{"id":79756,"date":"2023-06-05T17:50:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=79756"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:50:04","slug":"ethereum-co-founder-transferred-41-million-to-the-kraken-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ethereum-co-founder-transferred-41-million-to-the-kraken-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum co-founder transferred $41 million to the Kraken exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum co-founder Jeffrey Wilcke transferred 22,000 ETH (~$41.1 million at the time of the transaction) to the Kraken exchange.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"zh\" dir=\"ltr\">40 minutes ago, Ethereum co-founder Jeffrey Wilcke <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffehh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jeffehh<\/a> transferred 22,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ETH<\/a> ($41.13M) to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kraken?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kraken<\/a>\u3002<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Wilcke&#8217;s address last sent ETH 29 months ago (2021-01-06): at that time he sent 15,000 ETH to Kraken\u3002<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Jeffrey Wilcke&#8217;s address still holds more than 150,000 ETH ($280M)\u3002<\/p>\n<p>The tweet from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LionDEX_CN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LionDEX_CN<\/a> sponsored <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PxAh2UNLRN\">pic.twitter.com\/PxAh2UNLRN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u4f59\u70ec (@EmberCN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmberCN\/status\/1665693560119914497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/233118\/ethereum-jeffrey-wilcke-kraken?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social\">The Block<\/a>, several sources, including analytics platforms Nansen and Arkham, labelled the wallet as belonging to Wilcke.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Ethereum co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/tx\/0x0078ca6c743243edf45ab9b5b7d05943f1144ff6d07417cf646362c89083307f\">transferred<\/a> assets from this address was November 2020. At that time he sent 15,000 ETH to the same platform \u2014 about $9.1 million at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2019, he indirectly confirmed that he moved 92,000 ETH (~$11.9 million) to the Kraken exchange.<\/p>\n<p>As of writing, the wallet holds more than 150,000 ETH worth about $280 million.<\/p>\n<p>Some members of the crypto community <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SJCrypto\/status\/1665709323949932545\">speculated<\/a> on Twitter that Wilcke could lock the sent coins in staking. However, it is unlikely that the Ethereum co-founder would use a centralized exchange for this purpose, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lwcincr93\/status\/1665710980762853381\">noted<\/a> by a user.<\/p>\n<p>In May, an unknown address that purchased 8,000 ETH in the <span data-descr=\"Initial Coin Offering\" class=\"old_tooltip\">ICO<\/span> (~$14.7 million) <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dormant-eight-year-address-moves-8000-eth\">transferred<\/a> all funds to another wallet.<\/p>\n<p>In April <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/6071-btc-activates-after-nine-years-in-dormancy\">moved<\/a> 6,071 BTC, which had been held for nine years.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, an unknown address moved <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/two-million-doge-that-had-lain-dormant-for-nine-years-move\">2.04 million DOGE<\/a>, which had been stored since December 31, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethereum co-founder Jeffrey Wilcke transferred 22,000 ETH (~$41.1 million at the time of the transaction) to the Kraken exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,46,1156],"class_list":["post-79756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-transactions","tag-ethereum","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79758,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79756\/revisions\/79758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}