The largest holder of $ETH is the Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Deposit Contract, which holds 59,753,653 ETH, representing 49.53% of the total supply. Other major holders include Coinbase, with 4,930,015 ETH (4.09%), Binance with 4,232,584 ETH (3.51%), and Bitfinex with 3,284,376 ETH (2.72%).
There were 201.76 million ethereum holders as of 28 July, up from 199.58 million a month earlier on 29 June.
The largest ETH-holding address was an ETH2 deposit smart contract which held over 13.1 million coins or close to 11% of ETH’s circulating as of 28 July.
The second largest ETH-holding address was a Wrapped Ether smart contract with 4.28 million ETH (3.58% of circulating supply), as of 28 July.
The third and fourth highest amounts of ETH were deposited in wallet addresses identified as belonging to crypto exchanges Kraken and #Binance
two unidentified wallet addresses in fifth and sixth places are top holders of ethereum outside those deposited in the smart contracts and crypto exchanges.
The two unidentified wallets had about 1.95 million and 1.49 million $ETH tokens in them, respectively, representing 1.6% and 1.2% of the total ETH supply, as of 28 July 2022.
The two wallets mentioned above were the only two unidentified addresses among the top 10 ether holders. The remaining protocols were identified as smart contracts, cryptocurrency exchanges, and decentralised finance (DeFi) protocols
It is unknown how much ETH holdings do early contributors and ethereum insiders currently have. In October 2018, Buterin disclosed his wallet address on Twitter. #BinanceSquareTalks
