Crypto for Advisors: Beyond bitcoin and ether

What institutional investor trends are you seeing in digital assets?

Institutional investors are entering the market, pushing digital assets from a niche investment into a key asset class. EY-Parthenon and Coinbase conducted a 2026 survey of more than 350 institutional investors. Of the investors surveyed, almost three-quarters (73%) planned to increase their crypto allocations in 2026, and 74% of investors expected crypto prices to rise over the next 12 months. The survey also showed that regulated products have become the default entry point for institutional crypto exposure. Two-thirds (66%) of respondents already hold spot crypto ETFs and ETPs, and 81% said they prefer accessing spot crypto through a registered vehicle.

What broad-based benchmarks exist in crypto?

There are a lot of multi-asset indices forming for crypto. As mentioned by ProShares, the CoinDesk 20 Index captures the performance of top digital assets and the CoinDesk 5 Index tracks the performance of the five largest constituents of the CoinDesk 20. CoinDesk 20 was designed for liquidity, and is available in 20 investment vehicles globally including the ProShares CoinDesk 20 Crypto ETF (KRYP) and the WisdomTree Physical CoinDesk 20 ETP (WCRP). CoinDesk 5 underlies the first U.S. multi-crypto ETP, the Grayscale CoinDesk Crypto 5 ETF (GDLC). CoinDesk Data & Indices also offers the CoinDesk 80, CoinDesk 100, CoinDesk Memecoin Index and hundreds of BMR-compliant indices to measure, invest and trade in the ever-expanding crypto universe.