Why is BTC still the focal point of crypto adoption in 2026?

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Vitalik Buterin was considered one of the smartest man in crypto at some point. We all know him with ethereum and also the birth of smart contract is because of his so-called ingenuity.

They say crypto projects needed a bridge where chains can communicate and interact, and all that meant that people can use smart contracts to make this possible.

We even saw crypto builders building these so called bridges on the BTC blockchain and a lot of them called themselves the next big thing in crypto. But if we're honest, we'd actually say the truth about how cross chain communication is actually very risky and has caused the biggest hacks in crypto history.

From 2022 to 2026 alone, crypto has seen hacks of over a billion dollars, from liquidity pools, DEFI protocols and many other cross chain protocols where people just wants to put their money to and farm yields. A lot of people have brought money on-chain from the real world and a lot of that have been stolen through hacks and all that.

Safety is still a big issue

Even EVM wallets that's supposed to be the safe, are basically cakes for hackers to feed on.

The excuse is that people are not supposed to click any phishing or external links, but the problem with this is that crypto bros, or people who are OGs may understand this to some extent (crypto bros fall victims to phishing hacks, no matter how careful they are) but people who are completely new to the tech and wants to participate may not be as careful and then they get exploited by scammers who are basically just waiting for people to fall victim.

This alone is honestly a pest to crypto as a whole, it makes the industry unsafe for a newbie to navigate, and when people actually lose money, then they don't care how innovative a tech is, they've lost money and all they care about now, is that they've lost money.

Look at Luna Terra in 2022, so even though this wasn't a classic hack but a criminal mindedness of the founder. Luna made a lot of people lose faith in crypto, it one of the most hyped project of 2022, and all that founder had to do was to make sure he didn't mess up millions in dollars of people's money, but the man was greedy and a classic criminal.

People like him was one of the reasons we actually saw people lose faith in crypto.

Any industry that makes people feel unsafe actually gets this a lot, no one wants to lose money. Even though we cannot eradicate criminals from our reality, the best we can do is create systems where criminals will have no other options but to quit, since they cannot steal from people..

Scammers are still at large

While I'm honestly not against chains, speaking and all that smart contracts rubbish. I still feel it's one of the most overrated systems we have in crypto, because all it has done is create loopholes for scammers to scam people who just wants to simply interact with the tech and make money for themselves.

Recently it was something called "E:1-777" (don't know if I got it right)..

The biggest scams happens with smart contracts

It let's you interact and sign multiple transactions at a go, but the loophole was that anyone can steal from you if they have or can guess what your key is, and guess what?

Scammers are now able to know people's keys, see the wallets that have money in them and are able to brute force your wallet open and siphon funds from you, without you doing anything.

There are no measures to recover your funds, no measures to lock your supposed decentralized wallet from being locked. No external safety measures, and why?

Because they want to simply keep everything decentralized, and when people are hacked, then they can kiss their money goodbye. No one is building features that can directly key into hot wallets like a plug-in and save guard them from being hacked.

Build creative builders

They say people must give up safety and security for true decentralization, but guess what, this is probably one of the reasons why crypto may never achieve its true potential, until we get builders who continues to build and ship items that actually makes crypto adoption safe, sensible, scalable and easy.

This is why I believe that the builders we have in crypto today is why we've never really got past the "oh BTC is King" statement. In 2026, BTC shouldn't even be the focal point of crypto adoption anymore, but then, this will continue to be so untill we see creative builders in crypto.