Rank #417
Justin Sun
Net worth $8.5B
Cryptocurrency · St. Kitts and Nevis
- Born
- Jul 30, 1990
- Age
- 35
- Source
- Cryptocurrency
- Residence
- Hong Kong
- Citizenship
- St. Kitts and Nevis
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Justin Sun has built a sprawling crypto empire, anchored by the Tron blockchain, alongside exchanges Poloniex and HTX, and peer-to-peer file-sharer BitTorrent.
- Born in China, Sun read a 2012 article about Bitcoin while studying at the University of Pennsylvania and became an early adopter.
- He worked for Ripple before creating Tron in 2017.
- Known for publicity stunts, in 2024 he spent $6.2 million at Sotheby's for a conceptual art piece: a banana duct-taped to a wall. He then ate the banana.
- He pumped $75 million to President Donald Trump's crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, in 2024.
- In February, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission paused a market manipulation investigation into Sun and his companies.
- Growing up in China's Guangdong province, Sun learned English vernacular by watching episodes of "The Apprentice."
- Sun was once the World Trade Organization ambassador for the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada and is prime minister of the Free Republic of Liberland "micronation."