{"id":552944,"date":"2026-02-08T05:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/massive-consolidation-expected-across-crypto-industry-bullish-ceo\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T05:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:53:02","slug":"massive-consolidation-expected-across-crypto-industry-bullish-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/massive-consolidation-expected-across-crypto-industry-bullish-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Massive consolidation&#8217; expected across crypto industry: Bullish CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDIvMDE5YzNiNGUtMWRjMy03M2I1LWFiOWItNzhiMWQ1YzUzNmY3LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"'Massive consolidation' expected across crypto industry: Bullish CEO\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The crypto industry is about to get a wakeup call, as many companies will realize &#8220;they don\u2019t have businesses, they have products,&#8221; says Bullish CEO Tom Farley.<\/p>\n<p>The crypto industry is likely to see more projects snapped up by larger companies, which may lead to a much less fragmented sector in the months ahead, says Bullish CEO Tom Farley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in the exchange sector during continual massive consolidation\u2026the same thing is going to happen starting right now in crypto,\u201d Farley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-OPn8-Juhyo\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> during an interview on CNBC on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Farley, who served as president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) until 2018, said the recent drop in the crypto market will be a key catalyst, with Bitcoin (<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price\">BTC<\/a>) down nearly 45% from its October all-time high of $126,100 and trading at $69,405 at the time of publication, <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to CoinMarketCap<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/crypto-companies-consolidation-industry-bullish-ceo\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crypto industry is about to get a wakeup call, as many companies will realize &#8220;they don\u2019t have businesses, they have products,&#8221; says Bullish CEO Tom Farley. The crypto industry is likely to see more projects snapped up by larger companies, which may lead to a much less fragmented sector in the months ahead, says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-552944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}