People News

Updated April 22, 2026 · 1:31 PM UTC

Discover the people shaping crypto, from founders and executives to developers, investors, and influential voices across Web3.

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People

Cathie Wood $100k Bitcoin investment reportedly made over $7M profit

Wood said Bitcoin’s market cap will still grow at the same level as the US monetary base due to the high demand for an alternative financial model.

3 years ago

People

Ripple lead engineer steps down after decade at the company

Bougalis played an integral role in the development of XRP Ledger, and is currently overseeing the introduction of NFTs to the network.

3 years ago

Regulation

Wintermute CEO argues Crypto Twitter “doesn’t matter” as much as “US regulators, politicians” in response to SBF discourse

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is in the middle of a heated debate on crypto regulation. Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy added his comments on Sunday on the state of affairs

4 years ago

People

‘Hodlonaut’ declares victory against Craig Wright in Norwegian defamation case

A Norweigan court ruled that sufficient evidence exists that Craig Wright lied in attempting to prove he is the creator of Bitcoin.

4 years ago

People

Sam Bankman-Fried proposes standard for sanctions, licensing for DeFi protocols

SBF said that DeFi protocols hosting websites and marketing products to U.S. retail investors may need some level of licensing and KYC obligations.

4 years ago

People

FatMan sounds the alarm on Ronaldinho-backed ‘World Cup Inu’ crypto token

World Cup Inu tokenomics raise suspicions of another rug pull, but supporters say everything is above board.

4 years ago

People

UK Financial Policy Committee’s Carolyn Wilkins calls for improved governance, trust in crypto industry

Carolyn Wilkins said that protocols need to re-examine their decision-making process which is largely "centralized" and adopt best practices to improve their transparency so as to retain the trust of investors.

4 years ago

People

Buterin advocates for censorship tolerance in special cases

As of press time, 53% of ETH blocks produced were OFAC-compliant in the last 24 hours.

4 years ago

Bear Market

Terra co-founder Do Kwon tells Laura Shin fraud charges against him are illegitimate

During his second interview post Terra crash, Do Kwon said fraud charges against him are outside of the scope of South Korea's Capital Markets Act, therefore invalid.

4 years ago