2023
THE COINTELEGRAPH TOP 100
Cointelegraph brings you our hand-picked list of the Top 100 influencers in crypto and blockchain
For the fourth consecutive year, the Cointelegraph team has thoughtfully crafted its list of the top-100 players in the crypto industry. This year’s Top 100 features the dashing heroes and nefarious villains of the crypto space. The 2023 edition considers their moves in 2022 and what might be in store for the year ahead. Our diverse team used its industry knowledge to comb through the many potential nominees and took the results of a community voting initiative into account for both the final list of personalities and their dedicated profiles.
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#1
Good Ol’ Bitcoin
Tick tock, next block
#2
Vitalik Buterin
Co-founder of Ethereum
Brave to change mid-flight
#3
Changpeng Zhao
Founder and CEO of Binance
Do as I say, not as I do!
#4
Privacy
My kingdom for privacy!
#5
Gavin Wood
Co-founder of Polkadot
Parachaining the Web3
#6
Yat Siu
Co-founder and chairman of Animoca Brands
If GameFi had a prophet
#7
Stani Kulechov
Founder and CEO of Aave
For his work on decentralized free speech
#8
Crypto in Ukraine
Because Ukraine needs your help
#9
Eli Ben-Sasson
Co-founder and president of StarkWare
For making a Stark impact on scalability
#10
Alexey Pertsev
Developer for Tornado Cash
The poster child for decentralization, privacy and ownership
#11
Gary Gensler
Chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Something something “crypto”, something something “Wild West”
#12
Snoop Dogg
Rapper
Bringing the Crip Walk to crypto
#13
Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison
Former CEOs of FTX and Alameda Research
The fastest $10 billion rug pull
#14
Michael Saylor
Executive chairman of MicroStrategy
The Bitcoin bull with electricity for eyes
#15
Joseph Lubin
CEO of Consensys
Decentralize and optimize
#16
Brian Armstrong
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase
Back to basics
#17
Erik Voorhees
Founder and CEO of ShapeShift
How do you DAO?
#18
Zero-knowledge proofs
Just trust me on this
#19
Rostin Behnam
Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Keeping friends close...
#20
Jack Dorsey
Block head, co-founder and chairperson of Block
Smartest career pivot ever?
#21
Elon Musk and Crypto Twitter
Buyers remorse?
#22
Sam Altman
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI
The man behind the machine
#23
Tom Emmer
United States Representative
Calling out the SEC
#24
Sandeep Nailwal
Co-founder of Polygon
Built something that lures IRL corporate partners and users
#25
Nicole Muniz
CEO of Yuga Labs
Making monkeys famous
#26
Barry Silbert
Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group
Trouble in crypto paradise
#27
Vasil Hard Fork
Harder, better, faster, stronger
#28
Soulbound Tokens
Achievement status pending
