Who was the most influential in crypto of 2022?

Four Horsemen of the Cryptocalypse -- Do Kwon, Alex Mashinsky, Su Zhu, Stephen Ehrlich: For blowing up crypto.

Vitalk Buterin and Ethereum developers: For pulling off the biggest and most anticipated network upgrade in the crypto space.

Alexey Pertsev: For being a chilling example of suspected government overreach after the U.S. sanctioned the protocol he developed, Tornado Cash

Mikhaylo Federov: For raising an unprecedented $178 million in crypto to defend war-torn Ukraine.

Wylie Aronow, Nicole Muniz and Greg Solano: For building a wildly successful and loyal community vying to buy NFTs of bored apes.

Carole House: For advising the President to order a coordinated federal approach to crypto.

Molly White and the Skeptics: For being more right than wrong in 2022.

Avery Akkineni and Gary Vaynerchuk: For guiding many of the biggest mainstream retail brands into Web3.

Erick Calderon aka Snowfro: For leading the generative art movement into NFTs.

Sam Bankman-Fried: For putting the hyphens in crypto-savior-turned-corporate-fraudster.

Changpeng Zhao: For standing atop the steaming wreckage of ruined crypto exchanges, one of whom he crushed with a single tweet.