Global crypto adoption increased by 13% in 2024, with bitcoin and atherium adoption with 13.1% and 13.6% respectively.
Annual Crypto market size report By crypto.com, measured by the ownership of global crypto adoption, crypto assets, increased by 13% in 2024 – in January 2024 from 583 million owners to 659 million from December to December.
The ownership of the bitcoin (BTC) expanded at a rate of 13.1%, reaching 337 million owners, which was responsible for 51.2% of all global crypto holders.
Ethereum (Eth) increased by 13.6%, leading to the total number of Eth owners to 142 million, 21.7% represented global crypto ownership.
A potential additional additional 300,000 to 1.2 million people may have gained risk for bitcoins through the US spot exchange-traded funds, although these figures were not involved in direct ownership calculations.
The institutional interests launched by US President Donald Trump during the election and the pro-crypto policies were important factor in the adoption of bitcoin. As the atherium, its growth was largely powered by the rallies of the atherium layer -2 network after the Denkun upgrade as well as the launch of the spot atherium ETF.
Global Crypto adoption this increase in perspective, recently Blackrock study It is shown that the crypto adoption rate has excluded mobile phones at the rate of 43% and 20% by adopting the Internet. According to Blackrock, it took only 12 years to reach 300 million users to adopt crypto, while mobile phones reached the same milestone in 21 years and the Internet did so in 15. Blackrock attributed this growth to demographic trends, especially the younger generations of bitcoin compared to the growing openness General X and Baby Boomers.
While crypto.com reports were focused on bitcoin and atherium ownership distribution, December 2024 Report by Blockchain Intelligence firm TRM Lab Analyzed adoption by the country. The study tracked the cryptocurrency flow through exchanges, DEFI platforms and payment services using on-chant transactions data and web traffic patterns. Keeping in mind the economic differences, data was adjusted by GDP per capita, ranking countries, which by adjusting the amount of on-chant transactions.
India, Indonesia, Nigeria, the United States and Vietnam emerged as the top five countries adopting Crypto in 2024. Kenya experienced the most important growth, climbing from 32nd place to 17th in 2023 in 2024, with double year with the amount of crypto transactions- throughout the year.
