Ask HN: What's New in Crypto?

[kaycebasques]

Few seem focused on it anymore, which means that there's probably a bunch of interesting innovations underway. I know that there are some well-informed true believers lurking here. What's new in crypto?

[Leena-ch]

ZK infra is finally practical for small teams. EIP- 4844 made L2 fees cheap enough to actually experiment

[adrianwaj]

I just left a previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242955

I think they'll be advances in taxation: it'll be simpler, fairer and easier. And that may make a UBI more doable.

[farwaabbas]

Comments like heres an actual project I am working on and why the tech matters usually gets attention.

[boundless88]

Agent payment will be an important development direction for crypto in the future. Compared to traditional fiat payments, digital currencies have some inherent advantages.

[baigy]

The bond market is about to get introduced to Bitcoin Bonds in Q3 of this year. I.e. bonds with yield denominated in btc.

[OscarDK]

Stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets are the only clearly useful things right now.

[dnnddidiej]

Follow up: are we getting more efficient? Are the more energy efficient chains taking off?

[Cider9986]

Monero is the best cryptocurrency for people that prioritize privacy and freedom.

[LogicCraft678]

A lot of the innovation now is happening in scaling

[cpach]

Uhm… cryptography or cryptocurrency?

[Someone1234]

I assume cryptocurrency, since OP mentioned "true believers."

There isn't cryptography true-believers, it is just mathematical proofs with sometimes good or bad code wrapping it.