The crypto market needs a constant stream of new narrative drivers. If you want to make 10x to 100x in the next bull run, here are 17 future trends you must keep an eye on!

1/10 Modular Blockchain

Monolithic blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum have been around for over a decade and have three core functions: consensus, data availability, and transaction execution. Modular blockchains split these three tasks into smaller pieces instead of performing all of them at once on L1. This fragmentation of tasks helps blockchains scale without compromising security. Projects:

@CelestiaOrg

2/10 Dynamic NFT

Dynamic NFT (dNFT) is a non-fungible token (NFT), but it has smart contract functions that can automatically change its metadata based on external conditions. This is a huge market with use cases including RWA, games, music, art, etc.

A simple example: NFTs representing assets require the ability to reflect their maintenance history, age, market value, etc. Therefore, tokenizing these ever-changing assets requires the NFTs to be able to update with ever-changing metadata. Project:

@artblocks_io、@AsyncArt、@rarible

4/10 DeFi Derivatives

Binance's 24-hour derivatives trading volume is $33.6 billion, and spot trading volume is $7.4 billion. The derivatives trading volume is 4.5 times the spot trading volume. With the development of DeFi and the improvement of liquidity and capital efficiency, more users will migrate from centralized exchanges to decentralized exchanges. Projects:

@synthetix_io、@muxprotocol、@dYdX

5/10 Decentralized Exchange

In recent years, almost all CEXs have been regulated or cracked down. The collapse of FTX and the FUD of BN have caused a shock in the crypto market. Against this background, decentralized exchanges have once again come into people's attention. Decentralized exchanges DEX are the backbone of DeFi and provide a new channel for us to trade crypto assets. Projects:

@traderjoe_xyz、@CurveFinance、@mavprotocol、@ThenaFi_

6/10 Account Abstraction and Wallet as a Service

Account abstraction is very powerful. You can abstract away various aspects of interacting with a wallet, such as gas fees, mnemonics, authorization, etc. to create a simple wallet that attracts the next wave of users. On the other hand, wallet-as-a-service refers to enabling wallets to enable users to communicate with other wallets through chat, access markets, etc., making wallets easier to use while providing more features and services.

7/10 Real World Assets RWA

This is also the hottest concept recently. Relying on blockchain technology, real-world assets such as commodities, real estate, and luxury goods can obtain unprecedented liquidity, transparency, and accessibility. On Twitter, there are many topics about RWA tokenization, which I will sort out later. Project:

@galileoprotocol、@ClearpoolFin、@centrifuge、@NEX_Protocol

8/10 LSD

Calculated by TVL (total locked value), liquidity staking is currently the largest area of ​​DeFi, and it will maintain sustained and healthy growth in the foreseeable future. Its biggest advantage is composability, which can motivate developers to develop innovative products every week (this is one of the reasons why everyone is optimistic about it). Projects:

@Rocket_Pool、@LybraFlnanceLSD、@tenet_org、@pendle_fi、@parallaxfin

9/10 from EVM

Among the various scalability solutions emerging every day, zkEVM is the best solution in terms of privacy, security, and scalability in the next few years. ZK Rollup is a great technology and one of the directions that Vitalik is optimistic about. Project:

@0xPolygonDeFi、@zksync

10/10 ERC-6551

In simple terms, ERC-6551 allows NFTs on Ethereum to become wallets. By connecting NFTs to use DApps instead of wallets, this opens up many new use cases and greatly reduces the threshold for users to enter Web3.