Institutions Lean Into Crypto Despite Bitcoin Price Slump 2025

Institutions across the globe are adopting cryptocurrency, offering new services and buying into blockchain tech, despite slumping Bitcoin price.

Markets are in a slump, with Bitcoin’s (BTC) price sinking below the $100,000 threshold. Despite a downward correction in markets, institutions continue to adopt digital assets in their operations.

In the US, a major digital trading platform and chartered bank has opened crypto trading to institutional clients. The derivatives arm of the Singapore Exchange is getting into digital assets as well, opening up perpetual futures trading in crypto.

Policy changes have allowed some firms to offer crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs), expanding the availability of crypto-related institutional financial products.

Markets are taking a beating this week, but institutions are looking long-term and expanding their role in the crypto industry.

Institutions offering Bitcoin-related products, as well as public and private companies holding Bitcoin on their balance sheets, have increased corporate BTC holdings to 14% of the crypto’s 21 million supply.

This figure excludes the significant holdings boasted by Bitcoin mining firms, sovereign nations such as El Salvador and decentralized finance protocols.

The increasing concentration of Bitcoin’s supply in the hands of a small number of corporations has raised concerns over centralization. Crypto analyst Willy Woo said that Bitcoin is on the same “nationalization path” as gold in the 1970s.

Related: Corporate buying stirs debate over Bitcoin’s long-term decentralization

However, Nicolai Søndergaard, a research analyst at crypto intelligence platform Nansen, previously told Cointelegraph that people shouldn’t be worried.

Source: CoinTelegraph