Cycles | Crypto

In an interview with Cointelegraph, CEO Nic Puckrin breaks down the forces behind Bitcoin’s bear market and what could come next in 2026. In an exclusive Cointelegraph interview, crypto YouTuber and CEO of Coin Bureau Nic Puckrin says he expects 2026 to play out as a “tale of two crypto markets” — institutional conviction on one side, and near-total retail apathy on the other.  While headlines have been dominated by exchange-traded funds, policy shifts and big-money adoption, he argues that the everyday investor isn’t showing up the way they did in previous cycles — and he explains why that matters for what comes next. He also revisits the debate around Bitcoin’s “four-year cycle.” Many traders declared the old playbook dead after an unusual run-up before the halving and the absence of a classic blow-off top. However, Puckrin outlines why recent price behavior has forced even skeptics to reconsider their views.  Read more

“The panic of ‘22 showed that much like in TradFi, liquidity and solvency are intimately bound up with each other,” said Cycles’ Ethan Buckman. The fallout from the 2022 crypto bear market still reverberates across the industry, with unsecured credit conditions not fully recovered from the panic crash that engulfed lenders like BlockFi, Celsius, Voyager and, ultimately, FTX.  Three years later, privacy-preserving clearing protocol Cycles is attempting to build a foundation for sustainable credit markets to reemerge.  In May, the company launched a pilot version of Cycles Prime, which acts like a decentralized clearing house, enabling crypto trading firms to net and clear outstanding payments without collateral or escrow. The pilot was reserved for institutional crypto trading firms that want to reduce credit usage without central counterparties. Read more