Reports continue to emerge about the cryptocurrency market. According to a dashboard by blockchain data analysis firm Arkham, the top five crypto whales with public wallet addresses hold approximately $3.5 billion in crypto assets, but a significant portion is inaccessible due to lost passwords and private keys.
The Richest Names in the Crypto Market
On April 15, data analysis platform Tron‘s Justin Sun and Ethereum‘s Vitalik Buterin, among others, were revealed as some of the world’s richest verified crypto owners and whales by an updated dashboard. According to the data, the top five crypto owners currently possess a total of $3.47 billion in crypto assets, but about 35% of this total, amounting to $1.21 billion, is marked as inaccessible.
Justin Sun tops the list with a reported $1.06 billion in his crypto wallet. The founder of the Tron network’s wallet is loaded with his own stablecoin project Decentralized USD (USDD), holding $275 million, followed by the network’s native token Tron valued at $237 million.
Rain Lõhmus, founder of Estonia-based LHV Bank, is second on Arkham’s list with $769 million worth of Ethereum. However, he reportedly lost access to his private key in November, marking this key as inaccessible.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is third with a wallet containing 245,425 tokens valued at $757 million.
Ripple‘s former chief technology officer Stefan Thomas’s Bitcoin wallet ranks fourth, but his $442 million worth of Bitcoin is also marked as inaccessible. Thomas lost access to over 7,000 Bitcoins after losing the password to the encrypted hard drive in 2011. In October, crypto recovery company Unciphered offered to unlock the IronKey hard drive.
According to Arkham, crypto venture capitalist James Fickel is in the top five with $436 million worth of crypto assets in his wallet.
Notable Details in the List
Among the other significant crypto wallets in the top ten, early adopter Patricio Worthalter features prominently with $219 million worth of primarily Ethereum. Winslow Strong, General Partner at Cluster Capital, is listed with $27.5 million in crypto assets.
The data table provided by Arkham labels public wallets, displaying current token assets, balance history, portfolio breakdowns across chains, past daily balances, and recent activities.
However, the list does not include whale wallets or other crypto giants currently unlinked, associated with unknown or pseudonymous owners like Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto, who are believed to hold billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin across multiple addresses.
