Crypto’s future isn’t about hype coins. It’s about infrastructure. And the tides are turning quickly: - Europe’s MiCA regulation is in full effect since the end of last year. - The SEC kicked off “Project Crypto” to modernize financial market laws. - Tokenization of assets is gaining momentum globally. - Ethereum has quietly become the plumbing for digital payments, stablecoins, and financial transactions settlement. And once regulation catches up, trust, capital and maybe superapps, like WeChat in Asia, will follow. Crypto’s past, though, has also been about decentralization, diversity and access. Question is: will we keep a diverse landscape of applications and infrastructure providers as we are used to here in Europe? Or are we headed towards winner-takes-all dynamics? Curious where you land: diversity or the inevitability of ever increasing centralization?
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