Vitalik Buterin Discloses His Cryptocurrency Holdings, Corporate Investments, and Other Potential Conflicts of Interest

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Vitalik Buterin, the founder and figurehead behind Ethereum, recently disclosed his cryptocurrency holdings, corporate investments, and other compensation in an act of transparency, likely to disclose any potential conflicts of interest he might have.

On Feb. 19th, Vitalik Buterin disclosed his investments and compensation in a Reddit thread titled "AMA about Ethereum Leadership and Accountability." He responded with a breakdown of his investments and compensation.

His non-Ethereum-related holdings are as follows: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin, and Zcash, worth less than 10 percent of his total ETH holdings.

His ERC20 and other Ethereum-related holdings are as follows: Kyber Network, Maker, OmiseGO, and Augur, worth less than 10 percent of his ETH holdings.

Vitalik Buterin did not disclose a large number of airdrop tokens.

Based on an Etherscan of Buterin's main wallet, his OmiseGO holdings total $40,000 at current prices.

In another wallet that is also likely Buterin's, there are holdings of $693,000 in Maker, $625,000 in Augur, another $25,000 in OmiseGO, $25,000 in Kyber Network, and $11,000 in Trustcoin.

Based on information from Crunchbase, Clearmatics was founded by Robert Sams and Vitalik Buterin and raised funding of $13.3 million.

Finally, Buterin talked about his "Non-financial" interests, including "Friends in the ecosystem" represented by the previously mentioned projects and cryptocurrencies as well as ecosystem organizations including L4, Plasma Group, EthGlobal, EDCON, and some professional "Cryptography and economics circles."

These comments by Vitalik Buterin iterate his commitment to transparency and his conviction towards building the Ethereum ecosystem.

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