Exploring Key Trends and Narratives in Cryptocurrency Market for 2024
Summary:
This piece highlights the evolving narratives in the cryptocurrency market pertinent to investors and companies. It predicts the emergence of new trends in 2024, including chain development kits, superchains, appchains, and layer-3s. Also, it discusses how the Ordinals protocol has expanded Bitcoin's use beyond a store of value. Lastly, it emphasizes the growing interest in digital identities, driven by central bank digital currencies and airdrops.
Investor trends and narratives invariably shift and evolve with each crypto market cycle. These movements are of essential strategic importance for both businesses and individuals. When the past bulls ran in the crypto market, they each brought new investor-focused narratives that fundamentally informed and shaped the market's trajectory in the years to follow. For instance, 2017 was the year of the initial coin offerings (ICOs), whereas 2019 was dominated by decentralized finance (DeFi). More recently, in 2021, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and the metaverse stole the spotlight.
As we anticipate the main narratives of 2024, it's clear to see several standout trends on social media, including Ordinals, restaking, airdrops, real-world assets, oracles, and GameFi. Nonetheless, there are other subtle, yet significant trends that may escape the radar of popular influencers. Among these are the forthcoming battle between chain development kits, superchains, appchains, and layer-3s.
Polygon, Optimism, and Arbitrum, among others, seem to have adopted lessons from Ethereum. This year is poised to be a transformative one, as prominent layer-2s morph beyond their current roles to create interconnected ecosystems around them. A prime example is Flipkart's launch last year, where instead of using the Polygon network, they inaugurated their own blockchain via Polygon's chain development kit.
Companies such as Flipkart, Immutable X, and Libre launching their blockchain turn out to be strategically advantageous for the entire ecosystem. It not only creates a platform for other companies to leverage but also caters to the distinct needs of new companies entering the web3 space. Another consequence is Polygon's evolution from a generalist blockchain to an ecosystem offering a variety of blockchains committed to specific tasks and connected liquidity.
In other developments, the Ordinals protocol that gained popularity in 2023, has opened up the Bitcoin network for innovative utilization like creating NFT collections and issuing fungible tokens. While Bitcoin NFTs have proven to be a major hit in the current market, the Ordinals protocol's primary value lies in how it pushed the envelope for Bitcoin's use beyond being just a store of value.
In Brazil, digital identities have garnered interest among governments and the crypto underground, primarily spurred by central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The Brazilian Central Bank and other domestic stakeholders have been actively testing the country's CBDC, potentially laying the groundwork for creating digital identities. Internationally, in both mainstream and "degen" trading channels, developments in CBDCs and airdrops, are expected to amplify discussions and potential solutions around digital identities.
In conclusion, future major airdrops may incorporate a validation layer based on digital identities to mitigate the issue of repeated airdrop farming and redundant queries from users. This year is set to be crucial for L2s, digital identities, and other leading blockchain infrastructures like Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism.
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Published At
1/23/2024 12:53:53 AM
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