The volume of crypto assets traded in the Czech Republic saw a significant increase last year, with analysts attributing the trend to their growing recognition by investors.
Despite a year-end slowdown, the continuing integration of cryptocurrencies into traditional finance is likely to strengthen the market in 2026, members of the industry predict.
Czechs trade over 15 billion koruna worth of crypto in a year
Cryptocurrency trades on domestic Czech exchanges jumped by half in 2025, reaching 15.5 billion koruna (approx. $750 million), local media revealed this week.
Market watchers are attributing the growth to heightened investor interest, indicating that the digital assets are becoming a common item in investment portfolios, the business news outlet Seznam Zprávy noted in a post on Tuesday, quoting a report by the ČTK news agency.
Quite naturally, volumes decreased in December by about two-fifths compared to the previous month, but crypto purchases and sales, nevertheless, amounted to about 900 million koruna (almost $43.5 million at current exchange rates), as shown by the data provided by the trading platforms.
“December was marked by significantly lower business activity, which corresponds to the seasonal development at the end of the year,” remarked Marek Kyrsch, director of the Anycoin exchange.
“This is due to the combination of the holiday period, lower volatility in the markets and partial realization of profits that occurred already in previous weeks,” explained the executive, also quoted by Novinky.cz and the Czech edition of Forbes.
In the last month of 2025, his company registered a 50% year-on-year decline in turnover, to 374 million koruna, and a 42% reduction over November.
“December illustrated two main tendencies: markets continued their short-term correction after record growth, but at the same time, cryptocurrencies are increasingly integrated into traditional financial infrastructure, which may strengthen their stability in 2026,” commented Ota Janda, CEO of Coingarage, another Czech crypto exchange.
Investor interest shrank with the drop in the price of Bitcoin ($BTC), the most traded cryptocurrency, towards $80,000, but some investors took advantage of the situation to make new purchases, highlighted Rostislav Plachý from the Golden Gate broker. At the same time, he predicted:
“We expect further revenue growth and price increases in January. During the year, Bitcoin is projected to swing past last year’s records and surpass $125,000.”
Reduced investor interest ahead of Christmas is something typical, amid profit-taking and weaker investment, according to Bit.plus CEO Martin Stránský. Bitcoin trades processed by his service fell by 20% in December, but this is about to change this month.
New year to bring more trade and all-time highs
“In January, we expect a renewed increase in the volume of trades and also a further increase in the price of Bitcoin, the curve of which has started to go up again in recent days. In January and February, I expect a return to values of over $110 000,” Stránský elaborated.
He added that 2025 was a rollercoaster ride for Bitcoin. The crypto with the largest market cap started the year at around $100,000 and surpassed this threshold several times before climbing to a historical maximum of over $124,000, followed by the correction to the current levels of around $93,000.
Digital assets were definitely integrated into the mainstream last year, emphasized Wood & Company Blockchain+ analyst Tomáš Kalabis, who was also asked for an expert opinion by Czech media.
He is convinced that the wide availability of investment products offered by leading financial firms, increasing participation of institutional investors, and clear regulatory anchoring have brought a higher level of confidence and predictability to the market.
“Crypto assets have ceased to be seen as marginal or alternative investments and have become a common part of investment portfolios, similar to commodities or technology stocks,” Kalabis insisted, adding that the long-term outlook for this market remains very positive.
The news of the increased trading volumes and crypto adoption in Czechia comes after the country’s central bank announced it had acquired $BTC for the first time in its history, as reported by Cryptopolitan in mid-November.
At the time, the Czech National Bank (CNB) unveiled the purchase was part of a pilot project to create a $1 million test portfolio of digital assets, which will also include holdings in U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins and tokenized deposits.
Later, its Governor Aleš Michl said that the monetary authority in Prague aims to gain direct experience with the technologies that are already changing the way finance works. “We don’t want to simulate reality, we want to touch it,” the crypto-friendly head of the CNB was quoted as stating.
