11. The first Bitcoin ETF will see deposits exceed $5 billion within two weeks of debut.
12. As soon as the SEC approves Bibitcoin ETF, dozens more filings will be made – not just of copycats but for other coins and strategies (diversified funds, long/short, leveraged and infrastructure). It will spur a new exponential growth curve for the price of bitcoin and other digital assets followed, likely, by another crash.
13. Tokenization will skyrocket. Assets of all types – from tangibles (real estate and collectibles) to intangibles (royalties from recording artists and performance contracts from professional athletes/teams and tv/radio/movie/theater artists) – will gain huge traction, setting the stage for explosion in the 2020s.
14. Loyalty programs will begin to award points in bitcoin.
15. Regulators around the world will freak out over Diem and Novi, certainly slowing, probably stalling and possibly stopping their deployment.
16. Someone will finally and succinctly explain what DeFi is. While everyone argues about it, regulators, legislators and courts will reject or ignore it. But marketers and the media will love it.
17. Several Fortune 500 companies will add bitcoin to their cash reserves or investment portfolios.
18. The Biden administration will prove to be very friendly to digital assets and blockchain, ushering in a new wave of investment in this space (and not merely purchases of bitcoin itself).
19. There will be some shuffling in the Bitwise 10 Crypto Index, but #1 and #2 will remain #1 and #2.
20. As more investment funds come onto the market, prices – reminiscent of mutual funds back in the 1980s – will fall. It won’t take long for prices to be comparable to today’s ETFs though that’s unlikely to occur in 2021. Meanwhile, investors will continue to tolerate higher fees as the price of admission to the digital asset world.
21. Thousands of financial advisors will obtain their Certificate in Blockchain and Digital assets® from www.riadac.com to enable them to better serve their clients in these new asset classes.