Arkham: Top individual ETH holder is presale investor, not Vitalik Buterin

According to a report from on-chain data analytics platform Arkham, the largest individual holder of Ethereum (ETH) is presale investor Rain Lohmus, not co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Lohmus holds approximately 250,000 ETH ($530 million) but is currently unable to access the wallet. Buterin is the second-largest individual holder with around 224,000 ETH ($480 million). The report also found that the address with the largest overall holdings is the ETH2 Beacon Chain deposit contract, which manages staked assets for network security and contains about 82 million ETH. Among institutions, Coinbase leads with 4.2 million ETH, followed by Binance with 3.6 million ETH and BlackRock with three million ETH. Arkham added that while Bitmine (BMNR) is estimated to hold over 4.7 million ETH, only 914,000 ETH has been confirmed on-chain.