Crypto wealth ‘holds up’ in 2026 despite reduced Bitcoin value

Crypto wealth held up in 2026 despite Bitcoin trading at around 38 per cent below its October 2025 peak, a report from Henley & Partners has shown.

While Bitcoin is trading below its peak value, it recovered from its mid-year slump when it fell to under 50 per cent of its peak value.

Henley & Partners’ Crypto Wealth Report 2026 found there were 135,694 people holding $1m or more in digital assets, including 92,272 Bitcoin millionaires.

There were also 290 people holding $100m or more in digital assets, including 151 in Bitcoin, while 23 people had digital assets worth $1bn or more, with nine of them in Bitcoin.

A total of 742 million individuals hold digital assets in some amount, with 371 million in Bitcoin, which the report said showed ownership continued to widen even as the market contracted.

The global crypto market was worth more than $2.6trn at the end of August, of which $1.6bn was in Bitcoin.

“Crypto may be borderless, but the families who own it are not,” commented Henley & Partners global head of private clients, Domonic Volek.

“They still live, pay tax, educate their children, and operate within national legal and regulatory systems.

“Crypto changes the traditional equation: the asset may no longer need the jurisdiction, but the owner still does. Increasingly, countries are competing not just to host capital, but to attract the people who control it.”

Henley & Partners said it had seen growing interest from crypto wealth holders looking for advice on residence and citizenship options, with crypto-wealthy clients approaching the firm being younger and more mobile than the private clients it had advised a decade ago.

“Traditional wealth often crosses borders slowly, through intermediaries, or not at all,” explained Henley & Partners managing partner, Dr. Guenther Dobrauz-Saldapenna.

“A self-custodied digital asset can move with its owner almost instantly. That makes the individual’s choice of residence, citizenship, and regulatory environment far more important.

“When wealth becomes highly mobile, planning around the person who owns it becomes critical.”

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