Benjamin Schiller

Benjamin Schiller is CoinDesk's managing editor for features and opinion. Previously, he was editor-in-chief at BREAKER Magazine and a staff writer at Fast Company. He holds some ETH, BTC and LINK.

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Policy

Cynthia Lummis: Laser-Eyed Lawmaker

The Wyoming senator has been a major crypto supporter since joining Congress in 2021. Now she’s the leading advocate for creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Tech

Optimism’s Jing Wang and the Widely Adopted OP Stack

With Uniswap, World, Kraken, and Sony’s Blockchain Labs all adopting Optimism technology, Optimism was a clear winner in the Ethereum scaling race this year.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Finance

Mahesh Ramakrishnan: The DePIN Cheerleader

Decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) took off bigtime this year, and EV3 Ventures’ Ramakrishnan was at the center of it all.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Policy

Balaji Srinivasan: Spreading the Network State

With renewing public institutions on the agenda, the Network State could be an idea whose time has come. If so, Srinivasan will again have been prescient.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Finance

Luca Netz: Powering Pudgy Penguins

Pudgy Penguins, the second most successful NFT collection of the last cycle, is pumping again. This time, it has a token to go with the cute plush toys.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Finance

Rune Christensen: Revamping the Maker/Sky

The issuer behind the largest decentralized stablecoin had a rebrand and looks set to benefit from clearer DeFi rules in the U.S.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Policy

Pavel Durov: Free Speech Hero Against the State

The Telegram founder’s short stay in a French prison this summer was a free speech inflection point.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Tech

Lily Liu: Solana’s Powerhouse Ambassador

Solana Foundation’s President may be the busiest person in crypto and one of the smartest.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Finance

Pump.Fun: Solana’s Memecoin Juggernaut

The site cemented Solana as the number-one place to launch and trade brand-new memecoins, for better and worse.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Tech

Satoshi Nakamoto: The Mystery That (Probably) Will Never Be Solved

An HBO documentary floated a bizarre theory about the Bitcoin creator's identity, while self-proclaimed Satoshi Craig Wright suffered a big U.K. court defeat.

(Pudgy Penguins)