An existing large data economy provides context, not a promise of BTG revenue
Companies and institutions already spend substantial amounts creating, buying, managing and monetizing information. Industry researchers estimate a North American data-broker market measured in the tens or hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars, depending on the definition and period. These figures show the scale of existing commercial activity around data. They do not measure the turnover of a new public market for independent data- investment securities, and they should never be presented as revenue already available to BTG.
BTG's economic research dossier identifies a Fortune Business Insights estimate of US$304.48 billion for the 2025 global data-broker market and a reported North American share of approximately 41%. This implies an estimated US$124.84 billion for North America under that research firm's category definitions. Because the regional share is rounded, this number is a derived approximation. Grand View Research separately estimated approximately US$114.55 billion of North American data-broker industry revenue in 2024. The methodologies, dates and categories differ; the figures are alternatives for context, not amounts to add together. [1] [2]
The case that information itself can be treated as productive capital is supported by a different set of studies. Statistics Canada estimated roughly C$57 billion in Canadian business investment in data assets in 2019, including internally created and purchased data assets. A March 2026 experimental working paper from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis estimated US$875 billion in internally created U.S. data and database investment for 2024 and a related current-cost net capital stock of approximately US$1.966 trillion. These are statistical estimates of investment and accumulated capital, not sales through a BTG exchange and not official valuations of particular software algorithms. [3] [4]
The economic opportunity is larger than one market-research headline and more specific than a generic claim that 'data is worth trillions.' Productive information can be an input into manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, scientific research, digital services and many other industries. BTG's architecture addresses how identifiable portions of that useful knowledge may be verified, reused, commercialized and in suitable legal circumstances financed.