sport football: The Crypto Blueprint for 2026

Teeka's Note: Friends, I know firsthand how bruising 2025 has been for crypto investors.

Bitcoin and altcoins have taken their lumps. And I wouldn't blame you for asking yourself whether stepping back in 2026 might be the safer choice.

I get it. Truly.

But being down right now doesn't mean we're at the end of the road.

After nearly a decade covering crypto, one lesson has been seared into my mind: Walking away during periods like this is almost always the worst financial decision you can make.

Remember, volatility is the admission price to life-changing gains in crypto. It's what gives you the chance to compress decades of wealth-building into a much shorter window – without putting your current lifestyle at risk.

That doesn't make it easy. Especially after a year like 2025. So rather than ask for blind faith, I want to give you every reason to stay in the game in 2026.

On this New Year's Eve, I'm sharing a special essay from my chief analyst, Houston Molnar. In it, Houston shares the lessons he's learned about managing risk – and staying in the crypto game long enough to capture truly life-changing gains.

It's a must-read for anyone wondering whether it's time to throw in the towel.

Our offices will be closed for the remainder of the holiday weekend, and on behalf of me and my team, I want to wish you a Happy New Year!

Let the Game Come to You!

Big T

The Crypto Blueprint for 2026

I knew something was wrong when I saw my mom's name on the caller ID. It was unlike her to call in the middle of the night. When I picked up, she was crying.

"I don't think he's going to make it," she said. A few days later, we lost him – our close family friend.

He was a big part of my childhood. My brother and I used to spend every summer weekend in northern Wisconsin on his boat. He loved pulling us on the tube, trying to knock us into the lake.

If you've ever lived somewhere with brutal winters, you know how precious those 12 weeks of summer can be. You try to squeeze out every ray of sunlight you can. And that's exactly what he taught us to do.

When he passed, I didn't just lose a friend. I lost one of the last reminders of what life felt like before I let money consume me.

At the time, I was completely wrapped up in crypto. My emotions were chained to the price of bitcoin.

If it went up, I would be euphoric. If it went down, I felt like my world was collapsing. I'd wake up in the middle of the night just to check prices.

I couldn't enjoy dinner with family, a date with my fiancé, or a single quiet moment without refreshing CoinMarketCap.

When my friend passed… it broke something in me. And it forced me to see how unhealthy my obsession had become.

Because the truth is, I wasn't just emotionally wrecked from loss… I was financially wrecked, too.

I had loaded up on bitcoin and Ethereum during the 2018 bear market – when bitcoin had collapsed 84% and Ethereum 94%.

Every paycheck I got, I'd check the fridge, decide if I had enough food to last the week, and then drain my account down to my last $10 to buy more crypto.

I'm embarrassed to admit this. But at one point, I even had to call my mom and borrow money to cover my electric bill. My bank account balance had gone negative.

I was convinced crypto was the biggest moneymaking opportunity of my lifetime.

And you know what? I was right about the opportunity – but wrong about the execution. I'd turned something revolutionary into something destructive.

When my portfolio rocketed to $1 million, I thought I had made it. Then the 2022 crypto crash came.

I lost the majority of my net worth. And when my friend passed, it compounded everything. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. The emotional toll was unbearable.

That's when I realized… I didn't own crypto. Crypto owned me.

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From Overexposed to Empowered: What Teeka Taught Me About Risk

I had too much money concentrated in high-risk assets. I didn't have a plan. I didn't have balance. I didn't have risk management.

That's when I turned to my mentor, Teeka Tiwari.

Teeka told me something I'll never forget: "Houston, I lost everything once because I was overexposed to risky ideas. I was right about the trend… but wrong about how much I put in."

He explained that there's a world of difference between being directionally right and being financially alive long enough to benefit from it.

That's how I learned about asymmetric risk – the approach we use to invest in volatile assets like crypto.

Asymmetric investing means you risk small, uniform amounts of capital – what Teeka calls a "grubstake" – for the chance to make life-changing money.

It's the opposite of going all in.

Instead of betting 100% for a chance at 10%… you risk 1% for the chance at 100%. You take a small slice of your portfolio (2-5%) and spread it across high-upside ideas.

Most will do nothing. Some will fail. But the few that hit can compress stock market-type gains to weeks or months instead of years or decades…

That's the magic of asymmetric investing. It's how Teeka identified 27 cryptos that have gone up 1,000% or more since 2016, including as much as 156,753% on Neo (NEO), 43,332% on Ethereum (ETH), and 14,926% on Binance Coin (BNB).

And it's the same blueprint I use today.

Once I applied asymmetric risk management, everything changed. Not only did I stop losing sleep – I started to actually live again.

Because I finally understood: You don't need to risk everything to make life-changing money.

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The Blueprint That Fixed Me After the Crash Broke Me

Here's the simple blueprint I follow – the one that made me a better investor.

I recommend you print it out and put it aside the next time you experience volatility in the crypto market.

Step 1: Spread risk across positions and markets.

During my first bull market, I treated crypto as the only asset class worth paying attention to. It allowed me to become the analyst I am today.

But I missed an important part of Teeka's philosophy: Don't let one idea – no matter how good it looks – dominate your portfolio.

First, you want to compound your money in relatively safe asset classes like blue-chip stocks that pay great dividends. Then, you can skim off a small portion of that capital and invest in asymmetric ideas like crypto.

Step 2: If a position keeps you up at night, it's too big.

When you're tossing and turning in your bed and waking up in the middle of the night with beads of sweat rolling down your forehead, that's your body's way of warning you. You're too concentrated in one position.

When I was all-in on crypto, the rush I felt when prices went up was exhilarating. But I paid for it with my mental health when the markets crashed. The rush of the good times was not worth the pain of the bad times.

If a position is keeping you up at night, you have too much money riding on it. When that happens, cut it down until you can sleep again.

Step 3: Take profits when you have them.

I know the pain of sitting at the top, thinking "I've made it" – only to watch it all evaporate.

So if you're sitting on a big gain, don't be afraid to skim some cream off the top, as Teeka calls it. You can't compound what you don't keep. Plus, you can always roll some of your profits into the next asymmetric opportunity.

Here's the bottom line: I've been in crypto since 2018. And I can tell you, there are always new opportunities coming around the corner. But you need an approach that lets you stay in the game long enough to win.

Teeka always says: "Volatility is the price of admission for life-changing wealth."

He's right. But you can't pay that price if you blow yourself up emotionally or financially.

When I think back to those nights – staring at charts, feeling empty inside, grieving my friend – I realize that I wasn't living.

Today, I'm more balanced. More grounded.

I still believe crypto is one of the greatest asymmetric opportunities of our lifetime. But I also know the real secret isn't just finding the right coin – you also need the right strategy.

Risk management doesn't make you less ambitious. It makes you unstoppable. Because once you remove the fear of losing everything… you finally have the freedom to let your winners run.

That's the blueprint Teeka gave me – and it's the one I'll pass to you.

Don't watch the future happen. Own it!

Houston Molnar

P.S. I have another important message from Teeka I want to share with you today. This time, it's an important market warning he wants everyone to hear: Investors around the world are making a huge mistake. They're buying wildly overvalued AI companies in the hopes of making a stock market fortune. But they're buying the wrong stocks.

According to Teeka, the next round of AI winners will come from one of the most under-owned corners of the market – blue-chip stocks using AI without having to pay for AI's buildout.

The market is already awakening to this warning. Popular AI stocks like Palantir and Broadcom are showing red flags. Palantir shares have dropped 20% in their worst month since 2023. And Broadcom is down over 13% since last month.

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