Capitalizing on a New Global Asset Class – M Kaspar
Bitcoin is the leading crypto in terms of market cap and despite its +45% drawdown since late June, it still boasts one of the best 2019 returns of any asset globally.
Whether you look at the past 10 years, 5 years or 3 years crypto as an asset class has generated the highest return of all major asset classes globally. The crypto asset class market capitalization is a fraction of what other investment categories market caps are today. There is much room for growth while adoption occurs over the next decade.
A World Economic Forum survey suggested that 10 percent of global GDP will be stored on blockchain by 2027. (3)
Nigel Green, founder and CEO of financial advisory firm deVere Group, with $10 billion under advice, believes “the value of the broader crypto market is poised to expand by 5,000%, which would attach a combined market cap of $20 trillion in the coming decade.” (4)
Mass consumer and enterprise adoption has yet to occur and from a macro standpoint, crypto is getting better and stronger.
· Institutional financial firms like Fidelity and Nasdaq are ramping up products
· Investment Banks like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan plan to roll out their own stablecoins
· Pension funds and endowments are making investments into crypto funds
· Technology firms like Facebook and Samsung are releasing crypto consumer facing apps
· The Chinese government is launching a central bank backed stablecoin
Perhaps more importantly, real use cases for the technology behind the asset class are emerging. Such as innovative decentralized consumer lending and borrowing to tokenizing financial and real-world assets via smart contracts, to instant micro-money transfers via the Lightning network on Bitcoin.
There are provably real reasons to be excited about the long-term growth of crypto assets beyond just speculation and price.
This asset class is positioned to create value across the world’s largest industries through a series of disruptions by creation of new and next generation use cases, behaviors and business models in the application layer.
“100% of the stocks and bonds trading on Wall Street today could be tokenized, and in five years, 100% of the stocks and bonds on Wall Street will be tokenized.” — Robert Greifeld, the former CEO of Nasdaq
Published at Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:31:48 +0000
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