The number of people holding $1 million or more in crypto has reached 135,694, according to the Crypto Wealth Report 2026 published Tuesday by Henley & Partners. Bitcoin accounts for 92,272 of those millionaires, even as the asset trades well below its record high from earlier this year.
The advisory firm puts the total crypto market at $2.6 trillion as of August 31, with $1.6 trillion of that in bitcoin. That is down from the peak levels of late 2025, when bitcoin briefly traded above $120,000 before a broad correction that took it into the high $70,000s. The millionaire count, however, held up better than prices, which the report attributes to accumulation by larger holders during the drawdown.
Who the crypto rich are
The report splits the population by asset and by how the wealth was acquired. Alongside the bitcoin millionaires it counts several thousand holders whose wealth sits primarily in ethereum and stablecoins, and it estimates a small group of centi-millionaires and billionaires with crypto holdings above $100 million. Trading gains dominate the origins, though the firm also counts early employees of crypto companies and founders who retained token allocations.
Henley’s methodology leans on on-chain wallet analysis cross-referenced with client data, and the firm is upfront that wallet data can only say so much. Daniel Hartnett, who leads the Enhanced Due Diligence business at LSEG Risk Intelligence, put it plainly in the release: a wallet can show that value exists, it cannot tell the whole story of the person behind it.
“A wallet can show that value exists. It cannot tell the whole story of the person behind it,” said Daniel Hartnett of LSEG Risk Intelligence.
Reporting rules are closing in
The regulatory backdrop is shifting faster than the market. Seventy-six jurisdictions have signed up to the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework, with the first information exchanges between 46 of them due in September 2027. From that point, crypto holdings reported by exchanges in one country will reach tax authorities in another, the same way bank account data already moves under the common reporting standard.
The report argues this is making residence and citizenship planning more consequential for internationally mobile holders. Where a crypto wealthy person lives, and which treaties that country has signed, increasingly determines how much of their portfolio is visible to which authority. Firms in the migration business have noticed: Henley sells advisory services for exactly this, and the report closes with a pitch for structured planning before the 2027 exchanges begin.
Context for the numbers
Wealth reports of this kind should be read with some care. Henley has an obvious commercial interest in a larger, more mobile crypto-wealthy population, and the figures are estimates built on assumptions about wallet clustering and ownership. Independent trackers such as BitInfoCharts produce different counts depending on methodology, and no two estimates of crypto wealth agree precisely.
Still, the direction matches on-chain evidence. Glassnode and similar analytics firms have shown supply concentrating among long-term holders through 2026’s correction, and exchange inflows from large wallets have stayed subdued. Whether the millionaire count grows again depends mostly on price: the 2025 edition counted around 173,000 crypto millionaires when bitcoin was near its peak, so the current figure represents a decline of roughly a fifth from that high-water mark, not growth.
The report also notes two trends pulling crypto wealth toward conventional finance. Institutional participation keeps rising, with US spot ETF flows continuing even during the drawdown, and stablecoin settlement volumes are running at multiples of last year’s levels as payment use spreads. Both trends push large crypto holdings further into regulated channels, which is precisely the plumbing the OECD framework is designed to monitor.
For the market itself, the millionaire count is a sentiment gauge more than a trading signal. It fell about 22 percent from the 2025 peak alongside prices, and it will recover or shrink with the next cycle. What has changed structurally is the reporting web around these holders, which tightens regardless of where price goes next.
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