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CMC Crypto Awards 2024: Winners Announced

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  • The Awards Ceremony was live-streamed March 6 and watched by crypto enthusiasts all around the world, and the awards minted as NFTs.

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 Web3.

At the online Awards Ceremony, live-streamed March 6 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 L1/L2/Cross-Chain Project: Celestia
  • Most Innovative NFT & Gaming Project: Pudgy Penguins
  • Most Innovative DeFi Project: Uniswap
  • Crypto Leader Of The Year:  Vitalik Buterin, Ryan Selkis, Brian Armstrong, CZ, Julia Leung

The surprise of the night was that the Crypto Leader Of The Year Award would be shared by all the nominees.  ‘It was impossible to pick just one winner’ said Rush Luton, CEO, CoinMarketCap, ‘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.  ‘We’ve been overwhelmed by positive feedback from both our users and the industry,’ said Jonathan Isaac, CMO CoinMarketCap’ 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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This post was last modified on Mar 06, 2024, 16:14 GMT 16:14

Written By: Michael Abadha

Michael is a self-taught financial markets analyst, who specializes in analysis of equities, forex and crypto markets. He draws his inspiration from the fact that markets provide an interface through which the world interacts in search of a better tomorrow.

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