{"id":145063,"date":"2023-09-01T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=145063"},"modified":"2023-09-01T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:30:10","slug":"arkham-ids-robinhood-as-5th-largest-eth-holder-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/arkham-ids-robinhood-as-5th-largest-eth-holder-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkham IDs Robinhood as 5th-largest ETH holder &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-v-2649fa34=\"\">\n<p>Arkham Intelligence, a platform for monitoring cryptocurrency data, has revealed that apart from owning one of the biggest Bitcoin wallets, Robinhood is also a leading holder of ether, and is the owner of the fifth-largest ETH wallet, which contains about $2.54 billon worth of ETH.<\/p>\n<p>Arkham Intelligence <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArkhamIntel\/status\/1696931898117800322\">stated<\/a> on social media that their recognition of Robinhood <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-whale-wallet-becomes-third-largest-holder-three-months\">possessing the third-largest Bitcoin wallet <\/a>garnered significant attention. However, they said, less attention has been paid to their identification of Robinhood as the holder of the fifth-largest <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/ethereum-price\">ETH<\/a> wallet. In a separate <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArkhamIntel\/status\/1696933188268954046\">update<\/a>, Arkham emphasized that these funds are under custody for user balances.<\/p>\n<p>The current largest Bitcoin wallets in the world, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitinfocharts.com\/bitcoin\/address\/bc1ql49ydapnjafl5t2cp9zqpjwe6pdgmxy98859v2\">according<\/a> to BitInfoCharts, are reportedly owned by Binance and Bitfinex \u2014 as Bitcoin cold wallets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our identification of Robinhood as the owner of the third-largest Bitcoin wallet was widely covered.<\/p>\n<p>But most coverage missed that we\u2019ve also identified them as the owner of the 5th largest ETH wallet, holding $2.54B of ETH.<\/p>\n<p>0x40B38765696e3d5d8d9d834D8AaD4bB6e418E489 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sczj11uLlA\">pic.twitter.com\/Sczj11uLlA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arkham (@ArkhamIntel) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArkhamIntel\/status\/1696931898117800322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Arkham Intelligence, a wallet associated with Robinhood holds various other cryptocurrencies, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/how-significant-is-it-that-robinhood-accumulated-3b-in-bitcoin-over-three-months\">such as 122,076 BTC ($3.3 billion)<\/a>, 34.1 trillion Shiba Inu (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/shiba-inu-price-index\">SHIB<\/a>) ($277.8 million), 4.9 million <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/chainlink-price-index\">LINK<\/a> ($29.7 million) and 2.6 million <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/avalanche-price-index\">AVAX<\/a> ($29.6 million). Despite its prominence in stock trading, Robinhood&#8217;s cryptocurrency trading activity has seen a decline, with second-quarter crypto revenue dropping to $31 million from the initial quarter&#8217;s $38 million.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Aug. 30, the company <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.aboutrobinhood.com\/robinhood-wallet-adds-support-for-bitcoin-and-dogecoin-and-enables-ethereum-swaps\/\">announced<\/a> the expansion of its wallet product, incorporating &#8220;custodial, sending, and receiving capabilities for Bitcoin and Dogecoin,&#8221; alongside the existing feature of facilitating Ethereum swaps. This enhancement is a direct response to user demands for broader support, as stated by the company.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/how-significant-is-it-that-robinhood-accumulated-3b-in-bitcoin-over-three-months\"><strong><em>Robinhood accumulates $3B of Bitcoin in 3 months \u2014 What does this mean for markets?<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upon its initial launch in March, the Robinhood Wallet introduced self-custody services, catering to the Polygon and Ethereum networks. It also encompassed various tokens like COMP, MATIC, SHIB, SOL, UNI, along with the USDC stablecoin.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Magazine: <\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/big-questions-did-the-nsa-create-bitcoin\/\"><strong><em>Did the NSA create Bitcoin?<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkham Intelligence, a platform for monitoring cryptocurrency data, has revealed that apart from owning one of the biggest Bitcoin wallets, Robinhood is also a leading holder of ether, and is the owner of the fifth-largest ETH wallet, which contains about $2.54 billon worth of ETH. Arkham Intelligence stated on social media that their recognition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[235,203,210,234,231,232,237,238,236,233],"class_list":["post-145063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto-currency","tag-elon-musk","tag-ethereum","tag-hyperledger","tag-ibm","tag-mining","tag-nodes","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145792,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145063\/revisions\/145792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}