Interesting developments continue to occur in the cryptocurrency market. According to this, a list prepared for the top ten crypto entrepreneurs based on the number of followers and interactions on social media, where Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao ranked first and Sam Bankman-Fried, who was imprisoned and tried after the bankruptcy of FTX, followed, has attracted everyone’s attention. The research includes well-known entrepreneurs who have made a name for themselves in the industry.
CZ Takes the Lead
The top 10 names mentioned in the news were determined by CoinLedger by taking a short listing process of the 30 most influential people in the cryptocurrency market in 2023 by CryptoWeekly and combining them with relevant social media followers to determine the most followed crypto entrepreneurs worldwide.
Alongside CZ, popular names such as Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, and Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Block, ranked in the top three in this ranking. According to CoinLedger’s research, CZ stood out as the most popular entrepreneur in the cryptocurrency market with a total of approximately 9.1 million followers on Twitter and Instagram. With the combined total of X and Instagram followers, Buterin followed CZ with 7.7 million followers, and Dorsey with 6.4 million followers.
SBF Surprise on the List
Michael Saylor, the co-founder of MicroStrategy, ranked fourth on the list, while Cathie Wood, the founder and CEO of ARK Investment Management, ranked fifth. Saylor has nearly half the number of Dorsey’s followers with approximately 3.25 million followers, while Wood has over 1.6 million followers.
Venture capitalists Chamath Palihapitiya ranked sixth with 1.6 million followers, and Marc Andreessen ranked seventh with 1.3 million followers. Barry Silbert, the CEO of Digital Currency Group, had 1.25 million followers, and Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, had 1.2 million followers, taking the next two spots on the list.
The last spot on the list was taken by Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. Despite a year passing since FTX’s collapse, SBF still has 1.06 million followers on Twitter and Instagram. According to Socialblade data, SBF’s total follower count increased from about 780,000 to over 1.1 million after FTX’s bankruptcy and has not dropped below 1 million since then.
