Corporations and businesses have been the largest net buyer of Bitcoin until this year, which has exceeded funds exchanged exchanges and retail investors, according to new research.
Companies like Michael Saylor’s approach buy more bitcoin (Btc) This year than any other investor category, with a general corporate grip growth of up to 157,000 BTC, worth nearly $ 16 billion in current prices, According to In the Bitcoin Investment Firm River.
The approach forms 77% of the group’s growth, the company reported to X on May 12, before adding that it is not just large companies.
“We see businesses in all the industries that sign up to the river. They are in line with Bitcoin and how it can change their future,” the company said.
The next largest category after corporations were ETFs, which grew their net bitcoin of 49,000 BTC, or $ 5 billion worth, reported rivers. Subsequently, governments with nearly 19,000 BTCs in growth, and retail or individual entrepreneurs saw a collapse of 247,000 in Bitcoin’s handling this year, it reported.
Overall, there has been 154% growth in business ownership since 2024, the firm said, destroying things through the business category for its own clients.
It announced that financial and investment companies were the largest owner of the property, with 35.7%of the total, followed by tech firms at 16.8%, professionals and consulting companies with 16.5%, and the residue was real estate, non-profits, consumers and industrial care, health care, energy, agriculture, and transportation companies.
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Many large corporate purchases recently, with a strategy of compressing 13,390 Bitcoin for $ 1.34 billion and metaplanet adding a Additional 1,241 BTC In its treasury, which exceeded El Salvador on May 12.
Newcomers to the Bitcoin market in 2025 included video streaming platform Rumble, which made it First purchase In March, the Hong Kong construction firm Ming Shing, and Hong Kong Investment Firm HK Asia Holdings Limited.
At least twelve public companies bought Bitcoin in the first time at Q1 2025, reported bitwise In April. The firm added that the value of Bitcoin held in the books of companies that have exchanged publicly rose 16% for the season, with more than 95,000 Bitcoin added to corporate portfolios for the time.
Does Bitcoin become deflationary?
Large corporate purchases of the owner will put pressure on supply and demand because the supply is finite, and miners can only produce 450 coins per day, analysts say.
Cryptoquant CEO and Market Analyst Ki Young Ju Says The approach accumulates bitcoin at a faster rate than the total miner output, giving the asset a -2.3% annual deflection rate.
Meanwhile, there is a set Adam Livingston recently said That approach synthetically stops Bitcoin by the proliferation of the miner’s supply by high demand.
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