In today’s day and age, women have been claiming their stand in almost all predominant male fields. Some women have had the opportunity to rise above the ranks in many fields globally, like in the world of cryptocurrency. A few years ago, females in blockchain field weren’t common, but things have changed for the better now.
Here is a list of the Top 10 Most Influential Women in Crypto who have made a place for themselves in the world of cryptocurrency.
Tina Bhatnagar
Tina Bhatnagar is a young and dynamic name in the field of cryptocurrency. She is the vice president of Technology and Operations at CoinBase, which is one of the biggest names in the crypto world. Tina now focuses her skills on scaling the support teams and IT teams in order to manage growing customer demand.
Laura Shin
Laura Shin is probably the most well known woman in crypto world. Laura hosts and produces podcasts and vidcasts with the cream of the crop in cryptocurrency world and is considered to be the gold standard for information about cryptocurrency.
Joyce Kim
Joyce Kim is one of most famous women in crypto and has a strong clout to her name. Kim co-founded Stellar in 2014, which introduced the cryptocurrency XLM. XLM is one of the most well known cryptos with a daily trade of over $88 millions. In 2017, also co-founded SparkChain Capital, which is a venture capital firm that has invested in various crypto startups.
Kathleen Breitman
Kathleen Breitman is known for her startup Tezos, which managed to raise over $232 million. She made the news because this was the 7th largest Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in history. Her company Tezos develops blockchains that can modify and evolve depending upon the users needs.
Carolyn Reckhow
Carolyn is a Blockchain enthusiast, who was the former head of operations for Casa Inc, which was a digi locker for cryptocurrencies and former Operations director at ConsenSys, which dealt with Blockchain software technology.
Perianne Boring
Perianne Boring is the Founder and President of the Chamber of Digital Commerce. She is one of the most influential lobbyists representing the Blockchain Industry. She made her name as one of the “10 Most Influential People in Blockchain” on Coindesk and on Forbes list of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech, among some of her impressive titles.
Ani Itireleng
Ani Itireleng is the Founder of Satoshi Centre. Her main drive was her belief in Bitcoin and the pull to bring it to Botswana. She still works as a schoolteacher teenagers in her country, and hasn’t made it large yet in the field of cryptocurrency, but wants to make sure the people of her country do well and reap the benefits of cryptocurrency. Satoshi Centre is an accelerator for blockchain start-ups that help connect them to potential, interested investors.
Alena Vranova
Alena Vranova is the Head of Strategy and Business Development at Casa. Before joining the Casa team, she has had an extremely impressive resume as CEO StaoshiLabs and Trezor as well as building a successful business. She has worked hard in launching the Casa Node for Lightning and Bitcoin.
Elizabeth Starks
Elizabeth Starks is one of the most well known women in the world of cryptocurrency. She co-founded Lightning Labs, where she also acts as the CEO. The company handles Bitcoin transactions and scales the Blockchain system.
Jinglan Wang
Jinglan Wang is the c0-founder of Eximchain, which offers Blockchain supply chain assistance to other companies. Wang is also the executive director of Blockchain Educational Network, which is a platform for innovation, education and development of the Blockchain network across the world.
These names are just the tip of the iceberg; there are many more women crypto influencers and blockchain enthusiasts who have made a name of themselves in the field of cryptocurrency.
