Five ways the $3tn crypto industry will transform the internet in 2026 – DL News
- The $2 billion crypto market maker’s VC arm says crypto will be the internet’s finance layer.
- Tokenisation, stablecoins, decentralised finance, and regulatory clarity among key themes.
Cryptocurrency is shedding its reputation as a speculative asset and will become the internet’s financial transaction layer in 2026, according to Wintermute Ventures.
For decades, data has moved freely across the internet while financial value has remained trapped behind borders, intermediaries, and other corporate gatekeepers.
But Wintermute says that’s about to change.
“The infrastructure that enables value to move as freely as information is no longer theoretical,” Wintermute said on X on Wednesday. “It’s being built, deployed, and used…
