Over the past year, the number of crypto millionaires in the world has increased by 40% and reached a record high of 241,700 people. This is discussed in the Henley & Partners.
The growth was due to the positive revaluation of digital assets and their popularity among investors. At the same time, the number of investors with digital assets worth more than $100 million increased by 38%, up to 450 people, and the number of crypto-billionaires increased by 29%, up to 36 people.
Analysts note that public companies and large financial firms are increasingly investing in cryptocurrencies, especially in the US, where the favorable policies of the Donald Trump administration have given Wall Street the confidence to invest, which has contributed to the growth of the market value.
In 2025, the flow of funds to spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on Bitcoin increased from $37.3 billion to $60.6 billion, and for analogues based on Ethereum, it increased four times to $13.4 billion. Investment consulting companies and hedge fund managers bought the majority of ETH-ETFs in the II quarter of 2025, increasing investments to $1.35 billion and $688 million, respectively, while brokerage and private equity firms increased their positions to $253 million and $62.2 million.
The growth in the number of cryptomillionaires is also explained by a significant increase in their number among the owners of “digital gold”. That number jumped 70% to 145,100, thanks to Bitcoin’s outpacing of other coins from July 2024 to June 2025. The number of owners of fortunes over $100 million in bitcoin increased by 63% to 254 people, and the number of billionaires – by 55% to 17. The founder of Z22 Technologies, Philip Bauman, attributed this to the fact that digital gold received the status of a “basic currency for accumulating wealth”.
Experts singled out Singapore, Hong Kong, the US, Switzerland and the UAE as leaders in the cryptocurrency adoption index, which takes into account society’s attitude towards assets, the level of infrastructure, innovation, technology, regulatory environment, economic factors and tax attractiveness. The initiatives of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Greece, Latvia, Panama, New Zealand and Uruguay to attract foreign investors to cryptocurrency projects were separately noted.
