There are now 135,694 crypto millionaires worldwide, including 92,272 whose fortunes are based on bitcoin, according to Henley & Partners’ Crypto Wealth Report 2026.
The figures show that digital-asset wealth is spreading despite the crypto market remaining well below its 2025 high. The growing concentration of wealth in cryptocurrencies is also influencing where affluent investors choose to live, bank and organise their assets.
Henley & Partners estimates that 135,694 people hold at least $1 million in digital assets. At the top end of the market, 290 investors have more than $100 million in crypto wealth, while 23 people are classified as crypto billionaires. Nine of those billionaires made their fortunes through bitcoin.
The total crypto market was worth about $2.6 trillion on Aug. 31, with bitcoin representing roughly $1.6 trillion.
Ownership extends far beyond the wealthy. An estimated 742 million people now hold some form of digital asset, including 371 million bitcoin holders.
That growth has continued even though bitcoin is trading about 38% below its October 2025 peak. Henley described the current decline as less severe than previous major crypto downturns, noting that falls after the 2011, 2013, 2017 and 2021 peaks were all greater than 75%.
The report warned that its figures should not be compared directly with earlier editions. Henley said the 2026 estimates were calculated using a new methodology and market prices recorded on Aug. 31, meaning no year-on-year comparison is provided.
Countries compete for crypto wealth
The ability to move digital assets across borders is making a country’s tax and regulatory environment an increasingly important part of investment planning.
“Crypto may be borderless, but the families who own it are not. Increasingly, countries are competing not just to host capital, but to attract the people who control it,” said Dominic Volek, Henley & Partners’ group head of private clients.
He said investors remained subject to national tax, legal and regulatory systems, even when their assets could be transferred internationally.
Singapore topped Henley’s 2026 Crypto Adoption Index, ahead of the UAE, Hong Kong, the U.S. and Switzerland. The UAE achieved the highest score for tax friendliness, while the U.S. was the only country to receive a perfect mark for public adoption.
That competition is expected to grow as international reporting requirements become stricter. A total of 76 jurisdictions have signed up to the OECD’s crypto-asset reporting framework, with the first exchanges of information between 46 jurisdictions due in September 2027.
For wealthy crypto holders, the changes increase the importance of decisions about residence, taxation and regulatory certainty. Only 14% of total global taxable onchain crypto asset activity falls into the new global tax net, which becomes active…
