Hashed Releases 2026 Crypto Industry Forecast Report

According to ME News, on December 19th (UTC+8), crypto venture capital firm Hashed released "The Protocol Economy: 2026 Thesis." The report indicates that in 2025, the crypto industry will shift from a "storytelling" phase to an "execution" phase, with real users, transaction volume, and revenue becoming core evaluation criteria. Stablecoins will become the first infrastructure to achieve real-world applications. 2026 will be a year of explosive application growth and connection to the real economy. AI will reshape Web3 development and interaction methods, and privacy will become the biggest structural problem after scaling. Stablecoins will upgrade from payment tools to corporate working capital infrastructure, RWA will be the first to achieve large-scale application, on-chain private lending and sustainable yield markets will emerge, and ETH/BTC will remain a core indicator of the risk cycle. (Source: ME)