Quick answer: 340% growth in crypto transaction volume last year.
Published 11/03/2024. By Jake Claver.
340% growth in crypto transaction volume last year. While prices crashed. That's a weird thing to sit with. Most people hear "crypto" and think price charts, but the volume tells a completely different story. Speculation bets on outcomes. Infrastructure bets on activity. One of those requires you to be right. The other one just requires people to keep showing up. Every new financial system needs plumbing. It needs payment rails, because somebody has to move money between the old banking system and the new one. Visa processed over 4 trillion in crypto volume last year doing exactly that. It needs security, because institutions won't come near a system that keeps getting drained. Over 3.8 billion was stolen from crypto platforms in the last two years. The companies solving that problem collect recurring revenue from every institution that walks through the door. And it needs identity and compliance, because banks can't touch crypto without KYC, AML, all the regulatory infrastructure underneath. No compliance layer, no institutional money. That's just how it works. All three of those layers collect fees whether Bitcoin goes up or crashes to zero. The 1849 gold rush produced about 370 million in gold. Levi Strauss made more selling pants to miners than most miners ever made digging. Same idea here. Are you betting on the outcome, or are you investing in the thing every outcome depends on? Payment processing, security, identity verification. If people are using the system, these companies get paid. Outcomes don't matter when you own the infrastructure. And that 340% volume growth? It's telling you where the real money is going.
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340% growth in crypto transaction volume last year.
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