A Series Exploring What Could, and Should, Happen in the Year To Come. Sponsored by Bitstamp
It’s been a year like no other for crypto. Through extreme highs to unimaginable lows, 2022 has been full of ups and downs: great progress, big scandals, fortunes won and lost. As we head into 2023, it’s time to take stock and consider where we go from here. Will the next 12 months be more of the same? Are we headed for more winter? Or will the good times return?
CoinDesk’s Crypto 2023 is a collection of contributions from our journalists as well as well-placed outside writers to our op-ed pages and CoinDesk TV. We have a special holiday crossword and plenty of insights from across the blockchain world, from stablecoins to DeFi, to Ethereum and Bitcoin. Stay tuned from Dec. 12 through Dec. 23 as we roll out continuous coverage.
Where Is the Ethereum Virtual Machine Headed in 2023?
With apps like Uniswap exploring Layer 2s, dYdX building on Cosmos and the rise of appchains on Cosmos next year seems fit for an explosion of EVM experimentation.
With state governments increasing financial sanctions in 2022, crypto services might become as cautious about “risky” users as banks have been traditionally, says Anna Baydakova.
Adoption of DeFi, ZK Tech, NFTs and More Will Continue to Increase in 2023
The crises of the past year obscured genuine advancement in promising crypto industries, writes Pantera Capital General Partner Paul Veradittakit. Here’s where a leading investor sees growth in the coming year.
Balaji Srinivasan says modern states are geographically concentrated but ideologically unaligned. So what about states where online communities are in lockstep but geographically dispersed? That’s the idea behind his new book, one of the big crypto-themed ideas of the last year.
