How Rich is Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin?
30.06.2024 16:00 1 min. read Alexander Stefanov
According to cryptocurrency tracking platform Arkham Intelligence, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has an estimated net worth of at least $552.86 million as of January 2024.
He started working in the cryptocurrency field in 2011 at the age of 17, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine with Mihai Alisi, with whom he later developed Ethereum.
Dissatisfied with the limitations Bitcoin faced, such as its scripting language, Buterin published in November 2013. Ethereum white paper, proposing the web as a solution.
Buterin’s net worth is quite tied to ETH, with the majority of it in the form of Ethereum, which represents approximately 246,730 tokens.
In addition to ETH, Buterin holds investments in various crypto companies, including StarkNet, and other tokens such as KNC and wETH.
His non-ETH holdings include 869,500 KNCL tokens worth approximately $609.78 from Kyber Network, 196.42 WETH tokens worth approximately $436,920, and 101 million THE tokens worth $127,950.
Buterin is the largest individual holder of ETH. Although Rayne Lohmus owns about 250,000 ETH from the ETH pre-sale, he does not have access to them due to lost private keys.
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