Marshall Hayner (@MarshallHayner): Happy new year to all! 2025 is about to be legendary, possibly the best year crypto has ever seen. Get ready.
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Happy new year to all! 2025 is about to be legendary, possibly the best year crypto has ever seen. Get ready. Let’s expand on what to expect in the year of the wood snake: - Credit Unions begin to come online to offer the ultimate fiat bridge to blockchain with no middle man - Comprehensive crypto regulation roadmap in the US is unveiled under Trump’s second term - The bell tolls on centralized exchanges and L2s for Ethereum and Bitcoin begin to dominate the crypto trading landscape with a massive explosion of DEX activity - AI agents find their narrative as a predictive voice for individuals and companies, with many people seeing it as a way to clone someone’s “mindset”, the market for the most valuable AI personalities becomes frothy - Digital identity narrative takes off, your identity on-chain becomes a portal for companies to fight over offering financial rewards on-chain in the form of digital loyalty (imagine airdrops on steroids) - Every major browser begins to launch a crypto wallet product, from Chrome to Safari, this marks Apple and Google official entry into crypto - The first payments narrative for crypto explodes with major remittance platforms and companies integrating stablecoins as a means of settlement - The United States establishes a National Bitcoin Reserve and fuels the vision for a digital Fort Knox, sparking the Western world to rapidly follow suit - Microstrategies implodes, the Bitcoin is bought by the US Government for the Bitcoin National Reserve or by Blackrock - We see our first smart contracts launching on Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Litecoin L2’s - Banking subnets become popularized, DeFi on permissioned chains, expanding consumer confidence and protections for the average consumer - Proof of Stake Bitcoin alternative consensus launches and begins to dominate a contentious debate over the future of the protocol, which in turn fuels L2 adoption leading up to a crescendo - Quantum breakthrough allows for near instantaneous data transmission and fuels a cryptographic research renaissance - Web Authentication becomes the standard method for DeFi transaction signing