[hakfoo]

They've had the potential to revolutionize global financial systems for a decade now. So why haven't they?

If I'm looking for the promise of "virtually instant, virtually free transfer of value", SEPA and FedNow are delivering it at vast scale without the blockchain woo-woo. Adoption could be broader, but you can hardly say Bitcoin is universal either.

Whether intentionally, or by accident, the crypto space has created assets, rather than functional currencies, and the problems we want to solve with the financial system are usually currency shaped (broad acceptance, stable value, limited number of systems to choose from).

Now, there may be some interesting aspect of creating a new asset class-- it's uniquely "bottled scarcity" without beauty or utility like most other assets have-- but I think we need to get over the "revolutionizing finance" story until it revolutionizes something other than "I need something new to gamble on."