Forbes "Fintech 50" List, Reviewed: New Players, Veterans and Startups Which Didn't Make the Cut

Notably, there are just six crypto and blockchain companies featured this year, while the 2018 list contained 11 players from the field.

While there is considerably fewer crypto companies featured this year, less than half of them - Ripple, BitFury, Coinbase - have made the list before, which means that new blood arrived regardless of the market condition.

Ripple is the longest-standing crypto-oriented company on the Forbes list, being recognized for the fifth year in a row.

BitFury is widely known as the largest non-Chinese mining company, but it was featured on the Forbes for the second year in a row for its endeavours to expand even further, among other reasons.

Gemini, the Winklevoss brothers' crypto exchange, also debuted on the Forbes list.

Enterprise-focused, New York-based blockchain startup Axoni is perhaps the least recognized newcomer on the crypto part of the Forbes list.

As mentioned above, 2017 was more fruitful in regard to crypto agents on the list.

This time the company Blockchain, which was described as "The world's most popular cryptocurrency wallet" by Forbes last year, didn't make the cut.

Symbiont, the New York-located firm behind blockchain and smart contracts platform Assembly, which reportedly will be applied in capital markets, mostly stayed silent throughout 2018 - as a result, it's not featured in the new edition.

Robinhood, a stock trading app that launched zero-fee crypto trading of BTC and ETH for its users in 2018, is featured on the fresh "Fintech 50" list for the second year in a row, although not in the "Crypto and Blockchain" section.