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According to Deep Tide TechFlow, on December 19, trader Eugene released his latest views, stating that most altcoins have entered the "fifth stage" and he is currently planning a purchase target list. He pointed out that mainstream cryptocurrencies are still in the "fourth stage," and the Digital Asset Token (DAT) liquidation has not yet been completed, but he has adjusted his strategy from seeking short opportunities to focusing on buying opportunities. Eugene admitted that 2025 will be a tough year for most traders, but he remains optimistic about the market performance in 2026.

BlockBeats News, December 19, crypto venture capital firm Hashed released "The Protocol Economy: 2026 Thesis". The article believes that 2025 will be the year when crypto shifts from "storytelling" to "execution", with real users, real trading volume, and real revenue becoming the core industry evaluation standards, and stablecoins becoming the foundational infrastructure for real-world applications. 2026 will usher in a year of application explosion and connection to the real economy: AI will reshape Web3 development and interaction methods, privacy will become the biggest structural issue after scalability; stablecoins will upgrade from payment tools to enterprise operational capital infrastructure, RWA will be the first to achieve large-scale application, on-chain private credit and sustainable yield markets will emerge, while ETH/BTC will remain the core indicators of the risk cycle.

According to TechFlow, on December 19, Cointelegraph reported that the Aptos blockchain network has proposed the AIP-137 proposal, which plans to introduce an optional post-quantum signature scheme to address the potential threat that quantum computing poses to existing cryptographic security.