The Crypto Sell Off of 2025/2026

Back when the Trump coin came out. I was on here screaming from the roof tops to NOT buy that coin, and any other coin from a celebrity for that matter. And yet, I had to sit here at my computer watching as every influencer bought it, tweeted about it and made videos on it. Fast forward to today and they ALL lost money on it. The crypto market has continually devolved into a pool of foolishness that is no longer about developing cool new tech we can use to transact and compute in such a way that preserves out freedom and ability to be critical on the internet. But about the most brain dead foolishness imaginable.

So let me spell it out for you…

What Adoption Isn’t

• Mindless meme coins that are generated at an exponential speed that do absolutely nothing. This is a given. Im all for a meme coin if it actually DOES SOMETHING.
• Celebrity Coins, this includes political ones.
• Bitcoin Maxis acting like boomers and calling anything and everything a scam because it has its own coin. Not all projects are a scam, there are MANY projects that are out here developing million dollar ideas and instead of using them, we are acting like everything is a scam and gambling on do nothing meme coins.
• Begging/trusting the government to be good stewards of the crypto space. They have no clue what they are doing and furthermore, crypto is a direct undermining of the governments business model. So why do you, crypto bro – think they have your best interest in mind? They DON’T.
• Following big money. Just because some big money player is in the space, that does not mean YOU, retail investor – should follow them. They are playing a different game then you are. They also don’t care if they lose a half a mil messing about with ALTs. They make money and lose money like its a casino, they are not using the tech and they don’t care, they hardly would take the 10 mins to even learn what any of this stuff does or why it even exists.
• Buying coins and never even using them. This is another one that speaks for itself. If no one is ACTUALLY using any of these networks, products and services that are being developed onchain, how do you expect the prices of any of them to go up?
• Following crypto influencers that treat their followers like a dumping ground for whatever coin they got into before they tell them.

What Adoption Is

• Actually using the network/product/service. Actually transacting in some way, buying things, trading things, sending code and so on.
• When you actually hear friends saying things like “I tried out this VPN and its a crypto! I bought the coins for it and staked them which allows me to use the VPN.” THATS adoption.
• Trying to build something onchain if you happen to be a dev.
• Using services that otherwise would be a normie service but it is onchain.
• Not treating crypto services as a novelty but rather, treating them as a regular “daily driver” alternative to off chain solutions.
• Bitcoin maxis actually seeing the use cases for good ALTs and the reason why they exist and not trying to shun them because they are scared that it will take attention off Bitcoin.
• Some form of self regulation and separation from the straight up gambling of meme coins and actual project that do something useful.
• A move away from the short term mentality (which is the reason why meme coin gambling exists) and a move toward a more long term investing mindset where ALT coins can start to gain real world adoption and stable value and stable TVL.
• Influencers that show good TA and good fundamentals and look at strong projects that have good potential early, looking at the white paper and so on.

I can go on and on with more, but ultimately we need to mature in the market. The chart speaks for itself:

Look at the divergence. The entire bull run was a farce. The indicator showed us this as it kept declining in strength whilst the price kept making higher highs and this was all hype built up by the US government, as they claimed they would open up the crypto market, drive adoption and make the USA a hub for fintech. While this was a promising proposal by the trump presidency when he ran for re election. It was up to the crypto space to press the followthrough. What did the crypto market do instead? Pined over celebrities and their shit coins. Hawktua coin, trump coin, Melania coin. Every last one of these got hyped, pumped and dumped. Everyone lost money, everyone should of knew better. People like Barron Trump and countless E celebs and every insider around him played this market like a bunch of greedy fools, and it shows.

Now the aftermath is BTC going back to 50K levels and rightfully so.

Until this market is ready to change the pain will persist. This market will fail unless we finally get to using these technological advancements the right way. Not only that. For the investors, it would be much easier to invest for the long term if we actually build and adopt meaningful and useful ideas in this space. We CAN “all make it brah” if we are adopting for the future and betterment of the tech.

The choice is ours.

Categorised in: Adoption, Cryptocurrency Markets, Fundamental Analysis

This post was written by BlockAdvisor