Bitcoin all-time highs. Digital Asset Treasury. Billions of dollars of institutional flows. 2025 has become a breakout year for cryptocurrency space, and this momentum can continue in 2026.
The brightest thought of the industry painted an optimistic outlook for the residue of the year at the exclusive longitude event of cointelegraph during token2049 in Singapore.
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Maelstrom chief investment officer Arthur Hayes, Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, acclaimed author Neal Stephenson and founder of Aave Labs Stani Kulechov has led a program that surrendered to the major narratives led by 2025.
Longitude is co-host of Unlimit, a The head of Global Fintech in payment processing, banking as a service (Baas), and an on-ramp fiat solution for crypto, defi, and gamefi.
Rayls, Flipster and ICB Labs are also featured as cointelegraph flagship partners.
Hayes’ $ 3.2 million Bitcoin predictions
Hayes’ fireside chat is jam-packing his signature. He released his thesis for Bitcoin whiping $ 3.2 million, driven by models predicting the ongoing finances of the US treasury.
“Most of these are going into Bitcoin, and I think the new meta is the main season-cash flow and revenue. Token projects that are really good at this Altason will have the kind of a hyperliquid-style profitability, which gains revenues, buying their token or making some kind of emissions,” Hayes said.
Maelstrom’s chief investment official also said the Digital Asset Treasury (DATS) is likely to be dominated by a small first movers.
“This is another financial product to trade. It is very nice that it is kind of a back door to give crypto exposure to investors who otherwise will not be able to own it,” Hayes said. “Capital will be concentrated by bigger names like approach or bitmine. They will receive a lion’s part.”
Dat treasury meta
Longitude is also placed in a DAT debate between three major players dedicated to different possessions. Sharplink gaming CEO Joseph Chalom won the company’s Ethereum Playbook, saying that Ether provides a broad spectrum of benefits to other tokens.
“I have a belief that most financials are the beginning to interfere with Ethereum and its L2, and I believe it is at a point that it will not only be financial markets that are changing, it will be a change in civilization level.”
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The smarter CEO of the web company, Andrew webley – the man behind the The most successful in public in the UK Listed Bitcoin Treasury Company-Agree to have no second best in BTC on Sheet Balance:
“So there are two qualities that I like about Bitcoin. The fixed number ever exists and the fact that no one controls it.”
David Namdar, who raised $ 500 million for BNC’s BNB (Bnb) Treasury, taught the BNB chain utility and significant use as well as Binance’s position as the world’s largest exchange as the main reasons for BNB’s adoption.
“If you think about Facebook, Google, Apple, the largest company in each of their verticals, they are publicly listed in the US. In the crypto space, the largest space company, Binance, is potentially five to 10 times larger than any other crypto exchange,” Namdar said.
Metaveverse vision
Lubin and Stephenson’s fireside took things in a more philosophical direction, as they opened the sharp predictions of the late for a future that relies on cryptography and decentralized systems in its critical novel novel Snow -crashing and Cryptonomicon.
Lubin said he was drawn a lot of inspiration from Stephenson’s novels as a youthful and severely resonated in the way Stephenson thought of a future cypherpunk.
“The thing that is really positive and engaging is how he expresses what cyberspace looks like and feels and how you can get into cyberspace and mix things and space. It’s a crisp, stark vision. I think it has shown the way for many builders of my generation,” Lubin said.
The founder of the Consensys provided a deeper perspective on his hopes for Sharpink and Ether-based dats and also declared that Swift uses consensis-based development tools based on its existing infrastructure on blockchain metals.
Trillion-dollar infrastructure
The event was wrapped in a panel of fast fire that explores synergies between the tradfi railroads and the defi infrastructure.
Kulechov featured the growing dominance of the AAVE of the Defi Landscape, as the net deposit disappeared $ 70 billion.
“To put it in context, that would be the same as the 35th largest bank compared to the US, and we don’t think to be an end-user product. We think of AAVE and Defi as an infrastructure that is then embedded in these finishes and traditional financial services that will share it.”
Unlimit founder Kiril Eves says his company has no choice but crypto services due to demand from the extensive customer base:
“Everything will be crypto. And of course, Stablecoins will replace the classic way of moving the wire. That’s what they can be for us. This future is so clear. So that’s why we need to serve this industry.”
Privacy is another major reason why Traphfi is looking for blockchain infrastructure. Rayls CEO Marcos Viriato said the Rayls service has been on a growing sector that preceded for decentralized evolution.
“When it comes to infrastructure for banks and financial institutions, it needs to be secure, reliable and abstract the complexity for the end-user. Our focus is to give it to banks so they can serve clients in a way that the client does not know to be paken with, but will take the benefits from it,” Viriato said.
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