Crypto and the World Economic Forum in Davos are now friends. It’s weird, isn’t it? Still, it’s one of the things that helps position crypto for long-term growth. There are other reasons why crypto could pump soon. Today we look at 3 signs that your altcoin portfolio is ready to make a move.
The Davos effect
Major meetings of bankers in Davos for the World Economic Forum. Driving the prices of altcoins down so they can collude and buy bargains. It’s true, isn’t it?
It’s certainly plausible. And looking at the Bitcoin chart, it may actually have bottomed on the 25th at $86,325. Since then, the figure has increased by about 5%, although it’s not much progress. We’ll talk about that in a minute.
The biggest sign from Davos is in this tweet. As major traditional global banks and cryptocurrencies converge on some type of future financing, that means big growth numbers for adoption.
2026 is shaping up to be the year of mainstream crypto adoption
TLDR: Geopolitical chaos is not slowing institutional adoption of crypto. Wall Street and traditional finance are progressing despite global tensions.
What happened:
→ Davos 2026 put crypto prominently in… pic.twitter.com/2gH2YUHFfW
– Hush (@HushWealth) January 27, 2026
All successful crypto projects have the users and developers first, then the price follows to show the value of the network. The world’s biggest banks tell us they need crypto rails to do what they do better, faster and cheaper. They tell us that crypto is the new global financial rail.
You don’t have time to be bearish given the bullishness of the situation.
And it’s not just general optimism. It’s optimistic
- Stablecoins and Stablecoin Issuers
- Payment platforms
- Crypto neobanks like Avici
- RWA and the tokenization of everything
- Privacy, the way RWA really wants it.
From proof of concept to full life.
JP Morgan’s USD deposit token, JPMD, is now available for institutional transfers on Base.
Moving money should take seconds, not days. Commercial banks are arriving in chains. pic.twitter.com/cW6tMPLvsw
—Base (@base) November 12, 2025
For example, on stablecoins, you may have missed that JP Morgan is issuing a $JPMD stablecoin. This is for institutional transfers. But more importantly, it’s NOT private. They threw him on base. Again, very optimistic for both the bank and Base.
You still have to choose wisely. Choose from sectors like above or major projects that will see most of the benefits of this growth. And you can succeed just by doing that.
Less memes and shitcoins and more quality and powerful network effects.
Capital turnover in Altcoin ETFs
Just this week, a rotation of capital began in ETFs. The shift was from BTC and ETH to alts.
While Bitcoin and Ethereum saw net outflows, the Solana and XRP ETFs saw net inflows. This is one of the first positive signs we are seeing of the resilience of ETFs compared to “other alternatives”. Other not being Ethereum.
Coinbase believes altcoin ETFs will be a big adoption driver in 2026 to get people into crypto. And we agree.
According to our friends at Coinglass, you can see that over the last 2.5 weeks there is still a net inflow of 605,000 BTC to Bitcoin ETFs. It’s good. However, last week the figures were negative. At least part of these net outflows are going to other promising ETFs like
- Solana and XRP as mentioned earlier
- Sui, Avalanche, Chainlink and Hedera. All altcoins with multiple ETFs and expected to benefit the most from ETF growth.
AVAX has just launched a large ETF with Van Eck. Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest adds more ETFs as well as more crypto to existing positions. They are also adding Coinbase and Circle shares.
These are the things to look for from majors such as those in the Top 20 in which ETFs invest. They are the ones who pump the most if this trend continues
Bottom Could Be on Blue Chip Altcoins
As I said earlier, it looks like Bitcoin hit its lowest level on the 25th at $86,325.
What does this look like historically? Bitcoin is below many of the most popular moving averages followed by traders.
Bitcoin – $BTC gathering towards Mars. 🚀🚀🚀
Recent highs reached $126,296 in 2025, with 50- and 200-day moving averages of $90,108 and $105,122, signaling near-term consolidation from a yearly low near $74,420. Since the start of the year, BTC has been in slight decline due to the volatility of ETF flows and… pic.twitter.com/GDpPCnMkTg
– Benson Chan (@fincrimehunter) January 27, 2026
The 50-day and 200-day moving averages are among the most common for short- and long-term trends. And at $90,000 and $105,000 respectively, Bitcoin is trading below both averages but just slightly below the 50-day average.
Usually it’s bearish. But there are signs of positive short-term momentum as well as a long-term uptrend.
That said, the charts also show signs of neutral or bearish movement. Two important moving averages have just crossed, and it’s generally bearish.
A little reminder though. If your investment period is 3 years or more, then none of this matters except that being below the moving averages tells us it’s a good time to buy. For long-lasting hold.
Additionally, all the ETFs I mentioned in the last section reduce the effect of the 4-year cycle. The cycles are less pronounced and generally more bullish. So if you’re a long-term holder or looking to get into Bitcoin at a good price, the bottom could be here with likely choppier trading days ahead.
And for Ethereum, we rebounded from a significant multi-year low in the ETH-BTC chart last April. Ethereum is therefore slowly gaining ground compared to Bitcoin.
These slow gains come as Blackrock and others on Wall Street have already chosen Ethereum. This is the ideal place to tokenize stocks and other assets for banks. Blackrock has made its choice. JP Morgan also did it with ETH Layer 2 Base. The choice of large institutions is clear. And it’s NOT Solana.
So if you think tokenization will continue to be a leading sector for crypto like we do, then Ethereum is classically undervalued at this point.
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