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1 year ago
David Tse: Bringing Staking to Bitcoin
It’s been a banner year for Babylon, the staking protocol co-founded by Tse.
1 year ago
Cynthia Lummis: Laser-Eyed Lawmaker
The Wyoming senator has been a major crypto supporter since joining Congress in 2021. Now she’s the leading advocate for creating a Strategi...
1 year ago
Ray Chan: Bridging Web2 and Web3 With Memes
The CEO of Memeland turned memes into cultural currency with 9GAG. Now, he's using crypto to transform them into tools for engagement and co...
1 year ago
Optimism’s Jing Wang and the Widely Adopted OP Stack
With Uniswap, World, Kraken, and Sony’s Blockchain Labs all adopting Optimism technology, Optimism was a clear winner in the Ethereum scalin...
1 year ago
Adam Sullivan: The Man Who Made Mining Sexy Again
Core Scientific’s CEO pioneered the highly lucrative move by bitcoin miners into AI computation work.
1 year ago
Matthew Long: The UK’s Crypto Gatekeeper
Under Long, the Financial Conduct Authority has been slow to approve crypto firms operating in the UK. Impending new rules may change that,...
1 year ago
Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart: The Bloomberg ETF Bros
The two analysts had their fingers on the pulse of one of crypto’s biggest financial stories of 2024.
1 year ago
Sergio Demian Lerner: Making Bitcoin More Programmable
The founder of Rootstock is working to create a framework for running programs on Bitcoin and enabling the development of more sidechains an...
1 year ago
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 al...
1 year ago
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.
1 year ago
Robin Linus: Scaling Crypto’s Premier Network
The developer behind BitVM is facilitating the building of more and more applications atop Bitcoin.
1 year ago
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: BCH Falls 10% as Nearly All Assets Trade Lower
Bitcoin was the only gainer in the Index since late Monday, rising 1%.
1 year ago
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 vi...
1 year ago
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.
1 year ago
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...
1 year ago
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 Bi...
1 year ago
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.
1 year ago
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 hu...
1 year ago
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 ef...
1 year ago
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.
1 year ago
Bitcoin Miners Cipher, CleanSpark and MARA Upgraded at JPMorgan
The bank updated estimates for a number of mining stocks in its coverage following third quarter results and recent gains in bitcoin and the...