The Top 100 Richest People In Cryptocurrency

So far, 2022 has not been the best year for the $2 trillion crypto economy, yet great fortunes are being amassed behind the scenes. Given this industry’s obscurity and volatility, we are presenting our first-ever list of the top 100 richest people in cryptocurrency in net-worth estimates. We based our numbers on estimated holdings of cryptocurrencies (a few provided proof), recorded investments, wallet analytics, post-tax profits from trading crypto-assets, and stakes in blockchain-related businesses. It is almost certain that we have missed some people and some of our estimates might be off, but we are not that far off either.

1. Changpeng Zhao Source: Binance Net-worth: $65 billion

2. Sam Bankman-Fried Source: FTX Net-worth: $24 billion

3. Brian Armstrong Source: Coinbase Net-worth: $6.6 billion

4. Gary Wang Source: FTX Net-worth: $5.9 billion

5. Joseph Lubin Source: Ethereum Net-worth: $5 billion

6. Chris Larsen Source: Ripple Net-worth: $4.3 billion

7. Cameron Winklevoss Source: Bitcoin Net-worth: $4 billion

8. Tyler Winklevoss Source: Bitcoin Net-worth: $4 billion

9. Son Chi-hyung Source: Upbit Net-worth: $3.7 billion

10. Barry Silbert Source: Digital Currency Group Net-worth: $3.2 billion

11. Micree Zhan Source: Bitmain Net-worth: $3 billion

12. Brad Garlinghouse Source: Ripple Net-worth: $2.9 billion

13. Jed McCaleb Source: Ripple Net-worth: $2.5 billion

14. Nikhil Viswanathan Source: Alchemy Net-worth: $2.4 billion

15. Joseph Lau Source: Alchemy Net-worth: $2.4 billion

16. Devin Finzer Source: OpenSea Net-worth: $2.2 billion

17. Alex Atallah Source: OpenSea Net-worth: $2.2 billion

18. Fred Ehrsam Source: Coinbase Net-worth: $2.1 billion

19. Kim Kyoung-nyon Source: Upbit Net-worth: $1.9 billion

20. Jihan Wu Source: Bitmain Net-worth: $1.8 billion

21. Vitalik Buterin Source: Ethereum Net-worth: $1.6 billion

22. Michael Saylor Source: MicroStrategy Net-worth: $1.6 billion

23. Matthew Roszak Source: Crypto Investor Net-worth: $1.4 billion

24. Mingxing Xu Source: OKCoin Net-worth: $1.4 billion

25. Tim Draper Source: Crypto Investor Net-worth: $1.2 billion

26. Mike Novogratz Source: Galaxy Digital Net-worth: $1.2 billion

27. Li Lin Source: Huobi Net-worth: $1.1 billion

28. Brock Pierce Source: Blockchain Capital Net-worth: $1 billion

29. Anthony Di Lorio Source: Ethereum Net-worth: $1 billion

30. Justin Sun Source: Tron Net-worth: $1 billion

31. Brenden Blumer Source: BlockOne Net-worth: $750 million

32. Valery Vavilov Source: Bitfury Net-worth: $750 million

33. Dan Larimer Source: BlockOne Net-worth: $700 million

34. Charles Hoskinson Source: Cardano Net-worth: $600 million

35. Roger Ver Source: Crypto Investor Net-worth: $500 million

36. Richard Heart Source: HEX Net-worth: $500 million

37. Anatoly Yakovenko Source: Solana Net-worth: $500 million

38. Kenji Sasaki Source: Cardano Net-worth: $500 million

39. Mihai Alisie Source: Ethereum Net-worth: $500 million

40. Jesse Powell Source: Kraken Net-worth: $500 million

41. Dan Morehead Source: Pantera Net-worth: $500 million

42. Sergey Nazarov Source: Chainlink Net-worth: $500 million

43. Greg Solano Source: Yuga Labs Net-worth: $500 million

44. Wylie Aronow Source: Yuga Labs Net-worth: $500 million

45. Amir Chetrit Source: Ethereum Net-worth: $450 million

46. Steve Ellis Source: Chainlink Net-worth: $450 million

47. Gavin Wood Source: Ethereum Net-worth: $450 million

48. Alexandre Dreyfus Source: Chiliz Net-worth: $450 million

49. Johnny Lyu Source: Kucoin Net-worth: $450 million

50. Kathleen Breitman Source: Tezos Net-worth: $400 million

51. Arthur Breitman Source: Tezos Net-worth: $400 million

52. Lin Han Source: gate.io Net-worth: $350 million

53. Bart Stephens Source: Blockchain Capital Net-worth: $300 million

54. Emin Gun Sirer Source: Avalanche Net-worth: $300 million

55. Hayden Adams Source: Uniswap Net-worth: $250 million

56. O.D. Kobo (Oded Kobo) Source: Blockchain Investor Net-worth: $250 million

57. Yi He Source: Binance Net-worth: $250 million

58. Esteban Ordano Source: Decentraland Net-worth: $200 million

59. Ari Meilich Source: Decentraland Net-worth: $200 million

60. Anthony Pompliano Source: Crypto Investor Net-worth: $200 million

61. Roham Gharegozlou Source: Dapper Labs Net-worth: $200 million

62. Ryder Junji Source: MEXC Net-worth: $200 million

63. Beeple Source: NFT Artist Net-worth: $200 million

64. Jeff “Jiho” Zirlin Source: Axie Infinity Net-worth: $200 million

65. Yawn Rong Source: Stepn Net-worth: $150 million

66. Jerry Huang Source: Stepn Net-worth: $150 million

67. Yuzo Kano Source: BitFlyer Net-worth: $150 million

68. Eric Don Source: Kucoin Net-worth: $150 million

69. Metakovan Source: NFT Collector Net-worth: $150 million

70. Kris Marszalek Source: crypto.com Net-worth: $150 million

71. Stani Kulechov Source: Aave Net-worth: $150 million

72. PAK Source: NFT Artist Net-worth: $150 million

73. Brandon Chez Source: CoinMarketCap Net-worth: $120 million

74. Peter Smith Source: blockchain.com Net-worth: $100 million

75. Gavin Andresen Source: Crypto Investor Net-worth: $100 million

76. Top Lan Source: Kucoin Net-worth: $100 million

77. Jaynti Kanani Source: Polygon Net-worth: $100 million

78. Sandeep Nailwal Source: Polygon Net-worth: $100 million

79. Arthur Madrid Source: Sandbox Net-worth: $100 million

80. Sebastien Borget Source: Sandbox Net-worth: $100 million

81. Anurag Arjun Source: Polygon Net-worth: $100 million

82. Ethan Kyuntae Kim Source: Hashed Net-worth: $100 million

83. Ryan Sungho Kim Source: Hashed Net-worth: $100 million

84. Mike Coral Source: Crypto Investor Net-worth: $100 million

85. Antoni Trenchev Source: Nexo Net-worth: $100 million

86. John Chen Source: MEXC Net-worth: $100 million

87. Mike Belshe Source: BitGo Net-worth: $75 million

88. Charlie Shrem Source: Bitcoin Investor Net-worth: $60 million

89. Javier Sim Source: Bithumb Net-worth: $50 million

90. Andreas Antonopoulos Source: Bitcoin Evangelist Net-worth: $50 million

91. Sunny Lu Source: VeChain Net-worth: $50 million

92. Fewocious Source: NFT Artist Net-worth: $50 million

93. Jake Brukhman Source: CoinFund Net-worth: $50 million

94. Eric Young Source: NFT Collector Net-worth: $50 million

95. Balaji Srinivasan Source: Coinbase Net-worth: $50 million

96. Myunghun Cha Source: Coinone Net-worth: $50 million

97. Nader Al-Naji Source: Crypto Entrepreneur Net-worth: $45m

98. Ben Zhou Source: Bybit Net-worth: $45 million

99. Star Xu Source: OKEX, Okcoin Net-worth: $40 million

100. Allen Wei Source: LBank Net-worth: $25 million