Bitcoin exposure is rising in cryptocurrency portfolios, driven by more innovation-friendly US crypto regulations and the growing institutional adoption triggered by the introduction of the spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to a new report from Bybit.

Bitcoin (BTC) accounts for around one-third of investor portfolios, or 30.95% of total assets held by investors as of May, up from 25.4% in November 2024.

This makes Bitcoin the largest single asset held by cryptocurrency investors, the report states. Meanwhile, the Ether (ETH) to Bitcoin holding ratio plunged to a 2025 low of just 0.15 at the end of April, before recovering to the current 0.27.

This means that for every $1 worth of Ether, investors are likely holding an additional $4 worth of Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin outperformed all major global assets after US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, including the stock market, equities, treasuries and precious metals, garnering significant interest as a portfolio diversifier asset that can generate additional returns, Cointelegraph reported in March 2025.

Bitcoin’s robust returns have inspired a new wave of institutional adoption, which has seen corporate Bitcoin holding companies nearly double since June 5. Over 244 companies are now holding Bitcoin on their balance sheet, up from 124 firms just weeks ago, according to BitcoinTreasuries.NET.

A total of 3.45 million Bitcoin is held in treasuries, with 834,000 or 3.97% of the total supply in public company treasuries and over 1.39 million Bitcoin or 6.6% through the spot Bitcoin ETFs.

The growing institutional adoption may put Bitcoin on track to $1.8 million by 2035, as the world’s first cryptocurrency will start rivaling gold’s $22 trillion market capitalization, according to Joe Burnett, director of market research at Unchained.

“When I think about where Bitcoin will be in 10 years, there are two models I admire,” Burnett said during Cointelegraph’s Chainreaction show. “One is the parallel model, which suggests that Bitcoin will be about $1.8 million in 2035.

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SOL holdings down 35% since October 2024

Despite solid momentum, retail traders’ Bitcoin allocations fell by 37% since November 2024, to just 11.6% — around half of the percentage held by institutions.

Retail traders have most likely “disposed of the Bitcoin holdings in order to purchase altcoins,” including XRP (XRP) and stablecoins.

Meanwhile, the percentage of XRP held in portfolios has doubled, from 1.29% in November 2024 to 2.42% as of May, driven by growing ETF expectations, according to the Bybit report:

“The crypto investing industry view is that Ripple spot ETF approval is likely ahead of such approval for Solana spot ETF.”

“As such, we’ve observed partial capital allocation on the part of institutions from SOL to XRP,” the report states.

Meanwhile, Solana portfolio holdings plunged from 2.72% in November to just 1.76% as of May.

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Investors who added 10% in Bitcoin (BTC) to their “60/40 portfolio” strategies got a 90% risk-adjusted return in the past 12 months, outperforming gold’s 51% return in the same period.

On a June 16 post via X, the profile Ecoinometrics highlighted BTC’s performance through June 13 and charted the result against total return. A 60/40 portfolio is a strategy in which investors allocate 60% of the portfolio’s assets to equities and 40% to fixed-income instruments.

A pure equities index fund earned about 12% with a risk-adjusted ratio of 0.55. Adding bonds dropped the return to roughly 8% and left the risk metric near 0.45. Reallocating 10 bond points to gold pushed the ratio to 0.62 and lifted the return to 12%.

Meanwhile, the same substitution with Bitcoin drove the ratio past 0.80 and elevated the return to 14%. The publication only counted downside deviation, setting the risk-free rate to zero.

Fidelity sees portfolios evolving

Fidelity Digital Assets researcher Chris Kuiper and Fidelity Investments macro director Jurrien Timmer also highlighted the importance of Bitcoin in modern portfolio construction during a new episode of The Value Exchange. 

Kuiper said investors now confront deglobalization, persistent inflation, and policy uncertainty that undermine old allocation playbooks.

Timmer added:

“The status quo we’ve known for decades faces a transactional world order.” 

Both argued that portfolios may need fresh stores of value that operate outside sovereign systems.

Kuiper traced bonds’ nominal compound annual growth to just 1% to 2% over the past decade and noted real drawdowns that reached 55%. Timmer recalled 2022 when treasuries “went from being the port in the storm to bringing the storm.” 

Those outcomes prompted the pair to consider which macro assets could fill the hedging role that bonds once fulfilled. Their answer pointed to scarce digital assets, with Bitcoin foremost.

Bonds’ role weakening 

Kuiper labeled Bitcoin a network asset whose volatility often works in favor of holders. He cited internal modeling that shows price expanding 6x for every 40% rise in the network’s age. 

Timmer built on that framework, arguing that global money supply growth should lift demand for non-sovereign scarcity. Both researchers observed that institutional adoption, although difficult to quantify in real-time, continues to deepen liquidity and smooth execution.

Ecoinometrics’ comparison with gold reinforces that view. An allocation identical in size and funded from the same bond sleeve delivered a markedly lower upgrade to risk-adjusted performance despite gold’s long tenure as a hedge. 

Bitcoin’s outperformance on both axes of return and downside-adjusted risk aligns with the narrative that the asset class now commands consideration alongside precious metals and inflation-protected securities when investors assemble durable multi-asset portfolios.

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A majority of crypto users are willing to allow artificial intelligence agents to manage part of their investment portfolios, according to the results of a recent CoinGecko survey.

Among the 2,632 crypto participants surveyed, 87% said they would let AI agents manage at least a tenth of their crypto portfolio, CoinGecko’s April 23 report shows.

Around half the respondents said they were willing to let an AI agent manage half their portfolio or less.

“This suggests that despite having doubts as to how safe or secure AI agents are, crypto users are still mainly curious about the technology and want to try using them for trading or investing,” CoinGecko research analyst Yuqian Lim said.

At the same time, around 36% of survey participants said they would allow AI agents to manage the majority of their holdings. A smaller group, roughly 14.5%, were willing to leave their entire crypto portfolio in the digital hands of an AI agent.

“In other words, 1 in 7 participants either think they can completely trust AI agents with all of their crypto, or believe the potential profits will outweigh the risks, or simply have a high risk tolerance for their crypto holdings,” Lim said.

Mixed opinions on human vs AI trading

However, opinions were mixed on whether AI agents would be better than humans at crypto trading and investing overall. There was a roughly even split, with half of the respondents saying AI agents would be better than humans at crypto trading and investing most of the time.

“That said, the remaining half of survey participants believed AI does not have an edge over humans in the crypto market yet, which suggests that opinions are still divided over this comparison,” Lim said.

About 13%, or 1 in 8, said they weren’t comfortable leaving any of their portfolios for management by AI or thought they could manage their crypto stash better than an AI agent. 

The same survey found that participants had very mixed views on whether AI agents could be trusted with access to people’s crypto wallets.

“Specifically, 37.5% indicated that they do not trust AI agents with their crypto wallets, while a slightly lower 34.5% said they can be trusted and 27.9% were neutral on the matter,” Lim said.

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Agentic AI is already being used to build Web3 applications, launch tokens, and interact with people autonomously. Some platforms have also been exploring the use of AI agents for trading.

Last December, crypto industry execs told Cointelegraph they expected AI agents to transform Web3 in 2025, flagging crypto staking and onchain trading as emerging early use cases. However, there was also speculation that AI would face headwinds, including technical challenges, regulatory hurdles, and centralization. 

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