Crypto Influencer News

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has continued to reduce his holdings in the crypto exchange he co-founded, selling another 40,000 shares of COIN in early January. According to VanEck’s Director of Digital Asset Research, Matthew Sigel, Armstrong sold 40,000 shares on January 5, 2026.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (aka CZ), shared a detailed account of his early career decisions and the values that shaped his journey in the crypto industry. He touched upon his brief eight-month tenure at OKCoin, which he said ended due to cultural and ethical misalignment.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has called out the growing number of new Ethereum Virtual Machine based blockchains. In a post, Buterin argued that many new EVM chains are built by copying existing architectures and attaching an optimistic bridge to Ethereum with a one week delay.

A Democrat in the US House of Representatives has opened a formal probe into a $500 million investment linked to World Liberty Financial, a crypto project associated with President Donald Trump and his family. The investigation centers on potential national security risks, foreign influence, and possible violations of US law.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined what he sees as the dominant design pattern for future on-chain governance systems, arguing that most effective mechanisms will rely on a clear separation between execution and preference-setting. His remarks frame prediction markets and non-financialized voting systems as complementary tools rather than competing models.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (aka CZ) said that tokenization, payment infrastructure, and artificial intelligence are the strongest forces shaping the next stage of the crypto industry, at the World Economic Forum in Davos. According to him, two sectors have already achieved large-scale validation i.e., centralized exchanges and stablecoins.