The digital asset industry now has 36 billionaires and 241,700 millionaires, totaling over $3.3 trillion in market value, representing a 45% year-on-year increase, according to a recent report on ‘Worldwide Crypto Wealth Statistics.’
Published by investment firm Henley & Partners, in collaboration with wealth analytics firm New World Wealth, the report explores digital assets, private wealth, and investment migration trends. It found that digital asset wealth has seen a significant growth over the past year, with the number of “crypto” billionaires rising 29% and the number of millionaires up 40%.
This sharp increase was “fueled by a dramatic surge in Bitcoin millionaires,” Henley & Partners said in a September 23 statement.
Of the $3.3 trillion total market value of crypto wealth, $2.1 trillion was attributed to Bitcoin. In addition, of the wealthy individuals, 145,100 millionaires and 17 billionaires were attributed to BTC wealth, marking a year-on-year increase of 70% and 55%, respectively. The remaining individuals’ wealth was related to digital assets more broadly, including BTC and “all other known cryptocurrencies.”
The statistics are based on data from June 30, 2025, in which New World Wealth tracked the movements and spending habits of over 150,000 high-net-worth individuals, combined with on-chain data and public information from digital asset exchanges.
“This significant growth coincides with a watershed year for institutional adoption, highlighted by the first-ever cryptocurrencies launched by a sitting U.S. President and First Lady,” said Henley & Partners, adding that the data represent a “historic” wealth boom.
Meanwhile, Andrew Amoils, Head of Research at New World Wealth, noted that the research also saw “crypto and gold emerge as the preferred alternative assets for the world’s wealthy.”
“In previous decades, precious stones like diamonds were widely used to move money discreetly across borders thanks to their portability. Today, crypto and gold have largely taken their place as the modern stores of portable wealth,” he added.
The report estimated the total number of users owning digital assets worldwide to be 590 million, up 5% year-on-year. Bitcoin holders were estimated at 295 million, up 7% year-on-year.
On the ‘philosophical implications’ of the report’s findings, Samson Mow, CEO of Bitcoin infrastructure company JAN3, said, “Over any long-time horizon, fiat currency has one destiny: infinity. Bitcoin, on the contrary, has the opposite: 21 million.”
According to Mow, this fixed supply versus infinite expansion represents “the defining paradox of our age,” forcing governments to grapple with a form of wealth outside traditional monetary control.
This dilemma was also picked up by Dominic Volek, Group Head of Private Clients at Henley & Partners, who argued that the rapid rise of this “new crypto-wealth class” represents a challenge to governments, tax authorities, and wealth managers.
“While roughly USD 14.4 trillion worth of wealth crossed national borders in 2024, the entire architecture of modern finance assumes that money has a home address — but cryptocurrency doesn’t,” said Volek. “For millennia, storing wealth meant anchoring it to a place. Even with digital banking, you needed a residential address and tax ID just to open an account. Today, cryptocurrency has made geography optional — with nothing more than 12 memorized words, an individual can secure a billion dollars in Bitcoin, instantly accessible from Zurich or Zhengzhou alike.”
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Source: https://coingeek.com/number-of-digital-asset-billionaires-and-millionaires-has-surged/
