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Patrick McHenry Is Dragging Crypto Bills Through Congress
4.12.2023
The bowtied chairman of the House Financial Services Committee has shown persistence in the face of increasing partisanship on crypto issues
Analisa Torres: The Judge Who Gave Ripple and XRP Hope
4.12.2023
The U.S. District judge's partial ruling against SEC and in favor of Ripple and XRP could create a precedent the crypto industry can come back to over and over
Anatoly Yakovenko and Solana Bounce Back
4.12.2023
With a rocketing token and tech improvements on the horizon, the Solana community – rallied by industry champion Anatoly Yakovenko – defied the odds of defeat
Pascal Gauthier Gave Crypto What It Needs – And Earned Jeers
4.12.2023
Crypto wallet company Ledger created a controversial seed recovery service, something newbies truly need, but suffered through a massive backlash
Caroline Ellison Buried Sam Bankman-Fried
4.12.2023
The former Alameda Research CEO gave damning testimony in the fraud trial of her former boyfriend, Sam Bankman-Fried, making her one of CoinDesk's Most Influential in 2023
Ogle Catches the Crypto Crooks
4.12.2023
Hacks happen a lot in crypto. So Ogle has professionalized asset recovery for the victims. He’s pretty good at it
Miguel Morel: Shining a Light on Crypto's Leaky Pseudonymity
4.12.2023
Arkham's Intel Exchange, which pays people to help identify wallets, caused an uproar over its alleged "dox-to-earn" program
The Year of Decentralized Social Media
4.12.2023
Farcaster, Friend.tech and Lens showed how much can change in a year — but is Web3 networking ready for primetime?
Paul Sztorc: Scaling Bitcoin With Sidechains
4.12.2023
The developer’s proposal (BIP 300) for “Drive Chains” (sidechains) on Bitcoin – meant to allow greater collaboration with other chains – was met with fierce opposition from some Bitcoiners this year. Sztorc says the community hasn’t been innovating fast enough
Balaji Put His Money Where His Mouth Was
4.12.2023
Srinivasan bet $1 million the U.S. dollar would collapse (and lost), and evangelized his ideas about startup societies, making him one of CoinDesk's Most Influential in 2023
Yat Siu: The Metaverse Man Gets Real
4.12.2023
Web3 gaming powerhouse Animoca Brands isn't playing around; it takes its work with governments and educating a skeptical audience seriously
Ria Bhutoria Is Researcher-in-Chief
4.12.2023
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
4.12.2023
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
4.12.2023
Circle Internet Financial continued to build out the USDC stablecoin network, spreading access and inclusion to new corners of the world
Sergey Nazarov: The Crypto Oracle
4.12.2023
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
4.12.2023
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
4.12.2023
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'
4.12.2023
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
Jesse Pollak Is Putting the Base in Coinbase
4.12.2023
Coinbase's layer-2 blockchain, which launched this year, helps the exchange to scale and reduce transaction fees. Rivals, like Kraken, are now said to be launching their own layer 2s
Cuy Sheffield: The Reason Visa Is 'Everywhere’ in Crypto
4.12.2023
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