Everyone loved the chaos years - degen yields, food farms, “drop everything, new L1 just launched.” Fun? Yes. Sustainable? Absolutely not.
2026 is shaping up very differently.
Less circus, more infrastructure.
Ripple’s President Monica is already framing it clearly: 2025 was the hype peak, 2026 is where institutionalization actually starts moving - not in press releases, but in real flows and products.
At the same time BlackRock is busy crowning this cycle the era of AI-Infrastructure and Tokenization. Translation for devs: fewer meme forks, more boring stuff like rails, data pipes, and compliance-aware stacks.
Volodymyr Nosov, founder and president of WhiteBIT Group, adds another puzzle piece: in 2026 we finally get more regulatory clarity. That means fewer “are we even allowed to ship this?” meetings and more time actually building.
For developers, “boring Web3” means:
- infra you can depend on
- clearer rules of the game
- products that touch real users, not just airdrop hunters
If that sounds like your kind of cycle, you’re on the right side of history.
👉 And if you want to dig deeper into these trends, you can find more info via the link.
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