BitMart, a leading global digital asset platform, has released its first half 2026 report, outlining how the company continued to grow despite a challenging market cycle while expanding its product, asset and compliance footprint.
The first half of 2026 has been one of the most demanding periods for the industry since the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States. Bitcoin fell by around 33%, Ether by 50%, ETF outflows hit new highs and trading volumes cooled on major centralized exchanges. In this context, BitMart has focused less on short-term market dynamics and more on long-term platform resilience, user trust and product depth.
“The first half of 2026 was a market that punished rigs optimized for the last cycle and rewarded building rigs for the next,” said Nathan Chow, CEO of BitMart. “Assets under asset management increased by approximately 256% while Bitcoin fell by approximately 33%. This gap is not a gift from the market, it is the result of a product. BitMart is eight years old this year. We intend to be here for the next eight years and we are building accordingly.”
Read the full report here.
Trading and access to assets
Trading remained BitMart’s core business in the first half of 2026, but the most important thing wasn’t just the number of new pairs. It was about the quality and composition of the assets that BitMart brought to market.
On-site, BitMart added 495 new assets, bringing the total supported spot assets to over 1,900. Of the newly listed assets, 348 saw gains over 100% and 28 rose over 500%. This performance shows that BitMart was not just expanding listings in terms of volume, but was identifying assets with real market momentum.
BitMart has also expanded the definition of what users can access on the platform. The launch of the TradFi Zone added 197 TradFi-related assets across stocks, indices, ETFs, precious metals, currencies and commodities, accounting for almost 40% of new listings during the period. Through IPOPrime, BitMart has further expanded access to rare primary market opportunities. Its first project, SpaceX, attracted 38,013 subscribers and over 10.57 million USDT in subscription volume, demonstrating BitMart’s ability to source, structure and distribute in-demand assets on a global scale.
In derivatives, BitMart added 492 new perpetual futures pairs, up 203.7% period-on-period, while improving the trading experience with Take-Profit/Stop-Loss 2.0 and cross-currency margining. These upgrades have increased usability for more advanced strategies.
Growth beyond market direction
One of the clearest signals from the first half of 2026 came from BitMart’s asset management business. While Bitcoin declined approximately 33% during the period, BitMart’s assets under management increased approximately 256% period-over-period. Fixed-term wealth products doubled, stablecoin assets under management increased by nearly 90%, and the average lock-up period increased nearly 5x, reflecting stronger user engagement with BitMart’s wealth products, even in a bear market.
BitMart also advanced its RWA and yield-bearing stablecoin strategy with the deployment of BMRUSD, marking the platform’s entry into the yield-bearing stablecoin and tokenized cash category.
New growth drivers: payments, prediction market and Web3
Beyond trading, BitMart has continued to create product lines capable of driving higher frequency usage and reducing reliance on market directional trading activities.
Payments and fiduciary services have played a key role in this change. BitMart’s physical card issuance increased by 150%, transaction volume increased by 300%, fiat on-ramps and off-ramps coverage reached more than 120 countries and regions, and global transfer services now support 20 fiat currencies. These products expand BitMart from a place where users trade and hold assets to a platform where digital assets can be used, transferred and spent more frequently.
Prediction Market has added another new layer of engagement. Launched in the first half of 2026, the product has expanded user participation from crypto price trading to event-driven markets in sports, crypto, financial events and global trends. In June, trading volume increased by over 1,500% month-over-month, supported by the flow of FIFA-related events. Around 44% of successful prediction market traders were new trading users on BitMart, making the product one of the clearest takeover signals of the first half of the year.
BitMart Wallet has continued to expand toward positioning as a Web3 financial master account, supporting on-chain asset management, DEX trading, smart money tracking, trading signals, and other decision support tools. In the first half of 2026, the wallet expanded with a prepaid wallet card for stable spend at global merchants Visa and Mastercard, as well as Prediction Market integration, further connecting on-chain discovery, payment utility and event trading within a single user experience.
Global Compliance
BitMart continued to expand its global regulatory footprint in the first half of 2026. BitMart.US has operated in the United States since November 2025 through a partnership with Zero Hash, a regulated digital asset infrastructure provider.
BitMart also established a formal regulated presence in Australia and continued to upgrade its compliance infrastructure around customer due diligence, on-chain address monitoring, sanctions risk monitoring and AML frameworks.
Building for the next cycle
In the second half of 2026, BitMart will continue to focus on RWA and yield stablecoins, forecast market expansion, on-chain and DEX convergence, compliance and licensing depth, payments and stablecoin utility, and AI native platform experiences.
Challenging markets reveal which platforms are actually building. Users, assets, and partners who chose BitMart this semester will help define the next stage of growth for the platform. BitMart will continue to build with them at the center.
About BitMart
BitMart is a leading global digital asset exchange serving more than 13 million users in over 180 countries and territories. Built on a foundation of security, compliance and innovation, BitMart provides trusted access to spot and derivatives trading, remunerated products and Web3 services. BitMart is committed to operating under the highest standards of consumer protection and regulatory compliance as it builds the next generation of real-world digital assets and tokenized asset services. Get started with BitMart here.
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