PANews reported on April 2 that Forbes released the 39th Global Billionaires List. The number of billionaires in the world exceeded 3,000 for the first time, reaching 3,028, with a total wealth of $16.1 trillion, an increase of $2 trillion over last year. The list shows that 15 billionaires have a net worth of more than $100 billion, among which Elon Musk regained the title of the world's richest man with $342 billion, followed by Mark Zuckerberg ($216 billion) and Jeff Bezos ($215 billion).
In addition, there are 16 cryptocurrency billionaires on the list, with a total wealth of more than $164 billion and an average net worth of $6.8 billion. Among them, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng became the world's richest cryptocurrency billionaire with $63 billion. In addition, Tether's CFO Giancarlo Devasini ranked second with $22.4 billion, and JL van der Velde, Paolo Ardoino and Stuart Hoegner, who are also related to Tether, also made the list.
Founders of cryptocurrency exchanges occupy an important position, including Coinbase co-founders Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam, Gemini founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Tron founder Justin Sun. Others on the list include Chris Larsen of Ripple, Jed McCaleb of Stellar, investor Tim Draper, and Michael Saylor, founder of Microstrategy. Saylor's company holds 528,185 bitcoins and he personally holds 17,732 bitcoins, and his crypto assets have significantly improved his wealth ranking.
