crypto adoption is on the rise time to rise
what used to be seen as internet funny money is now becoming an important and influential asset
class being added to corporate balance sheets and sovereign reserves whether it’s memecoins drawing
in the masses or ETFs tempting the trady crowd the crypto landscape is changing in ways that are
hard to ignore now a recent report puts all of these bullish developments into perspective so
today we’ll be breaking down that report for you in simple terms and telling you what it all
means for the crypto market my name is Guy and you’re watching the Coin Bureau the report we’ll
be summarizing today comes from crypto exchange Gemini and is titled quote the global state of
crypto we’ll leave a link to the full report in the description in case you want to check it
out for yourself but we’ll be giving you all the highlights right here in this video now the
report is composed from the results of a survey conducted with 7,25 respondents from the US the UK
France Italy Singapore and Australia with around 1,200 people from each broadly speaking the report
aims to explore aspects of crypto’s adoption and is organized by age geography gender and income so
with that out of the way let’s get into it now the report begins by looking at the growth of crypto
ownership which has increased in all the countries surveyed since 2024 europe has seen the largest
increase in crypto ownership in large part thanks to regulatory efforts like the EU’s Markets in
Crypto Assets Bill or Mic the report highlights the UK and France as the two countries with the
biggest increase in crypto ownership 21% of French citizens reported owning crypto in 2025 which is
up from 18% last year as for the dear old UK 24% of respondents reported owning crypto in 2025 up
from 18% in 2024 fresh cups of tea all round chaps notably the UK had the largest increase in crypto
ownership of any of the surveyed countries which is kind of surprising considering that the
UK hasn’t really made any significant steps towards embracing the crypto industry well that
is unless you count reform UK leader Nigel Faraj’s announcement that he’d introduce a Bitcoin digital
reserve if reform wins the next general election which uh isn’t due to take place until August
2029 with a bit of luck though Farage’s recent attendance at the Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas
could spark the UK government’s interest in crypto only time will tell anyhow elsewhere the US has
a similar ownership rate to last year moving from 21% in 2024 to 22% in 2025 singapore apparently
has the highest overall crypto ownership rate of any surveyed country at 28% but even last year’s
total of 26% is higher than any other country in this survey as for Italy and Australia these
have crypto ownership ratings of 19% and 22% respectively although strangely there’s no 2024
data for them okay next the report looks at the confidence of no coiners in crypto following
President Trump’s proactive approach to the industry the report notes some of the positive
steps that Trump and his administration have taken such as creating a strategic Bitcoin
reserve reshaping the SEC to be less hostile supporting pro- crypto regulations in Congress
and launching the Trump memecoin all right maybe we could have done without the last one
in any case Trump’s policies have made a huge difference to the crypto space and this
even applies to those not involved in crypto 23% of American no coiners said the strategic
Bitcoin reserve makes them much more confident in crypto what’s awesome is that other countries felt
the same way in the UK 21% of people who don’t own crypto now feel more confident in the asset class
thanks to the US strategic Bitcoin reserve as do 19% of Singaporeans 17% of Australian no coiners
feel the same way followed by 16% of Italians meanwhile the French are the least convinced with
only 15% of no coiners feeling more comfortable lens of memecoins which often serve as a gateway
for newcomers drawn in by stories of 10 20 or even 100x returns while many fade away after the hype
many stick around developing a deeper interest in the broader crypto ecosystem some have even
gone on to join the Coin Bureau research team anyhow the report notes that 94% of memecoin
holders also hold other cryptos which isn’t all that surprising what may be surprising though
is that in the US 31% said the first crypto they ever bought was a memecoin this is followed by
both Australia and the UK at 28% Singapore at 23% Italy at 22% and France at 19% now while
this means that our French friends generally take the more sensible first steps into crypto
France is also home to the largest percentage of memecoin holders 67% of French crypto investors
own memecoins followed by 59% in Singapore 58% in Italy 57% in the UK 55% in the US and 45% in
Australia now I’d have backed Australians to be more into degenerate gambling than Le France but
hey life is full of surprises what’s crazy though is the number of true crypto degenerates that
have at least half of their entire portfolio in memecoins the US is the most degenerate in this
regard with 21% of investors having half or more of their crypto stash in memes the UK follows with
17% of DGENs while France and Singapore have 16% the more sensible among us are the Italians at 12%
and the Aussies at 11% my worldview is undergoing some fundamental changes I can tell you anyway the
report then turns to the other end of the scale looking at the spot crypto ETFs now the reason
we say this is the opposite end of the scale is that generally speaking it’s retail investors who
will ape into memecoins while the ETFs have been a powerful tool for onboarding traditional and
institutional investors so powerful in fact that they are the fastest growing ETFs in history in
the US 39% are invested in a crypto ETF a slight increase from the 37% in 2024 and the report
notes that ETFs are also popular in Italy at 47% the UK at 41% Singapore at 40% Australia at
38% and France at 32% that’s pretty impressive considering that the biggest ETFs are based in
the United States the report then compares the percentage of people who bought crypto via an
ETF on an exchange or both 61% of respondents said they only bought crypto on an exchange and
another 25% said they bought crypto either through the exchange or through an ETF meanwhile just
14% said they only invested in crypto through an ETF but keep in mind that this will largely
consist of institutional investors and Tradfi Wales hey everyone sorry to interrupt the video
but I just want to very quickly tell you about the crypto market has been remarkably resilient
throughout 2025 even as tech stocks have dropped this is significant because historically crypto
and tech stocks have been highly correlated but more recently this correlation has turned negative
in any case more and more investors are beginning to see Bitcoin as less of a risk-on asset that
only makes sense as an investment when interest rates are low and central banks are pumping
liquidity into the market instead more investors are seeing Bitcoin as a reliable store of value
able to hedge against any market environment as the stock market struggled crypto selling slowed
down in 2024 and only 1 in 10 people on average said they sold their crypto in the last 6 months
the US did the most selling but even then only 15% of crypto investors sold out of their positions
which is not bad at all meanwhile Australian crypto investors are the most diamond-handed
with only 8% of investors selling over the last 6 months notably every surveyed country has sold
less crypto in 2025 than in 2024 next the report turns to inflation in the US which slowed down
throughout 2024 and early 2025 after soaring the two years previously the report notes that core
CPI which stands for consumer price index is the metric that investors pay very close attention
to that’s because it’s a measure of inflation that excludes volatile items like food and energy
providing a more stable view of underlying price trends notably core CPI rose by 2.4% yearonear in
March which lines up with the Federal Reserve’s annual inflation target of 2% however this
hasn’t stopped inflation being a key issue in the minds of American crypto investors with 39%
saying they invest in crypto as a hedge against inflation up from 32% in 2024 however the US was
the only country surveyed that showed increased concerns over inflation as all other countries
were equally concerned as they were last year 35% of investors from the UK bought crypto to
hedge against inflation as did 41% of investors in Singapore in both cases this percentage is
the same for 2024 and 2025 thus far conversely French crypto investors seem to be feeling pretty
good about inflation last year 42% invested in crypto to hedge against inflation but this number
actually fell in 2025 meanwhile 29% of investors in Italy said inflation was their primary reason
for buying crypto as did 28% of investors from Australia although again there’s no data for
2024 which is a bit of a shame okay the next part of the report takes a look at the gender
gap in crypto which does appear to be closing like most other markets crypto has always been
very much maledominated and for perspective back in 2018 E Toro released a research survey which
showed that 91.5% of investors were men while just 8.5% were women thankfully this has improved but
it’s still drastically imbalanced specifically 30% of crypto investors in the US are female in 2025
up from 28% in 2024 as for the UK 33% of crypto investors there are female an increase from 30%
from last year and from Singapore 34% of investors are female the highest percentile of any result
and an increase from 31% in 2024 interestingly the number of female investors in France fell from
35% to just 30% now to be clear what we should be striving for in the crypto industry is an evenly
balanced scale it goes without saying that this means a lot of women are sitting on the sidelines
and it would be great to get them on board not only would this result in a lot more money flowing
into the crypto ecosystem but some of the greatest minds in crypto also happen to be women so
win-win now let’s move on to the final section wherein the report switches from looking at gender
demographics to age demographics now it’s common knowledge that crypto is used far more by those
of younger generations but the report reveals that this trend is perhaps even more prominent
than you might think unsurprisingly 90% of the boomer generation do not hold crypto oh and for
anyone wondering boomers are typically defined as those born between 1946 and 1964 anyway things are
a little more positive when it comes to Generation X investors as in those born between 1965 and 1971
74% of them say they don’t hold crypto while 18% said they do and another 8% said they have held
crypto in the past but it’s the millennials those born between 1980 and 1994 that have the highest
levels of crypto adoption only 48% said they don’t hold crypto so obviously this means that more than
half of millennials have adopted crypto assets which is awesome news specifically 36% reported
that they actively hold crypto while a further 16% said they have done so in the past but what’s by
far the most exciting statistic is Gen Zed that is those born between 1995 and 2012 that’s because
only 52% said they don’t hold crypto while 29% said they’re currently crypto holders and 19% said
they have held crypto in the past now obviously the reason why this is the most exciting is simply
because of how old many of these investors are those born from 2012 onwards are too young to be
expected to hold crypto but even with a good chunk of this generation still in school crypto adoption
is still very close to 50% naturally then this percentage will likely increase over time bringing
countless more investors to the space and this trend also suggests that future generations such
as generation alpha and beyond will be even more receptive to adopting crypto assets into their
everyday lives heck your own kids or grandkids could be born into using cryptocurrencies with
the question of crypto adoption being a thing of the past that is an incredibly prosperous future
that we should all look forward to and that just about brings us to the end of this report and I’ll
remind you that you can find a link to the full thing down in the description below just be aware
though that the report was actually surprisingly short especially considering that it was published
by Gemini a major crypto exchange that presumably has access to a much broader range of data points
in any case what is clear from this report is that crypto adoption is on the rise perhaps the
most telling sign of this is that even when macro conditions have been uncertain this hasn’t
deterred people from investing in Bitcoin and to a lesser extent the broader crypto ecosystem the
reasons for this have less to do with the macro environment itself though and more to do with
the impressive regulatory efforts of the Trump administration the biggest standout here has to
be the SEC which until recently was a massive thorn in the side of crypto firms and investors
everywhere today though the SEC is taking drastic measures to do a complete 180 moving away from its
previous regulation by enforcement approach taken under Gary Gendler’s reign the focus of the SEC
now is to provide the very regulatory certainty that Gendler refused to give out which will allow
crypto innovation to thrive and to give an idea of how different the current SEC is Hester Pur a
current SEC commissioner even attended the recent Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas where
she clarified that in her view the majority of crypto assets are not securities oh and by the
way if you’re wondering what else was covered at this year’s Bitcoin conference then good news we
recently covered the highlights for all three days of the event which you can check out right over
here but pro- crypto regulations are just one side of the story the fact that the US also has its
own strategic Bitcoin reserve and has declared that it won’t sell its roughly 200,000 strong
stash of BTC has inspired other countries to follow in its footsteps if you watch that Bitcoin
conference roundup I just mentioned you’ll know that the government of Pakistan recently announced
a strategic Bitcoin reserve of its own and on top of this more companies both publicly listed and
private are adding BTC to their balance sheets and that’s simply because BTC is providing much
better returns than the traditional approach of storing funds in US treasuries in fact there’s
even a growing number of companies becoming pure play Bitcoin treasury vehicles following in the
playbook of Michael Sailor’s strategy and likewise the spot crypto ETFs in the US have been huge for
crypto adoption and what’s even more exciting is that there are a number of spot ETFs in the works
for a range of altcoins too this will likely bring in a broad range of investors to the altcoin
market which could be rocket fuel for those who’ve watched their altcoin bags underperform well so
long as those ETFs gain traction much faster than the spot Ethereum ETFs did anyway if not then all
we can do is pray for the next bullish catalyst to come along to take our portfolios to the moon
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and if you want to learn more about the pro- crypto stance of the SEC then check out the video
right over here and if you want to learn more about six of the biggest risks to Bitcoin’s rally
in 2025 then the video here is your huckleberry thank you all so much for watching and I’ll
see you again soon this is Guy over and out
