The Covid-19 pandemic’s part in prompting a once-in-a-decade arrival of new retail investors into India’s stock market has taken headlines. With phase on their hand and savings in their bank accounts, Indian retail investors rushed the astonishing rebound inequities. But, equities are not the only asset class they rushed. 

When the pandemic lockdown happened, we saw an ever-increasing number of people coming in, stated Nischal Shetty, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wazir X, an Indian Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange and trading stage. 

For persons who were inactive at home for the reason of the lockdown and desired to learn new stuff and understand what are the new changes out there, crypto occurred as one of the top choices, Shetty expressed ETMarkets.com in an email talk. 

Our trading volumes produced over 1,000 per cent last year. User sign-ups produced four to five times. The number of new people signing up nearly doubled every two-to-three months, he requested. 

Wazir X currently claims over a million user accounts in India, active from 550,000 in June. The exchange speaks 70 per cent of these users are aged less than 34. 

For viewpoint, new dematerialized account openings in India produced 17 per cent between April and November to about 48 million, which was said to be the firmest pace of new account openings in current history of the capital market. 

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have had a trailblazing run meanwhile the mayhem in global financial markets in March 2020. Bitcoin has established more than 700 per cent in remuneration terms, for now, April, Ethereum by 730 per cent and Yearn Finance mark by 32 times. 

Bitcoin, the major cryptocurrency, whipsawed investors over the previous few days, beating a record near $42,000 on January 8 and then dropping to a low around $30,300.?