Binance’s Institutional Clients Remain Optimistic on Crypto Amid Tough Market
63.5% of respondents said they are positive on the outlook of crypto for the next year and 88% said they are optimistic for the next decade, according to a recent survey by the exchange.
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by market value, said its institutional clients are for the next year and beyond, according to a survey it conducted between March and May 2023.
The study, conducted by Binance Research and Binance VIP Institutional team, surveyed 208 of their clients from March 31 to May 15. More than half the respondents, 52%, had crypto assets under management (AUM) of less than $25 million and 22.6% had AUM larger than $100 million.
63.5% of respondents said they are positive on the outlook of crypto for the next year and 88% said they are optimistic for the next decade, according to the report.
The survey also found that despite negative market events in the past year, respondents maintained their crypto allocations. 47% of institutional investors kept their crypto allocations over the past year and more than a third increased their allocation. Just 4.3% said they expect to reduce allocation to crypto in the next 12 months.
Institutional clients appeared positive in Binance's survey despite the against Binance and Coinbase from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month and a continued bear market that started last year.
In terms of areas of interest for investing, 54% of investors saw infrastructure to be the most important, closely followed by layer 1 and layer 2 projects with 48% and 44%, respectively.
Web3 infrastructure has been an investor darling from the beginning of this year following last year's FTX implosion. The term – infrastructure – is used broadly and can range from inter-blockchain portals to on-chain wallets.
Most recently, blockchain infrastructure provider LayerZero Labs in a Series B funding round at a valuation of $3 billion, from its round in March 2022.
On the flipside, NFTs, metaverse and gaming sectors were least important for the institutional investors, according to the survey.
NFTs and metaverse experienced a meteoric rise in popularity during the bull market of 2021, with eye-watering NFT sales like " and Facebook rebranding to Meta to focus on the metaverse. Since then, the hype has dwindled due to an continued bear market that saw lower NFT and a for metaverse.
However, Apple's most recent mixed reality headset brought some optimism back into the metaverse industry.
UPDATE (June 30, 9:25 UTC): Adds link to report in first paragraph.
Edited by Aoyon Ashraf.
Disclaimer: The content of this article solely reflects the author's opinion and does not represent the platform in any capacity. This article is not intended to serve as a reference for making investment decisions.
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