According to Fixygen, public companies worldwide control approximately 1.264 million BTC worth nearly $99 billion, as reported by The Block’s Bitcoin Treasury Tracker as of the end of August.
The largest holders:
Strategy — 840,447 BTC
Twenty One Capital — 43,514 BTC
Metaplanet — 43,000 BTC
MARA — 35,303 BTC
Cantor Equity Partners I / future BSTR — 30,021 BTC
Galaxy Digital — 25,723 BTC
Bullish — 24,400 BTC
Strive — 19,999 BTC
SpaceX — 18,712 BTC
Riot Platforms — 15,680 BTC.
Separately, Coinbase holds 15,389 BTC, Tesla — 11,509 BTC, and Block — 9,032 BTC.
The main feature of the ranking is its extreme concentration. A single strategy accounts for about two-thirds of all BTC held by the tracked public companies.
According to Experts.news, Ukraine’s largest retailers continued to increase their revenue in the first half of 2026, with the growth rates of leading chains in most cases exceeding that of the country’s retail market as a whole. ATB remains the leader in terms of revenue, while among the largest companies, Aurora and Fora posted the highest growth rates, according to an analysis by the Experts Club research center based on data from OpenDataBot.
As of mid-August 2026, there were 41,235 companies operating in the retail sector in Ukraine. Their number has been increasing for the fifth consecutive year. Since the beginning of the year, the number of registered retailers has exceeded the number of those that closed by 796 companies, which is practically in line with the pre-war level of net growth—804 companies over a comparable period. A total of 969 new companies were registered in 2026, 32% more than the previous year. (OpenDataBot)
To assess financial trends, OpenDataBot identified 2,073 companies that submitted financial statements for both the first half of 2025 and the corresponding period of 2026. Their combined revenue increased by 18%—from 692.29 billion UAH to 817.14 billion UAH.
The ranking of Ukraine’s largest retailers by revenue for the first half of 2026 is as follows:
ATB-Market – 135.99 billion UAH, up 16.1% compared to 117.15 billion UAH a year earlier.
Silpo-Food – 59.55 billion UAH, +18.2%.
Vygodna Kupka / “Aurora” – 28.26 billion UAH, +30.0%.
Fora – 26.83 billion UAH, +29.4%.
Comfi Trade – 20.16 billion UAH, +27.5%.
Novus Ukraine – 19.65 billion UAH, +20.6%.
RUSH / EVA – 18.02 billion UAH, +21.4%.
Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine – 17.70 billion UAH, +14.5%.
Petrol Contract / WOG – 16.35 billion UAH, +17.2%.
Omega / Varus – 13.72 billion UAH, +21.6%.
According to Experts Club’s calculations, the combined revenue of the top ten companies reached 356.23 billion UAH, an increase of approximately 19.7% compared to the first half of 2025. Thus, the top 10 grew slightly faster than the entire comparable group of retailers.
The ten largest companies accounted for about 43.6% of the total revenue of the 2,073 retailers included in the OpenDataBot sample. ATB and Silpo alone generated approximately 195.5 billion UAH, or nearly 24% of the total revenue of the entire group studied, while the top five companies generated approximately 270.8 billion UAH, or one-third of the total.
ATB remains the undisputed market leader: its revenue is more than double that of Silpo and nearly five times that of Aurora. Furthermore, ATB recorded the largest absolute increase in revenue—18.84 billion UAH over the year.
However, in terms of growth rates, “Aurora” and “Fora” stand out the most. “Aurora’s” revenue increased by 30%, or 6.52 billion UAH, while “Fora’s” rose by 29%, or 6.1 billion UAH. “Komfi” saw an increase of about 27.5%.
Outside the top ten in terms of revenue, FTD-Retail—which operates the “Foxtrot” chain—demonstrated strong growth, increasing its revenue by 4.47 billion hryvnia. OKKO-Light added 3.88 billion UAH, while Glusko Retail—whose gas station network is managed by Ukrnafta—added 2.76 billion UAH.
The financial results also reveal another trend. The combined profit of the companies surveyed grew by 17%—from 14.91 billion UAH to 17.44 billion UAH—but the number of profitable retailers decreased.
In the first half of 2025, 1,354 companies in the comparable group reported a profit; in 2026, that number dropped to 1,272. Their share fell from 65% to 61%.
This means that growth in the Ukrainian retail sector is becoming more concentrated. The sector’s total revenue and profit are increasing, and leading chains are posting double-digit growth rates; however, operating conditions remain challenging for some small and medium-sized companies.
According to Experts Club’s assessment, the discrepancy between the 18% increase in total revenue for the surveyed group and the decline in the share of profitable companies is particularly telling. It may indicate rising operating expenses, labor costs, logistics costs, rent, electricity costs, and financing costs, as well as intensified competition from the largest chains.
At the same time, the financial statements for the first half of the year do not yet reflect the consequences of subsequent massive Russian strikes on distribution centers, warehouses, and other infrastructure of Ukrainian businesses, a point specifically highlighted by OpenDataBot. Their impact may become apparent in the results of the coming quarters.
General government statistics also confirm the continued growth of the consumer market. As previously reported by Open4Business, citing the State Statistics Service, in January–July 2026, the physical volume of Ukraine’s retail trade turnover increased by 9% compared to the same period last year, while its nominal volume reached approximately 1.7 trillion UAH.
Retail turnover of legal entities grew slightly faster over the seven-month period, by 9.1%. In July alone, total retail turnover increased by 8.7% year-over-year and by 4% compared to June, while turnover of legal entities rose by 8.8% and 3.7%, respectively. Overall, Ukrainian retail grew by 8.1% in 2025, so the figures for the first seven months of 2026 indicate that consumer activity continues at a higher pace.
Ukraine’s ten most profitable banks accounted for 47.68 billion hryvnias, or 88 per cent of the entire banking system’s net profit, in the first half of 2026, according to the Experts Club information and analysis centre, based on data from Opendatabot and NBU statistics published on 19 August.
The total net profit of 59 Ukrainian banks amounted to UAH 54.07 billion. The top 10 included three state-owned banks, five banks with foreign capital, and two banks with Ukrainian private capital.
The ranking was topped by PrivatBank with UAH 24.56 billion in net profit. Universal Bank, on whose platform monobank operates, ranked second with UAH 3.85 billion, while Raiffeisen Bank placed third with UAH 3.57 billion. They were followed by Oschadbank with UAH 3.38 billion, FUIB with UAH 3.12 billion, Ukreximbank with UAH 2.24 billion, OTP Bank with UAH 1.91 billion, Ukrsibbank with UAH 1.85 billion, Citibank with UAH 1.68 billion, and Credit Agricole Bank with UAH 1.53 billion.
At the same time, Universal Bank became one of the few leaders to significantly improve its result: its profit increased from UAH 2.41 billion in the first half of 2025 to UAH 3.85 billion in 2026. PrivatBank, Oschadbank, Raiffeisen Bank, FUIB, Ukreximbank, and most other top-10 banks posted lower net results, largely due to the increased tax burden.
Thus, the Ukrainian banking market remains highly concentrated in terms of profit: nearly nine out of every ten hryvnias of the sector’s net financial result were earned by just ten institutions.
The primary source is Opendatabot, dated August 19, 2026, with calculations based on data from the National Bank of Ukraine.
Zlata Estate became the largest among Ukrainian companies with jewelry-related KEVD codes that published financial statements for 2025, with revenue of 1.261 billion UAH, according to an Opendatabot study and its analysis by Experts Club dated August 17, 2026.
Resurs+ took second place with revenue of 1.019 billion UAH, while Weiss King came in third with 955.4 million UAH.
Amadeo, the official distributor of Pandora in Ukraine, generated 830.4 million UAH in revenue and ranked fourth. Rounding out the top five is “Opti Gold” with 620.4 million UAH.
Overall, the top 10 jewelry companies in Ukraine by revenue for 2025 are as follows:
“Zlata Estate” — 1.261 billion UAH
“Resurs+” — 1.019 billion UAH
“Weiss King” — 955.4 million UAH
“Amadeo” — 830.4 million UAH
“Opti Gold” — 620.4 million UAH
“Golden Hit” — 618.3 million UAH
“Parity+” — 608.5 million UAH
“Silver Tears” — 586.3 million UAH
“Silver Spectrum” — 471.1 million UAH
“Kipsayk” — 445.1 million UAH.
The combined revenue of the top five companies alone exceeded 4.68 billion UAH.
However, Opendatabot cautions that the ranking does not provide a complete picture of Ukraine’s jewelry market. Of the 1,282 active companies with the relevant KVED codes, only 358—less than one-third—submitted financial statements for 2025. Therefore, the ranking presented reflects the performance of companies for which financial data is available, rather than that of all industry participants.
In total, as of the end of July, there were 7,865 jewelry businesses in Ukraine, including 1,282 companies and 6,583 sole proprietorships.
Paraguayan vori-vori soup took first place in the TasteAtlas Awards 2025/26 ranking of the world’s 100 best dishes, receiving a score of 4.64 out of 5.
The ranking was compiled based on 453,720 user ratings validated by the system, which were assigned to 11,781,000 dishes from the TasteAtlas culinary guide database.
“Vori-vori” is a thick soup with small balls made of corn flour and cheese. It is usually prepared in meat or chicken broth with vegetables and herbs. The dish is considered one of the most recognizable dishes of Paraguayan cuisine.
Second place went to Neapolitan pizza from Italy, with a score of 4.58. In third place was the Italian dish tajarin al tartufo bianco d’Alba—thin egg pasta with white truffles—which scored 4.52.
The top ten also included the Indonesian goat kebab sate kambing, the Turkish Oltu cağ kebabı, the Greek kontosouvli, the Peruvian arroz tapado, the Serbian komplet lepinja, the Mexican quesabirria, and the Italian pasta dish pappardelle al cinghiale.
Italy had the most entries in the top ten—three. Turkey, Paraguay, Indonesia, Greece, Peru, Serbia, and Mexico each have one dish represented.
TasteAtlas compiles its rankings based on audience ratings, using mechanisms to filter out invalid votes. Therefore, rankings may change as new ratings are submitted.
Ukrainian dishes are absent from the published list of the world’s 100 best dishes. Borscht, varenyky, syrnyky, and other Ukrainian dishes did not make it into this particular ranking.
TasteAtlas is an international online guide to traditional cuisine, local ingredients, and authentic restaurants. The project was founded by Croatian journalist and internet entrepreneur Matija Babić, who previously created the news portal Index.hr. After approximately three years of development, TasteAtlas was officially launched in 2018. The guide’s database includes about 19,900 traditional dishes and local ingredients, as well as over 21,000 restaurants. The project team collects historical and gastronomic information, recipes, critics’ reviews, and recommendations from local experts. TasteAtlas’s goal is to catalog the world’s traditional cuisines and preserve recipes and ingredients that may disappear from everyday use.
TasteAtlas ratings are primarily based on user reviews. The platform states that its system filters out bot votes, mass national voting, and suspicious activity, while giving greater weight to ratings from users whom the system recognizes as experienced and knowledgeable.
TasteAtlas is widely cited by international and national media and is one of the most well-known digital gastronomic guides. However, its rankings are not an official assessment by a professional jury or the equivalent of Michelin stars. They are best viewed as an indicator of the popularity of dishes among the platform’s international audience, rather than as a definitive expert classification of world cuisine.
Tokyo ranked first in the world in terms of the rate of growth in luxury housing prices in the first quarter of 2026, according to Knight Frank’s Prime Global Cities Index.
Over the past 12 months, luxury housing in the Japanese capital has risen in price by 44.4%. However, compared to the previous quarter, prices fell by 8.6%, marking the weakest quarterly performance among the cities tracked.
Manila took second place, where the cost of premium housing rose by 19.9% year-over-year and by 3.3% quarter-over-quarter.
Dubai ranked third with year-over-year growth of 13%. However, prices in the emirate fell by 0.8% in the first quarter.
Next were Seoul with an 11.3% increase, Singapore with 9.8%, Mumbai with 8.2%, Nairobi with 7.1%, Perth with 6.2%, Bangalore with 5.2%, and Zurich with 4.8%.
Seoul showed the strongest quarterly performance, with luxury housing prices rising by 5.4% over three months. Prices rose by 5% in San Francisco, 3.3% in Manila, and 3% in Bangalore and Miami.
Asian cities took five of the top six spots in the ranking, reflecting stable demand for premium real estate from affluent local and international buyers.
Dubai remains the leader in the longer term as well. Over five years, from the first quarter of 2021 to the first quarter of 2026, prices for premium housing in the emirate rose by 180.7%. In Tokyo, the increase was 126.4%; in Manila, 91.8%; in Seoul, 71.5%; and in Miami, 64.4%.
Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities are not included in the study.
