Sygnum’s Future Finance Report 2025 reveals how investors are allocating their crypto asset portfolios, with established blockchain protocols and stablecoins among the most widely held assets. Download the full report to get the complete story.
85 percent of crypto active respondents report holdings in blockchain protocol tokens e.g. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. Their established market presence and role as core settlement layers and as the foundations for decentralised ecosystems makes them the natural core in most traditional hybrid portfolios. However, allocations also include other protocols such as BNB Chain, Tron, Sui, Sei and Cardano, among many others, which have drawn more interest on the back of pending ETF approvals.
Stablecoins are also widely held, with half of respondents leveraging their non-volatility as a market hedge and as a practical on-and offramp to the crypto market. With the GENIUS Act now signed into law in the US, their role is expected to increase further, not to mention their use in various DeFi yield strategies and tokenised money market funds.
Tokenised assets increased sharply from 6 percent to 26 percent over the year, likely driven by the availability of new tokenization offerings, synthetic equity tokens, Real World Asset-focused (RWA) protocols and leading traditional financial institutions bringing capital markets on-chain.
Our research found that 73 percent of investors hold multiple token types, a decline of 14 percentage points from last year. This may indicate consolidation around majors and/or those with stronger fundamentals. Nearly 20 percent of investors hold only Layer 1 tokens.
The lower interest in private company-issued tokens is primarily due to the limited number of tokens available, while 25 percent of investors holding NFTs are predominantly HNWIs, which suggests they are rarely considered a serious investment case for professional managers.
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