Bits + Bips: 2026 Crypto Predictions: BTC & ETH Hit Record Highs, Stablecoins Go Big

You think that crypto culture is powerful to aggregate capital? Wait until 100,000 Morgan Stanley burgers are out there on the golf courses pushing these mean reversion trades for these these baskets of altcoins. Here's my prediction. Altcoins will have a negative return as a space of 2026. I'm concerned that there's gonna be the mother of all hacks next year. Is the Trump administration, I know they're pro crypto. Are they pro DeFi? I think AI is still crypto in 2022. You have people being like, alright. Welcome everyone to another episode of Bits and Bips. This will be our last one for the year of 2025. Today, I'm your host, Austin Campbell, the high scholar of zero knowledge consulting. I'm here with my usual coconspirator, Chris Perkins, the golden hand of Coin Fund. And today, we are joined by John D'Agostino of Coinbase. And I've gotta stop here momentarily to say I am super happy to have John on, specifically because we have previously had a number of connections doing research in this space, presenting things in front of congress. And if you learn nothing else from this episode, John is one of the people that actually brings data and knows what he's talking about to this debate, so everybody should follow this guy. Now on that note, disclaimers first. Nothing we say here is investment advice, and in general, don't take investment advice solely for podcasts. Check unchainedcrypto.com bits and bips for more disclosures, and we'll get to predictions right after a word from some sponsors. You're about to make a trade. Which you do you listen to? Is it get optioning those options? Or let's do a little research. Learn more at finra.org/tradesmart. Mantle is launching the Global Hackathon twenty twenty five to accelerate the future of real world assets. With a $150,000 prize pool backing from a $4,000,000,000 treasury and direct access to Bybit's 7,000,000 plus users, this is the ultimate ecosystem for builders. Alright. Welcome back, everybody. I promised you some predictions, so let's start with those and get moving off the ground. Chris, myself, and John have not shared these with each other beforehand. So, one, there's a nonzero chance that we either predict the same thing or directly oppose things, which will be hilarious. But two, you will get our genuine reactions. We have not shared these as of yet. So, Chris, I'm gonna give you the choice. Do you wanna go first, or do you wanna pick one of us to go first? Like, I think we should have the guest go first. I mean, he's here. We have to give him the honors. Right? Works for me. Alright. I'm a I'm a dive in with a juicy one for you, Austin. So a major global brand, a global its own economic system. So think Disney, Amazon, something like that, which powers its own kind of tight tightly coiled, sticky economic system will announce a stable point in 2026. So you …