art Blocks Project CEO Erick Calderon (Snowfro)
- Former Starbucks Chief Digital Officer, Adam Brotman: Laying the Grounds for Starbucks Odyssey, Starbucks’ crypto rewards program.
- Reddit Product Manager, Pali Bhat: Successfully released NFT avatar for Reddit.
- Eva Beylin
- Rostin Behnam and Gary Gensler: Chairman of CFTC and SEC respectively
- VaynerMedia Founders – Avery Akkineni and Gary Vaynerchuk
- BowTiedBull
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