Mapping Crypto | Crypto Wealth Report 2026

Countries once attracted foreign wealth by promising to keep it safe. Geneva and Zurich built their private banks on that promise, and the Cayman Islands and Singapore later built theirs on variations of it. Crypto wealth requires neither a vault nor a bank branch, so countries now compete to host the owner rather than the money. The current market downturn has done little to diminish the importance of where crypto wealth holders choose to establish themselves.

According to the Crypto Wealth Report 2026, 135,694 individuals currently hold over USD 1 million in crypto assets, with 290 crypto centi-millionaires holding over USD 100 million each, and 23 crypto billionaires at the apex. Bitcoin accounts for 92,272 of those millionaires, and the market as a whole is worth USD 2.6 trillion. The number of individuals holding digital assets in any amount has reached a record 742 million, so the asset class keeps widening even though some of the fortunes inside it have diminished over the past year.

Crypto millionaires are also increasingly mobile, and governments are competing not for where their wealth is held, but for where they choose to live, invest, and build their futures. A self-custodied fortune can move across borders with its owner, weakening the traditional ties between wealth and place. For crypto wealth holders, this makes the choice of where to establish themselves unusually consequential. Investment migration provides a way to secure residence or citizenship in countries that offer what globally mobile families increasingly value: certainty of status, access to financial services, regulatory clarity, personal security, and a stable environment in which to live and invest.