According to Stuart Alderoty, open and permissionless crypto networks have no central authority deciding who can participate, validate transactions, or build on them, meaning there is no CEO at the center, source: Stuart Alderoty, X, Oct 15, 2025. According to Stuart Alderoty, using the no-CEO talking point as if it were unique to Bitcoin (BTC) is misleading and risks undermining good policy, source: Stuart Alderoty, X, Oct 15, 2025. According to Stuart Alderoty, the National Cryptocurrency Association views the crypto story as bigger than any single token and characterizes the no-CEO design as fundamental to all open, permissionless tokens, source: Stuart Alderoty, X, Oct 15, 2025; source: National Cryptocurrency Association, X, Oct 15, 2025. According to Stuart Alderoty, the goal is to remind policymakers and the public that true open and public crypto networks are not centrally managed, source: Stuart Alderoty, X, Oct 15, 2025.