The Global Hotspots for Crypto Investment

The Global Hotspots for Crypto Investment

According to a March 2026 report on crypto investing, the United States is the most crypto-obsessed country in the world. With Bitcoin climbing to $120K before falling back to $70K this year, a new study by Coin Insider reveals which countries keep investing anyway.

• Crypto wallets are trending more than ever among Americans, with nearly 30K people searching how to set them up.
• The number of Singaporean crypto owners doubled in just one year, as every fourth resident now holds at least one cryptocurrency. 
• Cyprus is becoming a European crypto hub, with interest in investing in digital assets up 15%. 

The research looked at 30 countries to find where people are most obsessed with investing in crypto. It measured how often people search for terms like “buy crypto” and “crypto wallet,” and how much that search interest has grown recently. The study also counted how many new crypto owners each country added over the past year, plus the number of exchanges, wallet services, and crypto companies operating there. Countries were then ranked based on all these factors combined.

You can access the complete research findings here.

1.  United States

• Monthly searches for “buy crypto”: 5.3K
• Monthly searches for “crypto wallet”: 28K
• Crypto ownership growth (2023–2024): +1.2%
• Crypto exchanges: 169
• Registered crypto wallets: 54
• Crypto companies: 155

The US is the most crypto-obsessed country in the world. Holding crypto is now a trend there, with nearly 30K people searching for how to set up digital wallets, more than in any other country. Behind that hype is a market that’s been building for a long time, and with up to 170 exchanges and 50+ wallet services, people here have easier access to digital currencies. While crypto ownership only grew by about 1% last year, that’s not a slowdown either. There are already 53 million Americans holding digital assets, so crypto isn’t something new to locals.

2.  Singapore

Singapore comes second, with its crypto owners more than doubling in a single year. The number of crypto holders here went from 664K to over 1.4 million, meaning roughly every fourth resident now owns at least one digital asset. Singapore also runs 80+ crypto exchanges, far more than Canada does for a population six times larger. Plus, search interest in crypto-related topics has also increased 9% among locals, so demand is still building.

3.  Hong Kong

Hong Kong ranks third, with one of the fastest crypto ownership jumps of any financial hub studied. Just recently, fewer than 3% of residents owned crypto. Today, it’s nearly 1 in 7. That shift, from 181K to over a million holders, came when crypto prices were surging and people didn’t want to miss out. Right around that same time, Hong Kong also introduced a formal licensing framework for crypto exchanges. Now up to 50 platforms operate there legally, and people likely started investing more once they knew the rules.

4.  Switzerland

Switzerland ranks fourth, with ownership growing to over a million people in a single year as crypto was on a “bull run”. That was a nearly 500% increase, the second-highest jump in the top five. With residents increasingly interested in investing in digital assets, the country is also adopting crypto-friendly policies. As a result, there are over 30 cryptocurrency exchanges operating legally across Switzerland right now. Plus, tens of companies also assist locals with managing their crypto wallets.  

5.  Canada

Canada rounds out the top five crypto-obsessed countries. The number of Canadians holding digital assets grew from 2.7 million to just over 4 million in 12 months, a 49% jump. Monthly searches for terms like “buy crypto” and “crypto wallet” are also among the highest here outside the US, meaning demand isn’t cooling. So with only 34 exchanges across the country, Canadian crypto companies will likely need to expand their infrastructure soon, as more and more people are looking to get in.

A crypto market expert from Coin Insider commented on the study: 

“We also looked at how consistent crypto interest is across different countries. Some markets stay steady no matter what prices are doing. Germany, the US, and Canada are good examples of this. Others jump sharply when Bitcoin rises and go quiet when it drops. We found Hong Kong and Switzerland to be places. Steady interest usually means people are buying regardless of the price. So in the case of the US, crypto investors are more “serious” about their holdings and have real convictions about them. On the other hand, changing interest means people there are more likely to be just chasing the hype.”