Major asset managers are forecasting that Bitcoin will shatter its traditional four-year cycle and reach new all-time highs in 2026, driven by massive institutional capital inflows and regulatory clarity. Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan and Grayscale Research both project BTC will exceed its previous peak despite conventional wisdom suggesting 2026 should be a pullback year. Bitcoin has historically followed a four-year cycle tied to halving events, with three significant up years followed ...

Famed tech investor Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Invest, has argued that Bitcoin’s historic four-year cycle will be “disrupted” as institutions have increasingly piled into the asset. Where Bitcoin “regularly dropped 75-90% in its early days,” Wood said in an interview with Fox Business Tuesday, more recently, “The volatility’s going down.” “We think that the move by institutions into this new asset class is going to prevent much more of a decline,” she added, arguing that, “We may have seen the low a couple ...