Bitwise CIO: Cryptocurrency’s Expanding Role in the World

According to Matt Hougan, Bitwise CIO, the global understanding of cryptocurrency’s place within the world is continuously changing. While investors focused on ‘digital gold’ a few years ago, their perspective has broadened to encompass diverse concepts like stablecoins and tokenization. Hougan predicts this expansion will continue in the coming years, with new ideas such as prediction markets, DeFi, digital identity, privacy, DePin, capital raising, and decentralized artificial intelligence emerging as central drivers of the crypto space.