Staci Warden, CEO of Algorand Foundation, projects significant growth for crypto in 2026, anticipating ETF inflows and stablecoin expansion to mirror or exceed 2025's figures. She emphasizes crypto's evolving role as financial infrastructure, increasingly tied to traditional finance and macroeconomic factors like interest rates and liquidity. Warden also highlights the critical need for clearer U.S. regulation to drive institutional adoption and discusses the urgent, yet often misunderstood, threat of quantum computing to blockchain security, particularly for Bitcoin (BTC).