12 Big Crypto Predictions for 2026 | Ryan & David
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Bankless Nation is the night before Christmas instead of doing our weekly roll up. Oh, yeah. It is. Right? Yeah. It's Christmas Eve.
Right. We're we are recording this the Christmas Eve eve, and it will be distributed to your podcast player Christmas Eve. Happy Christmas Eve. Thank you guys for spending it with us.
Yeah. That's right. I guess you think you think are you picturing families all around, the world just gathering around and listening to the Bankless podcast and Christmas
Eve instead of, like, a fireplace. There's there's stockings. People are opening their stocking presents, and then there's Ryan and David talking about the twenty twenty six predictions for crypto.
Alright. So here's what we're doing. Instead of our weekly roll up, we wouldn't leave you without a weekly roll up of some form. This is the adopted version because there wasn't a lot to cover in the week, and we're recording this a little bit early. So we'll get a weekly roll about, next week. But this week, we're going to do something
do the weekly roll up for this week because it's very, very quiet. Here are their two things. AaveDAO versus Aave Labs currently in a civil war, and Nick Carter is riling up all the Bitcoiners talking about quantum computing and how it's a threat. That was that was everything that happened this week.
There you go. So with that done, we thought we would zoom out and focus on 2026. In fact, David, you've brought us some juicy content to this episode. You did a meta analysis of all of the different predictions. So rather than give you just our predictions, what we thought we would do is we would look at all of the predictions that people have made for crypto in 2026 and draw some analysis from them. Like, I would kind of yeah.
Seeing where they overlap, seeing where they diverge, and any interesting tidbits that I can find. And so let's see. How many did I do? Bitwise, Coinbase Institutional, Galaxy, Grayscale, CoinShares, Fidelity, the a 16 new z newsletter, and then a Pantera article in CoinDesk. These are the sources that I aggregated, and then tried to find the where predictions were congruent, maybe where they were not perfectly congruent, but directionally similar, and then also where there were divergences. And so that is the three categories of the different types of predictions from all of these sources tha
don't have to read all these predictions. It's like a best of the predictions. Uh-huh. Alright. Now, before we get into these predictions, we know next year is going to be a big year for stablecoins.
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