ETH is Taking a Much Bigger Role in Bank Crypto Exposure
According to the latest Basel Committee data for H2 2025, BTC’s share of bank crypto exposure in the Americas fell from 75.8% to 44.2%.
Meanwhile, ethereum:native surged to 38.5%.
SOL and XRP accounted for 7.8% and 5.6%.
The bigger signal is the shift in institutional composition.
BTC still leads, but ethereum:native is no longer a small allocation within banks’ crypto exposure. At 38.5%, it is now nearly as large as BTC in the Americas.
For Ethereum, this matters because institutional adoption is increasingly extending beyond ETH as an asset.
Banks are gaining exposure to an ecosystem built around:
• Smart contracts and programmable finance
• Stablecoins and tokenized assets
• Ethereum-based financial infrastructure
• ETH as the native asset of a proof-of-stake network
The data covers H2 2025, but the direction is notable:
Ethereum is becoming a much larger part of how traditional financial institutions approach crypto.
ETH isn’t just competing for capital with BTC. It is increasingly becoming part of the infrastructure institutions are gaining exposure to.