📰 The biggest change at this year’s TOKEN2049 in Singapore wasn’t that it was less crowded or lively—it was that there were fewer builders and more institutions, traders, KOLs, and capital providers. Some attendees estimated that the crowd was more than 50% smaller than in previous years, and the main venue increasingly felt like a traditional finance expo.
🔥 Around 90% of the conversations on day one revolved around RWA, tokenized stocks, and structured products. Stablecoins, payments, privacy, perps, and prediction markets were also frequent topics. People are starting to ask about real users, real revenue, real assets, and real liquidity. It’s getting harder to get by on storytelling alone.
💡 DeAI, however, was one of the few areas that still had a builder feel. On-chain inference, x402, and tokenized inference credit markets are still beyond most people’s understanding. It was at the AI sessions that discussions of robotics, DePIN, privacy-focused AI, and tokenomics heated up again. Surprisingly, almost no one at the event was talking about quantum computing, despite all the buzz online.
👀 AI could also transform exchanges: futures traders, options researchers, wealth management users, and newcomers may all see completely different interfaces, data, and tools in the future. Competition may gradually shift from having more coins and lower fees to understanding users better.
🤔 Honestly, if you’re just trading crypto or researching technology, this kind of conference may not be worth a special trip. The real value may still lie in small meetings arranged in advance. Which do you think will take off first: RWA, or DeAI producing a genuinely profitable product?
#TOKEN2049 #DeAI #RWA #Web3
🔥 Around 90% of the conversations on day one revolved around RWA, tokenized stocks, and structured products. Stablecoins, payments, privacy, perps, and prediction markets were also frequent topics. People are starting to ask about real users, real revenue, real assets, and real liquidity. It’s getting harder to get by on storytelling alone.
💡 DeAI, however, was one of the few areas that still had a builder feel. On-chain inference, x402, and tokenized inference credit markets are still beyond most people’s understanding. It was at the AI sessions that discussions of robotics, DePIN, privacy-focused AI, and tokenomics heated up again. Surprisingly, almost no one at the event was talking about quantum computing, despite all the buzz online.
👀 AI could also transform exchanges: futures traders, options researchers, wealth management users, and newcomers may all see completely different interfaces, data, and tools in the future. Competition may gradually shift from having more coins and lower fees to understanding users better.
🤔 Honestly, if you’re just trading crypto or researching technology, this kind of conference may not be worth a special trip. The real value may still lie in small meetings arranged in advance. Which do you think will take off first: RWA, or DeAI producing a genuinely profitable product?
#TOKEN2049 #DeAI #RWA #Web3