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Feb 7, 2018 · Forbes’ Crypto Rich list is categorized into five groups: idealists, builders, opportunists, infrastructure players and establishment investors. Many list members fit into more than one...
- Changpeng Zhao
- Sam Bankman-Fried
- Brian Armstrong
- Gary Wang
- Chris Larsen
- Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss
- Song Chi-Hyung
- Barry Silbert
- Jed Mccaleb
- Nikil Viswanathan and Joseph Lau
Citizenship: Canada
Crypto’s richest person, Binance founder and CEO “CZ” is the 19th richest person in the world. Forbes estimates that he owns at least 70% of Binance, the leading global platform for crypto trading. Last year, the company reportedly facilitated about two-thirds of all trading volume handled by centralized changes, generating estimated revenue north of $16 billion. Based on those estimates, Forbes has raised its evaluation of CZ’s wealth from $1.9 billion last year. The 44-year-old also holds a...
Citizenship: U.S.
The 30-year-old moved from Hong Kong to the more crypto-friendly Bahamas in late 2021 alongside his exchange FTX, which raised $400 million in January at a $32 billion valuation. The startup’s backers include crypto VC shop Paradigm (headed by Coinbase founder Fred Ehrsam, another crypto billionaire), venture capital firm Sequoia, buyout firm Thoma Bravo and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board. FTX’s U.S. operations were also recently valued by investors, at $8 billion. A professed adher...
Citizenship: U.S.
The CEO and founder of Coinbase took the crypto exchange public through a direct listing in April 2021 at a stunning $100 billion valuation. Its market capitalization is about half that today, still good enough to make Armstrong–with his 19% stake–the third wealthiest person in crypto. A recognizable figure for his plain T-shirts and bald pate, Armstrong raised eyebrows in 2020 after demanding his employees to refrain from political discussion at work. In January, the 39-year-old dropped $133...
Citizenship: U.S.
The cofounder and chief technology officer of FTX, the press-shy Wang launched the crypto exchange with Bankman-Fried in 2019. Wang holds a 16% stake in FTX’s global business and over $600 million worth FTT, the native token of FTX. Before going into crypto, Wang was a software engineer at Google, where he helped build online booking platform Google Flights. He studied math and computer science at MIT.
Citizenship: U.S
The cofounder and executive chairman of blockchain company Ripple, whose XRP token is currently the 8th largest cryptocurrency, Larsen has kept busy fighting against a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit–first filedin December 2020–that alleges Ripple’s initial coin offering was an unlawful offer and sale of unregistered securities. Still winding its way through federal courts, the case is perceived by many crypto watchers as a landmark one for future token sales. Larsen and Ripple hav...
Citizenship: U.S.
The twin brothers–best known as Mark Zuckerberg’s college nemeses (as immortalized in Hollywood film The Social Network)–have turned their $65 million settlement with Zuck into digital gold, amassing crypto fortunes of roughly $4 billion apiece. The siblings, who began buying bitcoin in 2012, have since diversified their digital assets portfolios, acquiring other cryptocurrencies and launching crypto exchange Gemini. The duo also own digital art auction platform Nifty Gateway, a beneficiary o...
Citizenship: South Korea
The founder of South Korea’s leading crypto exchange, Upbit, Chi-hyung has cashed inon South Korea’s booming, $46 billion crypto market. He’s estimated to own about a quarter of Upbit’s parent company, Dunamu, which was valued at $17 billion last November when Hybe, the agency behind K-pop sensation BTS, bought a 2.5% stake. Qualcomm, the U.S. semiconductor giant, previously held 6% of Dunamu.
Citizenship: U.S.
The founder of investment group Digital Currency Group, Silbert has built a diversified crypto conglomerate. His investment firm controls Grayscale, which manages some $28 billion of crypto assets, as well as CoinDesk, a popular crypto news and events company. Through numerous subsidiaries, Silbert’s DCG has invested in more than 200 crypto startups. Prior to crypto, Silbert was an investment banker and entrepreneur who sold stock trading platform Second Market to Nasdaq in 2015 for an undisc...
Citizenship: U.S.
McCaleb made most of his fortune from Ripple Labs and XRP, the payments-focused cryptocurrency project he cofounded in 2012; McCaleb left the project in 2013 after a falling out with Larsen and other team members. Since then, McCaleb has sold much of his XRP in periodic increments, adhering to a 2014 separation agreement he struck with Ripple Labs. He’s the founder and chief technology officer of cryptocurrency Stellar.
Citizenship: U.S.
The cofounders of blockchain decacorn Alchemy, Viswanathan and Lau first met in 2011 at Stanford while serving as TAs for a computer science class; they have since built over 10 products together. Their first hit, meetup app Down To Lunch, was briefly the Apple App Store’s top social networking app in April 2016. After discovering crypto, the duo started Alchemy in 2017 as a toolkit for blockchain entrepreneurs and developers. Today, Alchemy is a leading development platform for Web3 applicat...
- John Hyatt
Forbes' First List Of Cryptocurrency's Richest People: Meet The Secretive Freaks, Geeks And Visionaries
Sep 3, 2024 · Below is a list of the nine best-performing cryptocurrencies with market caps above $10 billion — a number chosen to weed out less-established coins — ordered by year-to-date performance....
Feb 7, 2018 · Forbes has published the “first-ever” list of the “crypto elite”, those that have made more than $350 mln from crypto so far.
Sep 6, 2022 · Changpeng Zhao, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, cracked the top 20 with a net worth of USD$65 billion. This makes him the wealthiest Canadian and the richest crypto entrepreneur on earth.
Feb 8, 2018 · Chris Larsen, co-founder of Ripple, was ranked as the wealthiest man in cryptocurrencies with an estimated net worth of $7.5 billion to $8 billion. A majority of his wealth is tied up in XRP...
