CoinDesk Most Influential 2025

Bailey’s Strategy-inspired bitcoin treasury company, KindlyMD, exemplified the struggles of many of its peers this year.

Base, the layer-2 network incubated by Coinbase, exploded in popularity this year.

Throughout crypto’s ups and downs, Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood has remained unflaggingly bullish on the industry’s future.

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has re-emerged in recent years as one of the industry’s most consistently influential macro thinkers.

Once mired in legal trouble that included federal probes and law enforcement raids, Polymarket founder and CEO Shayne Coplan has...

Lee shaped the exchange that defines Korea’s crypto market, but even after his exit this year, the country’s hyperactive retail...

Crypto Twitter’s social media traders turned their X dashboards into public PnL reality shows in 2025, sending billions in volume...

Perpetrators use various tactics, including posing as delivery drivers or waiting at gyms, homes, or hotel rooms, to target victims...

Crypto’s Gen Z supervillain may have single-handedly popped the memecoin bubble this year, exposing it as less a cultural movement...

Crypto’s Gen Z supervillain may have single-handedly popped the memecoin bubble this year, exposing it as less a cultural movement...