Wu said that Coinbase Institutional released the “2026 Crypto Market Outlook” report, analyzing the macro environment, regulatory progress, technological evolution, and application trends of the crypto market in 2026. The report believes that the US economy remains resilient, but uncertainties are still high, and the crypto market environment in the first half of 2026 is more similar to 1996 than 1999. Regarding institutional participation, Coinbase proposes the “DAT 2.0” model, suggesting that institutions will shift from simple asset allocation to more professional trading, custody, and blockchain space acquisition. On the technical and application level, as institutional adoption increases, the demand for privacy technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs and fully homomorphic encryption rises. Automated agents combining AI and encryption, application-oriented blockchains and cross-chain interoperability, and tokenized assets (including tokenized stocks) are viewed as important directions.
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Coinbase Institutional releases "2026 Crypto Market Outlook," proposing the "DAT 2.0" institutional model
Wu said that Coinbase Institutional released the “2026 Crypto Market Outlook” report, analyzing the macro environment, regulatory progress, technological evolution, and application trends of the crypto market in 2026. The report believes that the US economy remains resilient, but uncertainties are still high, and the crypto market environment in the first half of 2026 is more similar to 1996 than 1999. Regarding institutional participation, Coinbase proposes the “DAT 2.0” model, suggesting that institutions will shift from simple asset allocation to more professional trading, custody, and blockchain space acquisition. On the technical and application level, as institutional adoption increases, the demand for privacy technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs and fully homomorphic encryption rises. Automated agents combining AI and encryption, application-oriented blockchains and cross-chain interoperability, and tokenized assets (including tokenized stocks) are viewed as important directions.