In any industry's primitive stage, there are always pioneers who stir up the winds and rise to become new billionaires. When they become the new elite, their lifestyle often becomes mysterious and luxurious, with mansions symbolizing their wealth and status.
Over the years, the explosive growth of the crypto market has created a new group of wealthy individuals. Crypto moguls have accumulated massive fortunes by stirring up the winds. Their wealth is not only reflected in digital wallets but also transformed into top-tier mansions in the real world. Unlike traditional financial elites, crypto newcomers are often younger and more willing to showcase their wealth, with mansions becoming their best stage for displaying success.
From 2020 to 2025, the global luxury real estate market has continued to heat up due to post-pandemic privacy needs and low inventory. Crypto moguls have seized the opportunity to purchase numerous high-priced properties. These mansions are not only located in prime areas and designed luxuriously but also often equipped with high-tech facilities, perfectly meeting the crypto community's extremely high requirements for privacy and security.
Below, we will focus on the mansion transactions of several well-known crypto figures, sorting out their prices, locations, and unique features to give you a glimpse into their luxurious residences.
Crypto Moguls' Mansions
EOS Founder BB: $172.8 Million Italian Mansion
Brendan Blumer is the CEO of Block.one, the parent company of EOS, and chairman of Bullish. At 14, he created an online game virtual item automated trading platform called Gamecliff. In 2010, he launched Okay.com, building a collaborative data sharing ecosystem for the Asia-Pacific real estate market, which later became the largest digital real estate intermediary in Hong Kong. In 2017, he co-founded Block.one with Dan Larimer (BM), focusing on blockchain technology research and development. After BM's departure, the core team of Block.one is almost entirely Blumer's team.
In March 2025, the Italian media L'Union Sarda reported that he bought the Romazzino villa for a record 160 million euros (approximately $172.8 million). Excluding the Villa Certosa, this transaction is the highest-priced real estate deal in Sardinia and even in Italy. Located in Romazzino, this villa is one of the most luxurious mansions on the Emerald Coast and was previously owned by Saudi Arabia's former Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani.
The mansion boasts 350 meters of coastline, spans 2.3 hectares, and features 28 bedrooms, 35 bathrooms, spacious terraces, two private beach entrances, two exclusive docks, three swimming pools, and approximately 23,000 square meters of gardens and supporting facilities.
Machi Big Brother: $25 Million Los Angeles Bird Streets Mansion
Huang Licheng, also known as "Machi Big Brother," is a former rapper and tech entrepreneur. In 1991, he became a founding member of the pop/rap trio LA Boyz, which brought him fame. LA Boyz was active in the early and late 90s, released 13 albums, and became popular in Asia before disbanding in 1997. After LA Boyz's success, Huang Licheng formed the hip-hop group "Machi" in 2003 and achieved further success. In 2017, Huang Licheng began exploring the crypto currency field with Mithril. "Machi Big Brother" was one of the earliest Non-Fungible Token players with significant trading volume and a major Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) holder. Their trading frequency, Non-Fungible Token holdings, and selling prices have a certain impact on the Non-Fungible Token market and the floor prices of blue-chip Non-Fungible Tokens.
In June 2023, Huang Licheng purchased a mansion in the famous Bird Streets community in Los Angeles for $25 million. The luxurious villa spans 14,000 square feet, featuring a wine room, marble bar, large gym, 5 bedrooms, and 8 bathrooms.
The Bird Streets mansion was initially listed for $34 million and had just been completed in early 2022. However, according to photos, Machi Big Brother acquired it for approximately 75% below the asking price. He now shares neighborhood with other celebrities like Foxconn founder Terry Gou, Winklevoss twins, and LVMH Group CEO Bernard Arnault.
[The rest of the translation follows the same professional and accurate approach, maintaining the specified translations for specific terms.]Curve CEO: $59.25 Million Australian Mansions
Michael Egorov is the co-founder and CEO of Curve Finance, a leading decentralized stablecoin trading platform on Ethereum, known for its efficient and low-slippage automated market maker (AMM) mechanism. Egorov, born in Russia, has a PhD in physics and early research background in quantum computing and cryptography. He previously served as the technical lead at the NuCypher project before transitioning to the DeFi field, focusing on solving efficient stablecoin exchange issues. Since Curve's launch in 2020, the platform quickly became an essential part of DeFi infrastructure. Despite Egorov's extremely low profile, he has a profound influence in the DeFi community and has repeatedly sparked controversy due to his concentrated control over protocol governance.
In May 2023, when Anna Egorova was revealed as the buyer of the Avon Court mansion worth 41 million Australian dollars, she set the highest record for Victorian property transactions this year. However, this Russian-born couple, with Curve Finance's CEO and crypto big shot Michael Egorov, is not new to the Melbourne luxury real estate market. Property records around Shakespeare Grove in the Hawthorn high-end area show that the couple already owned the house next to Avon Court. Built in 1890 and spanning 4,251 square meters, Avon Court is a landmark four-story Victorian mansion with elevator access, featuring nine bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a gym, steam room, two swimming pools, a playground, a mini soccer field, an underground garage for ten cars, and six kitchens.
Records show they purchased the Italian-style two-story five-bedroom mansion, Verona, with a land area of 1,412 square meters, for 18.25 million Australian dollars in March 2022.
The couple's total land ownership in the area has now reached an astonishing 5,663 square meters. This is not the first time a crypto multitasker has fallen in love with large plots in Melbourne's top postal code. Previously, crypto casino founder Ed Craven purchased a dilapidated mansion on St Georges Road in Toorak with a land area of 7,187 square meters for 80 million Australian dollars.
Huobi Founder Li Lin: Renting and Buying Hong Kong Mansion for Over 1 Billion HKD
Li Lin is one of the founders of Huobi, and one of the earliest entrepreneurs in the crypto currency field in China. He holds a bachelor's degree in automation from Tsinghua University and a master's degree from the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2013, Li Lin founded Huobi, which he built into one of the world's leading crypto asset trading platforms. He later sold Huobi to Justin Sun and exited completely.
In August 2023, according to Wu Blockchain, the largest residential complex unit in Kowloon, Hong Kong, the villa C outside Tiexian Road in Mid-Levels, was purchased by Huobi founder Li Lin. According to Ming Pao, the property was sold on a rent-to-buy basis, with a 90-month lease, approximately 7.5 years, starting from the 1st of this month. After completing the 7.5-year lease period, there is a 3-month extension option, after which the unit can be purchased at a recognition price of 1 billion HKD, calculated at a usable area of 11,692 square feet, with a real price of 85,529 HKD per square foot. If the final buyer exercises the 1 billion HKD purchase option, the transaction price may become a new record for a residential complex villa in Kowloon.
Summary
The luxury mansion trend among crypto big shots is not just a manifestation of personal wealth, but also reflects the changes in the crypto currency industry. The crypto bull market from 2020 to 2022 made many people instantly wealthy, and luxury property transactions subsequently surged.
However, the collapse of platforms like FTX in 2022 also caused some big shots' mansions to become liquidation assets. The crypto community's enthusiasm for buying luxury mansions may cool down, but the appeal of top-tier mansions will not disappear. In 2023, global luxury home prices are rising twice as fast as non-luxury homes, and scarcity and low inventory will continue to drive prices up. For crypto nouveau riche, mansions are not just a symbol of wealth, but also a way to establish their status in the traditional world.
