Most Influential 2022

The Definitive List of the Biggest Changemakers in Crypto, Blockchain and Web3. Presented by Bitstamp

Most Influential 2022

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Most Influential Artist: Adam Levine

The artist made a portrait of crypto critic Molly White, and went down the Web3 rabbit hole she opened up.

Adam Paul Levine (adamtastic.com)

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Most Influential Artist: Osinachi

The Nigerian artist creates one-of-a-kind images using Microsoft Word. For this season, he depicted Mikhaylo Federov, the Ukrainian official who raised about $200 million in crypto for that country's war effort.

(Osinachi)

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Most Influential Artist: Ravi Vora

The Los Angeles-based photographer captured Gary Vaynerchuk and Vayner3 President Avery Akkineni.

(Ravi Vora)

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Most Influential Artist: Sarah Script

The calligrapher minted an NFT of White House crypto adviser Carole House.

Sarah Richardson Calligraphy (SarahScript.com)

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Most Influential Artist: Federico Solmi

The Italian artist, a resident of New York City, created a 3D image of Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum developers for their role orchestrating The Merge, the most consequential upgrade in blockchain history.

(Federico Solmi)

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The Artist and Technology Behind 36 AI Portraits

How to generate three dozen portraits for the Most Influential 2022 in about a week? Meet Pixelmind.ai, the app that saved this CoinDesk feature from visual ennui.

Will Ess and Adam Levine of 330AI (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

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CoinDesk Got Colorful With the Most Influential 2022 NFT Collection

CoinDesk has partnered with 14 truly incredible artists to immortalize on-chain some of the Most Influential 2022, whose NFT portraits will be made available in an exclusive auction being held on Coinbase NFT.

(Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

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Most Influential Artist: Dave Krugman

The photographer captured his portrait of Erick Calderon at a Bright Moments NFT art event in Mexico City.

(Dave Krugman)

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Presenting CoinDesk's Most Influential 2022

Fifty people who defined the year in crypto.

(Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

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Most Influential Artist: Bryan Brinkman

The New York animator tries to display the mystery of Razzlekhan and Lichtenstein, who kicked off this year’s descent into fraud and deception.

(Bryan Brinkman)

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