A Crypto Future: 2027-2028 — A Crypto Future

By 2028 the NFT landscape has shifted dramatically. While initial iterations of NFTs focused almost exclusively on profile pictures, art and gaming assets, the zeitgeist of NFTs is materially different in 2028. We now view them much more like containers for specific types of composable data to live – be that text, image, video, mapping, movement, l... See more

By the end of 2028 we haven’t quite recaptured the all-time highs of crypto market capitalization, but the relevance of this all-encompassing statistic has diminished. There’s now comfortably $20+ trillion of crypto assets, but more importantly the technology has penetrated so many verticals – albeit to varying degrees – that we no longer speak in ... See more

By 2027 crypto has reached over 2 billion users and surpassed $30 trillion in total market value. While I’d prefer to continue postulating on new use-cases and emerging behaviors this technology enables, the goal of this exercise has always been to project the most likely outcome given the priors. The excitement and novelty of new developments thro... See more

The institutional ETFs are here en masse and there is now regular traditional media coverage of the crypto startup scene. It mostly lacks nuance but it’s permeating the mainstream zeitgeist. The maturation of market structure also helps here as liquidation cascades are simply less prevalent given the enormous liquidity provided by these traditional... See more

Self-sovereignty is no longer a fringe concept but rather a core principle for the majority of the world, albeit less so in the United States. Smart contracts are rapidly becoming the standard rather than a novel design meant for the corners of the internet.

It’s not that crypto has actually enabled the financialization of everything, but rather it’s removed friction in places where immense demand for financialization exists.

On the brighter side, by this point BTC and ETH are solidified. Similar to how FAANG stocks performed during the overall stock market drawdown in 2022-23, BTC and ETH are now relentlessly bid by younger generations who control an increasing share of global wealth. A lot of the reflexivity in crypto prices is now muted – at least for these two large... See more

It is commonplace to wager on the growth of wallets, accounts, people, videos, memes, art, transportation, media, space, you name it. Financial coordination at-scale is very different from the financialization of everything. The degree to which we gravitate toward shared social experiences has not changed, but the medium has shifted toward digital ... See more

By 2028 NFTs will be analogous to the United States’ huge underground salt caverns that store crude oil reserves. Mountains of financial, health, education, social, gaming & behavioral data will be widely accessible. Some individuals (<10% of the United States population) will be running their own local models on a tapestry of on-chain &... See more