Cryptocurrency Statistics 2026: Market Cap, Ownership, and Adoption

The total cryptocurrency market cap stands at about $2.90 trillion, according to CoinGecko’s global data. Total crypto market cap ended 2026 Q2 at $2.1 trillion, its lowest point since September 2024. Even as crypto’s total market cap fell about 50%, on-chain economic activity slipped just 1.6%, from $9.5 trillion to $9.4 trillion, according to Chainalysis. That gap between price and use runs through the cryptocurrency statistics below.

Global crypto owners reached 774 million in June 2026, up from 741 million in December 2025, by Crypto.com Research’s estimate. The data covers market size, the largest coins, ownership, adoption, stablecoins, DeFi, ETFs, corporate treasuries, exchange volume, and fraud, each dated to its source.

Key Takeaways

• Value moving directly between personal wallets inside countries rose 302.9%, from $56.8 billion to $228.7 billion, in Chainalysis’s year to June 2026.
• Bitcoin owners grew 2.5% to 373 million in the first half of 2026, and Ether owners grew 9.1% to 191 million.
• 10% of adults used cryptocurrency in 2025, up 2 percentage points from the prior year but below 12% in 2021, per the Federal Reserve’s household survey.
• Stablecoins carry a combined market cap of $306.902 billion, and they accounted for 84% of all illicit transaction volume in 2025.
• Total BTC held by digital asset treasury companies exceeded 1.2 million by June 2026, accounting for over 6% of total BTC supply.
• Cryptocurrency complaints in 2025 carried $11.366 billion in losses, about 54.4% of all losses reported to IC3.

Editor’s Choice

• Total crypto market cap: $2.90 trillion.
• Bitcoin dominance: 58.59%.
• Global crypto owners, June 2026: 774 million.
• Stablecoin market cap: $306.902 billion.
• DeFi total value locked: $95.248 billion.
• US spot Bitcoin ETF assets, end of Q2 2026: $105.4 billion.

Cryptocurrency Statistics: Total Market Cap

• The total crypto market cap is about $2.90 trillion on CoinGecko’s index.
• Total crypto market capitalization fell 12.6% ($304.8 billion) in 2026 Q2, a third consecutive quarter of decline.
• The Q2 close sat roughly 52% below the October 2025 peak.
• Average daily trading volume fell to $93.1 billion, a 20.9% decline quarter over quarter.
• The current market cap sits about 37% above the Q2 close of roughly $2.1 trillion.

Source: CoinGecko global market data, October 2026; CoinGecko 2026 Q2 Crypto Industry Report

About This Data

Figures come from 16 sources. Ten are CoinGecko, Chainalysis, and DeFiLlama reports and dashboards, 3 are Federal Reserve and FBI publications, 2 are Crypto.com Research reports, and 1 is a Blockchain.com data feed. They were published from January 2026 to October 2026. Only first-party, government, and on-chain data qualified, and figures are updated when sources publish new editions.

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Why did the crypto market fall in 2026?

The sharpest correction came in June, as a hawkish Fed stance, flip-flopping US-Iran tensions, and a symbolic Bitcoin sale by Strategy combined to trigger the steepest decline of the year, per CoinGecko. The market has since climbed back above the level where it started Q2.

Largest Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap

• Bitcoin carries a market cap of $1,703,651,637,346 at a price of $84,790.
• Ethereum follows at $328,788,721,707, with ETH priced at $2,692.73.
• Tether’s USDT ranks third at $184,065,462,312, ahead of BNB at $104,341,167,837 and XRP at $93,863,966,441.
• The top 3 coins hold about 76.4% of total crypto market cap.
• The top 10 hold about 90.9%.
• Figure Heloc ranks ninth at $25,084,819,848 and Zcash tenth at $22,142,213,574.

Source: CoinGecko, October 2026

What are the top 3 cryptos right now?

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether rank first, second, and third by market cap, at $1,703,651,637,346, $328,788,721,707, and $184,065,462,312. Two of the three are volatile assets, and one is a dollar-pegged stablecoin, so the ranking mixes price exposure with cash-like supply.

Recent Developments

• October 1, 2026: Chainalysis said $387 million was stolen from Bitget on September 24, and that the DPRK-attributed attack pushes the total value of crypto stolen by North Korean actors in 2026 past $1 billion.
• September 23, 2026: Chainalysis’s 2026 adoption index ranked Brazil as the world’s top country for grassroots crypto adoption, with a $252.5 billion crypto economy.
• September 16, 2026: The Federal Open Market Committee voted 12-0 to raise the target range for the federal funds rate by a quarter point, to 3.75% to 4%, per the September FOMC statement.
• August 10, 2026: Crypto.com Research put global crypto owners at 774 million in H1 2026, up 4.5% from December 2025.
• July 16, 2026: CoinGecko’s quarterly report showed the stablecoin sector declining by $4.8 billion (1.6%) in 2026 Q2 to $305.1 billion.

Crypto Price Performance Statistics

• BTC fell 14.2% in 2026 Q2, while ETH saw the steepest drawdown among majors at 25.4%.
• BTC dominance slid 0.9 p.p. to end Q2 at 55.4%.
• Combined dominance for USDT and USDC rose to 12.2% as the majors lost ground.
• Bitcoin’s all-time high is $126,080, set on October 6, 2025, and the current price sits about 32.7% below it.
• Ethereum’s all-time high is $4,946.05, set on August 24, 2025.

Source: CoinGecko 2026 Q2 Crypto Industry Report

Bitcoin’s decline was milder than Q1’s, ending the quarter down 14.2% compared to 22.0% in Q1. BTC lost less than ETH in the quarter, yet its dominance still fell because dollar-pegged stablecoins held their value while every major declined.

Bitcoin Statistics

• 20,093,006 BTC are in circulation against a maximum supply of 21,000,000.
• About 95.68% of all bitcoin that will ever exist has been mined, and 906,994 BTC remain.
• The network shows a block count of 969,792 and a mining difficulty of 132,716,002,350,731, per Blockchain.com.
• Hashrate grew 9.6% quarter over quarter to 992 million TH/s in 2026 Q2.
• Bitcoin’s average daily trading volume fell 25.4% to $35.9 billion in Q2, following a 23.8% decline in Q1.
• Blocks arrived every 10.9435 minutes on average, according to Blockchain.com’s latest network stats.

Source: CoinGecko, Blockchain.com, October 2026; CoinGecko 2026 Q2 Crypto Industry Report

Why it matters: Bitcoin’s supply schedule is fixed, so price moves feed straight into its market cap. Hashrate still recovered 9.6% in 2026 Q2 to 992 million TH/s, per CoinGecko, which shows miners adding capacity even as the price fell for another quarter.

Cryptocurrency Ownership Statistics

• Global cryptocurrency owners increased by 12.4% in 2025, rising from 659 million in 2024 to 741 million, per Crypto.com.
• Owners then rose 4.5% to 774 million by June 2026.
• BTC owners account for 48.3% of global owners and ETH owners for 24.7%.
• BTC owners grew 8.3% in 2025, from 337 million to 365 million, while Ethereum owners grew 22.6%, from 142 million to 175 million.
• An estimated 300,000 to 1.3 million investors hold BTC and ETH via US spot ETFs beyond these on-chain figures.
• Owner numbers rose about 17.5% between 2024 and June 2026.

The H1 2026 report puts Bitcoin owners at 364 million in December 2025, 1 million below the February release’s figure. The table uses each report’s own baseline, so that gap is a revision, not a decline. Ownership rose in every period shown, including a half-year of falling prices, which fits our long-running view that adoption metrics tell a different story from price charts. The crypto user demographics data splits the same owner base by age, gender, and income.

Crypto Adoption by Country Statistics

• Brazil, at $252.5 billion, placed in the top four worldwide across every factor the index tracks.
• The United States ranks second overall and first in total flows and balances, but 20th in its P2P economy.
• Nigeria ranks third overall and first in both P2P economy and cross-border flows.
• Small-dollar inflows into exchanges, DeFi protocols and other businesses grew: Transfers of under $100 rose 78.4%, and transfers of $100 to $1,000 rose 58.6% in the 12 months to June 2026.
• At the large end of service inflows, transfers of $1 million or more dropped just 7.2% period over period.

Source: Chainalysis 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Index

The ranking shows where people use crypto, and the flow data shows how. Value flowing into exchanges, DeFi protocols, and other businesses fell 4.3%, while value moving directly between personal wallets inside countries rose 302.9%. Stablecoins moving across borders rose 77.5%, from $124.2 billion to $220.3 billion.

Source: Chainalysis 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Index

Key finding: Chainalysis found that peer-to-peer went from 0.6% of service and peer-to-peer value combined to 2.5%, and its share rose in all eight regions. The payments side of crypto kept growing while the trading side shrank, which explains why activity fell far less than prices over the year.

Regional growth rates and country profiles sit in the crypto adoption rates by country.

US Cryptocurrency Use Statistics

• 10% of adults used cryptocurrency for either investment or transactions in 2025, up 2 percentage points from the prior year.
• That share remained down from 12% in 2021, the first time the survey asked about cryptocurrency.
• Nearly 1 in 10 adults bought or held cryptocurrency as an investment, while 2% used it to make a financial transaction.
• 6% of unbanked adults used cryptocurrency for financial transactions, compared with 2% among banked adults.

Among adults who used cryptocurrency for a financial transaction, 26% said the person or business receiving the money preferred cryptocurrency, and 19% wanted to send the money faster. Only 9% said it was safer, and 7% said they don’t trust banks.

Payment use barely moved across the five survey years, so the 2025 rise came from investment use, not payments. The crypto ownership by generation figures show how that investor base splits by age group.

Stablecoin Statistics

• Total stablecoin market cap stands at $306.902 billion, with USDT dominance at 59.97%.
• USDC follows USDT with $74.22 billion, ahead of Sky Dollar at $6.707 billion.
• Monthly cross-border stablecoin value more than doubled from $11 billion in January 2025 to $24 billion in June 2026, on Chainalysis’s conservative estimate.
• Stablecoin balances held between $98 billion and $109 billion across the nine-month drawdown, and their share of global balances reached 22.5% by June 2026.
• Stablecoins equal about 10.6% of total crypto market cap.

By the numbers: CoinGecko recorded that the total stablecoin sector declined by $4.8 billion (1.6%) in 2026 Q2, ending the period at $305.1 billion. A dip that small, in a quarter when the wider market fell by double digits, shows how little stablecoin supply moves with crypto prices.

Issuer-level shares and growth rates are tracked in the stablecoin market cap statistics.

DeFi Statistics

• Total value locked in DeFi stands at $95.248 billion, according to DefiLlama.
• Ethereum hosts $53.457 billion of DeFi TVL across 2,050 protocols, about 56.1% of the total.
• Solana follows at $6.667 billion, with Base at $6.367 billion and BSC at $5.795 billion.
• DEX volume reached $5.75 billion over 24 hours, and DEXs hold 27.5% dominance against centralized exchanges.
• Multichain DeFi TVL fell from $91.8 billion at the start of April to $70.3 billion at the end of June 2026, a measure that excludes RWA, redeposits, and liquid staking, per CoinGecko.

The two TVL totals come from different dates, DefiLlama’s from October 4 and CoinGecko’s from the end of June, and the two providers count TVL with different methods, so the figures are not directly comparable. Protocol-level detail is in the DeFi market statistics.

Crypto ETF and Corporate Treasury Statistics

• US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $4.9 billion leave in 2026 Q2, a third consecutive quarter of net outflows, yet total AUM stayed largely flat at $105.4 billion.
• Digital asset treasury companies (DATCos) were net accumulators overall, yet the total value of crypto they held decreased 9.6% quarter over quarter to $130.2 billion as coin prices continued to fall.
• Strategy holds $49.6 billion of BTC, ahead of Bitmine Immersion at $8.9 billion, about 38.1% of all DATCo crypto holdings.

Source: CoinGecko 2026 Q2 Crypto Industry Report

The takeaway: US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $4.9 billion in Q2 net flows yet held $105.4 billion. The outflow equals about 4.6% of that asset base. For treasury companies, the drop in value came from falling prices, not net selling.

Fund-level assets and flows are tracked in the Bitcoin ETF statistics, and holdings and cost basis by company sit in the Bitcoin treasury companies statistics.

Which companies hold the most crypto?

Strategy tops the list of crypto treasury companies with $49.6 billion in BTC, followed by Bitmine Immersion at $8.9 billion and XXI at $2.5 billion, per CoinGecko’s top-ten list as of July 2026. Across all digital asset treasury companies, not only that top ten, Crypto.com Research found that total BTC held by DAT companies exceeded 1.2 million by June 2026.

Crypto Exchange Trading Volume Statistics

• Spot volumes fell to a monthly low of $619.0 billion in May, before a modest rebound in June to $695.0 billion.
• Binance extended its dominance with a 38.7% market share in Q2, and Bybit (10.0%) was the only other exchange with a double-digit share.
• MEXC’s volume more than halved from $275.2 billion to $121.2 billion, a drop of about 56%.
• The top 10 perpetual exchanges recorded $12.7 trillion, down 10.0% from $14.1 trillion in Q1.

Source: CoinGecko 2026 Q2 Crypto Industry Report

Monthly perps trading volume has remained above $4.0 trillion, still above the averages for the first three quarters of 2024. Derivatives trading held up far better than spot trading through the downturn. Venue-level volume and fees are covered in the crypto exchange market data.

Crypto Crime and Fraud Statistics

• Illicit cryptocurrency addresses received at least $154 billion in 2025, a 162% increase from the previous year.
• Illicit transactions still account for less than 1% of all overall crypto transaction volume.
• Bybit’s February exploit was the largest digital heist in crypto history, at nearly $1.5 billion.
• The FBI’s IC3 logged 181,565 cryptocurrency complaints in 2025, up 21% from 2024, with $11.366 billion in losses, up 22%.
• The average reported crypto loss was $62,604, and 18,589 complainants lost more than $100,000.
• Complainants aged 60 and over reported $4,432,224,488 in crypto losses across 44,555 complaints, about 39.0% of the total.

Investment schemes drove most of those losses. Crypto investment fraud generated 61,559 complaints and $7.228 billion in losses, a 48% increase in complaints and a 25% increase in losses from 2024.

Source: FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2025 IC3 Annual Report

Russia’s ruble-backed A7A5 token transacted over $93.3 billion in less than one year, one of the nation-state flows behind the 2025 total. Exploits by incident are logged in the crypto hacks tracker.

Is 2026 going to be a good year for crypto?

Total crypto market cap fell for a third consecutive quarter in 2026 Q2, ending at $2.1 trillion. Global ownership still grew 4.5% in the first half of 2026. No source can forecast prices for the rest of the year; the data shows only that ownership and payment use held up better than valuations.

Conclusion

The crypto market stands at about $2.90 trillion, and global owners number 774 million. Those two figures moved in opposite directions for most of the past year: Valuations fell while ownership, stablecoin payments and peer-to-peer use kept rising.

The next tests are the coming quarterly market reports and the next annual crime data, which will show whether ETF outflows ease, whether treasury companies keep accumulating, and whether stablecoin growth continues outside the trading cycle.