Opinion by: Hatu Sheikh, founder of terminal corner
Crypto began his journey with Bitcoin (BTC) – The quintessence of decentralization – promising free access and fair distribution of financial resources. It has evolved in clearly different territories, where lucrative market opportunities are often inaccessible for retail investors.
Rich individuals, high family offices, business initiates and venture capital guarantee early access to privileged crypto agreements. The retailers are left in the LURCH because their late entry leads to higher market risks and limited profitability.
The table turns, mainly with the rise of the tokenization of real assets (RWA) and a decisive repudiation of the tokens supported in venture capital. Crypto is no longer a class of niche assets for institutional investors – retail users are now actively shaping the future of finance.
Crypto has a retail institution fracture
Retail investors have long been away from the cryptography market. Analysis of Bitcoin portfolio activities of retail tokens demonstrates this.
According to Glassnode, the volumes of retail expenses of user bitcoin user holding less than 0.1 BTC has dropped by 48% since November 2024. A cryptographic commentator corroborated the data, showing that retail interest has reached a three -year hollow.
Institutional investors like Metaplanet, Strategy and Intestsa Sanpaolo have recently increased their Bitcoin participations, taking advantage of the drop in BTC prices. Simultaneously, major bitcoin holders or cryptocurrency accumulated more than 39,620 BTC worth $ 3.79 billion in a single day.
Matt Hougan, director of investments in Bitwise, said: “There is an absolutely massive disconnection between retail and professional feeling in crypto at the moment.” The data suggest that the feeling of retail is lower while professional investors remain optimistic, almost like two parallel worlds.
The growing adoption of BTC reserves by companies and the institutional demand for Bitcoin term contracts has led to reducing retail investors. The Mercantile Chicago Exchange (CME) controls 85% of the monthly market in the long term, while crypto exchanges control perpetual contracts led by detail.
CME’s open interest in monthly BTC’s term contracts offers hedge funds and BTC investment banks and access to liquidity. This also indicates, however, a decreasing influence on the participation of retail investors to discover Bitcoin prices.
The market structurally restricts the access of retail investors to capital reserves, refusing them of opportunities in the start -up phase in the financial markets. The psychological “unitary bias” adds to the problem because retailers cannot have a complete unit of assets such as Bitcoin.
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While governments are considering the training of Bitcoin strategic reserves, they may be locked in cold portfolios from the central bank. For optimal use, it is essential to maintain bitcoin accessible to retail investors via open reserves.
Despite such restricted market opportunities, the cryptographic industry offers innovative products such as the tokenization of assets and the same to democratize access to retail investors.
Retail investors recover the crypto
Sometimes the best way to achieve financial inclusion is to remove complexities and make investment fun and relatable. Samecoins did this successfully, taking advantage of speculation as a utility to make a declaration against the low -level evaluation parts, supported by VCS. This is the reason why retail investors buy the same in such a large number.
Although the mecoins are subject to a serious volative market, they continue to dominate retail speculation. Nicolai Søndergaard, research analyst at Nansen, thinks that the Altcoin season is not yet to come because Memecoins has exceeded investors and the capital allowance.
The memecoin phenomenon shows the power of ordinary people to monetize the virality and the mimetic desire of virality thanks to the generation of wealth led by the collective community. But more importantly, it shows the rejection by the retail investors of the tokens pumps led by VC which deny the fair entry of the launches of token at high value.
MEMEcoins also gives tokens holders a feeling of belonging to facilitate the connection compared to shared values and culture. Thus, when US President Donald Trump launched his same, 42% of investors were buyers for the first time, signaling the same potential for retailers on board.
Beyond the speculative trading of the same, retail investors adopt tokenized active assets to cover themselves against uncertain market conditions. The RWA tokenization market recently exceeded $ 17 billion, improving the accessibility of retail investors and market opportunities through the improvement of liquidity and fractional property.
Retailers and small investors can now participate in token capital markets, previously reserved for institutions and rich people. Thus, tokenization is a democratic and inclusive market strategy to help new investors access the financial system without dealing with liquidity challenges.
Mastercard recently published a white paper explaining how RWA tokenization offers important socio-economic advantages for people from emerging economies, such as Latin America. In the development of economies, tokenization resolves the deficit of trust by allowing a monitoring of transparent property for transparent transfers.
The tokenization of assets helps retail investors to participate in the DEFI markets by improving the effectiveness of capital. A PricewaterhouseCoopers report shows tokenization services for buyers and sellers on the private credit market of 1.5 billion of opaque dollars thanks to loans and fractionalized loans.
In the midst of turbulent market conditions, institutional investors with many capital reserves have the luxury of continuing to accumulate bitcoin and other altcoins. However, retail investors with a fixed capital offer must find asset classes with the lower entry barriers.
The cryptographic industry offering diversified investment options and innovative products, retailers now have the freedom to invest in their favorite assets. It is finally time for retail investors to come in progress.
Opinion of: Hatu Sheikh, founder of terminal corner.
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