A crypto investor with seven years of experience argues that war, inflation, and AI will drive crypto adoption in 2026. He sees crypto as an upgrade to 1980s financial infrastructure and predicts it becomes the 13th sector of global finance, though he acknowledges the moral paradox that crises create the best profit opportunities.
As someone who's been in crypto for 7+ years and has seen the bull markets, the bear markets, crashes, I've seen top 20 coins go to zero overnight. People lose millions of dollars. People make millions of dollars. Here's where I think the crypto market is going in 2026. The truth of the matter is that war helps Crypto inflation helps crypto. The financial system dying helps crypto. AI helps crypto. Okay, we need money to be upgraded. We need the money system, the financial system that is stuck in the 1980s. It's literally ran on stuff that is so slow, so clunky, outdated. It needs an upgrade. Crypto is that upgrade. 2026, in my opinion, will be a bullish year overall for adoption of cryptocurrency expansion and just further solidifying crypto as the 13th sector of the financial system. And war helps crypto. So the more they fight, the more there's— they're fighting for peace. Which makes no sense, right? You can't fight for peace. That doesn't make sense. You're just always going to be fighting. The more they do that though, the better it is for crypto. And it's sad, it's very sad that the best times to make money are the crises. But I think it's going to be bullish. I think the financial system is due for an upgrade. The current money system doesn't match AI. The speed of AI, the new economy, the post-labor society potentially. It doesn't match. And crypto matches that.
