Crypto investor Dan Tapiero is over-bullish: This is how high BTC can rise in 2026 and that is possible for stablecoins

• According to Tapiero, Bitcoin has price potential of up to $180,000
• Stablecoins and tokenization as key growth drivers
• Expert opinions on the market remain clearly divided

Experienced crypto investor Dan Tapiero tells CoinDesk an extremely bullish picture for the crypto year 2026. His forecast is based on a combination of macroeconomic factors and technological developments.

Bitcoin soon at $180,000?

There is currently no upward trend in the crypto rock Bitcoin. Since the start of the year, the cryptocurrency has become enormously cheaper, especially during the first week of February, according to “CoinMarketCap”, the price of the largest cryptocurrency temporarily slipped from around 82,000 US dollars to a good 68,000 US dollars. Overall, there has been a downward trend since the beginning of the year. But the founder, managing partner and CEO of 50T Funds believes that this will not remain the case as the year progresses. Tapiero expects Bitcoin to rise to $180,000 in the current cycle, more than doubling. In his bullish assessment, the investor points to a combination of increasing demand and monetary policy changes. “This is just a correction… the bottom has been reached,” he commented on the rather disappointing price development at the end of January – but things have continued to decline since then.

Tapiero told CoinDesk that the main future drivers for Bitcoin and Co. would be falling interest rates worldwide and massive government investments in the infrastructure for artificial intelligence. These factors would lead to a devaluation of fiat currencies – including the US dollar – which in turn favors assets such as Bitcoin.

Massive opportunities with stablecoins

But Tapiero also sees opportunities for investors far away from the world’s largest cryptocurrency and sees 2026 as an era of infrastructure. He sees the greatest growth opportunities in the crypto sector in the popularization of stablecoins and the tokenization of assets. He also highlights the fusion of blockchain and artificial intelligence as well as on-chain prediction markets as promising sectors.

However, the investor is less optimistic about so-called “crypto treasury companies”, i.e. companies like Michael Saylors Strategy, which only hold cryptocurrencies on their balance sheet. Tapiero warned that this trend brings little real innovation and urged caution.

“The reason why stablecoins, payments and the financial sector are gaining in importance so quickly is that people are primarily concerned with money,” CoinDesk quotes the expert, who also has specific investment advice for investors: If you have 10,000 US dollars and want to invest it in cryptocurrencies in 2026, you should, in his opinion, “simply divide the money between Bitcoin, Ether and Solana” – in which ratio depends on personal preferences.

Other experts believe that Bitcoin will do this in 2026

Not all experts share Tapiero’s extremely bullish assessment of the crypto market. Standard Chartered, for example, has recently revised its forecasts significantly downwards. While Bitcoin was previously seen at $300,000 by the end of 2026, now only $150,000 is considered possible. Analyst Geoff Kendrick attributed this to slowing demand from ETFs and companies, but emphasized that the long-term upward trend remains intact.

Meanwhile, Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani believes that BTC will reach at least $150,000 by the end of the year. And when it comes to stablecoins, he also shares Tapiero’s view and predicted a “tokenization supercycle” for 2026, as “Investing.com” reports. The supply of stablecoins is expected to increase by 56 percent to $420 billion compared to the previous year. The drivers of this development are crypto markets, cross-border payments and integration by large fintech companies such as Block, Revolut and PayPal.

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