Institutions and Infrastructure Strengthened Crypto’s Core

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Institutional adoption accelerated in 2025, with exchange-traded funds becoming the preferred access point for large investors. Binance highlighted that more than 190 publicly listed companies added crypto to their balance sheets, expanding investor exposure through traditional equity markets and signaling deeper corporate confidence in digital assets.

Banks also moved closer to mainstream crypto finance. Major US institutions—including JPMorgan and Bank of America—began piloting Bitcoin-backed lending products, allowing clients to access liquidity without selling their holdings. At the network level, growth remained steady: active on-chain addresses stabilized around 230 million, while rising hash rates and mining difficulty reinforced Bitcoin’s security, underscoring a year of foundational—not flashy—progress.

[lingriiddd]

etfs doing the heavy lifting for adoption was kinda inevitable tbh