The Cointelegraph Top 100
Welcome to the first-ever Cointelegraph Top 100. We’re rolling into the new decade by sharing our list of the most important and influential people in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world!
It’s a decidedly community-oriented list and ranking. We decided not to focus on who brought crypto to the mainstream, but rather who has been active in building this space that we all love.
This list is also entirely subjective, decided upon collectively by Cointelegraph’s editors. Someone’s inclusion or ranking also doesn’t necessarily mean they are our favorite people, that we endorse them or that we agree with everything they say. But we acknowledge their importance to the community and to this future that we are all building together.
Our guiding questions are:
- Who have been the most important people to the crypto and blockchain community in 2019?
- Who do we expect will be the most important to the development of this industry in 2020?

Changpeng Zhao
CEO of Binance
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David Marcus
Head of Calibra at Facebook
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Kelly Loeffler
Former CEO of Bakkt, U.S. senator for Georgia
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Pavel Durov
Founder and CEO of Telegram
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Vitalik Buterin
Co-founder of Ethereum
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Brian Armstrong
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase
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Joseph Lubin
Co-founder of Ethereum, founder of ConsenSys
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Elizabeth Stark
CEO of Lightning Labs
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Brad Garlinghouse
CEO of Ripple
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Justin Sun
Founder of Tron, CEO of Bittorrent, Inc.
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Jack Dorsey
Founder and CEO of Twitter and Square
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Michael Novogratz
Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital
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Charlie Lee
Creator of Litecoin, Managing Director at Litecoin Foundation
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Jihan Wu
Co-founder and CEO of Bitmain
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Cameron Winklevoss
Co-founder and president of Gemini, principal of Winklevoss Capital
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Tyler Winklevoss
Co-founder and CEO of Gemini, principal of Winklevoss Capital
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Roger Ver
Executive chairman at Bitcoin.com
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Barry Silbert
Founder and CEO of Grayscale Investments and Digital Currency Group
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Andreas Antonopoulos
Speaker, host of the podcast "Let's Talk Bitcoin"
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Bobby Lee
Founder and CEO of Ballet
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