After 10 days of online voting, deep data analysis and discussions with an expert committee, CoinMarketCap has announced the winners of the CMC Crypto Awards 2024, an annual event that honors the exceptional people, products and projects shaping crypto and Web 3.0.
At the online awards ceremony, live-streamed March 6, 2024, and watched by crypto enthusiasts all around the world, the winners were announced and the awards minted as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain an immutable record of crypto success.
- Crypto of the year Solana
- Bridge builder of the year BlackRock
- Meme coin of the year Bonk
- Social influencer to watch ZachXBT
- Most innovative layer one / layer two / cross-chain project Celestia
- Most innovative NFT and gaming project Pudgy Penguins
- Most innovative DeFi project Uniswap
- Crypto leader of the year Vitalik Buterin, Ryan Selkis, Brian Armstrong, CZ and Julia Leung
The surprise of the night was that the ‘crypto leader of the year’ award would be shared by all the nominees.
Rush Luton, CEO of CoinMarketCap, said,
“It was impossible to pick just one winner. All five of the nominees have contributed so much over the last 12 months but in very different ways, and we wanted to recognize all their tremendous efforts to move the industry forward.”
Featuring market analysis from Raoul Pal, CEO of Real Vision, and Rush Luton, CEO of CoinMarketCap, the awards ceremony was a celebration of an industry that has had a rollercoaster year but is now enjoying a blistering resurgence.
Jonathan Isaac, CMO of CoinMarketCap, said,
“We’ve been overwhelmed by positive feedback from both our users and the industry. We’re excited to make the CMC Crypto Awards even bigger and with the market looking so bullish, it’s thrilling to imagine the stories we’ll be celebrating next year.”
The CMC Crypto Awards is supported by partners BingX, Animoca Brands, Binance, Trust Wallet, Coinbase, Chainwire, Zeebu and ICP Hubs Network and is a collective celebration of the crypto community’s strength and potential.
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