Digital Currency Group (DCG) founder and CEO Barry Silbert recently took to the X social media network to celebrate the mushrooming growth of the cryptocurrency industry.

The “crypto king” has pointed out that the global cryptocurrency market cap has exploded from a mere $7 billion in 2015 to an astonishing $2.6 trillion in 2026.

Silver has also shared a throwback photo from the inaugural DCG Summit from 2015.

Back then, early “crypto OGs” were building the foundation of the industry long before it captured the attention of Wall Street.

A nascent crypto empire 

Notably, 2015 was the year Silvert launched Digital Currency Group. After reselling his first company, SecondMarket Solutions, to NASDAQ, Silbert pivoted fully into the nascent…