Key Takeaways

• Pompliano says most crypto projects won’t survive and are dead.

• Wall Street is absorbing crypto infrastructure, he said.

• Many see Bitcoin, stablecoins, and tokenization as long-term winners.

Anthony Pompliano warned that “most of the crypto industry is dead and it’s never coming back,” arguing that speculative tokens, memecoins, and thousands of blockchain projects are unlikely to survive as Wall Street firms accelerate their push into the industry.

In a video posted to X on Thursday following the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami, the longtime Bitcoin advocate said the crypto market was entering a painful consolidation phase in which only a handful of sectors would emerge as long-term winners.

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