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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
WORTH: $8.7 BILLIONNEWCOMERBankman-Fried is crypto’s wealthiest billionaire. The 29-year-old MIT grad founded the quantitative trading firm Alameda Research and popular derivatives exchange FTX. He made headlines in 2020 with his $5 million donation to a super-PAC that supported Joe Biden’s presidential campaign..Brian ArmstrongNET WORTH: $6.5 BILLIONLAST YEAR: $1 BILLIONThe fortune of the CEO and cofounder of Coinbase more than sextupled over the past year amid the boom in crypto investments. Coinbase has established itself as the dominant U.S. crypto exchange, generating over $1 billion in revenues last year. The firm recently filed to go public. Fred EhrsamNET WORTH: $1.9 BILLIONNEWCOMEREhrsam cofounded Coinbase with Armstrong in 2012. He left the company in 2017 but remains a board member, and his 6% stake is worth an estimated $1.9 billion. Today, Ehrsam leads the crypto-focused investment firm Paradigm. Changpeng ZhaoNET WORTH: $1.9 BILLIONRETURNEEThe founder of crypto exchange Binance has returned to the three comma club. The global surge in cryptocurrency investments boosted Binance’s valuation; Zhao owns an estimated 30% stake in the company.Barry SilbertNET WORTH: $1.6 billionNEWCOMERSilbert’s fortune is tied up in Digital Currency Group (DCG), the crypto conglomerate he founded in 2015. Among DCG’s holdings are the crypto news site CoinDesk and asset management firm Grayscale, which controls $44 billion worth of Bitcoin, Ether and other assets.The Coin Issuers While the fortune of Bitcoin’s anonymous creator is unknown, other cryptocurrency founders haven’t been as stealthy, with much of their wealth publicly recorded on the blockchain. Jed McCaleb, cofounder of Ripple, has become a billionaire as XRP's price has soared. Stellar Development FoundationChris LarsenNET WORTH: $3.4 BILLIONLAST YEAR: $2.6 BILLIONThe cofounder and chairman of Ripple grew his fortune by $800 million as his firm’s XRP token soared in value. He holds over 3 billion XRPs and a 17% stake in Ripple Labs.Jed McCalebNET WORTH: $2 BILLIONNEWCOMERMcCaleb, another Ripple cofounder, derives the bulk of his wealth from his holding of 3.4 billion XRPs. He also owns an estimated 1 billion Stellar Lumens, the cryptocurrency he cofounded in 2014 after a falling out with his Ripple colleagues.
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