When the market turns messy or things get uncertain, I hunt for projects that actually hold their own no matter which way Bitcoin swings.

Think about it this way—projects that people genuinely rely on. The ones that cut down your time, slash your costs, or do both. Those tend to survive the chaos.

So here's the real question for 2026: which projects are actually going to deliver?

DeFi still sits on a massive problem that costs serious money. Until that gets solved, a lot of these ecosystems are just patching leaks instead of building something solid. The infrastructure gap is real, and whoever cracks it first? That's where the attention flows.