The world has been experiencing a wave of digital currency.  The trend for digital currency has grown a lot in the past couple of years.

People all over the world have been investing in cryptocurrency for the past couple of years. Today, it has become one of the most valuable assets to trade.

While many have become rich by investing in an initial lot of digital currency, here are some men who have become billionaires thanks to the trade.

These are the seven richest crypto billionaires in the world in 2022,

1. Changpeng Zhao

Net worth: $65 billion

Source of wealth: Binance

Binance founder and CEO, Changpeng Zhao, is Crypto’s richest person. Binance is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume as of April 2018.

2. Sam Bankman-Fried

Net worth: $24 billion

Source of wealth: FTX

Sam Bankman-Fried is the founder and CEO of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange. SBF also manages assets through Alameda Research, a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm he founded in October 2017. This has added to his net worth making him the second richest crypto man in the world.

3. Brian Armstrong

Net worth: $6.6 billion

Source of wealth: Coinbase

Brian Armstrong is the CEO of cryptocurrency platform Coinbase. He took the crypto exchange public through a direct listing in April 2021 at a stunning $100 billion valuation. With his 19% stake, Brian is the third wealthiest person in crypto.

4. Gary Wang

Net worth: $5.9 billion

Source of wealth: FTX

Gary Wang is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the video-sharing company Tudou.com, based in China and also served as its CEO until August 2012. Wang launched the crypto exchange with Bankman-Fried in 2019. He holds a 16% stake in FTX’s global business and over $600 million worth of FTT, which is the native token of FTX.

5. Chris Larsen

Net worth: $4.3 billion

Source of wealth: Ripple

Chris Larsen is the co-founder and executive chairman of blockchain company Ripple. The company’s XRP token is currently the 8th largest cryptocurrency.

6. Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss

Net worth: $4 billion each

Source of wealth: Bitcoin

The twins, Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss co-founded cryptocurrency exchange Gemini in 2014. The brothers also own the digital art auction platform Nifty Gateway, a beneficiary of last year’s NFT craze (and the target of a lawsuit filed by art collector Amir Soleymani in October 2021, who accused the platform of changing its terms of sale.

7. Song Chi-Hyung

Net worth: $3.7 billion

Source of wealth: Upbit

Song Chi-Hyung is the founder and chairman of Dunamu, which operates South Korea’s dominant cryptocurrency exchange.