Until 2020, most of the crypto market action was largely driven by retail enthusiasm. It was only around August 2020 that institutions started to participate meaningfully in this asset class. As the United States Federal Reserve unleashed trillions of dollars of liquidity into the market during the COVID-19 pandemic, retail and institutional investors jumped onto the cryptocurrency bandwagon.
While crypto loyalists claim large-scale institutional adoption over the last couple of years, the entire asset class is only around $1 trillion in size. That is quite small when compared to the gold market of $11 trillion and the bond market of over $100 trillion. There is still a long way to go for the institutional adoption of crypto and blockchain-based digital assets.
A quick look at Coinbase’s trading volumes below shows the rise of institutional capital in crypto. But, it is also clear that the institutional numbers are quite modest when compared to other asset classes.
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