Ditch the Hype: These Are the Blockchain & Web3 Trends Actually Creating Value in 2024
Ditch the Hype: These Are the Blockchain & Web3 Trends Actually Creating Value in 2024 Let’s be honest. For the last few years, trying to explain what I do for a living has been… challenging. One minute, everyone’s asking me how to buy a cartoon monkey NFT; the next, they’re convinced the entire industry has collapsed. It’s exhausting. But here’s the secret that the mainstream headlines always miss: the real work, the foundational building, never stops. It just gets quieter. And right now, in that quiet, we're seeing the most significant shift in decentralized technology since the launch of Ethereum. The blockchain trends in 2024 are finally shedding the speculative mania and focusing on something far more revolutionary: tangible, real-world utility. After more than a decade in this space, advising clients from scrappy startups to legacy financial institutions, I can tell you this is the maturation I’ve been waiting for. We’re moving from a self-contained, crypto-native pla...