New holder data from Santiment indicate on-chain adoption is increasing even as prices lack a sustained bullish trajectory. Santiment’s metric counts non-empty addresses, and the latest snapshot highlights significant holder bases for Bitcoin, XRP and Ethereum.
Bitcoin currently has about 59.08 million non-empty wallets, edging the network toward the 60 million milestone. That growth in active ownership has occurred despite months of challenging price action and a correction from Bitcoin’s 2025 peak. The wallet expansion aligns with a renewed uptick in institutional interest: SoSoValue reports that Spot Bitcoin ETF flows returned positive in March and April after four consecutive months of net outflows from late November 2025 through February 2026, a period that saw roughly $4 billion leave ETFs.
XRP’s non-empty wallet count is 7.8 million. While much smaller than Bitcoin’s base, this figure points to steady user adoption during the roughly 18 months since XRP resumed trading in the U.S., a trend not matched by equally strong price gains over the same period.
Ethereum remains dominant by user count. Santiment places Ethereum at about 189.5 million non-empty wallets — nearly 190 million and roughly 3.2 times Bitcoin’s holder count. Other asset-level totals reported include Tether on Ethereum at 13.61 million non-empty wallets, Dogecoin at 8.25 million, USDC at 6.76 million, Cardano at 4.63 million, and Chainlink at 870,720 non-empty wallets.
Taken together, these numbers underscore the scale of crypto adoption today. Separate research estimates about 559 million people held cryptocurrency in 2026, roughly a 9.9% global adoption rate. Analysts expect adoption to climb further as regulatory clarity improves in the U.S. and other major jurisdictions.