Net worth rankings of global crypto exchange founders

CZ is, without a doubt, ranked first, with an estimated net worth of $114.6 billion. The second name may be less familiar to us: Giancarlo Devasini, founder of both Bitfinex and Tether, with a net worth of $89.3 billion. In third place is Brian Armstrong, founder of Coinbase.

What’s particularly interesting is that CZ’s net worth is equal to the combined net worth of the founders of all the other exchanges (and that doesn’t include He Yi’s net worth). CZ’s net worth is also higher than Belarus’s annual GDP (though net worth doesn’t mean actual wealth owned).

*Some of these rankings are based on publicly available lists. For some exchanges, estimates are provided because they are privately held and lack public data. For reference only.