Presto OriginalDec 18, 2025

Awkward Adolescence: 2025 Crypto Market Review & 2026 Forecasts

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2026 Crypto Industry Outlook

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2025 was the year crypto felt like a teenager — big growth spurts, mood swings, and plenty of awkward moments. We look back at the hits, misses, and hard lessons… then lay out our bold calls for 2026 in our second annual outlook report “Awkward Adolescence: 2025 Crypto Market Review & 2026 Forecasts.”

In this report, we do something no other research shop dares: dedicate half the report to a public post-mortem of our own 2025 predictions. Most quietly bury misses. We dissect ours, because real learning happens in the open. The report is therefore split in two:

- First half: grading last year’s calls
- Second half: five independent 2026 forecasts from the Presto team

Our 13 2026 predictions include:

- BTC Price → $160,000
- Tokenization → $490B
- 15+ token sales via Coinbase & Kraken
- Median altcoin funding rate sub-zero
- Korean listing pump finally dies
- On-chain Nasdaq volume = 5% of CME
- x402 >30M daily txns
- Confidential DeFi TVL → $10B
- Cash-flow-only tokens >$5B combined mcap

…and more!

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