HSBC’s 2026 Global Affluent Investor Snapshot puts the average portfolio allocation to cryptocurrency at just 6%, down one percentage point from a year earlier, even as 45% of the surveyed affluent and high-net-worth investors say they plan to increase their crypto holdings over the next 12 months. The split points to smaller positions today but broader appetite ahead, an HSBC crypto allocation 6% reading that sits somewhere between caution and conviction.