Crypto Awards 2021 Winners and Nominees
The winners of the 2021 people’s choice Crypto Awards were announced yesterday at Blockchain Fest 2021 event held in Cyprus. The magnificent award ceremony concluded the Blockchain fest 2021 at the beautiful Parklane Resort, 11 Giannou Kranidioti Street, Limassol 4534, Cyprus.
The voting period for the 2021 crypto awards started in the month of January 2021 and ends on 10 November 2021. The crypto rating of the nominees was based on the honest feedback and reviews from real crypto users (site’s visitor feedback) and customers and the winner is declared by the Crypto Awards Team.
The mega event was attended by over 100,000 attendees (in-person+virtual), 3000 participants and over 500 distinguished speakers from the field of Blockchain, Exchanges, Cryptocurrencies, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), NFTs, Mining, Gaming, Online Payments and Investment. Find a complete list of all award nominees and winners of the 2021.
Best Women in Blockchain & Crypto 2021
Myrtle Anne Ramos – the Founder of Block Tides & Co-CEO of Sinofy, won the “Best women in Blockchain & Crypto” award at the “Blockchain Fest – Cyprus 2021”. Myrtle is a Serial Entrepreneur who supervised 1000+ Media Publications and Conducted over 27 successful Fintech and blockchain summits in Asia. She holds a BS Management degree from University of the East Caloocan, Philippines and is an official influencer of Coinmarketcap. Other nominees in the category for 2021 were:
| Rank | Best Women in Blockchain & Crypto 2021 | Known For | Rating |
| 1 | Myrtle Anne Ramos 🏆 | Founder & CEO Block Tides | 29 |
| 2 | Jillian Godsil | Founder Blockleaders.io | 20 |
| 3 | Maria Lobanova | Founder interstellardigital.io | 14 |
| 4 | Alena Afanaseva | Co-Founder & Director BeInCrypto | 12 |
| 5 | Katherine Deng | founder of MEXC Pioneer | 11 |
| 6 | Amelie Arras | CEO & Founder Flytiful.com | 10 |
| 7 | Teana Baker-Taylor | general manager of U.K. for Crypto.com | 5 |
| 8 | Lidia Yadlos | Co-founder Digitex & Blockster | 3 |
| 9 | Jenny Zheng | Cofounder of Blockcast.cc | 2 |
| 10 | Nikita Sachdev | CEO Luna PR | – |
| 11 | Mary Saracco | co-founder and CFO at Settle Network and StableX | – |
| 12 | Emily Dallara | Social Marketing Manager Bitcoin.com | – |
Best CEO In Blockchain & Crypto 2021
Illia Polosukhin – the CTO and co-founder of NEAR.AI, a decentralized developer platform, won the “Best CEO in Blockchain & Crypto” award for 2021. Originally from Ukraine, Illia holds a Masters degree in “Applied Math and Computer Science” from the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”. He moved to California, US after his masters and worked as a “Engineering Manager” at Google Research for 3 years. Other nominees in the category for 2021 were:
| Rank | Best CEO in Blockchain & Crypto 2021 | Known For | Rating |
| 1 | Illia Polosukhin 🏆 | Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol | 47.62 |
| 2 | Richard J. Ells | Founder of Electroneum Ltd & ETN-Network | 41 |
| 3 | Changpeng Zhao | founder and CEO of Binance | 4 |
| 4 | Justin Sun | Founder and CEO of TRON | 2.4 |
| 5 | Sam Bankman-Fried | founder and CEO of FTX | 1 |
| 6 | Alena Afanaseva | Co-Founder & Director BeInCrypto | 1 |
| 7 | Henry Chong Heng Li | CEO of FUSANG Corp. | 1 |
| 8 | Barry Silbert | founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group (DCG) | – |
| 9 | Michael Saylor | CEO MicroStrategy | – |
| 10 | Brian Armstrong | CEO Coinbase | – |
Best DeFi Yield Farming BSC 2021
With 225.34 rating points “LaunchZone” won the Crypto award 2021 in “Best DeFi yield farming based on BSC” category.
Zcore Finance was placed second while Garudaswap ranked third in the list. The other 2021 nominees for Best DeFi (Decentralized Finance) Yield Farming on Binance Smart Chain were:
| Rank | Best DeFi Yield Farming BSC 2021 | Founded Year | Rating |
| 1 | LaunchZone 🏆 | 2020 | 225.34 |
| 2 | ZCore Finance | 2021 | 129 |
| 3 | Garudaswap | 2021 | 90.82 |
| 4 | Autofarm Network | 2020 | 77.42 |
| 5 | Apache Finance | 2021 | 75 |
| 6 | HyperJump | 2020 | 46 |
| 7 | ApeSwap | 2021 | 26 |
| 8 | Jetfuel Finance | 2020 | 19 |
| 9 | Alpaca Finance | 2021 | 15 |
| 10 | beefy.finance | 2020 | 12.19 |
| 11 | Cafeswap Finance (Brew) | 2021 | 6 |
| 12 | Pancake Swap | 2020 | 5.8 |
| 13 | BurgerSwap | 2020 | 1 |
| 14 | Blizzard.Money | 2021 | 1 |
Best Blockchain Technology 2021
With 166.66 rating points, NEAR Protocol emerged as the clear front-runner in the “Best Blockchain technology of 2021” category of crypto awards.
Hive – the decentralized information sharing network, came neck-to-neck securing second place, while Algorand secured third place. Other nominees for the best blockchain technology of 2021 were:
| Rank | Best Blockchain Technology | Founded Year | Rating |
| 1 | NEAR Protocol 🏆 | 2018 | 166.66 |
| 2 | Hive | 2020 | 159.07 |
| 3 | Algorand | 2017 | 92 |
| 4 | Solana | 2017 | 3.6 |
| 5 | Polygon Technology | 2017 | 2 |
| 6 | Polkadot | 2013 | 1 |
| 7 | Origin Protocol | 2017 | – |
| 8 | QuarkChain | 2018 | – |
Best DeFi Exchange (DEX) 2021
“LaunchZone” grabbed yet another award in the “Best Crypto Decentralized (DEX) Exchange” category with 67.62 rating points. Switcheo and Infinity Crypto secured second and third place respectively, for the best DEX 2021 award.
| Rank | Best DeFi Exchange 2021 | Founded Year | Rating |
| 1 | LaunchZone 🏆 | 2020 | 67.62 |
| 2 | Switcheo | 2018 | 53.57 |
| 3 | Infinity Crypto | 2021 | 21 |
| 4 | JulSwap | 2020 | 7 |
| 5 | Pancake Swap | 2020 | 5 |
| 6 | QuickSwap | 2021 | 2 |
| 7 | SushiSwap | 2020 | 1.4 |
| 8 | Curve Finance | 2020 | 1 |
| 9 | Uniswap | 2018 | 0.6 |
| 10 | Injective Protocol | 2018 | 0.6 |
| 11 | DODO DEX | 2020 | – |
| 12 | Mdex | 2021 | – |
| 13 | ZKSwap | 2020 | – |
Best Crypto Exchange 2021
| Category | Winner 🏆 | Other Nominees |
| Trading Volume(24h) more than 1 Billion USD | Binance | KuCoin, Kraken, Coinbase, FTX, Huobi Global, HitBTC & OKEx |
| Trading Volume(24h) 100 Million to 1 Billion USD | MEXC Global | Bibox, Gemini & Bithumb Global |
| Trading Volume(24h) less 1 Million USD | Lykke Corp | FUSANG, Graviex & Huobi Indonesia |
Best Crypto Wallet Mobile App 2021
| Rank | Best Wallet Mobile App | Founded Year | Rating |
| 1 | Zumo Money | 2017 | 6 |
| 2 | Trust Wallet | 2017 | 2 |
| 3 | SafePal Wallet | 2018 | 1 |
| 4 | Atomic Wallet | 2018 | 1 |
| 5 | Metamask | 2018 | – |
| 6 | Exodus | 2015 | – |
| 7 | TronLink | 2018 | – |
| 8 | Bitcoin.com | 2008 | – |
| 9 | Math Wallet | 2018 | – |
| 10 | TokenPocket | 2018 | – |
| 11 | WalletConnect | 2018 | – |
Here is the quick summary of all the other award winners and nominees in 13 different categories for 2021 crypto awards.
| Crypto Awards Category | Winner 🏆 | Other Nominees |
| Best Crypto Media Global 2021 | Blockcast.cc | BeInCrypto, Blockdesk & LUNA PR |
| Best Crypto Media Asia 2021 | Block Tides | The Coin Republic & BeInCrypto – Vietnam |
| Best Crypto News Global 2021 | CryptoPolitan | BeInCrypto News, News BTC & CryptoCurrency Wire |
| Best Crypto Advertising 2021 | Blockwiz Solution Ltd. | Blockster |
| Best Crypto Business Platform 2021 | Blockster | Peculium, Polymath, Evedo, Community business Token, Hedgeguard, Now Payments & Evai |
| Best CeFi Lending Platform 2021 | Celsius | Nexo |
| Best DeFi Fundraising 2021 | LaunchPool | BSCstarter, Polkastarter, DuckDAO Incubator & Poolz |
| Best DeFi Lending Platform 2021 | BENQI | DeFi for You, EasyFi, Aave, Maker, Compound, JUST, Venus, Cream Finance, Bella Protocol & Liquity |
| Best DeFi Technology 2021 | Endaoment | Openocean, Certik Foundation, 1Inch.exchange, Kyber Network, Paid Network, DEXTools, Kattana, Reef Finance, Kleros, Debank, Alpha Finance Lab & Frontier |
| Best Crypto Advisor 2021 | Anndy Lian | Giovanni Casagrande |
| Best Crypto Speaker 2021 | Antoni Trenchev | Anndy Lian, Tone Vays & Sergei Khitrov |
| Best Crypto Investor 2021 | Kyle White | Mohammed Carrim Ganey |
| Best Payment Processing 2021 | Nuvei | Checkout.com |
