I really only have one prediction for 2026. And in my opinion, it’s the only one that actually matters:

The crypto industry will keep making massive progress on all fronts. And by the end of 2026, we will have far stronger fundamentals than we do today.

This will happen on all various fronts.

Stablecoin supply and adoption will keep growing, slowly but surely becoming core financial infrastructure.

More institutions will move from watching to allocating, and from allocating to building.

Regulatory clarity will continue to improve, continue to remove uncertainty and accelerating tailwinds.

Builders will keep pushing onchain abstraction forward, delivering better UX and making crypto usable for people who don’t even know what a wallet is.

The lines between Web2 and Web3, TradFi and DeFi, native and non-native will blur to the point where they simply stop mattering.

Privacy will become a much bigger topic, however not the dystopian cypherpunk version, but pragmatic, compliant, engineerable privacy that can actually scale and be build on top on.

And yes, we’ll keep fighting on the timeline. Loudly. Uncomfortably. About token value accrual, dual equity structures, ICOs, airdrops, CEX fees, governance. Those debates matter. They’re how the space wakes up, matures, and slowly becomes a little less extractive every year.

This list could go on forever, but you get the point.

Does this guarantee higher prices or new ATHs in 2026?

Maybe. Maybe not.

The last few years have made one thing very clear: fundamentals and prices don’t always move in lockstep. At least not immediately.

But none of that really matters.

What matters is that we never stop getting better as an industry. Because sooner or later, prices always catch up. And sometimes, the longer they lag, the more violent the catch-up becomes.

So who cares about timing tops and bottoms.

Let’s just keep building, arguing, refining, and pushing this space forward every single day.

The rest will follow.

Can’t wait to see 2026 unfold with all of you chads.