Donald Trump: The Crypto President
His July speech at the Bitcoin Conference, in Nashville, was a turning point for crypto, promising an easier path for the industry heading into 2025.
Illia Polosukhin: A Crypto+AI Pioneer
The co-founder of NEAR is working to create a full ecosystem for decentralized AI.
Helium’s Frank Ong: Building Out DePIN’s First Big Success Story
Helium was a DePIN long before DePIN was a word. Long-time COO Mong is gratified to see (literally) a thousand projects emulating its economic model in 2024.
Erik Voorhees: Merging Crypto and AI
The founder of DEX ShapeShift has launched a new AI platform that’s meant to be a safer and more neutral alternative to ChatGPT and Claude.
Eric Wall, Udi Wertheimer and Francisco Alarcon: Upgrading Bitcoin With Covenants
The founders of the popular Taproot Wizards JPEGs want to do more now to “make bitcoin magical again.”
Yat Siu: Fighting for Digital Property Rights
The Animoca co-founder, a big investor in NFTs, GameFi and memecoins, wants to make on-chain capitalism secure so that digital democracy can flourish.
Greg Osuri: Delivering on DePIN
The co-founder of the Akash Network is utilizing DePIN to make computing power more affordable to individual users.
Hunter Horsley and Matt Hougan: The Spot Crypto ETF Champions
The two Bitwise executives have worked tirelessly to get crypto exchange-traded funds approved by the SEC, and this year they finally succeeded.
Fred Thiel: The Michael Saylor of the Bitcoin Mining Industry
The CEO of MARA Holdings has gone all-in on bitcoin, adding billions of dollars worth of the world’s largest cryptocurrency to MARA’s balance sheet.