Las Vegas — Eric Trump took the stage at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas with a message: The asset’s best days are not yet to come, they are already here.
The co-founder and chief strategy officer of American Bitcoin (ABTC) said the convergence of institutional adoption, corporate treasuries and mainstream financial access has made bitcoin the most important moment yet.
“What Bitcoin has done in the last six months compared to the previous three years is transformational,” Trump said. “We are in the greatest time I have ever experienced.”
Trump pointed to big banks now offering bitcoin-backed mortgages and custody services as evidence of a Wall Street reversal. “People aren’t selling it. People are holding it. Bitcoin is getting sticky,” Trump said, adding that limited supply and growing demand from institutions and sovereign governments were structurally compressing the market.
Moderator Eric Balchunas, senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg, presented this shift through the lens of the ETF market, noting that bitcoin ETFs have been among the most successful product launches in the instrument’s history, democratizing access for ordinary investors in a way previously reserved for institutions.
“I’m going to ride out the volatility,” Trump said. “We’ll see who wins in 10 years.”
