Ethereum is heading into 2026 at a rare intersection of deep protocol change and market tension. As zero knowledge proofs and cross chain interoperability move closer to production, traders face short term volatility from a multi billion dollar options expiry.
The report shows that cryptocurrency derivatives trading totaled approximately $85.7 trillion for the year, averaging around $264.5 billion in daily volume.
While today’s AI models, such as ChatGPT and Gemini, can outperform humans on specific benchmarks, including exams and advanced mathematics, they still struggle with everyday reasoning tasks. This gap prompted LeCun to question not only the feasibility of AGI, but the concept itself.
Arthur Hayes argues that quiet liquidity expansion by the Federal Reserve and Japan’s central bank could push Bitcoin beyond $124,000 and toward $200,000 in 2026, while fueling selective altcoin rotation.
“Post-quantum crypto oftentimes it’s about 10 times slower, 10 times larger proof sizes, and 10 times more inefficient,” Hoskinson said. “If you adopt it, what you’re basically doing is taking the throughput of your blockchain and reducing it by cutting off a zero.”
