I spent nearly four years building in crypto gaming. I loved the chaos and entertainment it provided. But it always felt like we were chasing metas to satisfy temporary things.
We’re now moving beyond crypto for entertainment and into a new world with real crypto utility.
The convergence of regulatory clarity, stable coins, and tokenization of real world assets/instruments are bringing digital asset ownership beyond just early adopters and degens and into everyday life.
I’ve been trying to explain to my dad for years why crypto matters. Until now it’s been tough to explain with credibility because the main use cases were entertainment over utility. But the shift is now here and within the next two years he’ll be using ‘crypto’ in almost every area of his life without thinking of it as crypto.
I believe we are approaching the “all at once” stage.
People still fail to realize that the real use case for crypto is infrastructure, while many are still waiting for it to behave like pure software.
Once banks have to compete with staking yields, the dynamic becomes self-reinforcing. If one major player adopts it, the rest will likely have no choice but to follow.
And beyond yield, the advantages are obvious: faster settlement, stronger security, lower costs, and dramatically higher efficiency.
With banks starting to move in and guidance from the CFTC and SEC becoming more constructive, the major liquidity pools are beginning to connect: retail capital, bank deposits, pension capital, and institutional money.
New banks are emerging like Erebor focusing on consolidating crypto and banking into one ecosystem.
Most people still view crypto through the lens of NFTs, memecoins, and speculative software.
But quietly, behind the scenes, it has been maturing into infrastructure.
Many are still waiting to see the flashy cars return to the highway, tokens, NFTs, speculation.
What they are missing is that the real money is made by owning the highway, and by the thousands of boring cars driving on it every day: stablecoins, RWAs, and tokenization.
This is ultimately about the settlement layer of the new financial age. And I believe the U.S. government wants to ensure the United States becomes a leader in this industry as it scales globally.
@paytkaleiwahea Not to mention one is immediately available and the other could take 3 days.
These are the types of utilities that will make crypto undeniable.
The centralized fees and friction of transferring money between two parties is a joke. Stables plus blockchain = future of money.
@SolanaSensei@mert Well said and I completely agree. I recently turned on notis for @mert and feel smarter and more bullish because of it.
His podcast is also a rad avenue to do most of this in a diff medium.
And it should be said that you run a very similar playbook 🫡
@ronaldtreur The famous bridge is on the left of the photo and you can see the Duomo on the right if you look closely.
Thanks Funcracker!
My layover was in AMS btw
whether its creator streaming, collectibles, onchain equities, next-gen prediction markets, or whatever else, its just the best place to build apps today