Most Influential 2024


Finanças

Eric Semler: Following MicroStrategy’s Lead

The chairman of Semler Scientific underscored that buying bitcoin was not just for digital asset companies.

Eric Semler Puddy Penguin (CoinDesk/Pudgy Penguins)

Tecnologia

EigenLayer's Sreeram Kannan: King of the Professor Coins

Kannan may have played a larger role than any other entrepreneur in revitalizing DeFi on Ethereum. But not everything went according to plan.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Finanças

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)

Finanças

Luuk Strijers: Pioneering Bitcoin Options

The CEO at Deribit has shown years of transformative leadership in the crypto derivatives space.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Finanças

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)

Tecnologia

ZachXBT: Master Sleuth of Crypto

Nobody catches blockchain criminals better.

(Pudgy Penguins)

Política

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)

Tecnologia

Lily Liu: Solana’s Powerhouse Ambassador

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

(Pudgy Penguins)

Finanças

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)

Tecnologia

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)

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