Cointelegraph

2022

The Cointelegraph Top 100

Presented bycrypto.com

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.

Highlights for 2022:
  • 13 non-human inclusions
  • Released over 10 days
  • CryptoPunks-inspired art for each profile
#0

WAGMI

Hopium boosterAdoption
#1

Sam Bankman-Fried

CEO of FTX, CEO of Alameda Research

Exchanges
#2

Inflation

Destroyer of purchasing power

Law & Politics
#3

Devin Finzer

Co-founder and CEO of OpenSea

Exchanges
#4

Sebastien Borget

Co-founder and chief operating officer of The Sandbox, and president of the Blockchain Gaming Alliance

Adoption, Metaverse
#5

Sergey Nazarov

Co-founder of Chainlink

Founder, Tech
#6

Esteban Ordano

Co-founder of Decentraland

Metaverse
Crypto.com
#7

Francis Suarez

Mayor of Miami

Law & Politics
#8

Michael Saylor

Founder, chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy, and vocal advocate of Bitcoin

Advocate, Founder
#9

Emilie Choi

President and chief operating officer at Coinbase

Exchanges
#10

Shiba dog

Muse, nuzzler

Adoption
#11

Anatoly Yakovenko

Co-founder of Solana

Tech
#12

Kris Marszalek

CEO of Crypto.com

Exchanges, Founder, Payments
#13

Erik Voorhees

Founder and CEO of ShapeShift

Advocate, Exchanges
#14

Elon Musk

CEO of Tesla, founder and CEO of SpaceX, founder of The Boring Company

Advocate
#15

Nayib Bukele

President of El Salvador

Law & Politics
#16

Beeple

American digital artist

NFT
#17

Michael Sapir

CEO of ProShares

Investor
#18

Do Kwon

Co-founder and CEO of Terraform Labs

DeFi, Tech
#19

Leah Wald

CEO of Valkyrie

Investor
#20

CryptoPunks

NFT collection

NFT
#21

Vitalik Buterin

Co-founder of Ethereum

Developers, Founder, Tech
#22

Bored Apes Yacht Club

NFT
#23

Alexandre Dreyfus

CEO of Socios.com and Chiliz

Adoption, Founder
#24

Jack Dorsey

CEO of Block

Advocate, Founder, Payments
#25

The Metaverse

Metaverse
#26

Cynthia Lummis

United States senator from Wyoming

Law & Politics
#27

Trung Nguyen

Co-founder and CEO of Sky Mavis

Metaverse
#28

Emin Gün Sirer

Founder and CEO of Ava Labs

Tech
#29

Gary Gensler

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chair

Law & Politics
#30

Layne Lafrance

Flow product manager at Dapper Labs and co-founder of CryptoKitties

NFT
#31

Yoni Assia

Founder and CEO of eToro

Exchanges
#32

PlanB

Creator of the Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow model

Markets
#33

Snoop Dogg

American rapper

Adoption, Advocate
#34

Crypto Climate Accord and Climate Chain Coalition

Environment
#35

Charles Cascarilla

Co-founder and CEO of Paxos

Founder
#36

Caitlin Long

Founder and CEO of Avanti

Founder, Law & Politics
#37

Tom Brady

Bitcoiner, equity stakeholder in FTX Trading

Advocate
#38

Sandeep Nailwal

Co-founder Polygon

DeFi, Tech
#39

Anton Bukov

Co-founder of 1inch Network

Exchanges