1) A question I've been getting a lot: What are use cases where crypto is working outside of crypto? In other words, what are the “real world” use cases?

To which I always think - what is the "real world”?

2) Usually, the answer they are looking for is a supply chain or energy use case.

Why is it so easy to dismiss the progress within crypto?

3) First - the internet *is* the real world

Two decades ago the largest companies in the world were found in oil & financial services

Today, the largest companies in the world sell software

4) Second - new tech results in both market disruption & creation

Early internet use cases (blogs, email, media) disrupted how we communicate

But the internet also created $B for NEW markets dedicated to *making the internet an easier thing to use & place to build*

5) I'd say the same is true for crypto assets

Crypto assets represent a digitally native way to send value.

This value is programmable, leading to numerous applications

6) Crypto already feels very real. Sending money globally. Bootstrapping new user-owned networks. Creating a censorship-resistant, store of value asset.

But a lot of action today is in building products to allow crypto to bloom - financial infrastructure, dev tools & more

7) just like the internet - crypto use cases will lead to both the disruption of markets & the creation of NEW markets

both are needed