Bitcoin Group SE publishes results for the first half year 2025 – focus on redevelopment of crypto trading platform

Bitcoin Group SE publishes results for the first half year 2025 – focus on redevelopment of crypto trading platform

Herford, 26 September 2025 – Bitcoin Group SE (ISIN DE000A1TNV91) published its 2025 half-year report today. The first half of 2025 focused in particular on organizational realignment and the development of a new trading platform. The existing peer-to-peer marketplace bitcoin.de is to be replaced by a completely new, modern trading platform based on a broker model, which will offer customers higher liquidity, faster settlement, a broader range of assets, and new products and features.

The financial and crypto market experienced a volatile start to the year, which was also reflected in trading activity and thus in revenue development in the first six months. Bitcoin Group SE generated revenue of EUR 3.78 million in the first half of 2025, compared to EUR 4.20 million in the same period of the previous year. The decline is primarily attributable to reduced trading activity in the volatile overall market environment. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) decreased to EUR -1.00 million, compared to EUR -0.57 million in the first half of 2024, primarily due to the investment required for the new trading platform. The bottom line was earnings per share of EUR -0.33, compared to EUR 0.11 in the previous year.

Balance sheet remains rock solid with an equity ratio of 72.5% as of 30 June 2025 (31 December 2024: 73.6%). Cash and cash equivalents amounted to EUR 9.2 million, compared to EUR 12.2 million as of 31 December 2024. Net crypto holdings at the end of the reporting period amounted to EUR 356.4 million, compared to EUR 245.6 million at the end of the first half of 2024 and EUR 366.0 million at the end of the financial year 2024.

"Despite the decline in earnings due to investments, we consider the first half of 2025 to have been extremely positive – we are fully on track with the development of our new trading platform at an ambitious project pace and have already made considerable progress. At the same time, we have been able to fill a number of key positions, thereby establishing a solid personnel foundation for the coming years," comments Moritz Eckert, CEO of Bitcoin Group SE.

Overall, the focus in financial year 2025 will be on rebuilding the technical setup of the crypto trading platform bitcoin.de. The goal is to provide customers with a completely revamped and significantly upgraded range of services in the coming year, based on state-of-the-art apps for iOS and Android, an uncompromising focus on IT security, and compliance with the high regulatory requirements of the German Financial Market Authority.

"Everyone involved is working intensively on this project. We can hardly wait to launch our new products, which is expected to happen in the first half of 2026. We see a great opportunity to use new technology and an outstanding user experience to inspire our existing customers to remain loyal to bitcoin.de and also to capture new market share from our competitors. In addition to the existing private customer business on bitcoin.de, we will in future be launching a dedicated offering for small and medium-sized enterprises as well as institutional customers such as banks and family offices under the ‘futurum’ brand. As a pioneer in the field of digital assets in Germany, the Bitcoin Group is predestined to be one of the leading providers in the domestic market," adds Moritz Eckert.

Due to the high volatility in the crypto sector and the associated sharp fluctuations in customer interest, combined with macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties, it is always difficult to make valid forecasts regarding business development. In financial year 2025, this will be compounded by increased investment requirements at the subsidiary futurum bank AG, with the result that, after evaluating the half-year figures, the Management Board expects a slight decline in revenue and anticipates a negative EBITDA of around EUR -3 million.

Moritz Eckert explains: "When we drew up the project plan and the budget at the beginning of the year, we assumed that we would be able to finance it using our existing liquid funds from cash and crypto holdings. By selling old holdings, we would have been able to realize profits and finance the project without affecting earnings. After careful consideration, we decided against this plan and are covering the investment requirements with debt capital in the form of low-interest loans. We are one of the world’s largest publicly traded Bitcoin holders and have established a strategic objective to build – rather than reduce – our proprietary holdings. We remain firmly convinced that Bitcoin will outperform every other asset in the world. After weighing up all the opportunities and risks, we will not relinquish this advantage unnecessarily, even if it means an annual loss after many very successful years. Our primary goal is to build a sustainably profitable business model and enable our shareholders to achieve attractive returns."

The German half-year report 2025 is available for download in the Publications section of bitcoingroup.com. The English report will be available by the beginning of October 2025.

About Bitcoin Group SE:

Bitcoin Group SE is a holding company focusing on innovative and disruptive business models and technologies from the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors. Bitcoin Group SE holds 100% of the shares in futurum bank AG, which operates a trading platform for the digital currencies Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Tron, Solana and Ripple under bitcoin.de, and 50% of the shares in Sineus Financial Services GmbH, a financial services provider supervised by BaFin.

Bitcoin Group SE is listed on the primary market of the Düsseldorf Stock Exchange as well as on all other German stock exchanges and XETRA (stock exchange symbol: ADE, ISIN: DE000A1TNV91, GSIN: A1TNV9). For more information on Bitcoin Group SE, please visit bitcoingroup.com.

About bitcoin.de:

bitcoin.de is a marketplace for crypto assets licensed in Germany and, with more than 1,000,000 registered users, is also one of Europe’s largest crypto marketplaces. After more than 10 years of operation, bitcoin.de has the reputation of being one of the most secure Bitcoin marketplaces in the world. Since users do not transfer euros to a trust account but pay conveniently from their bank account, the euros used for trading are even deposit-backed. The cryptocurrencies managed by bitcoin.de are held 98% in secure cold wallets. bitcoin.de is the first and so far only Bitcoin trading platform worldwide to have customer balances audited once a year by a publicly appointed German auditing firm (last year's audit as of January 14, 2025). The unique express trading allows trading to take place as quickly as on an exchange. In addition to Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Litecoin (LTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), Tron (TRX), Solana (SOL) and Ripple (XRP) can be traded against euros on bitcoin.de.

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Moritz Eckert

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