Vitalik Buterin became a crypto billionaire at 27 in May 2021 when $ETH hit $3,000 for the first time. With 333,500 ETH at the time, his holdings were valued at over $1 billion.

Just a few years earlier, he had stated that he never owned more than 0.9% of all ETH and his net worth was far from a billion. Despite Ether’s massive rise, Buterin recently warned against the growing trend of Ether treasury companies, expressing concern that they could lead to overleveraging and potentially harm ETH in the future.