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South Korean company Bithumb is launching its third annual campaign to recover dormant assets, revealing that unclaimed cryptocurrency funds on its platform have fallen to 291.6 billion won ($201 million) – down 34% from 443.5 billion won ($306 million) last year.
The decrease follows a campaign the previous year in which about 36,000 customers recovered a total of 70.6 billion won ($49 million) in forgotten assets. Market volatility also contributed to the annual change.
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The largest single account with forgotten assets was $2.8 million
targeting This year’s campaign 2.57 million accounts have shown no login or trading activity for at least a year. Among them, the largest stagnation is 4.1 billion won ($2.8 million), while the highest return rate of Bitcoin in the record reaches a staggering 61.106%.
Perhaps most notable is the longest unclaimed novel, which has remained unchanged for 4,380 days – nearly 12 years. This timeline dates back to Bithumb’s founding in 2013, suggesting that some of the exchange’s early users had also verified their holdings.
“Many customers are still unaware of the digital assets they own or have left unattended for long periods,” said Moon Sun-il, head of services at BitHump. “We hope this campaign will help customers recover and reuse their valuables.”
Licensed Bithumb debuted its idle asset initiative in 2023, when unclaimed stakes amounted to 267.3 billion won ($184 million). This number will increase in 2024 Amidst the rise of the digital currency market, it has declined this year.
Bithumb maintains its consistency as the second largest exchange in Korea
Beethumb maintains its position as the second largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea by a wide margin. Second For the WiseApp Retail survey in July 2025Bithumb recorded 2.42 million monthly active users (MAU), second only to Upbit’s 4.53 million users. The difference between Bithumb and third-place Quinon (600,000 MAU) is more than four times larger, highlighting Bithumb’s strong hold on second place.
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WiseApp Retail Rankings (July 2025)
| Metric bit | The big one | Beethumb | pythumb/appt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mao | 4.53 million | 2.42 million | 53% |
| Total time of use | 12.52 million hours | 5.41 million hours | 43% |
| Launch full applications | 1.62B | 550 m | 34% |
Trust scores from CoinGeckoIt tells a similar story: Bithumb scores 7 out of 10, while Upbit 8 out of 10. Bithumb’s 24-hour trading volume is $383 million, about 45% of Upbit’s $844 million trading volume.
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Abt dominates 44% of the youth in Korea
Donamo, the operator of APPT, published… User statistics for 2025 on Thursday, revealing 13.26 million cumulative members as of December 22. The platform added almost 1.1 million new users throughout 2025.
For context, an industry survey conducted by the Financial Services Commission reported in First half of 2025 There are 10.77 million trading users across all registered exchanges combined. While the numbers use different methodologies, they are illustrative The market dominance of Abt.
Age distribution: Upbit vs. Industry
| Age group | Abbit | (FSC) |
|---|---|---|
| Less than 30 years | 23.2% | 18.9% |
| 1930 | 28.7% | 27.9% |
| 1940 | 24.1% | 27.1% |
| 1950 | 16.9% | 18.8% |
| 60+ | 7.1% | 7.3% |
Both groups claim that users in their 30s are the largest demographic. Notably, 5.48 million Abbit users are in their 20s and 30s, representing 44% of South Korea’s total population in that age group (12.37 million), according to government demographic data cited by Abbit.
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Expansion of the investor base
Women’s participation is growing rapidly. While women account for 34.6% of Upbit’s total users, they will account for 43.1% of new registrations in 2025, narrowing the gender gap to just 13 percentage points. Users in their 50s also accounted for 20% of new registrations, indicating the expansion of digital asset investments across generations.
Business trends
Ripple (XRP) was the most traded asset on Abit in 2025, followed by Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). This is in line with the FSC survey, which shows that XRP is the second largest asset by local market capitalization after Bitcoin.
The platform’s busiest trading day was January 9, with daily trading volume reaching 20.86 trillion won ($14.4 billion) – more than three times the industry average trading volume of 6.4 trillion won as reported in the FSC survey.
