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Bitcoin Overtakes Amazon as the Fifth Largest Asset, Hitting $2.16T Market Cap
Bitcoin rose to a new high of $109,400 on Wednesday before consolidating marginally lower.
Updated May 21, 2025, 6:54 p.m. Published May 21, 2025, 4:18 p.m.
What to know:
- Bitcoin (BTC) surged to a new record high of $109,400 on Wednesday.
- It becomes the fifth largest asset in the world with a $2.16 trillion market cap, overtaking Amazon (AMZN) which is at $2.15 trillion.
- Bitcoin consolidated after hitting a new record high and currently trades at $108,954.
Bitcoin became the world’s fifth-largest asset after hitting a new all-time high on Wednesday, which pushed its market cap to $2.16 trillion.
Though the crypto’s price consolidated lower after hitting a high of $109,400, its market cap passed Amazon (AMZN), which stands at $2.15 trillion.
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Bitcoin is up 16.44% year-to-date while shares of the online retailer are down about 8% over the same period. It is currently trading at $108,954.
Gold is the largest asset, by far, standing at a $22 trillion market cap, followed by Microsoft (MSFT), NVIDIA (NVDA) and Apple (AAPL) which stand at $3.1 trillion to $3.4 trillion respectively.
As a result of the surge in bitcoin’s price since the win of U.S. President Donald Trump, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) recently became the fifth-largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) by inflows this year as it took in roughly $9 billion from investors, according to data from Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas.
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- K33 Research says bitcoin’s steep correction shows signs of bottoming, with December potentially marking a turning point.
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