After stepping down as CEO of Binance in 2023 and serving a short prison sentence for violating the federal Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) in the United States, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao remains one of the most watched figures in crypto. This feature is part of CoinDesk’s The list of most influential 2025. His formal exit from […]
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Thomas “Tom” Lee has been a fixture on Wall Street for some time, and his latest pivot in crypto signals, he’s not content to remain on the sidelines. This feature is part of CoinDesk’s The list of most influential 2025. Lee co-founded Fundstrat Global Advisors, an independent financial research firm, in 2014. He currently serves
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Jesse Pollak, best known as the creator behind American crypto exchange Coinbase’s layer-2 network Base, has been seen as the person largely responsible for the network’s growth in popularity this year. Pollak, who joined Coinbase in 2017, launched Base in 2023. Designed to make onchain activity cheaper and easier, and to support a new wave
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After a 13-page letter from investment powerhouse Citadel Securities informed the US Securities and Exchange Commission that decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols that handle tokenized securities require a closer regulatory grip, the industry hit back with its own correspondence on Friday, calling the arguments “baseless.” “While we share Citadel’s goals of investor protection, orderly markets, and
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Among other things, 2025 will certainly be remembered for the mania and then breathtaking collapse of hastily formed bitcoin tax companies trying to mirror the success of Michael Saylor’s strategy. Perhaps none is more high profile than KindlyMD ( NAKA ), led by David Bailey, formerly the highly successful CEO of Bitcoin Magazine and Bitcoin
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Tether, the crypto company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, USDT USDT$1.0002aims to acquire popular Italian football club Juventus FC, increasing its minority stake to 100%. The firm said on Friday it has submitted a binding proposal for majority shareholder Exor’s 65.4% stake in the club in a cash offer, according to a Friday blog post.
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Last year, Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy (MSTR), was among the most influential people in the bitcoin ecosystem. His company’s stock rose fivefold even as US bitcoin ETFs entered the market. This feature is part of CoinDesk’s The list of most influential 2025. However, the story in 2025 has been markedly different. MSTR has
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Binance set to explore tokenization of up to $2 billion in bonds, T-bills and commodity reserves in PakistanReuters reported on Friday. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume highlights Pakistan’s push to use blockchain technology to unlock liquidity and attract foreign investment as it explores a formal crypto
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Five digital asset firms have received conditional approvals to become federally chartered trust banks by the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) on Friday in a major move to bring US dollar-denominated stablecoin issuers under federal regulatory oversight. Blockchain firm Ripple and Circle’s (CRCL) First National Digital Currency Bank is on the list, which
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Interactive Brokers will now allow retail investors to fund individual brokerage accounts with stablecoins, a move aimed at keeping up with the increasingly competitive retail market, Bloomberg reported Friday. The Greenwich, Connecticut-based brokerage competes with rivals including Robinhood Markets Inc. and Charles Schwab Corp. and earlier this year expanded its cryptocurrency trading capabilities along with
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