The blockchain address – 0x9e927c02c9eadae63f5efb0dd818943c7262fb8e – supposedly owned by DBS held 173,753 ETH at press time, according to Nansen.
The address has already made $200 million from its ether holdings.
DBS, the largest bank in Singapore, is an ether {{ETH}} whale, according to on-chain analytics firm Nansen.
The blockchain address – 0x9e927c02c9eadae63f5efb0dd818943c7262fb8e – supposedly owned by DBS held 173,753 ETH, worth $647 million at press time. At the time of writing, Ether changed hands at $3,730.
Nansen said that the address has made over $200 million from its ether holdings. CoinDesk reached out to DBS seeking confirmation of the holdings.
Ether is the native token of Ethereum, the world's leading distributed computing platform for creating smart contracts and decentralized applications. Over the years, Ethereum has become a go-to technology for investment banks to tokenize capital markets.
We've identified this $650m $ETH Whale holding 173.7k ETH as DBS, the largest bank in Singapore with assets totaling S$739 billion as of 31 Dec'23This address has made over $200m by holding ETH... 🤯Track the address on Nansen here: 0x9e927c02c9eadae63f5efb0dd818943c7262fb8e pic.twitter.com/2rkM3cZ6gJ
— Nansen 🧭 (@nansen_ai) May 30, 2024
The bank is not new to crypto and offers a range of services, including digital asset custody, a trading exchange for security tokens, and a portfolio management app for both traditional and crypto assets.
A recent report by the bank highlighted the growing interest in the crypto market from retail investors, high-frequency traders, and hedge funds.
Nansen's revelations of DBS' ether holdings come as the crypto market patiently awaits the debut of spot ether exchange-traded funds in the U.S., which are expected to boost the cryptocurrency's mainstream institutional adoption.
Since 2020, several listed firms have turned to crypto, mainly bitcoin, to diversify their reserves. Bitcoin ETFs began trading in the U.S. in January.
