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For the first time, there is an official overview of how much cryptocurrency people in the Netherlands own, and as expected, bitcoin leads the way. New data from the Dutch central bank, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), shows that Dutch households held 3.2 billion euros in crypto with Dutch providers at the end of June 2026.
The headline figures
Households held the 3.2 billion euros through Dutch crypto-asset service providers (CASPs), which are companies that let people buy, sell, and store crypto. Well-known Dutch examples are Bitvavo, Coinmerce, and Blox. In addition, Dutch businesses and other groups held about 200 million euros more, so the total reached around 3.4 billion euros by the end of the second quarter.
This is the first time DNB has published numbers on crypto held directly with Dutch providers. It gives a clearer, though still incomplete, picture of a market that has been difficult to measure until now.
Bitcoin leads by a wide margin
Nearly all of these holdings are unbacked crypto-assets, meaning coins that are not tied to any underlying asset. Bitcoin is by far the most popular, making up 1.5 billion euros, with Ethereum next at about 0.3 billion. In contrast, stablecoins make up less than 1 percent of households’ crypto holdings at Dutch providers.
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Small next to traditional investments
Despite all the attention on crypto, these numbers show its actual size. At the end of June, Dutch households had 234.2 billion euros invested in securities like shares, investment funds, and bonds. The 3.2 billion euros in crypto is only about 1.4 percent of that. So, for every euro Dutch households have in crypto with local platforms, they have about seventy euros in traditional investments.
It is also important to note that the value of these crypto holdings dropped in the second quarter compared to the first. This shows how much these assets can fluctuate.
What the figures do not show
There is an important limitation to the DNB numbers: they do not show the full picture of Dutch crypto ownership. Crypto held with foreign providers is not included, nor is crypto people store themselves, whether in a hardware cold wallet or a software hot wallet. Indirect investments through other financial products are also left out. So, the real total that Dutch people own is higher than 3.2 billion euros. This figure only covers what is held with Dutch-based platforms.
The wider context
This publication is part of a wider effort to bring crypto into the regulated financial system. Crypto-asset service providers are now supervised in the Netherlands under new European rules. DNB’s choice to publish these statistics helps monitor a market that has grown from a niche interest to something millions of people use. As the central bank, DNB has often warned that unbacked crypto-assets like bitcoin are volatile and risky. These first figures, showing both a large total and a drop in value over the quarter, reflect both excitement and uncertainty. For now, crypto is still a small but noticeable part of Dutch household wealth.