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While there\u2019s a number of bitcoin whales that often get caught by blockchain parsers and written about in media reports, ethereum whales get a lot less attention. According to statistics in 2022, there are a lot more ethereum whales than holders with large sums of bitcoin. In fact, while the top 100 richest bitcoin addresses control 14.08% of the circulating supply, the top 100 richest ethereum addresses hold 39.81% of all the ether today.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Data Shows Ethereum Still Has a Large Concentration of Whales in 2022<\/h2>\n

Ethereum, the second-largest crypto asset in terms of market capitalization, has an overall USD valuation of around $348 billion. Ethereum\u2019s market cap represents 18.3% of the $1.89 trillion crypto economy\u2019s net value. While the leading crypto asset has been around for close to seven years, 100 addresses<\/a> command 39.81% of the current ether in circulation. However, after subtracting the Ethereum 2.0 Contract address, which holds 10.06% of the current ether in circulation, 99 wealthy addresses own 29.75%.<\/p>\n

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Coincarp.com rich list statistics for this article were recorded on April 27, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the top five richest ethereum addresses alone, 5.17% of the ETH<\/a> supply is controlled by the Wrapped Ether contract, 1.78% of the ETH<\/a> supply is held by the trading platform Kraken<\/a>, and 1.68% is held by Binance<\/a>. Many of the 100 richest ethereum addresses are centralized exchange platforms and decentralized finance (defi) protocol reserves. This includes exchanges and protocols such as Bitfinex<\/a>, Okex, FTX, Polkadot Multi-Sig, Arbitrum\u2019s bridge, and Lido. After the 57th largest ethereum address, the majority of the rest are unknown wallets or simply whales.<\/p>\n

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Into the Block\u2019s Large Holders statistics for this article were recorded on April 27, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Into the Block statistics<\/a> show addresses that own more than 1% of the circulating supply and addresses that own between 0.1% and 1% of the circulating supply, equate to 41%<\/a>. Those same metrics applied to bitcoin\u2019s top 100 addresses equate to 10%. From this perspective, the data shows that there are a lot more ether whales than the concentration of large bitcoin holders. Moreover, some of these ethereum whales have been making a name for themselves, as blockchain parsers are starting to monitor their activities more often.<\/p>\n

Meet Some of Ethereum\u2019s Most Famous Whale Addresses \u2014 <\/span>Light, Locke, Tsunade, Bluewhale0072, and Bluewhale0073<\/h2>\n

For instance, whalestats.com<\/a> gives an interesting perspective of the ether whales who not only hold ethereum but also tokens and non-fungible token (NFT) assets. Whalestats.com labels the rich list, and the top five addresses include wallets called \u201cLight,\u201d \u201cLocke,\u201d \u201cTsunade,\u201d \u201cBluewhale0072,\u201d and \u201cBluewhale0073.\u201d The wallet Bluewhale0073 has been making headlines<\/a> lately for purchasing and selling massive amounts of shiba inu (SHIB). Whalestats monitors whales \u201cwho are worth an average of $75,905,160 and hodl an average of 10,236 ETH<\/a>, 34 tokens, and 1 NFT.\u201d<\/p>\n

The address called Light is currently worth over $17.9 billion today and it holds 136 NFTs from 54 collections. While none of the NFTs are extremely valuable, Light\u2019s SHIB stash is worth $786.69 million. Light also holds $218.74 million in CRO and $217.08 million in tether (USDT<\/a>). The whale\u2019s stash of ethereum is worth $87.57 million as Light holds 30,320 ether. Light also has multi-million-dollar stashes of usd coin (USDC), enjin coin (ENJ), the sandbox (SAND) and, decentraland (MANA).<\/p>\n

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Whalestats.com statistics for this article were recorded on April 27, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The address dubbed Locke currently holds $13.52 billion in digital assets today. Locke holds 151 NFTs from 53 different collections and $109.3 million worth of ethereum. Locke also owns millions of dollars worth of BAT, SAND, UPXAU, MATIC, SHIB, LINK, FTM, and APE. The address also holds hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ENJ, USDC, USDT<\/a>, GRT, SRM, SPELL, and QNT. The whale address called Tsunade holds $186.9 million and 162 NFTs from 57 different collections. Tsunade has $60.07 million in USDT<\/a>, $40.44 million in SHIB, and $36.5 million in ETH<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bluewhale0072 is the fourth largest ether whale on whalestats.com<\/a> and the address holds 100 NFTs from 37 different collections. The wallet is currently worth $67.4 million today and $40.67 million of the wallet\u2019s funds are held in tether (USDT<\/a>). Bluewhale0072 also holds a large portion of wrapped bitcoin (WBTC) and has $4.99 million worth of WBTC today. As mentioned above, Bluewhale0073 has been written about on a few occasions and in recent times. That\u2019s because at certain times, Bluewhale0073 purchases vast quantities of shiba inu (SHIB).<\/p>\n

Bluewhale0073\u2019s USD value today is $122.98 million and the wallet only owns ten NFTs from four different collections. A large portion of Bluewhale0073\u2019s wealth is in ethereum (ETH<\/a>) as the wallet holds $114.53 million in ether today. Bluewhale0073 also holds $5.53 million in USDT<\/a>, $1.75 million in USDC, $640K in MATIC, and $19,324 in SHIB. While reports noted that Bluewhale0073 was purchasing millions of dollars of SHIB, the address sold most of the meme-coin, trading for other coins like ETH<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While we don\u2019t know who all the ethereum whales are, they are caught regularly by blockchain analysis and they can be tracked. Crypto whales have always been an enigma and they are called whales because they are massive compared to the rest of the smaller fish in the digital currency industry. Much like the whales in the ocean, crypto whales can cause major volatile waves within the crypto economy.<\/p>\n

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What do you think about today\u2019s ethereum whales? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nJamie Redman <\/h6>\n

\nJamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 5,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.

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