Most Influential 2024


Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Johnny Ng: Hong Kong’s Web3 Politician

The legislator has become a key proponent for crypto in Hong Kong, as well as an advocate for the victims of crypto scams.

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Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Richard Teng: The Ex-Regulator Stabilizing Binance

Under Teng’s leadership, Binance has majorly boosted its compliance spending in an effort to stay on the right side of global regulations.

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Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Aptos' Avery Ching: Building Bridges to TradFi

The layer-1 blockchain, a descendant of Facebook's Libra/Diem project, attracted the likes of Stripe, Franklin Templeton and Blackrock in 2024.

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Финансы

BlackRock's Larry Fink: Crypto’s TradFi Savior

The CEO of BlackRock helped pull the cryptocurrency industry out of its near-fatal post-FTX-collapse bear market and brought prices back to new highs.

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Технологии

Ansem: The Memecoin King

He trades. He tweets. He fights. He’s the consummate crypto trader-influencer. Danny Nelson spent a day with Ansem as he prepared to meet Bitboy.

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Технологии

The Truth Terminal: AI-Crypto’s Weird Future

Andy Ayrey’s AI chatbot showed how decentralized AI can make crypto, build community and even turn stories into reality.

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Финансы

Tether’s Paolo Ardoino: Building Beyond USDT

Tether continued to rake in billions from its leading stablecoin. But, this year, it also invested more widely, in payments, telecoms, AI and bitcoin mining.

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Политика

Julia Leung: Hong Kong’s Crypto Proponent

The CEO of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission is playing a critical role in the region’s bid to establish itself as a global hub for crypto.

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Финансы

Keone Hon: Bridging DeFi and TradFi

The ex-Jump Trading quant raised $225 million in 2024 to build Monad, a high-performance blockchain trying to bring Wall Street's trading efficiency to crypto.

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Финансы

Justin Sun: Tron’s Founder Was at the Center of It All

From TRX and tether-on-Tron to wBTC and one expensive banana, Sun was never far from the headlines this year.

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