Henley & Partners: 290 people worldwide hold over $100M in crypto

The ultra-wealthy have found a new favorite asset class, and the numbers are starting to show it. Henley and Partners' Crypto Wealth Report 2026, released September 8, 2026, puts 290 individuals worldwide in the $100 million-plus crypto bracket, with the global crypto market sitting at a $2.6 trillion total capitalization.

Bitcoin is doing the heavy lifting. Of those 290 mega-holders, 151 carry that wealth in Bitcoin alone, which says something about how seriously the oldest crypto is being treated as a long-term store of value.

Zoom out from the top tier and the full picture is just as striking. There are 135,694 crypto millionaires globally, 92,272 of whom built that status primarily through Bitcoin holdings. At the very top, 23 individuals qualify as crypto billionaires, with 9 of them holding Bitcoin as their sole digital asset.

These figures come with an important methodological footnote. Henley used a new on-chain methodology for this report, which means direct year-over-year comparisons to prior editions are not reliable benchmarks. The numbers reflect a fresh counting approach, not necessarily a clean growth trend from last year's figures.

The broader user base is large and still expanding. An estimated 742 million people now hold some form of crypto globally, with roughly 371 million specifically holding Bitcoin.