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Ria Bhutoria Is Researcher-in-Chief

A partner at Castle Island Ventures, Bhutoria has produced some of the smartest analysis in crypto over the last several years.

Ria Bhutoria (portrait by Mason Webb for CoinDesk)

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Mike Belshe, the Crypto Custody King at BitGo

BitGo was one of the few crypto companies to raise capital in a depressed market, and even did so at an elevated valuation. That's one reason why CEO Belshe is one of CoinDesk's Most Influential of 2023.

BitGo's Mike Belshe (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

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Jeremy Allaire's Stablecoin Is Building a Real Use Case for Crypto

Circle continued to build out the USDC stablecoin network, spreading access and inclusion to new corners of the world.

Jeremy Allaire (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

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Sergey Nazarov: The Crypto Oracle

Chainlink is where digital assets meet the real world, and Nazarov is predicting TradFi and crypto will become intertwined.

Sergey Nazarov (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

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Lisa Neigut: Reinventing Lightning to Reinvent Bitcoin

The Blockstream developer has been working on what she calls “Lightning v2” since 2019, and it’s poised to launch by year’s end.

Lisa Neigut (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

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Karl Floersch's 'Optimism' Tech Paved the Way for Coinbase's 'Base' Blockchain

The CEO of OP Labs helped create a set of tools that let developers build their own layer-2 chains.

Karl Floersch (Portrait by Mason Webb for CoinDesk)

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Avery Ching: Aptos Led a Year of 'VC Chains'

With hundreds of millions at stake, Avery Ching, co-founder of one of the year's most-talked-about new projects, has much to prove.

Avery Ching, who helped develop Aptos (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

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Cuy Sheffield: The Reason Visa Is 'Everywhere’ in Crypto

Perhaps more than at any other TradFi firm, Visa’s crypto unit under Sheffield has been running experiment after experiment. That's why he's one of CoinDesk's Most Influential of 2023.

Cuy Sheffield of Visa (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

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Stefan Berger: The Man Who Made MiCA

He steered through the European Union's world-leading Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) this year in the aftermath of FTX and other scandals. He's now working on a digital euro.

Stefan Berger (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

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Jordi Baylina: Finding Solutions in Zero-Knowledge

One of Ethereum's biggest scalability layers, Polygon, is at the forefront of a new tech trend with the launch of its zkEVM.

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