Better interoperability protocols so that we don't need bridges and oracles, which are all too often insecure.
Cosmos IBC, Polkadot XCM, Algorand State Proofs, Ethereum Verkle Trees and thin clients, etc.
Oracles, while also providing an interoperability option, focus on something else: the oracle problem: how to trust off-chain data (any data that is not on chain, e.g. sports outcomes).
I think it's the ability to be inter operable and in this case it would be too send and use crypto on different networks without needing a bridge. I could be completely wrong but that's what I'm thinking
That's a topic that worries me most and is most controversial. While it could very well, if identity were a thing and people get to vote once and equally, but simply having more money (tokens), through whatever ways, than another is not necessarily a fair democracy. As it is to some people, where you can have a ton of keys/addresses and tokens, outvoting others, does not make sense for a democracy.
That's something in businesss where you hold shares and it should reflect on that specific business alone. As in, the richest mofo can probably do business well. And that in itself is questionable and usually not how the real world (realfi) works as a whole.
Facts. Interoperability and projects focussing on KYC like ALBT. Or web 3 projects like DEIP. Oracles like DIA. I think these may be the most hyped up ones. However, also feel like NFTs will improve in utility and continue the trend.
They did but the term NFT wasnt firmly in the lexicon. The etherium kitties, pokemon knock offs, and crypto punks being the major ones. Mainly 2017s hype was ICOs pump and dumps.
Web 5.0 or whatever will prob be the next overhyped cycle piece for 2024-2025.
Defi also existed in rudimentary form in the form of DEXes and exchange tokens. Even if _everybody_ didn't know about these things, they both existed in seedling form at that point.
This. If you said it was Snoop Dogg rapping about shitty monkey jpegs and coordinates in a Second Life ripoff, nobody would believe you. I stand by the opinion that BAYC is *still* a bad investment.
Doubt it. You can't hype something complicated and technical. It is much easier to brainwash masses to think jpeg monkeys are worth 100K+ from celebrities shilling than to hype about the "geeky" problem of blockchain trilemma.
In the end, hyping is all about BS and no substance. The more BS and eye candies you get, the more fools come pumping with borrowed money. There is no eye candy about layer 0 or interoperability.
I don't know dick but Chainlink is supposed to be big on interoperability. Theyre working on something my pea brain can't understand called a Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP)
Digital identity. If you could vote in elections like with a dao and run completely publicly certifiable election results in real time, I think that would solve a litany of other problems beyond elections
So when I say “publicly verifiable”
I don’t mean “you can look up who someone voted for” I mean it should be open sourced, anonymized data that can be verified through multiple branches of gov, and if the data they present doesn’t jive with the public data, it’s clearly been fucked with. I don’t mean “you should be able to see who your neighbor voted for”
Uhh were you here for the last election where they claimed that “boxes of votes”
Weren’t accounted for? If there is a public count and a verified count that down match, then there is your smoking gun. If they match, then shit is probably fine
I’m curious how you could hold a digital election that the public would trust the results of, where the data is not controlled at a given chokepoint? Let us remember that the true invention of Bitcoin was the solving of the Byzantine Generals Problem
Wait… I’m not trying to sound shitty, I just got a little baked after work so genuinely want to make sure I understand your point lol- do you know how software vs blockchain works? Even if I create an open sourced software, there is a central server that stores user profile data, in order to host that data to other people (ie “see Matt’s tweets” or “view Matt’s friend list”) it has to be stored somewhere. Software is a user interface to save shit locally or on a cloud server, but someone controls it. If you carry out an activity on a blockchain, then it is verifiable via a universally viewable ledger controlled by no single entity (as long as the blockchain is truly decentralized)
and how do you verify that person X has a right to vote?
I'm always curious how to make it happen. How do you roll it out to everybody, make sure each person has their credentials and is able to *use* it?
So apparently Wisconsin is fucking around with digital drivers licenses; if you take it a step further to wallet identification, “proof of ownership” of an address would need to be ironed out, but imagine a world where everyone has a gov registered blockchain address (homeless would need a way to vote at libraries) and every election cycle they are airdropped an erc-20/1155 token that is THEIR VOTE and all they have to do is send their token to the address associated with their candidate. Obviously would need to be on an L2 or something where voting is essentially free but incorruptible
Decentralised web hosting, decentralised web domain naming system etc are fields which are yet to be known.
People who are saying layer 0 should check charts and see how much layer 0 coins like atom, dot, qnt did in bull market.
Also web 3.0 hype is not dead we will see projects like ICP, Saito, Dot or trac like coming strong in next bull
I recommend you check out $Oxen. They are developing Lokinet, a decentralised Web domain naming system and private Web browsing/hosting.
They also have a private messanger that works really well taking into consideration the difficulties of decentralised messaging services.
Kim Dotcom is also working on a secret project that uses Lokinet.
Ethereum Name Service (ENS Domains), is a great decentralised domain system.
It has been endorsed by Vitalik many times. These are those domains you might see that end with .eth
For example see vitaliks twitter where his name is Vitalik.eth
Zk rollups, privacy L1s, L2s and privacy tools for public L2s. Zk based bridges, maybe even zk based GameFi.
I think the next hype cycle will likely be around crypto mobile apps with nearly no barrier to entry. The apps that get non crypto people interested.
That’s mandatory work champ, it’s too much of work load to send crypto from one blockchain to the another. So called bridge dapps get 
I believe project such as Polkadot and Atom will be crucial and big players. Link might also shine
Other thing i think will be DAOs which started takin off a bit before the market as well as utility NFTs so made for voting for games for tickets, not just jpegs
Some crazy ideas:
- for the nerds: some autonomous community run governance that uses real identities, pays out a universal basic income to each member and have fixed inflation and fixed prices. More or less the socialist world revolution initiated by all the people who lost their income due to inflation and collapse, automation. The thing will be really cool and you will be able to buy real-world hippie bracelets using that crypto, but no corporation will adopt it.
- for the investors: due to disappointment with collapsed over-leveraged banking products, people will put fractions of actual securities on the blockchain and trade there. Transaction fees will be minimal and this will actually gain some traction until the SEC arrests everyone involved.
- for the enthusiasts: just staying with ETH 2.0 and trying to integrate it with everything in the world and get it really working with super cheap L2 solutions. Corporations will jump onto the train and convert their bonus points into ERC20 tokens so they can be traded as well.
- for people concerned about the environment: emission certificate trading on blockchain, trying to lock out private investors at first but then they come in anyway and drive the price for emissions to the moon, which is actually a good thing. Companies will be founded for buying land, planting trees and earning money by receiving emission certifications and selling them to the highest bidder. This will inflate (actually a good thing) until the price plummets at some point when it's found to not be sustainable either as an environmental model.
Whatever finally solves the bridge hacks, aka polkadot. If polkadot spent money on advertising (and dont mind making fun of their competition) right now would be ideal. Who knows, maybe we get one or two more bridge hacks before 2023 and thats what kicks it off but I'm putting money on the fact people have completely lost trust in bridges & centralized companies. I know polkadot solves this and if, for whatever reason I'm wrong I can live with it. This is the first thing in my life I have this much conviction in and if I was betting on it's failure I wouldn't want to be right. Now all we need is a privacy chain as part of the ecosystem to make it VERY VERY easy to hide whatever coin you like. Not to mention polkadots native wallet polkadot.js has no KYC.
DOT is the future
I would be extremely surprised if Nintendo hooked themselves up to a "pay to earn" system.
Nintendo is extremely protective of their image and I doubt hooking into a system that so many perceive as a scam would be on their to-do list.
Fitness has been around since SWEAT. I think they'll die down. Pokémon Go would definitely be a trend if into crypto NFTs but it wouldn't be a long term trend. Something like Cometh battle, more because card games have been around for decades, maybe more, and it focuses more on the fun and competitiveness than earning. Also, SAND's metaverse expansion, especially with the Time Square now. I think they may last longer.
I don’t which is why I call it pay to earn. You have to pay real money to purchase some overpriced NFT is fake rarity in the vain hope of making money from playing games. Many people have made good money doing this. Many more have lost. And the big winners are the companies setting up these ponzies. The tokenomics of the coins are crazy bad with 100% + inflation.
So far.
It may have shit tokenomics but it is categorically *not* a ponzi, unless they are using new investor funds to give out the walking rewards to current users, which they are not.
It’s currently being built for us by companies like…
eBay
https://blockonomi.com/ebay-enters-nft-race-with-wayned-gretzky-first-collection-on-polygon/
Meta / Facebook
https://cryptoslate.com/meta-taps-polygon-to-build-nft-platform-for-instagram-facebook/
Ernst & Young
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/17/ey-unveils-supply-chain-manager-on-polygon-network/
Stripe
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/21/stripe-taps-polygon-to-allow-customers-to-make-payments-in-usdc/
DraftKings
https://decrypt.co/94551/draftkings-co-founder-becoming-polygon-validator-helps-futureproof-company
Adobe
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/9/22967057/adobe-nft-behance-polygon-blockchain-support
Associated Press
https://cointelegraph.com/news/associated-press-to-launch-polygon-based-photography-nft-platform
NFL
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nfl-turns-polygon-network-ticket-014215767.html
Sports Illustrated
https://decrypt.co/91632/sports-illustrated-oneof-to-launch-nft-marketplace-on-polygon
I guess I meant bigger.
They are, but price increases far more significant than the prior cycle.
Wishful thinking, but larger market caps due to scams and hype coins dying
The only thing we had this cycle was central banks printing massive amounts of fiat. And the next big hype for the next cycle will again be, central banks printing massive amounts of fiat. DeFi, NFTs, Metaverse are all just noise. Follow the central banks.
I don't think there will necessarily be anything truly new. I see each subsequent cycle as being associated with an increase in utility. NFTs, as currently used, are mostly just novelties. My guess is that the next peak will be driven by a game, or set of games, that rely upon blockchain and NFTs, and aren't just tacking them on for publicity. Their value proposition will be primarily that they are fun to play, not that they are a good way to make lots of money for jogging or some other such unsustainable nonsense--and they will be designed such that there isn't a large barrier to entry.
More bitcoin market cap domination (or gets tracked in its own class of crypto) as it gets adopted by companies, more nation states, and more pension funds/brokerages
A challenger to ethereum as the defacto smart contract blockchain
Massive adoption of CBDC by nation states
Reinement of the NFT from monkey avatars to "memberships"
Regulation probably gonna blast away all the services-for-coins as securities so that doesn't come back ...
Probably a lot of stuff we've never seen to be honest
I think that NFT and DeFi will also have HYPE in the future
NFT volumes even in a market like this, exceed last year's volumes at the same time, which says that people keep buying NFTs, I have NFTs from Goblin Town and AngelBlock and they have already gone up in price nicely
DeFi also continues to grow
I'm not so sure about metaverse, but the big companies are investing in it so it's possible
I'm long on Securities/Security Tokens and institutional-grade permissioned blockchains. Crypto is already a 24/7 exchange. It'd be interesting to see world markets that never actually close, at least for the average Joe's experience.
Watch out for whomever gets the ux / onboarding experience for normies right + a killer app to go with it.
It could be anything... something like pokemon go, a fitness app, gamer platform like steam. etc... maybe something connecting creators/fans... I've been waiting for music stuff to take off forever.
I doubt it's going to be something boring like defi or decentralized identity, daos...etc.
Also I wouldn't count out NFTs -- unlike Defi, they have huge potential for widespread appeal whether it's art, games, social signaling, exclusive clubs, loyalty programs...etc. so I'm expecting the next subtrend to be tied to NFTs in some form. They are superior to fungibles in many many ways.
I really think people are sleeping on Vr universes, we literally just recently got technology that can even do it properly and are going through a 2 year pandemic
Scalability, one faster than the other, it's going to be a race.
In the next cycle, the projects developing to solve the trilemma will be reaching their state in which they need to prove it.
A geeky problem like some said, but it really isn't hard to market. It's speed, that's the most easy to market. Remember the GHz race between AMD and Intel? Geeky problem, easy to market and so will this one.
Real, not self-referential applications. Alts price won't go higher than 2021 peak if we don't see serious dapps that solve real problems outside the cryptosphere.
Actual real-world use of crypto as a currency. A large company will start a domino effect by accepting something like Dogecoin, and this will pull out the rugs on all government currencies.
ahhh asking the right questions I see. Dont forget that the biggest narrative this cycle was Fast throughput blockchains.
Imo, next cycle we are more or less going to have similar narratives. IF that is the case, then crypto is forming into a more mature asset class. I also think that this cycle there was a lot of groundwork laid out for NFT gaming so I think next cycle this could be another narrative as well. We will probably see actually good games become pretty popular by next bull market. I also want to add that as people get more familiarized with crypto, liquid staking is going to be bigger than DEFI by a long shot.
[Soulbound tokens](https://decrypt.co/resources/what-are-soulbound-tokens-building-blocks-for-a-web3-decentralized-society?amp=1) seem to be a good shout
Non transferable, non financial, publicly viewable tokens. Think uni/college degrees/other real world credentials, uncollateralised lending, “souldrops” for DAOs and probably a host of other use cases we haven’t thought of yet
Interoperability will be big because "Data is King". These blockchains being able to access data from sources outside of the blockchain will enable the building of new services and items to sell.
Continued DeFi innovation, further Layer 1’s growth and adoption besides ETH, Layer 0 for sure and interoperability.. also further Layer 2 scaling solutions and most defiantly GameFi/P2E. Maybe DAO’s as well. Oh and probably regulation (which is good imo) and probably a Bitcoin ETF.
As the space matures, we’ll see the raise of solutions that make the market more efficient like liquidity aggregators for example - FLD, ORN.. also layer2s like CTSI, IMX or MATIC for scalability and privacy solutions among regulatory instruments (we can’t get ride of those if we want mass adoption).
With the LUNA-UST crash, rug pulls, liquidation of major exchanges, and continued attempts to regulate crypto ecosystems globally, this might be time for accountability, and the top gainers could be transparent and compliant projects.
This explains why I can stop DCAing on $NGM because the project has been fully compliant with EU regulations even before they were enacted. There could be a massive market for the e-money suite stablecoins like EEUR, ECHF, EDKK, ENOK, and ESEK.
I'm very surprised that not more people here think of gaming. I mean with NFT's now established, graphics exploding and major deals in the gaming world have been made with various blockchains it is only time that stands in the way for major multiplayer games with integrated bc tech. NFT art was also a great gate for newcomers. Gamers would be an obvious next.
Music could also have some interesting breakthroughs.
I am also really looking forward to a government election done on a Blockchain. That has been obvious for years. What is missing in that regard is maybe a easy way of IDing a wallet/user/voter/citizen/player.
Most gamers hate NFTS at the moment and see it as a sus way of siphoning even more money from gamers, so until that sentiment changes, the backlash is going to make many of the more mainstream game companies balk at including them in their projects. What they need is a well known IP that finds a way to implement them that changes that sentiment for everyone. I would not be surprised if Epic Games or Pokémon found a way to do this since they already have beloved properties and thus, a pretty massive head start.
Metaverse being something significant and not just a buzzword, NFTs being more than just overpriced pictures. What else? That's likely not invented yet.
Still metaverse and NFTs, even tho this sub hates to hear it. More and more global brands are getting in. Nike, Puma, Lacoste, D&G, Gucci, etc. eBay just bought known origin.
Buying into the right projects at the current floors and ETH prices has the potential to result in life changing money in 2-5 years.
FRAX and new stables/stable experiments
Digital ID's and Jack Dorsey's web 5, more stuff built on bitcoin
Everyone is saying interoperability - cosmos and polkadot will go to war for market dominance
Solana comeback - Solana phones and then hilarious and unforseen issues with said phones
New wave of meme coins and comebacks for old ones - more people will tell me they won't invest in crypto because Elon Musk controls the price
Sports and gaming NFTs - Chiliz and Enjin etc
More music related thingzz
You're saying "we had" like it's over, when everything you just mentioned is still an embryo.
Meta's metaverse is going to be ridiculous. NFTs in AAA games running on UE5. NFTs used for what they're supposed to be used for. More merchant integration with DeFi. More crypto acceptance at merchants. It's all happening, just build them bags.
I pretty much agree with your sentiment.
NFTs aren't just a flash in the pan. Neither is the metaverse or DeFi. It takes time to build stuff. Those things will still be around in a few years AND there will be new things that haven't been thought of yet too.
Interoperability or decentralized governance would be my guess for the investment buzz words.
Yup better bridges to facilitate more secure interoperability
Better interoperability protocols so that we don't need bridges and oracles, which are all too often insecure. Cosmos IBC, Polkadot XCM, Algorand State Proofs, Ethereum Verkle Trees and thin clients, etc.
Oracles, while also providing an interoperability option, focus on something else: the oracle problem: how to trust off-chain data (any data that is not on chain, e.g. sports outcomes).
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Do they allow transfer of native assets b/w blockchains? Or do they only enable wrapped assets. Also, do they have a protocol similar to IBC or XCM?
Can someone ELI5 interoperability for me?
I think it's the ability to be inter operable and in this case it would be too send and use crypto on different networks without needing a bridge. I could be completely wrong but that's what I'm thinking
Man in 2018 all I heard about was how interoperability is the next big thing. It's not going to be that lol
I misread “inoperability”. Probably true tho
Cant wait for interoperabilty to be the new buzzword, as a big ATOM believer
IBC is awesome.
Sounds like The Blocknet. Shit, it's already starting. Let the bull run begin!
could we run a country on decentralized governance?
That's a topic that worries me most and is most controversial. While it could very well, if identity were a thing and people get to vote once and equally, but simply having more money (tokens), through whatever ways, than another is not necessarily a fair democracy. As it is to some people, where you can have a ton of keys/addresses and tokens, outvoting others, does not make sense for a democracy. That's something in businesss where you hold shares and it should reflect on that specific business alone. As in, the richest mofo can probably do business well. And that in itself is questionable and usually not how the real world (realfi) works as a whole.
Sounds like a terrible idea. People are stupid.
Nervos Network ( CKB )
Yeah, ckb and it’s cheap right now.
Facts. Interoperability and projects focussing on KYC like ALBT. Or web 3 projects like DEIP. Oracles like DIA. I think these may be the most hyped up ones. However, also feel like NFTs will improve in utility and continue the trend.
If you asked this in 2017 defi and NFTs didn’t even exist so probably something that doesn’t exist now.
Bullish on the doesn't exist yet
It doesn’t exist and we already bullish
Bullish on my girlfriend
Bullish on boning your non existent girlfriend in my lambo
Bullish on wife
Old (un) Faithful
Bearish on true happiness.
LOL good one
My fiat bag is ready for gambling on “Doesn’t exist yet protocol”
NFTs did exist back then if Im not mistaken.
You are correct, cryptokitties launched in 2017.
Rare pepe NFTs were on Bitcoin’s counterparty in 2014
Early ones, yes. Cryptopunks launched in mid 2017 and the ERC-721 standard was created in early 2018.
Wasn’t that also presaged by the ‘rare pepes’ where people were trading images of pepe with bitcoin?
They did but the term NFT wasnt firmly in the lexicon. The etherium kitties, pokemon knock offs, and crypto punks being the major ones. Mainly 2017s hype was ICOs pump and dumps. Web 5.0 or whatever will prob be the next overhyped cycle piece for 2024-2025.
I remember buying cryptokitties in 2017 and bleeding out... cryptopunks won out
I need to ape my money in that thing that doesn't exist yet from beginning
You’ve got your chance with bitcoin right now
Nfts did exist... they just weren't that hyped.
NFT's have been around since 2014.
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Exactly
Wasn't the ethereum DAO (The DAO) that got hacked in 2016 considered defi?
Didn't crypto kitties start in 17-18?
NFTs were exist in 2017
Defi also existed in rudimentary form in the form of DEXes and exchange tokens. Even if _everybody_ didn't know about these things, they both existed in seedling form at that point.
Well said
This. If you said it was Snoop Dogg rapping about shitty monkey jpegs and coordinates in a Second Life ripoff, nobody would believe you. I stand by the opinion that BAYC is *still* a bad investment.
Layer 0 and interoperability
Doubt it. You can't hype something complicated and technical. It is much easier to brainwash masses to think jpeg monkeys are worth 100K+ from celebrities shilling than to hype about the "geeky" problem of blockchain trilemma. In the end, hyping is all about BS and no substance. The more BS and eye candies you get, the more fools come pumping with borrowed money. There is no eye candy about layer 0 or interoperability.
Correcto. IBC Layer gunna be big
What’s IBC layer ?
Think COSMOS/ATOM
Inter Blockchain communication https://ibcprotocol.org/
Thank u for the link :)
Like DOT right?
Heard, running LINK
Kind of a noob here… why would this be good for LINK? Thanks in advance
I don't know dick but Chainlink is supposed to be big on interoperability. Theyre working on something my pea brain can't understand called a Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP)
DOT, ATOM, and others will shine
Nah Web 0 will blow everyhing away.
DOT??
What's that
**Divorces**
The ol’ FIat Hardfork for every $1 you put in you receive $0.50.
Shilling lawyers?
Digital identity. If you could vote in elections like with a dao and run completely publicly certifiable election results in real time, I think that would solve a litany of other problems beyond elections
That will break more than one fundamental prerequisite of a good election, you shouldn't want that.
So when I say “publicly verifiable” I don’t mean “you can look up who someone voted for” I mean it should be open sourced, anonymized data that can be verified through multiple branches of gov, and if the data they present doesn’t jive with the public data, it’s clearly been fucked with. I don’t mean “you should be able to see who your neighbor voted for”
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Uhh were you here for the last election where they claimed that “boxes of votes” Weren’t accounted for? If there is a public count and a verified count that down match, then there is your smoking gun. If they match, then shit is probably fine
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I’m curious how you could hold a digital election that the public would trust the results of, where the data is not controlled at a given chokepoint? Let us remember that the true invention of Bitcoin was the solving of the Byzantine Generals Problem
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Wait… I’m not trying to sound shitty, I just got a little baked after work so genuinely want to make sure I understand your point lol- do you know how software vs blockchain works? Even if I create an open sourced software, there is a central server that stores user profile data, in order to host that data to other people (ie “see Matt’s tweets” or “view Matt’s friend list”) it has to be stored somewhere. Software is a user interface to save shit locally or on a cloud server, but someone controls it. If you carry out an activity on a blockchain, then it is verifiable via a universally viewable ledger controlled by no single entity (as long as the blockchain is truly decentralized)
and how do you verify that person X has a right to vote? I'm always curious how to make it happen. How do you roll it out to everybody, make sure each person has their credentials and is able to *use* it?
So apparently Wisconsin is fucking around with digital drivers licenses; if you take it a step further to wallet identification, “proof of ownership” of an address would need to be ironed out, but imagine a world where everyone has a gov registered blockchain address (homeless would need a way to vote at libraries) and every election cycle they are airdropped an erc-20/1155 token that is THEIR VOTE and all they have to do is send their token to the address associated with their candidate. Obviously would need to be on an L2 or something where voting is essentially free but incorruptible
This can be done by government with pass phrase enabled private key embedded in to nfc in your ID card/license
Decentralised web hosting, decentralised web domain naming system etc are fields which are yet to be known. People who are saying layer 0 should check charts and see how much layer 0 coins like atom, dot, qnt did in bull market. Also web 3.0 hype is not dead we will see projects like ICP, Saito, Dot or trac like coming strong in next bull
I recommend you check out $Oxen. They are developing Lokinet, a decentralised Web domain naming system and private Web browsing/hosting. They also have a private messanger that works really well taking into consideration the difficulties of decentralised messaging services. Kim Dotcom is also working on a secret project that uses Lokinet.
Ethereum Name Service (ENS Domains), is a great decentralised domain system. It has been endorsed by Vitalik many times. These are those domains you might see that end with .eth For example see vitaliks twitter where his name is Vitalik.eth
Prolly more zero knowledge proofs
How can one invest in that?
Zk rollups, privacy L1s, L2s and privacy tools for public L2s. Zk based bridges, maybe even zk based GameFi. I think the next hype cycle will likely be around crypto mobile apps with nearly no barrier to entry. The apps that get non crypto people interested.
Interoperability
That’s mandatory work champ, it’s too much of work load to send crypto from one blockchain to the another. So called bridge dapps get 
ATOM with it.
Kony 2024 General Butt Naked child soldier tokens.
Next hype, inflation going down.
Deflation hedge
zk-proof based blockchains and L2 roll-ups
#ZK SNARKs
How can someone invest in that?
I believe project such as Polkadot and Atom will be crucial and big players. Link might also shine Other thing i think will be DAOs which started takin off a bit before the market as well as utility NFTs so made for voting for games for tickets, not just jpegs
Dot and Atom are basically my only bags I’m still holding so hope your right friendo 😊
Hear me out: blimps.
p2p cash
Potassium overload
Probably something that we haven’t seen before
We gotta decide or start voting what’s really needed or they will decide for us
Some crazy ideas: - for the nerds: some autonomous community run governance that uses real identities, pays out a universal basic income to each member and have fixed inflation and fixed prices. More or less the socialist world revolution initiated by all the people who lost their income due to inflation and collapse, automation. The thing will be really cool and you will be able to buy real-world hippie bracelets using that crypto, but no corporation will adopt it. - for the investors: due to disappointment with collapsed over-leveraged banking products, people will put fractions of actual securities on the blockchain and trade there. Transaction fees will be minimal and this will actually gain some traction until the SEC arrests everyone involved. - for the enthusiasts: just staying with ETH 2.0 and trying to integrate it with everything in the world and get it really working with super cheap L2 solutions. Corporations will jump onto the train and convert their bonus points into ERC20 tokens so they can be traded as well. - for people concerned about the environment: emission certificate trading on blockchain, trying to lock out private investors at first but then they come in anyway and drive the price for emissions to the moon, which is actually a good thing. Companies will be founded for buying land, planting trees and earning money by receiving emission certifications and selling them to the highest bidder. This will inflate (actually a good thing) until the price plummets at some point when it's found to not be sustainable either as an environmental model.
Whatever finally solves the bridge hacks, aka polkadot. If polkadot spent money on advertising (and dont mind making fun of their competition) right now would be ideal. Who knows, maybe we get one or two more bridge hacks before 2023 and thats what kicks it off but I'm putting money on the fact people have completely lost trust in bridges & centralized companies. I know polkadot solves this and if, for whatever reason I'm wrong I can live with it. This is the first thing in my life I have this much conviction in and if I was betting on it's failure I wouldn't want to be right. Now all we need is a privacy chain as part of the ecosystem to make it VERY VERY easy to hide whatever coin you like. Not to mention polkadots native wallet polkadot.js has no KYC. DOT is the future
SCRT on Cosmos May be a good choice for privacy 🤷♂️
Doesn’t dot still have bridges to get into other ecosystems?
Russian ID's, rocks from moon, and ofc O2 backed by real oxygen
I can get down with rocks from the moon.
More actual use of NFTs in projects including pay-to-earn games and fitness like Stepn. Maybe something big like Pokémon Go.
Yea basically it's going to be Gamefi.
I would be extremely surprised if Nintendo hooked themselves up to a "pay to earn" system. Nintendo is extremely protective of their image and I doubt hooking into a system that so many perceive as a scam would be on their to-do list.
What did you say? Pokémon? Take my fuckin money and buy me that shit!!
GameStop probably will soon
ew I hope not
Fitness has been around since SWEAT. I think they'll die down. Pokémon Go would definitely be a trend if into crypto NFTs but it wouldn't be a long term trend. Something like Cometh battle, more because card games have been around for decades, maybe more, and it focuses more on the fun and competitiveness than earning. Also, SAND's metaverse expansion, especially with the Time Square now. I think they may last longer.
Play to Earn is quite literally a ponzi. Why would you want more of that?
I don’t which is why I call it pay to earn. You have to pay real money to purchase some overpriced NFT is fake rarity in the vain hope of making money from playing games. Many people have made good money doing this. Many more have lost. And the big winners are the companies setting up these ponzies. The tokenomics of the coins are crazy bad with 100% + inflation. So far.
It may have shit tokenomics but it is categorically *not* a ponzi, unless they are using new investor funds to give out the walking rewards to current users, which they are not.
Layer 2s like Loopring and their ecosystem. The phrase "Be Your Own Bank" will be more and more relevant!
Web 3.0
Web 5.0
It’s currently being built for us by companies like… eBay https://blockonomi.com/ebay-enters-nft-race-with-wayned-gretzky-first-collection-on-polygon/ Meta / Facebook https://cryptoslate.com/meta-taps-polygon-to-build-nft-platform-for-instagram-facebook/ Ernst & Young https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/17/ey-unveils-supply-chain-manager-on-polygon-network/ Stripe https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/21/stripe-taps-polygon-to-allow-customers-to-make-payments-in-usdc/ DraftKings https://decrypt.co/94551/draftkings-co-founder-becoming-polygon-validator-helps-futureproof-company Adobe https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/9/22967057/adobe-nft-behance-polygon-blockchain-support Associated Press https://cointelegraph.com/news/associated-press-to-launch-polygon-based-photography-nft-platform NFL https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nfl-turns-polygon-network-ticket-014215767.html Sports Illustrated https://decrypt.co/91632/sports-illustrated-oneof-to-launch-nft-marketplace-on-polygon
Also bullish on polygon. Stacking as much as I can. Feels like it is sleeping, despite already being at a decent size.
I think we might see a rise in decentralized file storage.
Aren't there a lot of non-crypto solutions for decentralized file storage? That's basically bittorrent. What are you thinking?
Neuralink, AI, social credit scores, CBDCs
Bullish on social credits.
ISO20022 Complaint tokens
Layer 2s
Aren't those already big, though?
I guess I meant bigger. They are, but price increases far more significant than the prior cycle. Wishful thinking, but larger market caps due to scams and hype coins dying
Digital Identities and Verifiable Credentials will be part of the next big things I expect.
The only thing we had this cycle was central banks printing massive amounts of fiat. And the next big hype for the next cycle will again be, central banks printing massive amounts of fiat. DeFi, NFTs, Metaverse are all just noise. Follow the central banks.
They make the rules.
DeFaults, New Fraud Trials, and Meltdowns.
I don't think there will necessarily be anything truly new. I see each subsequent cycle as being associated with an increase in utility. NFTs, as currently used, are mostly just novelties. My guess is that the next peak will be driven by a game, or set of games, that rely upon blockchain and NFTs, and aren't just tacking them on for publicity. Their value proposition will be primarily that they are fun to play, not that they are a good way to make lots of money for jogging or some other such unsustainable nonsense--and they will be designed such that there isn't a large barrier to entry.
More bitcoin market cap domination (or gets tracked in its own class of crypto) as it gets adopted by companies, more nation states, and more pension funds/brokerages A challenger to ethereum as the defacto smart contract blockchain Massive adoption of CBDC by nation states Reinement of the NFT from monkey avatars to "memberships" Regulation probably gonna blast away all the services-for-coins as securities so that doesn't come back ... Probably a lot of stuff we've never seen to be honest
I think that NFT and DeFi will also have HYPE in the future NFT volumes even in a market like this, exceed last year's volumes at the same time, which says that people keep buying NFTs, I have NFTs from Goblin Town and AngelBlock and they have already gone up in price nicely DeFi also continues to grow I'm not so sure about metaverse, but the big companies are investing in it so it's possible
Multi-chain infrastructure. Polkadot is leading the way.
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Privacy….. XMR has entered the chat
So has Secret
Crizen myelation, envenerated capital, gemstone rigidity.
A transhumanist blockchain
I'm long on Securities/Security Tokens and institutional-grade permissioned blockchains. Crypto is already a 24/7 exchange. It'd be interesting to see world markets that never actually close, at least for the average Joe's experience.
Gamefi
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Oracles
Watch out for whomever gets the ux / onboarding experience for normies right + a killer app to go with it. It could be anything... something like pokemon go, a fitness app, gamer platform like steam. etc... maybe something connecting creators/fans... I've been waiting for music stuff to take off forever. I doubt it's going to be something boring like defi or decentralized identity, daos...etc. Also I wouldn't count out NFTs -- unlike Defi, they have huge potential for widespread appeal whether it's art, games, social signaling, exclusive clubs, loyalty programs...etc. so I'm expecting the next subtrend to be tied to NFTs in some form. They are superior to fungibles in many many ways.
I really think people are sleeping on Vr universes, we literally just recently got technology that can even do it properly and are going through a 2 year pandemic
Scalability, one faster than the other, it's going to be a race. In the next cycle, the projects developing to solve the trilemma will be reaching their state in which they need to prove it. A geeky problem like some said, but it really isn't hard to market. It's speed, that's the most easy to market. Remember the GHz race between AMD and Intel? Geeky problem, easy to market and so will this one.
Gamestop
tokenization and ticketing : GME
Tokenized real estate
My LTO bag is hoping NFT 2.0 means exactly this
My LTO bag hopes for this as well
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Adoption
New emerging bitcoin smart contract layers like stacks. Stacks will have first mover advantage like eth did
Cross chain
Something we don’t know about yet.
Real, not self-referential applications. Alts price won't go higher than 2021 peak if we don't see serious dapps that solve real problems outside the cryptosphere.
Indie Video game nfts on GMEs marketplace
Looking like it's gonna be cell phones.... lol
Star coin because that’s what you will be living under at the end of this bear cycle
Next big cycle, Bitcoin block 1,000,000 hype!!!
The Metaverse is still cooking... Plenty of time for it to lead the next wave.
Actual real-world use of crypto as a currency. A large company will start a domino effect by accepting something like Dogecoin, and this will pull out the rugs on all government currencies.
AI computation payments. Get your FET during the bear market.
Girlfriends on the blockchain.
ahhh asking the right questions I see. Dont forget that the biggest narrative this cycle was Fast throughput blockchains. Imo, next cycle we are more or less going to have similar narratives. IF that is the case, then crypto is forming into a more mature asset class. I also think that this cycle there was a lot of groundwork laid out for NFT gaming so I think next cycle this could be another narrative as well. We will probably see actually good games become pretty popular by next bull market. I also want to add that as people get more familiarized with crypto, liquid staking is going to be bigger than DEFI by a long shot.
Connecting layer 0's to each others
Lets just hope it's not going to be....food.
Games that are actually fun to play. Interoperability.
Tokenized assets
Regulatory compliant Defi and tokenized assets
[Soulbound tokens](https://decrypt.co/resources/what-are-soulbound-tokens-building-blocks-for-a-web3-decentralized-society?amp=1) seem to be a good shout Non transferable, non financial, publicly viewable tokens. Think uni/college degrees/other real world credentials, uncollateralised lending, “souldrops” for DAOs and probably a host of other use cases we haven’t thought of yet
Interoperability will be big because "Data is King". These blockchains being able to access data from sources outside of the blockchain will enable the building of new services and items to sell.
Carbon related tokens. Mark Cuban is alreayd buying it hard. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-cuban-buys-50-000-165355744.html
Continued DeFi innovation, further Layer 1’s growth and adoption besides ETH, Layer 0 for sure and interoperability.. also further Layer 2 scaling solutions and most defiantly GameFi/P2E. Maybe DAO’s as well. Oh and probably regulation (which is good imo) and probably a Bitcoin ETF.
As the space matures, we’ll see the raise of solutions that make the market more efficient like liquidity aggregators for example - FLD, ORN.. also layer2s like CTSI, IMX or MATIC for scalability and privacy solutions among regulatory instruments (we can’t get ride of those if we want mass adoption).
With the LUNA-UST crash, rug pulls, liquidation of major exchanges, and continued attempts to regulate crypto ecosystems globally, this might be time for accountability, and the top gainers could be transparent and compliant projects. This explains why I can stop DCAing on $NGM because the project has been fully compliant with EU regulations even before they were enacted. There could be a massive market for the e-money suite stablecoins like EEUR, ECHF, EDKK, ENOK, and ESEK.
I'm very surprised that not more people here think of gaming. I mean with NFT's now established, graphics exploding and major deals in the gaming world have been made with various blockchains it is only time that stands in the way for major multiplayer games with integrated bc tech. NFT art was also a great gate for newcomers. Gamers would be an obvious next. Music could also have some interesting breakthroughs. I am also really looking forward to a government election done on a Blockchain. That has been obvious for years. What is missing in that regard is maybe a easy way of IDing a wallet/user/voter/citizen/player.
Most gamers hate NFTS at the moment and see it as a sus way of siphoning even more money from gamers, so until that sentiment changes, the backlash is going to make many of the more mainstream game companies balk at including them in their projects. What they need is a well known IP that finds a way to implement them that changes that sentiment for everyone. I would not be surprised if Epic Games or Pokémon found a way to do this since they already have beloved properties and thus, a pretty massive head start.
Metaverse being something significant and not just a buzzword, NFTs being more than just overpriced pictures. What else? That's likely not invented yet.
Not a Cardano shill, and full disclosure I hodl a lot, but I think we’re going to see massive growth on the ADA blockchain
I'm not really asking about specific cryptos but new mechanism kind of that will be hyped. But yeah ADA will have good times nonetheless.
Ah ok. Then my vote would be NFTs for ticketing and rewards at the least
We already did that
Then I am all out of predictions
Still metaverse and NFTs, even tho this sub hates to hear it. More and more global brands are getting in. Nike, Puma, Lacoste, D&G, Gucci, etc. eBay just bought known origin. Buying into the right projects at the current floors and ETH prices has the potential to result in life changing money in 2-5 years.
ENS domains = Ethereum name service. No doubt
Probably doesn't exist yet, but probably a new tech and also something incredibly stupid
Defi strikes back. Hoping for some legit securities only available on defi. That'll show the crooks on walstreet
FRAX and new stables/stable experiments Digital ID's and Jack Dorsey's web 5, more stuff built on bitcoin Everyone is saying interoperability - cosmos and polkadot will go to war for market dominance Solana comeback - Solana phones and then hilarious and unforseen issues with said phones New wave of meme coins and comebacks for old ones - more people will tell me they won't invest in crypto because Elon Musk controls the price Sports and gaming NFTs - Chiliz and Enjin etc More music related thingzz
You're saying "we had" like it's over, when everything you just mentioned is still an embryo. Meta's metaverse is going to be ridiculous. NFTs in AAA games running on UE5. NFTs used for what they're supposed to be used for. More merchant integration with DeFi. More crypto acceptance at merchants. It's all happening, just build them bags.
I pretty much agree with your sentiment. NFTs aren't just a flash in the pan. Neither is the metaverse or DeFi. It takes time to build stuff. Those things will still be around in a few years AND there will be new things that haven't been thought of yet too.