
CoinDesk's Most Influential 2024
37 Individual Created Mar 07, 2025 Updated --
CoinDesk's Most Influential 2024: https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-news/2024/12/05/most-influential-2024


CoinDesk's Most Influential 2024

37 Projects Created Mar 07, 2025 Updated --
CoinDesk's Most Influential 2024: https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-news/2024/12/05/most-influential-2024

Balaji Srinivasan
Co-Founder at Coin Center

Erik Voorhees
Founder at Shapeshift

Arthur Hayes
Co-Founder at BitMEX

ZachXBT
Crypto detective

Michael Saylor
Founder at Strategy

Justin Sun
Founder at Tron

Eric Wall
Co-founder at Taproot Wizards

Ansem
Crypto trader

Sreeram Kannan
Founder at EigenLayer

Rune Christensen
Founder at Sky

Paolo Ardoino
CTO at Tether

Udi Wertheimer
Co-Founder at Taproot Wizards

Shayne Coplan
Founder & CEO at Polymarket

Illia Polosukhin
Co-Founder at NEAR Protocol

Keone Hon
Co-founder & CEO at Monad

Lily Liu
Foundation Chairman at Solana

Luca Netz
CEO at Pudgy Penguins

Yat Siu
Co-founder and Chairman at Animoca Brands

Hunter Horsley
Co-Founder and CEO at Bitwise

Jinglan Wang
Founder at Optimism

Pavel Durov
Founder at The Open Network

Richard Teng
CEO at Binance

Ray Chan
Co-Founder and CEO at Memeland

Evan Cheng
Co-Founder and CEO at Sui

Matthew Hougan
Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise

Avery Ching
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO at Aptos

Greg Osuri
Founder and CEO at Akash Network

David Tse
Co-Founder at Babylon

Sergio Demian Lerner
Founder at Fairgate

Robin Linus
Core contributor at ZeroSync

Mahesh Ramakrishnan
Co-Founder at EV3

Steve Yun
Chairman at The Open Network

Frank Mong
COO at Helium

Luuk Strijers
CEO at Deribit

Fred Thiel
Chairman & CEO at Marathon Digital

Tigran Gambaryan

Adam Sullivan
CEO at Core Scientific