
2022
The Cointelegraph Top 100
Cointelegraph brings you our hand-picked list of the Top 100 influencers in Crypto and Blockchain.
The Cointelegraph team has scoured the deepest trenches of the blockchain world to find the most artistic, analytical and innovative out there to be featured in this comprehensive list of people and trends that shaped the industry.
These trailblazers dominated the news cycles in 2021, and we expect they will continue risking fortune, time and opportunity to further the crypto industry in 2022. But as we know, fortune favors the brave.
- 13 non-human inclusions
- Released over 10 days
- CryptoPunks-inspired art for each profile

WAGMI
Hopium boosterAdoption
Sam Bankman-Fried
CEO of FTX, CEO of Alameda Research
Exchanges
Inflation
Destroyer of purchasing power
Law & Politics
Devin Finzer
Co-founder and CEO of OpenSea
Exchanges
Sebastien Borget
Co-founder and chief operating officer of The Sandbox, and president of the Blockchain Gaming Alliance
Adoption, Metaverse
Sergey Nazarov
Co-founder of Chainlink
Founder, Tech
Esteban Ordano
Co-founder of Decentraland
Metaverse

Francis Suarez
Mayor of Miami
Law & Politics
Michael Saylor
Founder, chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy, and vocal advocate of Bitcoin
Advocate, Founder
Emilie Choi
President and chief operating officer at Coinbase
Exchanges
Shiba dog
Muse, nuzzler
Adoption
Anatoly Yakovenko
Co-founder of Solana
Tech
Kris Marszalek
CEO of Crypto.com
Exchanges, Founder, Payments
Erik Voorhees
Founder and CEO of ShapeShift
Advocate, Exchanges
Elon Musk
CEO of Tesla, founder and CEO of SpaceX, founder of The Boring Company
Advocate
Nayib Bukele
President of El Salvador
Law & Politics
Beeple
American digital artist
NFT
Michael Sapir
CEO of ProShares
Investor
Do Kwon
Co-founder and CEO of Terraform Labs
DeFi, Tech
Leah Wald
CEO of Valkyrie
Investor
CryptoPunks
NFT collection
NFT
Vitalik Buterin
Co-founder of Ethereum
Developers, Founder, Tech
Bored Apes Yacht Club
NFT
Alexandre Dreyfus
CEO of Socios.com and Chiliz
Adoption, Founder
Jack Dorsey
CEO of Block
Advocate, Founder, Payments
The Metaverse
Metaverse
Cynthia Lummis
United States senator from Wyoming
Law & Politics
Trung Nguyen
Co-founder and CEO of Sky Mavis
Metaverse
Emin Gün Sirer
Founder and CEO of Ava Labs
Tech
Gary Gensler
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chair
Law & Politics
Layne Lafrance
Flow product manager at Dapper Labs and co-founder of CryptoKitties
NFT
Yoni Assia
Founder and CEO of eToro
Exchanges
PlanB
Creator of the Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow model
Markets
Snoop Dogg
American rapper
Adoption, Advocate
Crypto Climate Accord and Climate Chain Coalition
Environment
Charles Cascarilla
Co-founder and CEO of Paxos
Founder
Caitlin Long
Founder and CEO of Avanti
Founder, Law & Politics
Tom Brady
Bitcoiner, equity stakeholder in FTX Trading
Advocate
Sandeep Nailwal
Co-founder Polygon
DeFi, Tech
Anton Bukov
Co-founder of 1inch Network
Exchanges



























































