Cheyenne Ligon

Cheyenne is a features and opinions editor at CoinDesk. Previously, she covered U.S. policy and regulation, with a focus on court proceedings and crime. She was part of the Gerald Loeb award-winning team that chronicled the downfall of FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried. She has no significant crypto holdings.

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Finance

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.

Peter Schiff

Policy

Most Influential: Jerome Powell

Powell’s decisions as Fed chair have continued to have a massive impact on bitcoin and the wider cryptocurrency markets.

Jerome Powell Fed Chair

Finance

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.

Guy Young

Finance

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.

Oleg Ogienko

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Policy

Most Influential: Tyler Williams

Williams has helped cement crypto gains in Congress alongside White House allies.

Tyler Williams

Markets

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.

Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy (MSTR)

Tech

Most Influential: Pavel Durov

The Telegram CEO may stand as the most pivotal figure in the bona fide mass adoption of cryptocurrency.

Pavel Durov

Tech

Most Influential: Sergey Nazarov

Chainlink’s co-founder spent 2025 turning oracles, cross-chain messaging and CRE into building blocks for tokenized funds and on-chain finance.

Sergey Nazarov

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Tech

Most Influential: ZachXBT

ZachXBT still holds the crown as the crypto world’s pseudonymous Sherlock Holmes.

ZachXBT

Policy

Most Influential: Todd Blanche

The crypto industry praised a memo signed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directing the Department of Justice to end “regulation by prosecution.”

Todd Blanche