Forbes Names 15 Crypto-Industry Figures on US ’30 Under 30′ List

Forbes magazine has included 15 representatives of the crypto industry in its annual “30 Under 30” list, featuring the most promising and successful young people from various spheres of business, media, sports and culture.

Meet the #ForbesUnder30 Class of 2022: https://t.co/VFjCmCOiEA pic.twitter.com/LqqHhMuM9v

— Forbes (@Forbes) December 1, 2021

The participants of the Forbes “30 Under 30” list are divided into 20 categories. All were under 30 at the time of its compilation.

Eleven of the fifteen individuals are in the Finance category. Among them:

• co-CEOs of venture firm Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison and Sam Trabucco;
• co-founder of NFTNFT-marketplace OpenSea, Alex Atallah;
• co-founder of the Bitcoin exchange CoinList, Brian Tubergen;
• head of the DeFi-platform Slingshot, Clinton Bemri;
• founder of the blockchain firm Edge & Node, Teagan Klein;
• head of the streaming blockchain service Audius, Roneil Rumbur;
• co-founder of TaxBit software, Justin Woodward;
• Head of Product at Fidelity Digital Assets, Ben Spigelman;
• co-founder of the crypto-ETP provider 21Shares, Ofelia Snyder;
• co-founder of the blockchain firm TRM Labs, Rahul Raina.

Blockworks co-founders Michael Ippolito and Jason Yanowitz were placed in the Media category, while PleasrDAO founder Emily Yang was in the Arts category.

The Hall of Fame was introduced. The list includes Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX; Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe; Vlad Tenev, co-founder of Robinhood; and Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum.

In the previous edition of the “30 Under 30” list, seven people from the cryptocurrency industry were represented.

In the annual ranking of the 400 richest Americans, seven digital-asset entrepreneurs were among them.

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