2026 Won’t be About Hype. It will be about Infrastructure

As the year comes to an end, most of the noise in Crypto is still short-term: Prices, Cycles, Sentiment. But if you look at how leading funds are positioning, a different picture emerges.

They are not preparing for another speculative wave.
They are preparing for crypto to start working.

What’s changing?

🔰 Stablecoins Move from Products to Rails
Funds increasingly view stablecoins as the foundation of global payments and settlement, tightly connected to banking systems rather than competing with them.

🔰 Tokenization Becomes Structural
Real-world assets, synthetic exposure, and perpetual-style instruments are converging into always-on financial markets. Less narrative, more mechanics.

🔰 Institutions Arrive, Properly
Regulatory clarity opens the door for real balance-sheet usage:
🔹 #Bitcoin as institutional collateral
🔹 #Ethereum as the base layer for DeFi, RWAs, and stablecoin flows
🔹 High-throughput chains serving active users, Trading, and Consumer Apps

🔰 AI becomes an Economic Actor
AI agents won’t just analyze markets, they will route payments, manage liquidity, and execute transactions. Identity shifts from KYC to knowing the agent.

🔰 Privacy Turns into a Moat
Not an ideology, but a requirement for financial systems operating at scale.

The Shared View among funds is Clear:
2026 is not about Proving Crypto’s Relevance.
It’s about integrating it into how Money, Coordination, and Automation actually work.

The transition may be quiet. But it will be foundational.

Your take on 2026?
👉 Accumulating with a Long-Term view
👉 Watching from the Sidelines