Crypto Wealth Holds Strong in 2026: Report Reveals Millionaire Growth

LONDON, Sept. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- There are 135,694 crypto millionaires worldwide, each holding USD 1 million or more in digital assets — and 92,272 are Bitcoin millionaires — according to the Crypto Wealth Report 2026 released today by international residence and citizenship advisory specialists Henley & Partners. The global crypto market is now worth USD 2.6 trillion, of which USD 1.6 trillion is in Bitcoin (as of 31 August 2026). Bitcoin currently trades at roughly 38% below its October 2025 peak, recovering from its mid-year slump when it fell under 50%, and this has been the mildest of its major winters: the declines that followed the 2011, 2013, 2017, and 2021 peaks each cut its price by more than 75%.

Further up the crypto wealth pyramid are 290 centi-millionaires holding USD 100 million or more — 151 in Bitcoin alone — while at the apex are 23 crypto billionaires, 9 of them in Bitcoin. Some 742 million individuals now hold digital assets in some amount, 371 million of them holding Bitcoin, showing that ownership continued to broaden even as the market contracted.

Dominic Volek, Group Head of Private Clients at Henley & Partners, says the portability of digital wealth is making residence and citizenship planning increasingly relevant to crypto investors. “Crypto may be borderless, but the families who own it are not. 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.”