Most Influential 2024
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.
Michael Saylor: The Architect of MicroStrategy’s Huge Bitcoin Bet
Most companies were leery of Saylor’s strategy when he started amassing bitcoin back in 2020. Some are no longer skeptical.
Robin Linus: Scaling Crypto’s Premier Network
The developer behind BitVM is facilitating the building of more and more applications atop Bitcoin.
Yat Siu: Fighting for Digital Property Rights
The Animoca Brands co-founder, a big investor in NFTs, GameFi and memecoins, wants to make on-chain capitalism secure so that digital democracy can flourish.
Patrick McHenry: The Lawmaker Who Built a Foundation for U.S. Crypto Legislation
The outgoing chair of the House Financial Services Committee deserves significant credit for getting the FIT21 market structure bill through the House in 2024.
Arthur Hayes: The USDe Visionary and Fiat Skeptic
Ethena (USDe) has been one of Arthur Hayes' family office’s most prolific investments. It's also a great synthesis of Hayes' fiat-skeptic views.
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.
Brian Nelson: Leading the Charge Against Tornado Cash
As a U.S. Treasury official, Nelson went after the asset mixing service in a consequential case for the crypto sector that came to a head in 2024.
Greg Osuri: Delivering on DePIN
The co-founder of the Akash Network is utilizing DePIN to make computing power more affordable to individual users.
Eric Semler: Following MicroStrategy’s Lead
The chairman of Semler Scientific underscored that buying bitcoin was not just for digital asset companies.
