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The Firm That Turned Bitcoin Into a Ticker Symbol
Grayscale spent a decade building the plumbing that lets ordinary investors own crypto without touching a wallet - then went to court to prove the SEC had to allow it.
DCG Built a Crypto Empire. Now It Has to Prove the Model Still Works.
Barry Silbert designed DCG to hold crypto businesses for the long haul, not flip them on a fund's timetable. A decade later, its mix of asset management, mining, consumer finance and decentralized AI is both its edge and its hardest governance test.
Ryan Selkis
Ryan Selkis is the co-founder and former CEO of Messari, the leading crypto intelligence and research platform. Known by his pseudonym 'Two Bit Idiot,' he broke the news of the Mt. Gox hack in 2014 that shook the crypto world, helped build CoinDesk and the Digital Currency Group, and spent six years publishing Messari's annual 'Crypto Theses' - the most widely read forecasting reports in the industry. He stepped down as Messari CEO in July 2024 amid political controversy, but remains an advisor and one of crypto's most influential voices.