Crypto entrepreneur Jean-Louis van der Velde has surpassed Heineken heiress Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken as the richest Dutch person in the world, according to the 30th edition of the Quote 500 – the annual list of the 500 wealthiest Dutch by the business magazine Quote.

With a fortune of some €26 billion, Van der Velde, the founder of crypto companies Tether and Bitfinex, is about twice as rich as De Carvalho-Heineken (€13 billion), who topped the list for years. Quote said it had been tracking Van der Velde for quite some time. The man has lived in Asia since the 1980s and, until this year, it was unclear whether he still held Dutch citizenship.

The Quote 500 shows that the rich keep getting richer. The combined wealth of the 500…