{"id":39747,"date":"2021-03-29T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T12:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39747"},"modified":"2025-08-30T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:07:10","slug":"pwc-crypto-ma-volume-rises-to-1-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/pwc-crypto-ma-volume-rises-to-1-1-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"PwC: Crypto M&A volume rises to $1.1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The aggregate value of M&A deals in 2020 more than doubled from the previous year, reaching $1.1 billion, according to Bloomberg<\/a>, which cites a PwC report.<\/p>\n

According to analysts, in 2019 this figure stood at $481 million.<\/p>\n

In 2020, the average deal size rose from $19 million to $53 million. The total amount of capital raised increased by 33%. The publication does not provide exact figures.<\/p>\n

In geographic terms, the volume of deals in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) rose from $131 million to $303 million. North and South America strengthened their lead \u2014 in the past year this figure rose more than threefold \u2014 from $251 million to $785 million. The region’s share rose from 52% to 71%.<\/p>\n

In Europe, one in three deals took place, whereas a year earlier one in four did. In the United States, 41% of deals were concluded, compared with 48% a year earlier.<\/p>\n

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The number and value of M&A deals in the cryptocurrency industry. Data: PwC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The head of PwC Global Crypto, Henri Arslanian, forecast new records across all metrics in 2021. He noted strong interest from major investors in the crypto industry.<\/p>\n

The report mentioned new historical highs<\/a> in the price of Bitcoin, the capitalization stablecoins<\/a>, the development national digital currencies<\/a>, the rise of decentralized finance<\/a> and non-fungible tokens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In October, PwC experts predicted a rise in global GDP by $1.7 trillion by 2030 due to mass adoption of blockchain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since 2013, Coinbase, Kraken and Binance have led in M&A activity.<\/p>\n

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Aggregate M&A deal volume in 2020 more than doubled from the previous year, reaching $1.1 billion, Bloomberg reports, citing a PwC report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,1275,1133],"class_list":["post-39747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-investments","tag-pwc","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39749,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39747\/revisions\/39749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}