Most Influential 2021

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Most Influential 2021: Willy Woo
For building a 21st century media empire.
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Most Influential 2021: Camila Russo
The Defiant founder says: “Crypto is spurring a paradigm shift, where we’ll emerge from the current user-centric society.”
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Most Influential 2021: Tim Beiko
By 2030, Ethereum’s economy will be [at] “top 10 country” scale, says the Ethereum developer.
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Most Influential 2021: Naveen Jain
He created a global identity solution using emojis.
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Most Influential 2021: Polynetwork Hacker
For educating us on the difference between “hack” and “exploit.”
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Most Influential 2021: Roneil Rumburg
Audius CEO on growing a Web 3 Spotify to 6.6 million monthly listeners.
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Most Influential 2021: Michael Shaulov
A DeFi powerhouse finds a balance between decentralization and compliance.
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Most Influential 2021: All Seeing Seneca
The creative lead behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, the year’s breakout NFT collection.
(Adam Levine/Pixelmind.ai)

(Melody Wang/CoinDesk)
Presenting CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2021
The 50 people who defined the year in crypto.
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Sky Mavis CEO on Axie Infinity, Future of NFT Gaming in the Metaverse
Sky Mavis CEO on Axie Infinity, Future of NFT Gaming in the Metaverse
Trung Nguyen, winner of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2021 and co-founder of Sky Mavis, the game developer behind popular blockchain-based trading and battling game Axie Infinit...
Sky Mavis CEO on Axie Infinity, Future of NFT Gaming in the Metaverse