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After the ICO boom in 2017, along with Bitcoin's historic peak of nearly $ 20,000 last December, the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry has lost ground. 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 space influencers have to say about their expectations for the crypto and blockchain industry over the next 12 months and beyond.
cryptocurrency:
I'm sticking to my original prediction: Bitcoin will reach 250k by 2022. "- Tim Draper, American Venture Capitalist, author, founder of Draper Associates, DFJ and Draper University
Being one of the major cryptocurrencies, Ether will see its price reach the $ 500 threshold by mid-2019. The fact remains that most of the blockchain projects around the world are being done on Ethereum. As its use cases increase and improve globally, we will see that it will continue to gain solid ground as an intelligent contract protocol. " – David Drake, Founder and President of LDJ Capital
2019 will be an exciting year. We will see many exceptional products shipped to the market, particularly from our Binance Labs incubation program, which now takes place on five continents. Projects and teams that are focused on building and achieving product market adaptation will bring more real-life use cases to our lives. This will open the door to mass adoption of cryptography. "- & nbsp;She is Zhang, Head of Binance Labs
The first legitimate national cryptocurrency will be launched, linked to a fiat currency from a G-20 nation. This digital resource will be in great demand to combine the benefits of a digital asset with the stability of a currency supported by the government. & Nbsp; The decision of Mark Zuckerberg for the 2018 new year "studying cryptocurrencies" will result in an integrated in Facebook for payments. The only question is whether they will use an existing cryptocurrency or a new one created by Facebook. "- Mitch Liu, Theta Labs CEO
Blockchain:
2018 was a difficult year, but we have a longer-term perspective for our industry. The builders are building in 2018, so for 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 by & nbsp; 2013, actively developing with Ethereum since January 2015. & nbsp; During this time I experienced many ups and downs. Many times I have heard how "Blockchain is over." However, the fact is that the underlying technological innovation continues to evolve and improve. & Nbsp; We have more tools today, documentation, tutorials and users than ever before and this will continue to grow as user interfaces become better and more seamlessly. In 2019 we will continue to live the consequences of 2017. ICOs have been in the sleepy winter for most of 2018, following the ICO madness we experienced, which was initiated by my ERC-20 standard. However, this does not change the fact that ICOs are an excellent fund-raising mechanism for those projects where the supply of coins makes sense. However, many past token projects used only ICOs as an opportunity to raise money without a truly decentralized token economy running in the background. We must regain the trust that has been lost and proposals like my Reversible ICO show how technology can be the transaction mechanism and the regulator at the same time. – & nbsp;Fabian Vogelsteller, LUKSO CEO and Ethereum developer responsible for co-creating the ERC-20 token standard
You will see blockchain companies with differentiated business models that separate themselves 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 every other thing of great importance that has happened in the last 50 years, the days of the gold rush end, the rules are created and people get settled to make a real deal. This is why we have kept our attention, strengthened and invested in building our vision for the next iteration of the web. For TRON, 2019 will be a year of many innovations. We are the largest decentralized content ecosystem in the world and 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 BitTorrent's peer-to-peer technology. And we will follow it by offering our 100 million monthly users of BitTorrent 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
2019 will be a historic year for the Blockchain industry. Malta will issue the first license for operators in this area to operate in a regulated environment. Thus, 2019 will see the materialization of The Blockchain Island, placing Malta firmly in the epicenter of this industry. We are aware of where the compass is pointing, 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. In fact, as a government, we are trying to use blockchain technology in the public sector to improve the experience of our citizens. 2019 will be an even more exciting year for Malta. The smallest member state of the EU will be among the top 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. The agility and flexible approach of Malta will ensure that we remain the innovators in the digital economy ". – The honorable Silvio Schembri, The junior minister for financial services, the digital economy and the economy of Malta Innovation
We hope to see some 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 that involve 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 move forward. August "- Nimit Sawheny, Voatz CEO
Blockchain communities and open source communities will see their lines blurred, as the two become synonymous with one another. 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 technology at the forefront and shares the same fundamental principle of transparency. A platform can not be decentralized if it is proprietary, because the organization that owns the software code ultimately becomes the central point of failure. "- Ben Golub, Storj Interim CEO and Executive Chairman
tokenization:
The market of one quadrillion dollars is developing, led by the emergence of security tokens. As currencies are tokenised, bonds are tokenised, shares are tokenised, currencies, real estate and energy are tokenised. We are looking at the birth of a quadrilione dollar market. Moreover, the areas of qualified opportunities (QOZ) will bring over $ 100 billion of capital to places where economic stimulus is needed in the United States. We will also see the first Dapp (decentralized applications) that affect one million users a day from next year. Since we now have our "Netscape" moment, we now have scalable blockchains that have no friction (ie anyone can access it without having token) low latency (which means it is fast and scalable and can be of many people) with EOS as the first protocol general 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 the EOS Alliance
I think the main trend will be the securities tokens. & Nbsp; The combination of the power of a ledger distributed with more standardized securities will open many doors to capital creation. & Nbsp; 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 properly designed token, there will be new ways to visualize 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 about. " – Sam Tabar, Co-founder of fluency
Risk capital:
2019 will be another year of construction. We are at the stage where cryptographic space is developing companies, products and infrastructure to support the savage assessments we have seen in 2017. & nbsp; I foresee that we will see greater consolidation, since both companies and funds have difficulty in raising capital. While this may sound grim, I think it's actually quite healthy. As technology and valuations begin to converge again at rational levels, the stage for industry will be set to enter the next stage of maturity. " – Arianna Simpson, Venture Capitalist and Managing Director of Autonomous Partners
We must not forget that token issuers are startups and have a burning speed even higher than that of traditional startups. With over $ 10 billion raised by cryptic startups in 2017-2018, converting to legal currencies is inevitable. Furthermore, all cryptographic services and talents were twice as expensive as traditional startups. Once billions of dollars are liquidated to pay bills, it is normal for the prices of the major cryptic currencies to fall. This of course has had a snowball effect: panic begins and hundreds of entrepreneurs need to sell cryptography to get capital for product development. Even the cryptofunds whose market capitalization is $ 10 billion tend to focus recently on equities. They have liquidated part of their encrypted portfolio and have a fiat. Furthermore, we must not forget that the main reason for which the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks exist are due to the miners. Miners also had to sell to maintain their facilities. They exceeded Bitcoin in 2017, assuming that the price would continue to rise ". – Natalia Karayaneva, Propy CEO and founder
FinTech:
Digital remote voting will be more widely adopted. After the success of the West Virginia pilot program of Voatz digital distance voting, which allowed foreign voters to vote safely in the November elections, more states will try to win back their voters to the elections. abroad. Expect a lot of questions in the supply chain for the debut, providing more guarantees from sellers and buyers of the provision of assets. What VinX is doing in the wine and GrainChain sector in the grain sector, others will do it in various sectors. And watch out for Wall Street. Fintech will continue to be a main target for blockchain use cases. Some will finally go into production and begin to revolutionize the way they trade in securities. Blockchain will continue to be advertised as a panacea. Companies involved in this hype waste money trying to use blockchain, where a good old-fashioned database is fine. "- Jonathan Johnson, President of Medici Ventures and Overstock.com Board Member & nbsp;
In the world of ledger technology, the role of women is very significant in terms of creativity and innovation. Our company gives voice to women, who are usually the minority, even if women with intuition are able to detect what the market wants. For example, Multibuy has linked e-commerce and travels to cryptocurrency, making this field more attractive and accessible to all sexes. I can proudly say that I brought my company to a versatile level that is interesting and safe for everyone. The MB8 coin has a usable value, as it can be spent on the Multibuy website for e-commerce. Our huge e-commerce platform should be launched in February 2019. In addition, I have encouraged the union between Multibuy and Blockchain technology, because I firmly believe that we give a little more to Blockchain: let people spend cryptocurrency Inside our e-commerce platform. The quality products and brands make the MB8 coin super attractive and 2019 will be bright for e-commerce platforms that accept cryptocurrency. "- Dr. Kirby Raneri, co-founder and Business Development Manager of & nbsp;MB8 coin and Multibuy Chief Operating Officer
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Young business man using a virtual reality glasses while touching bitcoin symbol with number 2019 on virtual screenGetty
After the ICO boom in 2017, along with Bitcoin's historic peak of nearly $ 20,000 last December, the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry has lost ground. 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 space influencers have to say about their expectations for the crypto and blockchain industry over the next 12 months and beyond.
cryptocurrency:
I'm sticking to my original prediction: Bitcoin will reach 250k by 2022. "- Tim Draper, American Venture Capitalist, author, founder of Draper Associates, DFJ and Draper University
Being one of the major cryptocurrencies, Ether will see its price reach the $ 500 threshold by mid-2019. The fact remains that most of the blockchain projects around the world are being done on Ethereum. As its use cases increase and improve globally, we will see that it will continue to gain solid ground as an intelligent contract protocol. " – David Drake, Founder and President of LDJ Capital
2019 will be an exciting year. We will see many exceptional products shipped to the market, particularly from our Binance Labs incubation program, which now takes place on five continents. Projects and teams that are focused on building and achieving product market adaptation will bring more real-life use cases to our lives. This will open the door to the mass adoption of cryptography. "- She is Zhang, Head of Binance Labs
The first legitimate national cryptocurrency will be launched, linked to a fiat currency from a G-20 nation. This digital resource will be in great demand to combine the benefits of a digital asset with the stability of a currency supported by the government. The 2018 resolution by 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:
2018 was a difficult year, but we have a longer-term perspective for our industry. The builders are building in 2018, so for 2019, I think we will see many real products and real applications entering the market ". – Changpeng Zhao (CZ), CEO and founder of Binance
I have been involved in the blockchain space since 2013, actively developing with Ethereum since January 2015. During this time I have experienced many ups and downs. Many times I felt like "Blockchain is over." However, the fact is that the underlying technological innovation continues to evolve and improve. We have more tools today, documentation, tutorials and users than ever before and this will continue to grow as user interfaces become better and smoother, in 2019 we will continue to live the consequences of 2017. ICOs have been in winter for much of 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 fund-raising mechanism for those projects where the supply of coins makes sense. However, many past token projects used only ICOs as an opportunity to raise money without proper decentralized and functioning token economy in the background. We have to recover the lost trust and proposals like my reversible ICO show how technology can be both the transaction mechanism and the regulator at the same time. – Fabian Vogelsteller, LUKSO CEO and Ethereum developer responsible for co-creating the ERC-20 token standard
You will see blockchain companies with differentiated business models that separate themselves 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 every other thing of great importance that has happened in the last 50 years, the days of the gold rush end, the rules are created and people get settled to make a real deal. This is why we have kept our attention, strengthened and invested in building our vision for the next iteration of the web. For TRON, 2019 will be a year of many innovations. We are the largest decentralized content ecosystem in the world and 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 BitTorrent's peer-to-peer technology. And we will follow it by offering our 100 million monthly users of BitTorrent 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
2019 will be a historic year for the Blockchain industry. Malta will issue the first license for operators in this area to operate in a regulated environment. Thus, 2019 will see the materialization of The Blockchain Island, placing Malta firmly in the epicenter of this industry. We are aware of where the compass is pointing, 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. In fact, as a government, we are trying to use blockchain technology in the public sector to improve the experience of our citizens. 2019 will be an even more exciting year for Malta. The smallest member state of the EU will be among the top 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. The agility and flexible approach of Malta will ensure that we remain the innovators in the digital economy ". – The honorable Silvio Schembri, Junior minister for Malta's financial services, digital economy and innovation
We hope to see some 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 that involve 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 move forward. August "- Nimit Sawheny, CEO of Voatz
Blockchain communities and open source communities will see their lines blurred, as the two become synonymous with one another. 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 technology at the forefront and shares the same fundamental principle of transparency. A platform can not be decentralized if it is proprietary, because the organization that owns the software code ultimately becomes the central point of failure. "- Ben Golub, Storj Interim CEO and Executive Chairman
tokenization:
The market of one quadrillion dollars is developing, led by the emergence of security tokens. As currencies are tokenised, bonds are tokenised, shares are tokenised, currencies, real estate and energy are tokenised. We are looking at the birth of a quadrilione dollar market. Moreover, the areas of qualified opportunities (QOZ) will bring over $ 100 billion of capital to places where economic stimulus is needed in the United States. We will also see the first Dapp (decentralized applications) that affect one million users a day from next year. Since we now have our "Netscape" moment, we now have scalable blockchains that have no friction (ie anyone can access it without having token) low latency (which means it is fast and scalable and can be of many people) with EOS as the first protocol general 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 the EOS Alliance
I think the main trend will be the securities tokens. Combining the power of a distributed ledger with more standardized securities 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 properly designed token, there will be new ways to visualize 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. " – Sam Tabar, Co-founder of fluency
Risk capital:
2019 will be another year of construction. We are at the stage where cryptographic space is developing companies, products and infrastructures to support the savage assessments we have seen in 2017. I expect we will see greater consolidation, as both companies and funds struggle to raise capital. . While this may sound grim, I think it's actually quite healthy. As technology and valuations begin to converge again at rational levels, the stage for industry will be set to enter the next stage of maturity. " – Arianna Simpson, Venture Capitalist and Managing Director of Autonomous Partners
We must not forget that token issuers are startups and have a burning speed even higher than that of traditional startups. With over $ 10 billion raised by cryptic startups in 2017-2018, converting to legal currencies is inevitable. Furthermore, all cryptographic services and talents were twice as expensive as traditional startups. Once billions of dollars are liquidated to pay bills, it is normal for the prices of the major cryptic currencies to fall. This of course has had a snowball effect: panic begins and hundreds of entrepreneurs need to sell cryptography to get capital for product development. Even the cryptofunds whose market capitalization is $ 10 billion tend to focus recently on equities. They have liquidated part of their encrypted portfolio and have a fiat. Furthermore, we must not forget that the main reason for which the Bitcoin and Ethereum networks exist are due to the miners. Miners also had to sell to maintain their facilities. They exceeded Bitcoin in 2017, assuming that the price would continue to rise ". – Natalia Karayaneva, Propy CEO and founder
FinTech:
Digital remote voting will be more widely adopted. After the success of the West Virginia pilot program of Voatz digital distance voting, which allowed foreign voters to vote safely in the November elections, more states will try to win back their voters to the elections. abroad. Expect a lot of questions in the supply chain for the debut, providing more guarantees from sellers and buyers of the provision of assets. What VinX is doing in the wine and GrainChain sector in the grain sector, others will do it in various sectors. And watch out for Wall Street. Fintech will continue to be a main target for blockchain use cases. Some will finally go into production and begin to revolutionize the way they trade in securities. Blockchain will continue to be advertised as a panacea. Companies involved in this hype waste money trying to use blockchain, where a good old-fashioned database is fine. "- Jonathan Johnson, President of Medici Ventures and Overstock.com Board Member
In the world of ledger technology, the role of women is very significant in terms of creativity and innovation. Our company gives voice to women, who are usually the minority, even if women with intuition are able to detect what the market wants. For example, Multibuy has linked e-commerce and travels to cryptocurrency, making this field more attractive and accessible to all sexes. I can proudly say that I brought my company to a versatile level that is interesting and safe for everyone. The MB8 coin has a usable value, as it can be spent on the Multibuy website for e-commerce. Our huge e-commerce platform should be launched in February 2019. In addition, I have encouraged the union between Multibuy and Blockchain technology, because I firmly believe that we give a little more to Blockchain: let people spend cryptocurrency Inside our e-commerce platform. The quality products and brands make the MB8 coin super attractive and 2019 will be bright for e-commerce platforms that accept cryptocurrency. "- Dr. Kirby Raneri, Co-founder and Business Development Manager of MB8 Coin and Multibuy Chief Operating Officer
