Source: Forbes, Bloomberg Crypto, on-chain analysis | Date: July 2025
🔥 1. Vitalik Buterin (31 years old)
- Nationality: Canada-Russia
- Net Worth: $8.2 billion (90% in $ETH )
- Companies: Founder of Ethereum, Leader of the Ethereum Foundation.
- Power: Controls key updates to the world's #2 blockchain (ETH). His word defines the future of DeFi (75% of the market).
- Ideology: Techno-utopian. Believes in "the internet of value."
- Why do they trust him? He rejected prizes in ETH so as not to influence the price. He has never sold more than 5% of his funds.
💥 2. Changpeng "CZ" Zhao (48 years old)
- Nationality: Canada (born in China)
- Net Worth: $32.1 billion
- Business: Founder of #Binance (controls 62% of global exchange volume).
- Power: His platform lists or delists coins (e.g., erased $3B of FTT market cap in 2022).
- Ideology: Decentralized capitalism: "Regulators are partners, not enemies."
- Why do they trust him? He survived the SEC and created the #1 anti-fraud system (SAFU).
🌪️ 3. Michael Saylor (60 years old)
- Nationality: USA
- Net Worth: $2.9 billion
- Business: CEO of MicroStrategy (owns 1% of all Bitcoin in circulation).
- Power: His institutional BTC purchases move the price (+15% in 24 hours when he announces acquisitions).
- Ideology: Bitcoin maximalist: "$BTC is the real estate of the 21st century."
- Why do people trust him? He turned a dying software company into a $28B giant with BTC alone.
⚡ 4. Brian Armstrong (42 years old)
- Nationality: USA
- Net worth: $11.7 billion
- Companies: CEO of Coinbase (the first exchange listed on Nasdaq).
- Power: His lobbying in Washington achieved the regulatory framework adopted by 30 countries.
- Ideology: Pragmatic libertarian: "Cryptocurrencies are the key to financial freedom."
- Why do people trust him? His exchange is the only one with ISO 27001 security certification.
🌑 5. Sam Bankman-Fried (33 years old)
- Nationality: USA
- Net Worth: $0 (bankrupt after 2024 trial)
- Companies: Former CEO of FTX (sunk $32B in user funds).
- Power: Still influential: His tweets about regulation cause panic selling (-20% on $SOL ).
- Ideology: "Effective altruism" (he used client funds for "philanthropy").
- Why do people fear him? He proved that a single person can crash the market.
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