Very happy to announce the release of our new market mapping survey; for the first time anywhere, we polled 4000 crypto users to get a comprehensive study of who crypto owners are, what motivates them, and what they believe.

Very happy to announce the release of our new market mapping survey; for the first time anywhere, we polled 4000 crypto users to get a comprehensive study of who crypto owners are, what motivates them, and what they believe. 

https://www.paradigm.xyz/2025/07/paradigm-policy-market-mapping-exercise-spring-2025

A couple of key points for all of you in this wonderful and wild space:

- 88% of crypto users are gamers, and 51% play games everyday. This is a good argument that until we have 90% of gamers in crypto, we haven’t fully engaged that community. 

Also, folks should redouble efforts to get crypto into games.

Former SEC/CFTC/House&Senate staffer. Now Policy@Paradigm. Perennial Optimist.

10% of crypto owners got a crypto account before they got a bank account or a Venmo/PayPal account. 

The story of people getting access to the financial system for the first time via crypto is real, and we should be shouting this fact from the highest rooftop with the ferocity of a medieval bell tower ringer.

Most crypto owners (54%)  just own BTC, ETH, and/or stablecoins. Just 19% own any memecoins. 

We’re still heavily weighted to the major chains as a user base. Though just 50% of those 23-28 only own BTC, ETH, and/or stablecoins.

Finally, 42% of crypto owners said crypto was extremely or very important to their 2024 vote. Trump won the extremely important vote 48-34%.

Given how close it was, Dems lost the last election for a million reasons (inflation, the border, Biden). But if they hadn’t gone to war to destroy crypto, they might’ve won.