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Bullish on boring. Bearish on bullsh*t.
Happy New Year,
In 2026, crypto as a space should start to mature.
Hype = hot air. Huge upside for utility (vs novelty).
Zeroing in,
Austin Campbell
FINANCE
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STABLECOINS AT SCALE
GENIUS Act derisks U.S. issuersβthese are the conditions they need to start these projects, scale, and sustain. USD stablecoins can dollarize the world.
Cross-border payments at scale. Not for speculators. For currency exchange. For treasuries. For remittances. For a better system to power everyday commerce for regular people.
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REAL WORLD ASSETS
Tokens backed by actual things. Treasuries. Real estate. Commodities.
If it represents real cash flows, real collateral, real utilityβit survives.
Everything else? Tbh, worthless.
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M&A MADNESS
Deals surpass 2025's $37B record. Independentsβinfra, data, appsβfunnel into banks and exchanges. Regulation demands scale.
Vertical integration unlocks efficiency. Dorm room companies get acquired by the real ones. Crown Jewels? Companies with real businesses and no token.
TECHNOLOGY
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BULLISH ON BORING
2026 tech that survives, shouldnβt makes headlines. TBH, nobody talks about how exciting TCP/IP is. They use the internet. That's where this stuff needs to go.
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CONCRETE CUSTODY
Institutional money needs institutional-grade security.
Not "write down your seed phrase" security. Not "bro, donβt lose the keys" security. CTOs need to be building tech that lets CFOs sleep at night.
Nothing in crypto will matters until JPMorgan is capable of on-ramping a billion dollars without risking a collective heart attack.
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BORING APE
In 2026, no one is going to be investing $100k in some nobody's jpg.
Instead of the infra that can on-chain the art world which can add actual value for the worldsβ art galleries, collectors, assets that appreciate (Picassos, Dalis, etc).
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SOUTH OF BORDER
Before we brought down Maduro, Venezuelans had already voted with their phonesβUSD stablecoins were the Venezuelan exit becoming #9 in per-capita crypto adoption.
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SCHISM : CEFI vs DEFI
Schism will emerge for the soul of the space.
House CeFi: System. Suits. Sigmas who eat and breathe βBloomberg terminalβ.
House DeFi: Satoshi's witnesses who bend the knee to no oneβcode is law, chain remembers.
Screaming. Scheming. Sabotage. See what happens.
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SH*TCOINS FLUSHED
Smh. Retail got rekt too many times. Schemecoins, rug pullsβincluding by "responsible" authorities that our grandma would trust, like Eric Adams!
Seriouscoins (BTC, ETH), we stan.
Sh*tcoins, we skip.
ZERO OUT
π‘οΈ SOUL OF OUR SECTOR
Crypto space splits in two.
On one side, serious crypto will power infrastructure, compliance, risk management.
On its sidelinesβ¦casino tech, chasing meme coins, clout - βideologyβ substitutes for utility - βcommunityβ substitutes for commercial viability.
ZERO INSIDER
Snagged @austincampbell on X. Spoke to @CryptoAmerica_ about that new market structure bill currently flailing in Congress.
Launched my book "Stealing The Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia" . Snag it: Repeater, Random House, Amazon.
ZERO INPUT
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