{"id":4977,"date":"2025-12-24T02:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2025-12-24T02:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:19:40","slug":"tether-ceo-warns-ai-bubble-could-jolt-bitcoin-by-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=4977","title":{"rendered":"Tether CEO Warns AI Bubble Could Jolt Bitcoin by 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  • Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino warned that a potential \u201cAI bubble\u201d burst in 2026 could trigger a stock market sell-off that drags Bitcoin down due to its correlation with traditional capital markets.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Ardoino anticipates a shift away from Bitcoin\u2019s historical 80% drawdowns, citing increased stability from institutional adoption by pension funds and governments.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • While optimistic about the growth of real-world asset tokenisation, Ardoino criticised European innovation and the MiCA regulatory framework.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    Paolo Ardoino, Tether\u2019s CEO, said he sees one main risk for Bitcoin by 2026: a possible \u201cAI bubble\u201d in US markets that could spill over into crypto.<\/p>\n

    Speaking on the Bitcoin Capital podcast, Ardoino said Bitcoin is still closely tied to broader capital markets. So if investor sentiment around AI flips in 2026 (after heavy spending by AI firms on data centres, power capacity, and GPUs), he expects stock market stress could drag Bitcoin down too.<\/p>\n

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    That is the so-called AI bubble, this concern about the fact that AI companies are spending too much money in AI infrastructure and data centers and trying to build a gazillion gigawatts of power and installing GPUs.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    \n Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    Outside of that scenario, he said he sees fewer major threats to Bitcoin\u2019s performance in 2026. He pointed to growing adoption from pension funds and governments, and suggested the market may be less likely to see the same kind of deep crashes seen in past cycles. He said 80% drawdowns like 2022 or early 2018 may be less common going forward.<\/p>\n

    Something similar was said by Grayscale, who stated that the four-year cycle thesis, which links major BTC peaks and crashes to its usual halving schedule, might need to be reevaluated and that the market is not entering a prolonged downturn like in those years.<\/p>\n

    Related:<\/strong> Hut 8 Taps Anthropic and Fluidstack to Build Gigawatt-Scale AI Data Centers<\/p>\n

    The Tokenisation Boom<\/h2>\n

    Moreover, Ardoino also said he expects real-world asset tokenisation to grow sharply, especially tokenised securities and commodities. At the same time, he warned against Bitcoin becoming dominated by institutions, arguing it should not end up with most supply effectively controlled through institutional structures.<\/p>\n

    His views on Europe are not that great. The CEO said the region is falling behind on innovation and is trying to regulate crypto before fully understanding it, and pointed to the EU\u2019s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) as part of the broader debate over how crypto should be overseen.<\/p>\n

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    Europe will always remain the last wheel of the cart whenever we talk about innovation. Europe is trying to regulate something that it doesn\u2019t understand yet. That is very sad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    \n Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    Read more:<\/strong> Tether Invests in Humanoid \u201cPhysical AI\u201d Robots Aimed at Dangerous Industrial Jobs<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

    AI,Bitcoin,Tether#Tether #CEO #Warns #Bubble #Jolt #Bitcoin1766542780<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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