Most Influential People & Projects in 2020

2020 has been an eventful year, from the Bitcoin halving to the “DeFi Summer Wave” to surges in Bitcoin’s price due to the large influx of “traditional" institutional investors. Who are the most influential people in crypto in 2020? Which are the most innovative, impactful & interesting projects in 2020?

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Dave Portnoy

Founder of Barstool

Dan Schulman

CEO of PayPal

Tyler Winklevoss

Co-founder and CEO of Gemini, principal of Winklevoss Capital

Cameron Winklevoss

Co-founder and president of Gemini, principal of Winklevoss Capital

Ari Paul

CIO, Blocktower Capital

Changpeng Zhao

CEO of Binance

Barry Silbert

Founder and CEO of Grayscale Investments and Digital Currency Group

Su Tzu

Founder, Three Arrows Capital

Jack Dorsey

Founder and CEO of Twitter and Square

Fred Ehrsam

Co-Founder at Paradigm

Peter Schiff

Chief Economist & Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital

Michael Feng

CEO, Hummingbot

Michael Arrington

Founder of Arrington XRP Capital

Justin Sun

Founder of Tron, CEO of Bittorrent, Inc.

Jordan Lyall

Product Lead at ConsenSys; Cofounder of Dontbuymeme; $MEME

He Yi

Co-Founder & CMO, Binance

Geoffrey Hayes

CTO & Founder at Compound

Genping Liu

Partner, Vertex Ventures

Brendan Eich

Founder of Brave

Brad Garlinghouse

CEO of Ripple

Anthony Pompliano

Partner, Morgan Creek Digital

Andreas Antonopoulos

Speaker, host of the podcast "Let's Talk Bitcoin"

Rune Christensen

Founder of MakerDAO

Nic Carter

Partner, Castle Island Ventures

Michael Novogratz

Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital

Michael del Castillo

Forbes Blockchain Editor

Max Keiser

Wall Street veteran and host of The Keiser Report

Leigh Cuen

Journalist at CoinDesk

Kyle Samani

Managing Partner, Multicoin Capital

Kain Warwick

Founder, Synthetix

Joseph Lubin

Co-founder of Ethereum, founder of ConsenSys

Jon Rice

Editor-in-chief of Cointelegraph

Jesse Powell

CEO and Founder of Kraken Exchange

Jeremy Allaire

Co-founder and CEO of Circle

Jed McCaleb

Founder of Stellar Development Foundation

Jamie Burke

CEO, Outlier Ventures

Elizabeth Stark

CEO of Lightning Labs

Charlie Lee

Creator of Litecoin, Managing Director at Litecoin Foundation

Akon

Founder of Akon Lighting Africa and the Akoin cryptocurrency

Edward Moncada

Co-founder and CEO of Blockfolio; Global Marketing at FTX

Bryan Bishop

Software consultant; Cofounder & CTO at Avanti Financial Group

Charlie Shrem

Founder at CryptoIQ, Host of Untold Stories podcast

Bennett Stein

Bitcoin Trading Challenge

Paul Tudor Jones

CEO, Tudor Investment Corp

Stani Kulechov

Founder & CEO of Aave

Nouriel Roubini

Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business

Nick Szabo

Digital Currency Researcher; Creator of BitGold

Naval Ravikant

CEO of AngelList, Investor

Muneeb Ali

CEO and Co-Founder at Blockstack PBC

Gavin Wood

Co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum; founder of Parity Technologies

Erik Voorhees

Founder and CEO of Shapeshift

Charles Hoskinson

Founder and CEO of IOHK

Brandon Chez

Founder and former CEO of CoinMarketCap

Anton Bukov

Co-founder of the 1inch Network

Andrew Yang

2020 U.S. Presidential Candidate

Adam Back

Co-Founder & CEO at Blockstream

Sergey Nazarov

Co-founder and CEO of Chainlink

PlanB

Initial advocate of using Stock-to-flow model for Bitcoin pricing

Nicholas Merten

DataDash, Founder and CEO of Digifox

Zac Prince

Founder & CEO of BlockFi

Tushar Jain

Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital

Trent McConaghy

Founder of Ocean Protocol

Tim Draper

Founder of Draper Associates, DFJ, and the Draper Venture Network

Shashwat Gupta

Co-Founder of Altcoin Buzz & Co-Founder of Unbound

Samsczun

Research Partner, Paradigm Fund

Robin Schmidt

Harmony Protocol creative director, host of The Defiant's YT series

Mike Dudas

Founder and CEO of The Block

Michael Saylor

Founder, Microstrategy

Laura Shin

Journalist and host of the "Unchained" podcast

Larry Cermak

Director of Research and Analysis at The Block

Juan Otero

Co-Founder and CEO of Travala

Joselito Lizarondo

CEO, Swipe

Jay Cassano

CEO, former editor-in-chief of Cointelegraph

Jameson Lopp

Co-Founder & CTO at Casa

Jake Chervinsky

General Counsel at Compound Finance

Emin Gün Sirer

CEO of AvaLabs, professor at Cornell University, co-director of IC3

Camila Russo

Founder, The Defiant

Abigail Johnson

CEO of Fidelity Investments

David Hoffman

Co-Founder of Bankless

Stan Druckenmiller

Investor

Marc Andreessen

Co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz

Willy Woo

Author at CoinDesk & The Bitcoin Forecast

Satoshi Nakamoto

The creator of Bitcoin

David Lee

Professor, Singapore University of Social Science

Olaf Carlson-Wee

Founder & CIO of Polychain

Kris Marszalek

CEO at Crypto.com

Chef Nomi

Founder of SushiSwap

Brian Armstrong

Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase

Alex Mashinsky

Founder & Ceo, Celsius Network

Peter McCormack

Host of the podcasts "What Bitcoin Did" and "Defiance"

Peter Brandt

Technical Analyst

Pavel Durov

Founder and CEO of Telegram

Bart Stephens

Co-founder and managing partner at Blockchain Capital LLC

Vlad Zamfir

Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation

Sam Bankman-Fried

CEO, FTX

Ryan Sean Adams

Founder of Mythos Capital, Host of Bankless

Robert Leshner

Co-founder Compound

Mike Belshe

Co-Founder and CEO of BitGo

Michael Gu

Founder, Boxmining

Michael Egorov

Co-founder of Curve and Nucypher

Meltem Demirors

Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares

Kelly Loeffler

Former CEO of Bakkt, U.S. senator for Georgia

Kathryn Haun

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Jimmy Song

Instructor at Programming Blockchain

David Chaum

CEO of Elixxir

Chris Burniske

Partner, Placeholder

Chamath Palihapitiya

Founder and Managing Partner of The Social Capital

Brian Behlendorf

Executive Director Of Hyperledger, The Linux Foundation

Balaji Srinivasan

Angel Investor

Andrew Kang

Partner, Mechanism Capital

Bobby Lee

Founder and CEO of Ballet

Lyn Alden

Founder, Lyn Alden Investment Strategy

Caitlin Long

Founder & CEO of Avanti Bank & Trust

Vitalik Buterin

Co-founder of Ethereum

David Marcus

Head of Calibra at Facebook

Raoul Pal

Co-Founder and Host of Real Vision

Paul Veradittakit

Partner, Pantera Capital

Nischal Shetty

Founder & CEO of WazirX

Hayden Adams

Founder and Inventor of Uniswap

Dan Morehead

Founder and CEO of Pantera Capital

Christine Lagarde

President of the European Central Bank, former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Andre Cronje

DeFi Architect: Creator of YFI & Keep3rV1

Aaron Davis

Founder of Metamask

Brad Stephens

Co-founder and managing partner at Blockchain Capital LLC

Ryan Selkis

Founder & CEO at Messari

Mike Kayamori

Founder & CEO at Quoine and Liquid

Luke Martin

a.k.a. Venture Coinist, Host of The Coinist Podcast

Kathleen Breitman

Co-founder of Tezos

Jutta Steiner

CEO and Founder of Parity Technologies

Josh Quittner

Editor-in-chief of Decrypt

Jihan Wu

Co-founder and CEO of Bitmain

Dan Finlay

Software Developer at ConsenSys, Lead Developer on MetaMask

Chris Dixon

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz