Looking at the pattern from 2020 through 2025, the market swings have been escalating with each passing year. Every cycle brings more volatility, more surprises, more chaos compared to the last one. I genuinely expected 2026 to offer some breathing room—maybe a year of relative stability after all the turbulence. Reality had other plans though. The crypto landscape keeps pushing boundaries, constantly testing expectations and proving that predicting market behavior is harder than it looks.