Bitcoin 2026 has printed a 400-name speaker roster for its upcoming megaconference this month. However regardless of a historical past of selling the trade’s largest annual gathering as solely about bitcoin (BTC), many of those audio system have promoted a doubtful number of digital property.
Protos reviewed the checklist and located dozens of audio system with documented promotions of non-BTC digital property, lots of which have, unsurprisingly, declined in worth disastrously.
Final 12 months, Protos documented the same sample at Bitcoin 2025 the place attendees discovered not solely about BTC but in addition QI, ZEUS, YU, SUI, CORE, FXS, QBTC, TRX, BTT, SUN, JST, USDJ, MAG7, MEME, DEFI, USSI, WBTC, HUSD, USDD, IQ, and others.
This 12 months, altcoin promoters will migrate from expo ground cubicles to talking phases the place they’ll in all probability spend most of their time speaking about BTC.
When individuals ask us why we’re Bitcoin solely, for this reason.
— David Bailey🇵🇷 $2.0mm/btc is the ground (@DavidFBailey) November 11, 2022
Under are some particulars of the aforementioned altcoin promotions. Notice that this checklist excludes shares of so-called digital asset treasury firms, together with their BTC-only variants, which have additionally largely declined in worth.
For instance, the inventory value of Bitcoin 2026 speaker Adam Again’s H100 Group is down 69% over the previous 12 months. Over the identical time interval, Jack Mallers’ Twenty One Capital is down 31%, David Bailey’s Nakamoto is down 85%, Simon Gerovich’s Metaplanet is down 10%, and Michael Saylor and Phong Le’s Technique is down 55%.
Eric Trump amongst Bitcoin 2026 altcoin shills
Donald Trump’s son Eric, who has repeatedly urged his X followers to purchase ether (ETH), shall be talking on the Bitcoin 2026 primary stage this month. Trump additionally promotes World Liberty Monetary’s WLFI token, its USD1 stablecoin, and his father’s Solana-based TRUMP memecoin.
WLFI is down 75% from its excessive final 12 months, and TRUMP is down 96%.
Paolo Ardoino, Tether’s chief govt, advised Fortune that his flagship stablecoin USDT represents “the last stronghold for US dollar hegemony out there.”
He’s promoted XAUT, MXNT, XAUT, and his firm’s new USAT stablecoin. None of these tokens use Bitcoin as their main blockchain.
Final 12 months, Arthur Hayes predicted ETH would attain “$10,000 to $20,000 before the end of the cycle,” which definitely by no means occurred. He’s additionally repeatedly endorsed Ethena’s ENA token, together with a name for it to achieve $10.
In actuality, ENA’s all-time excessive was $1.52, and it’s buying and selling 93% decrease at the moment.
Additionally on the checklist are:
- Aaron and Austin Arnold who co-run the crypto podcast Altcoin Each day
- SethForPrivacy, Cake Pockets’s COO, who has written extensively about XMR
- Milan de Reede of NanoGPT who wrote that NANO is “a form of money that cannot be debased” and promoted a 5% low cost for NANO funds
- Fred Thiel of Marathon Digital who’s firm held tens of millions of KAS tokens on its steadiness sheet at one level
- Sam Kazemian, the founder of Frax and its FXS token
- Bruce Fenton, co-founder of Ravencoin
- Afroman, who launched his personal Pump.enjoyable memecoin
Trade and fund executives may also take the stage
Bitcoin 2026 speaker Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief authorized officer, proudly broadcasted that his firm spent “millions of dollars” defending Solana, claiming that he awoke “every day” in January 2025 to defend Solana “because we believe in SOL.”
Matt Hougan, Bitwise’s chief funding officer and scheduled Bitcoin 2026 speaker, advised CoinDesk, “I own a lot of ETH, and I’m very bullish on where it’s going.”
He additionally referred to as SOL “one of the best setups” he had seen in eight years.
One other Bitcoin 2026 speaker, Tim Draper, is a prolific altcoin investor, together with XTZ, ANT, amongst many others. He’s advised buyers from a Wall Avenue stage that he owns these tokens plus BCH and XRP.
Additionally on stage this 12 months shall be Amy Oldenburg of Morgan Stanley, who mentioned in April 2026 that the financial institution is unquestionably “not going to stop at just bitcoin.”
In the meantime, Matthew Sigel filed for a Solana ETF at VanEck.
Matt Luongo of Thesis scored his spot on the convention after utilizing over $7 million in KEEP tokens to help Ethereum-based, Bitcoin-branded TBTC, and Eric Balchunas of Bloomberg declared the chances of SEC Solana ETF approval at “100%.”
