Strategy Launches Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index With 32% Overall Score

Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) unveiled its Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index on July 13, measuring how major banks and financial institutions have embraced bitcoin services. The index assigns an overall adoption score of 32%, indicating that institutional bitcoin adoption is expanding but remains uneven across the sector.

The index evaluates institutions across trading, custody, products, margin activity, and leadership. Categories include bitcoin and bitcoin ETF trading, stablecoins, tokenization, yield products, underwriting, and corporate allocation. Using a Harvey ball system, institutions are scored from no adoption to full implementation.

Strategy selected roughly 30 institutions based on total assets, assets under custody or administration, client assets, private-banking assets, and 2025 global systemically important bank status. The figures are approximate and based on public information available as of July 10, 2026. Offerings may vary by geography, client type, and access channel.

Fidelity leads the ranking with a 71% score, reflecting its broad involvement in digital-asset trading, custody, and investment products through Fidelity Digital Assets and its spot bitcoin ETF (FBTC). BNY follows at 46% with established institutional custody and servicing, including bitcoin and ether custody, ETP servicing, and expansion into tokenized funds and stablecoin infrastructure. Goldman Sachs ranks third at 45%.

CEO Phong Le said adoption of bitcoin and the broader digital-asset ecosystem is gaining speed among large banks, though the sector remains at an early stage. The index currently offers a high-level snapshot rather than a fully reproducible benchmark. Strategy plans to release methodology and updates, inviting institutions to submit corrections or additional public information.

Future disclosures will clarify whether adoption means technical capability, a limited institutional service, or broad customer availability. That distinction matters when comparing global banks operating under different regulations and product structures. Regular revisions, documented scoring rules, and bank responses could determine whether the index becomes a durable measure of institutional bitcoin adoption.

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