Market Persons
who moves prices and sets the narrative

Roles and influence context per instrument: founders, strategists, communicators. Less information asymmetry—clearer scenarios and capital-level decisions. The influence-type filter narrows the list to the context you need.

CoinList

Token distribution and market access platform (institutional actor)

liquidity

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CoinMarketCap

communication

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Colin LeMahieu

Founder and lead protocol developer · Nano (project)

technology

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Colin Percival

Cryptographer and creator of scrypt · Tarsnap / Cryptography researcher

technology

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Colin Steil

Co‑founder, COO · Cartesi

liquidity

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Community & Marketing Lead (Gifto)

Community and Growth Lead

sentiment

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Constance K. Lau

Chief Executive Officer · Hawaiian Electric Industries (HEI)

policy

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Cooper Turley

DAO operations lead and community coordinator · BanklessDAO (core contributor)

liquidity

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Craig Gentry

technology

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Craig Sellars

Technical architect for initial Tether implementation on Omni · Tether (former CTO), Realcoin

liquidity

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Craig Wright

Controversial proponent and litigant · nChain / CoinGeek

policy

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CREAM Finance team

technology

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Cuy Sheffield

Head of Crypto, Visa · Visa

policy

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Da Hongfei

Blockchain entrepreneur and ecosystem architect · Neo / Ontology (co‑founder)

policy

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Dan Finlay

Wallet developer · MetaMask / ConsenSys

technology

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Dan Finlay

Wallet UX and tooling lead · MetaMask / ConsenSys (originally)

technology

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Dan Friedkin

Owner & Chairman, The Friedkin Group / AS Roma · AS Roma

policy

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Dan Guido

Security auditor and research lead · Trail of Bits

technology

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Daniel Hardman

Standards engineer and protocol designer · Evernym (former); standards contributor

technology

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Daniel Kim

Head of Business Development / Partnerships · pNetwork

liquidity

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Daniel Kochis

Head of Ecosystem / Growth, validator onboarding and developer relations lead · Aptos Labs

communication

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Daniel Larimer

Chief Architect · Block.one

technology

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Daniel Shin

Co‑founder and head of business development · Terraform Labs; Chai

communication

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Daniel Stockhaus

Founder & CEO · Polkastarter

technology

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