Summary
- BlackRock said institutional adoption of digital assets in 2026 will accelerate.
- The report cited U.S. federal debt, financial market fragility, and the weakening of traditional hedging tools as the main risk factors, and stated that adoption of digital assets will increase for portfolio diversification and risk management.
- Samira Cohen emphasized that stablecoins have become a core infrastructure rather than a niche, changing institutions' access to digital assets.
BlackRock has presented a very optimistic outlook for the digital assets (cryptocurrencies) sector in 2026.
On the 4th (local time), a BlackRock report cited by CoinDesk said, "Key risk factors are the structural risk of U.S. federal debt exceeding $38 trillion, increasing fragility in financial markets, and the diminished effectiveness of traditional hedges," and added, "In this environment, institutional investors are likely to rapidly increase their adoption of digital assets as a means of portfolio diversification and risk management."
Samira Cohen (Samira Cohen), BlackRock's head of global market development, said of stablecoins, "They are now an asset class beyond a niche, emerging as a core infrastructure connecting traditional finance and digital liquidity."
She emphasized, "Stablecoins are becoming a new foundational rail of global capital flows and are 'qualitatively' changing institutions' access to digital assets."
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