16 years in the cryptocurrency market Important note

Recently, The Defiant compiled a list of DeFi and web3 Translators of the Year. These KOLs set up crypto sites with developers, hackers and investors helping to develop open source companies, governments and regulators to found or threaten economy and ban development, related industry CEOs to DeFi and international influencers; It also includes artists and communities. manufacturers who have integrated technology into key crops.

Here are the special names of 16 year olds.

Artiste NFT Ppleasr

It's an important year for Pplpleasr (Emily Yang). He is well known in this circle for working closely with projects in this area during DeFi's summer boom last year. Among them, he directed the video for the release of Uniswap V3, which made it very popular. Models of the film were sold with NFT for over $ 500,000. He donated his income to the Stand With Asians movement. PleasrDAO is a group of DeFi executives, early NFT writers and digital artists who created this organization with this acquisition. PleasrDAO has built a solid reputation through financial support through its acquisition of critical leadership.

Later that same year, Emily described Ethereum's documentary "Infinite Garden" and created the cover for the August / September 2021 issue of Fortune, which sold for $ 1.3 million in the limited edition. NFT. He also collaborated with DJ Steve Aoki to create products that were sold at Sotheby's. It's the year of NFT, and there is no other NFT artist as brilliant as Emily.

DeFi Hero Samczsun

"Hein?"

These two words from Samczsun are what the creator of the DeFi project dreads the most. This means that the group has seen the fatal error in the policies it creates. However, it was not about personally using these conflicts for beneficial purposes, but decided to help resolve these issues for the safety of DeFi users. It was a little rewarding, but as I mentioned in my interview in March 2020, I did it mostly for competition and fun.

In October 2020, an anonymous subsidiary joined venture capital firm Paradigm as a research partner, but that didn't stop it from committing the DeFi scandal. Earlier this year, he discovered the incredible at SushiSwap, one of the largest companies in the area. It finds flaws or potential loopholes in operations including Curve Finance, ENS, Synthetix, Kyber Network, Nexus Mutual, Hegic Options, Aragon and Finance.

Nayib Bukele, President of Crypto

In 2021, no other president will rock the cryptocurrency business more than 40-year-old El Salvador Nayves Bukele. When Bukele took Bitcoin and made it the centerpiece of a Central American country, the grand idea of ​​digital currency suggested by Satoshi Nakamoto went further. Now, as Salvadorans switch to using Bitcoin in their daily lives, the real experiment has started and there is some resistance. Bukele is continuing his tenure, announcing a receipt for his purchase of 21 Bitcoin in a tweet on December 21.

Jack Dorsey, a stubborn Bitcoin adherent

BTC extremists have provided a number of interesting points in the context of Twitter encryption, claiming that DeFi will not be able to do what it does and will put you in an unusual light of issues with the drastically closed mind. . They refuse to recognize non-Bitcoin innovation (not religion). Among them was a Christian who he deliberately ignored was the cause of a special tragedy, which turned out to be the basis of Twitter, Jack Dorsey.

A former head of Twitter and CEO of Square (now known as Block), Dorsey is uniquely positioned to promote web3 as someone who sees the potential of blockchain as the core architecture for cashier systems and the internet at one. cost. . But instead of bearing the cost of creating DeFi, he tried to make it unique to Bitcoin. Time will tell if it will accomplish many tasks that others have tried but failed.

Cooper Turley, former DAO expert

In the DAO arena, Cooper Turley seems to be everywhere. He was an expert on Audius, a music streaming platform, and a consultant for the Variant Fund, but more than that. His full-time career at DAO began in 2018 and has helped sponsor groups such as MetaCartel and Moloch DAO. This led to the creation of Fire Eyes DAO, where he helped web3 startups grow their communities and launch tokens.

Coopahtroopa attributes most of its success to writing. Through his contributions to this magazine and other publications, he has continued to understand how DAO, DeFi, and NFT work. With Fire Eye, she has been involved in advertising brands such as Superare's RARE to the NFT market. He also helped create Friends With Support, a community token competition designed specifically for FWB hosts. These are just a few of the many jobs he applied for and invested in. He is also an entrepreneur and consultant for Defiant.

Best DeFi VC, Chris Dixon

Dixon is a regular partner of 16z and will purchase all of the DeFi "stud" in 2021. He played a key role in generating a $ 2.2 billion cryptocurrency investment for private equity. This money is a third party bank. Campaigns supported by his team include Celo, OpenSea and Compound. This brings Andreessen Horowitz Crypto into "gravity" in the DeFi and Web3 arena. The company has nominal stakes and / or assets in almost all major projects in all verticals. Dixon also preached the gospel to DeFi knowing several of its languages. In a recent article, he compared the phenomenon of "programmable blockchains" to the development of new smartphones.

Kwon Do, developer of innovation and ecosystem

Doo Kwon is the co-founder of Terraform Labs, which develops the Terra ecosystem, a mature and self-sufficient alternative financial system. At the heart of the network are stable UST values, which are based on physical media and algorithmic algorithms backed by LUNA tokens. Although this currency reached a significant portion of the USD peg, it did not maintain a legitimate value. No other piece of algorithmic stability can do this for long. UST recently reached a market cap of $ 10 billion.

In addition to stablecoins, the Terra ecosystem includes the profitable Anchor trading platform, the Mirror protocol which allows users to trade assets, trade Astroport exchange, other applications developed by the DeFi galaxy, and users calling themselves. Crazypeople. Terraform Labs has grown sufficiently to accommodate SEC hearings, and the SEC is reviewing the mirror protocol. However, Kwon did not appear to be involved and Terraform then sued the US SEC for "breaking its rules."

Daniel Sestagali, serial ua lag luam

As an avid Bitcoin follower, Sesta (commonly known as Sesta) maintained the must-read Twitter post attitude after co-creating our massive project. Acquired by OlympusDAO, Wonderland is a museum sponsored sports business, Abracadabra is DeFi Debt and Popsicle Finance is an income generating platform. Popsicle Financial was robbed in August and lost $ 25 million. However, Sesta then reimbursed the victims and distributed 20% of the prize to those who held all of the ICE tokens.

His company and Olympus DAO have announced a version called DeFi 2.0 to improve support for teams and users.

The ultimate hacker, Vantec

Banteg is the ultimate embodiment of the DeFi hacker. An anonymous developer with a rabbit avatar, the hacker has become a key member of the Yearn financial group. According to Banteg culture, Yearn is still one of the biggest TVL DeFi systems and continuously updated to provide the best benefits to users.

Banteg is also committed to supporting the wider ecosystem, including giving Yearn a percentage of the public money from Gitcoin public funding granted to Ethereum, and recently joined the new DAO to support the DeFi law.

Elon Musk, priceless communication king

Elon Musk is the Technoking of Tesla, the CEO of Dogecoin, the co-founder of SpaceX and the richest man in the world. Yet, among Twitter's encrypted content, Musk is above all the most useless information.

Bitcoin jumped 14% earlier this year when Tesla announced it would accept BTC as a payment method and hold tokens on its balance sheet. When he later declared on Twitter that Dogecoin was his favorite cryptocurrency, Dogecoin soared. In June, he tweeted that he had changed his mind and explicitly broke with Bitcoin. BTC fell 7% on bitter emoji. Prices fell in October when Musk tweeted that he didn't have a Shiba Inu piece. He seems proud of his power, but for the merchants his handsome outfit is very pleasant.

Cassie Wood, Queen of Commerce

Cathie Wood's ARK Web x.0 ETF was Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust's first Bitcoin investment ETF in 2015. She has always advocated for encryption. He told CNBC this month that the influx of schools could push Bitcoin's value up to $ 500,000 and make Ethereum even more expensive. It also follows the ETF BTC announcement and is a sponsor of web3. However, this year is a test for Wood's innovative ARK ETF, which companies like Tesla are focusing on. Savings fell 21%, which is the real promise after a 152% return in 2020. The real challenge for money managers is how they are coming back. Given ARK's performance this year, there will be ample opportunity to showcase its strengths in 2022.

CeFi King Brian Armstrong

Although it has been difficult to double the gains in the cryptocurrency market, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has worked hard to become a middle class financial company with a fair financial base. Coinbase and Circle are at the forefront of launching the industry's most popular stability, USDC, by launching their own agentless wallet and working to deliver DeFi out of interest through a messaging interface. Coinbase clashed with the US SEC over its attempt to release securities. Armstrong reported to the SEC on Twitter this "careless behavior" and his opposition to innovation.

If you live under CeFi Nose there are a lot of rules and restrictions to be aware of, in particular Coinbase, the largest US cryptocurrency exchange, is still a public company.

The Worst Web2, Mark Zuckerberg

It's not because he accepted the Meta universe and changed the company name from Facebook to Meta, but it's disgusting. Whistleblower Frances Haugen came as no surprise to Congress in October, when lawyer Frances Haugen posted on Facebook for ignoring staff calls to lie and discriminate on a large platform. No, Zuckerberg's worst moment online was filmed on July 4 with a hydrofoil and holding a star and a pest. Nothing shows the arrogance and arrogance of the 37-year-old billionaire better than this video. This "classic" will never go out of fashion.

Alexis Ohanian, Best Web2

Led by Reddit co-founder Ohanian, the web2 social network takes the important first steps to integrate and support web3, and works with the Ethereum Foundation to provide the development tools for connected devices. We have also posted community content on the Ethereum testnet. Reddit is also working with Layer 2 Arbitrum to determine if community content can be created in-house.

Ohanian has been a regular investor in tech and blockchain companies since joining Reddit in 2020. This year, venture capital firm Seven Seven Six and Polygon announced a $ 200 million plan to boost the market. social and web integration 3. Ohanian has long been the winner of a more open Internet and has advocated for dissent through speeches in Congress and lobbying the FCC.

Gary Gensler, DeFi demi-where

The President of the US SEC is extremely responsible as a regulator who truly understands the intricacies of blockchain. As he said, that doesn't mean he wants to open up to crypto networks. It uses procedures to prevent commerce from operating "across borders".

It once promised to "protect" investors from the risk of airdrops, tenfold returns and massive returns, leaving enough room for financial assets similar to those of future ETFs.

So far, this is mostly a threat, but Gensler defines almost all crypto products as security or a contract governed by applicable law. This is more than any other great management organization has ever done.

Hester Pierce, Awakened Guardian

US SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce is also known as "Crypto Mom". He has always been one of the best advisers in establishing clear cryptocurrency regulations. .

One of its biggest partnerships is its Token Safe Harbor plan. The plan is to provide blockchain startups with a good three-year lead time without fear of litigation, giving them ample time to meet build requirements. This is to ensure that the network must be fully decentralized so that tokens are not considered secure.

This year, too, he will continue to push for increased crypto oversight. Earlier this month, Peirce announced that Gary Gensler's business practices still do not include descriptions of digital assets. It is very disappointing.