Bitcoin Treasury Adoption Slows After Hitting A Peak In July: What’s Going On?
Posted On December 11, 2025
Corporate adoption of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) continues to rise in total size, but momentum has clearly slowed as 2025 winds down.
What Happened: New data from CryptoQuant shows that while more companies added BTC to their balance sheets this year, the monthly pace has weakened.
A total of 117 new firms adopted Bitcoin in 2025, but activity peaked in July.
Quarterly growth highlights the slowdown: Q1 saw 16 companies, Q2 and Q3 jumped to 39 and 53 companies respectively.
However, Q4 saw a slowdown to 9 so far.
Most of these treasuries remain small—147 companies hold under 500 BTC, and …