In 2025, some of crypto’s most powerful market movers didn’t launch protocols or run funds. Instead, they ‘shitposted.’ This feature is a part of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2025 list. STORY CONTINUES
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When Shayne Coplan first made mainstream headlines in November 2024, it was far from a success story that drew the media’s attention. In fact, many who heard about the Federal
Arthur Hayes has never been one to fade quietly into the background. After co-founding BitMEX and helping pioneer the modern crypto derivatives market, he has re-emerged in recent years as
South Korea’s crypto market became one of the busiest trading arenas in the world in 2025, with enthusiastic retail investors powering global surges in XRP, Dogecoin, and many of the
It says a lot about the ever-bullish outlook of Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood that she predicted bitcoin to reach $1.2 million by 2030, and it was, in fact, a
Before Rushi Manche’s ousting from Movement Labs, the crypto infrastructure startup he co-founded with fellow Vanderbilt University dropout Cooper Scanlon, he was a rising young star in the DeFi world.
Crypto’s most notorious hackers, the Lazarus Group, holds more bitcoin BTC$91,999.20 than Tesla — funds it stole, rather than bought. And despite efforts to tamp down on their exploits, the
Memecoin factory Pump.fun became one of the most influential and polarizing forces in crypto this year, powering a surge of token creation, fueling speculative excess, and testing the limits of
2025 was the year that defined memecoin culture. It began triumphantly, with billions of dollars in volume surging through hyper-financialized memecoin factories like Pump.fun. It quickly reached a violent crescendo
Cryptocurrencies are digital assets, by nature incorporeal and intangible. Some even call them “magic internet money.” Yet cryptocurrency investors aren’t immune to the physical realities of our world. One of
