Benjamin Schiller

Benjamin Schiller is CoinDesk's managing editor for features and opinion. Previously, he was editor-in-chief at BREAKER Magazine and a staff writer at Fast Company. He has covered crypto since 2013 and lives in New York.

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Policy

Pavel Durov: Free Speech Hero Against the State

The Telegram founder’s short stay in a French prison this summer was a free speech inflection point.

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Tech

Lily Liu: Solana’s Powerhouse Ambassador

Solana Foundation’s President may be the busiest person in crypto and one of the smartest.

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Finance

Pump.Fun: Solana’s Memecoin Juggernaut

The site cemented Solana as the number-one place to launch and trade brand-new memecoins, for better and worse.

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Tech

Satoshi Nakamoto: The Mystery That (Probably) Will Never Be Solved

An HBO documentary floated a bizarre theory about the Bitcoin creator's identity, while self-proclaimed Satoshi Craig Wright suffered a big U.K. court defeat.

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Johnny Ng: Hong Kong’s Web3 Politician

The legislator has become a key proponent for crypto in Hong Kong, as well as an advocate for the victims of crypto scams.

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Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Richard Teng: The Ex-Regulator Stabilizing Binance

Under Teng’s leadership, Binance has majorly boosted its compliance spending in an effort to stay on the right side of global regulations.

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Consensus Hong Kong 2025 Coverage

Aptos' Avery Ching: Building Bridges to TradFi

The layer-1 blockchain, a descendant of Facebook's Libra/Diem project, attracted the likes of Stripe, Franklin Templeton and Blackrock in 2024.

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Tech

Ansem: The Memecoin King

He trades. He tweets. He fights. He’s the consummate crypto trader-influencer. Danny Nelson spent a day with Ansem as he prepared to meet Bitboy.

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Tech

The Truth Terminal: AI-Crypto’s Weird Future

Andy Ayrey’s AI chatbot showed how decentralized AI can make crypto, build community and even turn stories into reality.

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Finance

Tether’s Paolo Ardoino: Building Beyond USDT

Tether continued to rake in billions from its leading stablecoin. But, this year, it also invested more widely, in payments, telecoms, AI and bitcoin mining.

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