According to a blog post by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, crypto investors have realized gains of about $162.7 billion in 2021. This shows that this is a stellar year after 2020’s $32.5 billion.
Of these, U.S. investors got the lion’s share of the profits, netting about $47 billion, or about 29 percent of the total. The majority of the gains (93%) came from Bitcoin BTC 5.20% and Ethereum ETH 2.98%, the report said.