Issue No. 2 · September 2026
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    Issue No. 2 · September 2026

    The Most Famous Crypto and Web3 Leaders in the World

    Top 36 of 36 ranked · September 2026 · See today's live standing →

    Everyone, living or dead, on one scale: 35 of the 36 listed are living.

    First issue under methodology v5.70. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.

    The Most Famous Crypto and Web3 Leaders in the World is the September 2026 edition of the ranking, frozen and published by iFAMOUS, the monthly journal of the iFANN Global Fame Rankings.

    RankNameScore
    1
    Tim Berners-Lee
    GBcelebrityAlive
    12.0
    2
    Vitalik Buterin
    RUcelebrityAlive
    9.3
    3
    Changpeng Zhao
    CNcelebrityAlive
    8.0
    4
    Sam Bankman-Fried
    UScelebrityAlive
    7.7
    56.7
    6
    Michael J. Saylor
    UScelebrityAlive
    5.0
    7
    Adi Shamir
    ILcelebrityAlive
    4.7
    8
    Brian Armstrong
    UScelebrityAlive
    4.5
    9
    Charles Hoskinson
    UScelebrityAlive
    4.3
    10
    Christopher Harborne
    GBcelebrityAlive
    4.3
    11
    Shafi Goldwasser
    ILcelebrityAlive
    3.8
    12
    Tom Emmer
    politicianAlive
    3.6
    13
    Cameron Winklevoss
    UScelebrityAlive
    3.5
    14
    Tyler Winklevoss
    UScelebrityAlive
    3.3
    15
    Arthur Hayes
    UScelebrityAlive
    3.2
    16
    Mario Nawfal
    LBpublic figureAlive
    3.1
    17
    George Cottrell
    GBpublic figureAlive
    2.8
    18
    Paolo Ardoino
    ITcelebrityAlive
    2.4
    19
    Hal Finney
    UScelebrity
    2.3
    20
    Brad Garlinghouse
    UScelebrityAlive
    2.3
    21
    Eddie Craven
    AUcelebrityAlive
    2.0
    22
    Lale Akoner
    celebrityAlive
    1.9
    23
    HSTikkyTokky
    GBcelebrityAlive
    1.5
    24
    Dadvan Yousuf
    IQcelebrityAlive
    1.4
    25
    Satoshi Nakamoto
    celebrityAlive
    1.4
    26
    Ossi "Monarch" Ketola
    FIcelebrityAlive
    0.9
    27
    Joseph Lubin
    celebrityAlive
    0.8
    28
    Austin Federa
    celebrityAlive
    0.5
    29
    Henrik Zeberg
    celebrityAlive
    0.5
    30
    Fahmi Syed
    GBpoliticianAlive
    0.4
    31
    threadguy
    UScelebrityAlive
    0.4
    32
    Ian Balina
    UScelebrityAlive
    0.4
    33
    Jack Mallers
    UScelebrityAlive
    0.3
    34
    Rashad Bilal
    celebrityAlive
    0.2
    35
    Frankdegod
    celebrityAlive
    0.2
    36
    Wizard of Soho
    CAcelebrityAlive
    0.2

    About this list

    This list ranks the most famous crypto and web3 leaders in the world as of September 2026, by overall global fame rather than one month's attention. It is the top 36 of 36 names the rankings measured in this sector, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 35 of the 36 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.

    Tim Berners-Lee is No. 1 on this list for September 2026. Behind Tim Berners-Lee come Vitalik Buterin and Changpeng Zhao.

    What famous means here

    Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.

    The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.

    How the list was ranked

    The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.

    About Crypto / Web3

    Crypto / Web3 is one of the sectors the journal ranks every month, alongside every country, origin and region list in this issue. Sector lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared across sectors and against the world. Crypto, Web3, NFTs and decentralized finance.

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    iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.70. Today's live standing for this list is on ifann.net; the journal freezes it once a month so it can be cited permanently.

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    "Tim Berners-Lee, No. 1 on The Most Famous Crypto and Web3 Leaders in the World", iFAMOUS No. 2 (September 2026), ifamous.org

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