Lightspeed’s India & SEA Crypto Landscape

In the last decade, blockchain technology and crypto have been laying the foundations for an alternative reality in which humans interact and organise themselves without the mediation of a third party. Crypto currencies are a US$2T asset today and billions of dollars are being traded globally without the need of a bank or intermediary, with transac... See more

Since December 2017, the crypto market evolved to a 2.0 iteration, growing from a market designed for individuals to one that’s institutionally accessible.

The future will see the centralised world and the decentralised world working in tandem. DeFi (Decentralised Finance) has already shaken up the banking and financial industry and is currently worth US$100B. Crypto brings a tremendous amount of opportunity to harness technology and drive greater efficiencies in the customer management process by ele... See more

Fast forward to today, and it’s become increasingly clear that the crypto ecosystem – specifically, its blockchain infrastructure – will fundamentally change the way we use, build and benefit from the internet.

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

an overview of the crypto ecosystem & moving forward