Most Influential: Jeremy Allaire

Circle (CRCL) Co-founder, Chairman and CEO Jeremy Allaire spent 2025 turning a long-running thesis — that dollar-backed digital money would become core financial infrastructure — into a mainstream policy and technology agenda. This feature is a part of CoinDesk's Most Influential 2025 list. Allaire appears proud of the strong regulatory foundation of his firm's fiat-backed stablecoin, USD Coin (USDC), which is the second-largest stablecoin by market capitalization. During a Feb. 25 interview with Bloomber ...