The 10 richest crypto and blockchain billionaires 2022
While in 2021 there were 'only' 12 official crypto billionaires, the 2022 list of crypto billionaires grew to 19 - 7 more.
Newcomers to the Forbes' annual World's Billionaires list, published Tuesday, include the founders of Web3 infrastructure company Alchemy and the founders of OpenSea, a NFT-marketplace.
The three richest on the list are Changpeng Zhao (Binance), Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX) and Brian Armstrong (Coinbase).
Changpeng Zhao
- Net worth: $65 billion
- Age: 44 years
- Source of wealth: Binance
- Citizenship: Canada
Sam Bankman-Fried
- Net worth: $24 billion
- Age: 30 years
- Source of wealth: FTX
- Citizenship: U.S.
Brian Armstrong
- Net worth: $6.6 billion
- Age: 39 years
- Source of wealth: Coinbase
- Citizenship: U.S.
Gary Wang
- Net worth: $5.9 billion
- Age: --
- Source of wealth: FTX
- Citizenship: U.S.
Chris Larsen
- Net worth: $4.3 billion
- Age: 61 years
- Source of wealth: Ripple
- Citizenship: U.S.
Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss
- Net worth: $4 billion each
- Age: 41 years
- Source of wealth: Bitcoin
- Citizenship: U.S.
Song Chi-hyung
- Net worth: $3.7 billion
- Age: 38 years
- Source of wealth: Upbit
- Citizenship: South Korea
Barry Silbert
- Net worth: $3.2 billion
- Age: 43 years
- Source of wealth: Digital Currency Group
- Citizenship: U.S.
Jed McCaleb
- Net worth: $2.5 billion
- Age: 47 years
- Source of wealth: Ripple, Stellar
- Citizenship: U.S.
