Advisers allocated to crypto at the highest rate on record, according to recent research from Bitwise Asset Management.
Bitwise Asset Management, a crypto-specialist asset manager, and VettaFi, an index provider, have released the findings of the eighth annual Bitwise/VettaFi 2026 Benchmark Survey of Financial Adviser Attitudes Towards Crypto Assets.
“Crypto’s future has always depended on what financial advisers think of it,” said Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise.
“As crypto moves further into the mainstream, we’re excited to see surging interest and enthusiasm from a demographic that has always played a central role in crypto’s future.”
Institutional access is accelerating, with 42% of advisers now able to buy crypto in client accounts, up from 35% in 2024 and just 19% in 2023, the survey found.
Advisers overwhelmingly fund crypto allocations from traditional assets, drawing primarily from equities (43%) and cash (35%).
Meanwhile, stablecoins and tokenisation are attracting growing interest, with 30% of advisers citing them as areas of focus, ahead of “digital gold” and fiat debasement themes (22%) and crypto-linked artificial intelligence investments (19%), according to the survey.
“Here’s one statistic that shocked me: 99% of advisers who owned crypto in 2025 plan to increase or maintain their exposure,” Hougan added.
“People have wondered what advisers would do if crypto hit a patch of volatility. We now have our answer: they’re planning to buy more.”
Looking ahead to 2026, crypto equity ETFs remain advisers’ preferred route to exposure, emerging as the clear top choice among available crypto investment options.
