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Most Influential: Vlad Tenev
Robinhood has acquired Bitstamp, launched staking services for ether and solana, and added new tokens for US users, including XRP, SOL, and BNB.
Most Influential: Paul Atkins
Under Atkins’ leadership, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has undergone a near-complete reversal of the way it regulates crypto.
The Deepfake Reckoning: Why Crypto’s Next Security Battle Will Be Against Synthetic Humans
Crypto platforms must adopt proactive, multi-layered verification architectures that don’t stop at onboarding but continuously validate identity, intent, and transaction integrity throughout the user journey, argues Ilya Brovin, chief growth officer at Sumsub.
Zero-Knowledge Tech Is the Key to Quantum-Proofing Bitcoin
We can quibble over the exact timeline, but the quantum future is an approaching certainty, argues Arpa Network CEO Felix Xu. The time to act is now, while we still can.
Most Influential: Peter Schiff
Peter Schiff, the outspoken gold advocate and notorious bitcoin critic, has been vindicated by the market’s performance, cementing his stance after years of skepticism towards digital assets.
Most Influential: Jerome Powell
Powell’s decisions as Fed chair have continued to have a massive impact on bitcoin and the wider cryptocurrency markets.
Most Influential: Guy Young
Young sparked a new category of digital assets, yieldcoins, that sits at the intersection of DeFi rails and TradFi basis trades.
Most Influential: Oleg Ogienko
Sanctions, capital controls and Russia’s improvised financial plumbing helped create A7A5, a ruble stablecoin built on a currency rarely used in global commerce, allowing it to appear legally at major events even as its presence leaves compliance teams panicked.
Most Influential: Tyler Williams
Williams has helped cement crypto gains in Congress alongside White House allies.
Strategy’s STRD credit spread has tightened over past month even as bitcoin struggles
The narrowing spread between yields on STRD and the 10-year U.S. Treasury could signal boosted demand for the preferred stock.
