Cointelegraph Top 100 will continue to present the top 100 most creative, influential and analytical people in the cryptocurrency industry for 2021. Although 2022 was a difficult year, the last year saw enough changes to create a Top 100 list. This lists also depicts the history of crypto and blockchain in one year.

It’s impossible to populate a list in any niche that would be universally accepted; therefore, the criteria for making the list this year were unconventional in many ways, as the Cointelegraph team spent numerous hours finding the trendsetters over the past year who not only had a fruitful 2021 but are likely to continue shaping the industry in 2022.