$3.4B in Ethereum Gone Forever – 912K ETH Lost to Irreversible
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While Ethereum continues to attract institutional interest through ETFs, a substantial portion of ETH is lost due to human error.
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Hongji is a crypto and tech reporter. He graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a Bachelor's and a Master's. He has previously interned at HTX (Huobi Global),...
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July 21, 2025
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Key Takeaways:
912,296.82 ETH tokens are permanently inaccessible, according to public blockchain records.
BlackRock’s ETHA led ETF inflows, bringing total U.S. Ethereum ETF inflows to $5.5B.
Ethereum’s self-custody model offers no built-in recovery for user-side errors.
A recent GitHub post published by Coinbase Head of Product Conor Grogan has documented over 912,000 ETH that have been permanently lost due to user error or protocol failures, representing more than 0.76% of Ethereum’s circulating supply.
Grogan compiled wallet addresses from public records, contract audits, and community-sourced data. The analysis excludes unknown lost-key events, covering only ETH that is provably inaccessible.
A Total of 912,296.82 ETH Lost.
“To be clear, this $3.4B+ number significantly undershoots the actual lost/inaccessible ETH amount,” Grogan wrote. “It just covers instances where Ethereum is locked forever.”
“For example, it doesn’t...
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