Why February 2026 Is Where Crypto Quietly Separates People 👬
One of the world’s largest wealth managers just made a move that looks bullish on the surface and quietly revealing underneath.
UBS is preparing to offer Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to select private banking clients, beginning in Switzerland, with plans to expand into Asia Pacific and the United States.
This isn’t a blockchain pilot.
It isn’t an internal proof-of-concept.
This is direct access to the assets themselves inside private banking.
And while many will treat this as a milestone and it is it’s worth being honest about what this moment actually represents.
For years, UBS and its peers skipped Bitcoin and Ethereum entirely.
Not because they didn’t understand them.
Not because they lacked the resources.
They skipped them because it was safer to pretend they didn’t matter.
Now they’re offering access which tells you demand is already there.
But it also exposes a familiar pattern: by the time traditional finance offers something, the asymmetric upside is usually gone.
That’s the trade-off.
#bullish #adoption