Odaily Planet Daily News Arkham, an on-chain intelligence platform, posted on the X platform that the platform’s “top ETH entities” list includes exchanges, active whales, and even a permanently destroyed wallet address, among which:
- Binance and Grayscale (Grayscale) are the two largest ETH entities, but their holding models are very different: Binance keeps the majority of ETH in two cold wallets and currently holds more than $5.7 billion worth of ETH; Grayscale, on the other hand, does not have a single address holding more than $30 million, but instead holds nearly $5 billion in ETH (attributed to its Ethereum Trust product) in more than 650 addresses.
- The 15th largest holder of ETH is a destroyed Polkadot Multisig, holding 306,000 ETH. Github user "devops199" sent a kill() command to the Parity library that Polkadot's multisig relies on due to misoperation on November 6, 2017, making the ETH worth $500 million permanently unrecoverable.
- Two wallets among the top 30 ETH addresses "still" hold ETH purchased during the Ethereum pre-sale; among them, the 22nd largest ETH wallet (starting with 0x2B6) received 250,000 ETH in the genesis block.