Industry Insights

2026-01-08 20:35

Fidelity's 2026 Crypto Market Outlook: We May Be Entering a Supercycle, with a Bull Market Lasting for Many Years

Investors looking to enter the market for short-term profits should exercise caution. However, those planning for long-term holding may not have missed their opportunity. This year, more governments and businesses around the world have added digital assets to their balance sheets. Due to this increased demand, some investors believe the traditional four-year cycle of cryptocurrencies may have come to an end. In March, President Trump signed an executive order establishing a strategic Bitcoin reserve for the U.S. government. This order formally designated all Bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies currently held by the government as reserve assets. While the full impact of this executive order remains to be seen, one thing is clear from 2025: cryptocurrencies are gaining mainstream acceptance. They are no longer merely seen as a form of volatile speculation by "degens" (short for "degenerate," a term used by cryptocurrency traders to describe the volatile nature of the cryptocurrenc

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2026-01-08 20:23

Visa Crypto Lead: Eight Key Evolutions of Crypto and AI by 2026

As cryptocurrency and AI gradually mature, the most important shifts in these two major areas are no longer merely "theoretically possible" but rather "practically achievable." Currently, both technologies have crossed key thresholds in performance improvement, yet the rate of real-world adoption remains uneven. The core dynamics of development in 2026 stem from this performance-versus-adoption gap.

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