LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Owns $6M in Ethereum, Arkham Reports

Published at 2026-02-26 21:31:24

Arkham released an attribution on Feb. 26 connecting a public Ethereum wallet to Reid Hoffman, showing roughly $6 million in ETH at current prices. The firm said the link was made using on-chain patterns, transaction history and publicly available identifiers tied to Hoffman's known activity and profiles.

The disclosure underscores growing visibility of prominent investors' crypto exposure and the trade-off between public blockchains and personal privacy. While the finding alone is unlikely to move ETH markets, it adds to the public record on institutional and individual adoption among Silicon Valley figures and raises fresh questions about operational security for venture capitalists and founders. This report is informational and not investment advice.

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