Stablecoins, led by Tether (USDT) and USDC, now total $180 billion, with new entrants like yield-bearing stablecoins, PayPal's PYUSD, Agora and M0 trying to disrupt the market.
While USDT and USDC dominate, blockchain’s true potential could lead to disruptive changes in the future of money.
The most successful narrative in the crypto space in 2024 is with very little doubt the one about memecoins (source: Dune dashboard by @cryptokoryo_research). Memecoins’ performance has clearly outpaced RWAs and L2s narratives, achieving an aggregated market cap of almost $50B (as of July 30, 2024), with an all-time high of almost $70B. This number is stunning considering that these tokens...
Bitcoin, undeniably the poster child of the cryptocurrency movement and the most important coin by market cap size, is often viewed within the crypto ecosystem as a stable yet unexciting platform with few new developments. Although Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency, real innovation has been occurring elsewhere, notably on Ethereum. Thus, the narrative that has developed around Bitcoin portrays...
The first part of this year the crypto space has been characterized by a sudden and – in many cases – unexpected, bull market. Prices returned to all-time highs very quickly, and the most important narrative fuelling this phenomenon is staking, particularly through its most advanced evolution, which is restaking. The goal of this post is to explain to a non-crypto user what...
The post imagines what the future of finance will be in 2032. It follows the life of a fictional character - John - and analyses how four major trends redefine his financial life.