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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.

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.

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.

Sergey Nazarov: The Crypto Oracle
Chainlink is where digital assets meet the real world, and Nazarov is predicting TradFi and crypto will become intertwined.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
