4.1 The marketcap of crypto assets will reach $15-20 trillion within the next five years.
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Crypto assets are emerging as the foundational consensus of a new economic system. Historically, central banks have stimulated economies and covered fiscal deficits through excessive money printing, leading to a sustained disparity where the return on capital outpaces economic growth, exacerbating wealth inequality. The decentralized issuance and anti-inflation mechanisms of crypto assets provide an alternative reserve asset solution. With minimal barriers to purchase and ownership-requiring no bank accounts-crypto assets can achieve global adoption more swiftly.
Over the next 10-20 years, crypto assets are poised to reshape global wealth distribution and become one of the most significant asset allocations for individuals, occupying at least 10% of their investable portfolios.
The integration of crypto assets into the mainstream financial world is accelerating. The launch of the U.S. Bitcoin spot ETF in early 2024 opened a compliant channel for institutional funds to invest in crypto assets, driving over $35 billion into the crypto ecosystem to date. Moreover, Trump’s election victory could accelerate the establishment of a more transparent and predictable regulatory framework, encouraging mainstream institutions to actively build within the crypto space, thereby driving the transformation and upgrading of industry infrastructure.
Simultaneously, crypto assets are reshaping the financial system's foundation on two levels: payments and assets.
Payments: Decentralized payment solutions enable everyone to own digital asset accounts, eliminating reliance on banks or third-party intermediaries. This allows funds to flow globally in real-time, significantly enhancing efficiency.
Assets: Real World Assets (RWA) solutions tokenize real-world assets such as stocks and bonds, enabling on-chain trading and reconstructing the entire process from issuance and pricing to transactions.
The financial infrastructure changes driven by crypto will empower everyone to allocate global assets-including stocks, bonds, crypto, and non-standard assets—on-chain, achieving freedom, efficiency, fair competition, and equitable wealth distribution.
The current market capitalization of $3.8 trillion for crypto assets is just the beginning. Since the introduction of the Nasdaq-100 Index in 1985, the U.S. The stock market has grown 35-fold over 40 years, from a $2.3 trillion market cap to $80 trillion. With the accelerating growth of crypto assets, we believe the market capitalization could reach at least $10 trillion within the next five years, with rapid potential to break through $15–20 trillion.
