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Ripple's Chris Larsen
- Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen made this year's Forbes 400 list as the world's richest cryptocurrency tycoon.
- Forbes estimates that Larsen's total net worth is $2.1 billion.
On Thursday, Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen $4
Larsen's addition to the list is noteworthy: He's the first person to ever make the list with a fortune amassed almost exclusively from cryptocurrencies.
$4 Larsen's current net worth to be $2.1 billion. While that may seem like a lot, it's a steep decline from $37.3 billion net worth>$4 in January of this year.
As the co-founder of the payment network Ripple, Larsen has accumulated $4$4 - the digital token issued by Ripple - since it was founded in 2012. In January, XRP tokens $4 nearly four times as high as $4
Today, Larsen's $2.1 billion is an impressive, but volatile fortune. And Larsen isn't the only one to make it big in Ripple's earnings. Ripple's current CEO Brad Garlinghouse $4 as well. But today, Garlinghouse's accumulated fortune wasn't enough to make the cut for Forbes' 400 list, for which the minimum bar is $2.1 billion.
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