The Great Crypto Reset: Why Institutional Integration Will Define 2026
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With over 18,000 tokens tracked across centralized and decentralized exchanges, the entire crypto market is worth nearly $3 trillion. This is 31% lower from the all-time high of $4.37 trillion in early October, just before the crypto market crash. Bitcoin is still hovering around $88k, making over half of the crypto market’s value at $1.77 trillion, and is likely to finish the year in the negative yield zone.
Since 2012, this would be the fourth year of Bitcoin’s underperformance, although at a markedly low percentage. Case in point, Bitcoin finished 2014 at…



