on the crypto
After the ICO boom in 2017, along with Bitcoin's all-time high of nearly $ 20.000 last December, the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry fell on a rocky road.
Given that the encrypted world is full of surprises, it is difficult to predict what is in store for the future. Yet it is interesting to hear what industry insiders and some of the most influential influential people in the space have to say about their expectations for the crypto and blockchain industry in the coming 12 months and beyond.
Cryptocurrencies in the 2019
I stick to my original prediction: Bitcoin will reach 250k within the 2022. "- Tim Draper, American Venture Capitalist, author, founder of Draper Associates, DFJ and Draper University
The 2019 will be an exciting year. We will see many exceptional products shipped to the market, particularly from our incubation program Binance Labs, which now takes place on five continents. Projects and teams that are focused on building and achieving a product market adaptation will bring more real use cases to our lives. This will open the door to mass adoption of cryptography ". - Ella Zhang, Binance lab manager
The first legitimate national cryptocurrency, linked to a fiat currency from a G-20 nation, will be launched. This digital resource will be in great demand to combine the advantages of a digital asset with the stability of a government-supported currency. The resolution of the 2018 of Mark Zuckerberg to "study cryptocurrencies" will ensure that one is integrated into Facebook for payments. The only question is whether they will use an existing cryptocurrency or a new one created by Facebook. "- Mitch Liu, CEO of Theta Labs
Blockchain in the 2019
The 2018 has been a difficult year, but we have a longer term perspective for our industry. Manufacturers are building in the 2018, so for the 2019, I think we will see many real products and real applications entering the market. "- Changpeng Zhao (CZ), CEO and founder of Binance
I was involved in the blockchain space from the 2013, actively developing with Ethereum from January 2015. During this time I experienced many ups and downs. Many times I felt like "Blockchain is over. ”However, the fact is that underlying technological innovation continues to evolve and improve. We have more tools today, documentation, tutorials and users than ever and this will continue to grow as user interfaces become better and more fluid, in 2019 we will continue to experience the consequences of 2017. The ICOs were in winter for much of the 2018, following the ICO madness we experienced, which was started by my ERC-20 standard. Nevertheless, this does not change the fact that ICOs are an excellent fundraising mechanism for those projects where the supply of coins makes sense. However, many past token projects only used ICO as an opportunity to raise money without a true decentralized and functioning token economy in the background: we must regain lost trust and proposals like my reversible ICO show how technology can be at the same time the transaction mechanism and the regulator. n Vogelsteller, CEO LUKSO and Ethereum developer responsible for the co-creation of the ERC-20 token standard
You will see blockchain companies with differentiated business models that separate from the package. For the industry to mature and gain legitimacy, the 2018 shakeout had to happen. As you saw with the advent of the Internet, e-commerce and almost everything else of great importance that has happened over the last 50 years, the days of the gold rush end, the rules are created and people settle in to do the real deal. This is why we kept our attention, strengthened and invested in building our vision for the next iteration of the web. For TRON, the 2019 will be a year of many innovations. We are the largest decentralized content ecosystem in the world and the 2019 will show people what it means. Let's start the year with our first summit, in San Francisco, where we will reveal great details on how we intend to integrate the blockchain with technology BitTorrent peer-to-peer. And we'll follow it by offering our 100 millions of monthly BitTorrent users incentives to create and share more freely and often, offering an economy of goods and services within the network. "- Justin Sun, CEO and founder of TRON
The 2019 will be a historic year for the Blockchain industry. Malta will issue the first license for operators in this area in order to operate in a regulated environment. Thus, the 2019 will see the materialization of The Blockchain Island, putting Malta firmly in the epicenter of this industry. We are aware of where the compass points, which is why blockchain technology will be incorporated into our ecosystem. In turn, we will soon begin to witness the change in the landscape of how the sectors we know today operate. Indeed, as a government, we are trying to use blockchain technology in the public sector to improve the experience of our citizens. The 2019 will be an even more exciting year for Malta. The smallest member state of the EU will be among the first 10 nations with a national strategy for artificial intelligence. This will open the doors for the exploration of new economic niches like esports, gaming and Fintech. Malta's agility and flexible approach will ensure that we remain the innovators in the digital economy. "- The Honorable Silvio Schembri, Junior Minister for Financial Services, Digital Economy and Innovation in Malta
We hope to see some more progress towards creating a true interoperability standard for optimal communication between different types of blockchain networks. We believe that there will be other hybrid implementations involving the joint use of authorized and authorized blockchain networks, with particular attention to real-world use cases where the use of blockchain technology can really bring the needle forward. "- Nimit Sawheny, CEO of Voatz
Blockchain communities and open source communities will see their lines blurred as the two become synonyms of each other. Open source has always been at the forefront of innovation and has aroused great interest thanks to its ability to guarantee security through transparency. Decentralization is the latest cutting-edge technology and shares the same fundamental principle of transparency. A platform cannot be decentralized if it is proprietary, since the organization that owns the software code ultimately becomes the central point of failure. "- Ben Golub, CEO of Storj Interim and executive president
tokenization
The market of a quadrillion dollars is developing, driven by the emergence of security tokens. Since the currencies are tokenized, bonds are tokenized, shares are tokenized, currencies, real estate and energy are tokenized. We are looking at the birth of a four-billion-dollar market. In addition, qualified opportunity zones (QOZs) will carry over $ 100 billion in capital where it is needed an economic stimulus in the United Statesthe. We will also see the first ones Dapp (decentralized applications) that affect one million users a day starting next year. Since we now have our "Netscape" moment, we now have scalable blockchains that have no friction (ie anyone can access them without having tokens) low latency (which means it's fast and scalable and can be of many people) with EOS as the first general protocol with many to come. It is the equivalent of when the first iPhone was launched in the App Store. "- Brock Pierce, American entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, President of the Bitcoin Foundation and co-founder of EOS Alliance
I think the main trend will be stock tokens. The combination of the power of a ledger distributed with more standardized headlines will open many doors to capital creation. Privacy will continue to be important. There will be a growing gap between those with solid technology and those with weak and captive networks. " - Bruce Fenton, Founder and CEO of Atlantic Financial, member of the board of the Bitcoin Foundation and co-founder of the Bitcoin Association
The ability to split illiquid assets will allow institutions to offer a unique portfolio positioning that fits the investor's preferences. Given the transparency involved in a correctly designed token, there will be new ways to view risks and returns. This will trigger a new wave of investments that has been bottled due to information asymmetry. Ultimately, tokenization will greatly flatten the asymmetry, which is what it is all about. "- Sam Tabar, Fluidity Co-Founder
