2022 has been another wild ride for the crypto community.
The crypto news platform, WhaleChart’s official Twitter account, held a poll to determine who has been the most influential person in the crypto industry in 2022.
Most influential person in crypto 2022?
Vitalik Buterin
Charles Hoskinson
Changpeng “CZ” Zhao
Sam Bankman-Fried— whalechart.org 🐳 (@WhaleChart) December 21, 2022
The poll had four options users could choose from, including Co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, founder, Charles Hoskinson, Binance founder and CEO, Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao, and the bankrupt cryptocurrency FTX founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.
Here is how the 4 personalities performed in the poll as of this writing:
- Changpeng Zhao – 35%
- Charles Hoskinson – 35%
- Sam Bankman-Fried – 19%
- Vitalik Buterin – 11%
Changpeng Zhao – CEO, Binance
Changpeng Zhao, Binance CEOBinance CEO, Changpeng Zhao, is leading the board with 35.5% votes, as of this writing.
It is difficult to argue with Zhao’s place as the most influential personality in 2022, he really was front and center of a lot of initiatives and events over the year.
However, arguably Zhao’s most significant involvement came in November when he announced that Binance would liquidate its FTX token ($FTT) holdings.
As part of Binance’s exit from FTX equity last year, Binance received roughly $2.1 billion USD equivalent in cash (BUSD and FTT). Due to recent revelations that have came to light, we…
