The crypto industry may be young in the grand scheme of financial markets, but it's already produced billionaires, brilliant developers, and cultural celebrities: Satoshi, Vitalik and SBF are a few. Now, as crypto goes from programmable money to decentralized everything—thanks to NFTs, games, finance apps and DAOs—it's producing a new crop of innovators, artists, and deal-makers who are putting their own stamp on the industry.
Decrypt has put together a list of 13 fresh faces who are already shaping the crypto world—and who, in some cases, might just go on to become as famous as crypto's early legends. Here, in alphabetical order, is our list of 13 rapidly rising stars in crypto