"It's considered great, at the age of 29, you already have that much net worth."
Vitalik Buterin was born on January 31, 1994 in Russia, who immigrated to Canada in the province of Ontario at the age of six and became a programmer during his teenage years.
It is well known that Buterin, who has been very interested in digital assets since a young age, was taught the basics of Bitcoin (BTC) by his own father when he was 17 years old.
But Buterin still couldn't examine the asset despite his high interest in crypto, so he wrote blog posts for BTC until he became the co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.
He who took a cryptography course at the University of Waterloo has intended to become a research assistant to the former chairman of the board of the Tor Project, lan Goldberg in the future.
Even so, Buterin who won third place in the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2012 dropped out of college to develop Ethereum (ETH) after being offered a $100,000 grant from billionaire Peter Theill who established the Thierl Fellowship in 2014.
Before Buterin teamed up with Hoseph Lubin, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Lorio, and Gavin Wood to found the ETH network, he found himself in the midst of creating various open sources.
In addition, the publication of ETH's technical book has been the reason why the whole market can observe how the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) can work while the launch of Frontier has resulted in technology giants such as IBM and Microsoft being interested in the project's capabilities.
Subsequently, the ETH Foundation was developed, where it is a non-profit foundation based in Switzerland that will be used to oversee the development of the open source software of the digital asset network.
Based on all the following developments, Buterin, who is estimated to have a net worth of $540 million, is reported to want to donate most of his income even though his wealth is not that much compared to other billionaires.
In 2021, Buterin was given over 50 trillion Shiba Inu (SHIB) worth $50 trillion but he donated almost all of it to the CryptoRelef fund in May of the same year.
Next, he who is an industry leader also donated $9.4 million to the University of Maryland in 2022 to support School of Public Health research.
