After the crisis of 2018-2022, cryptocurrency will become exactly a kind of full-fledged offshore zone: not without reason Switzerland, Estonia, Japan, the Bahamas, Maine and others turned to it, because the FATF simply left no place for classical offshore.
In the same period there will be a sharp escalation by geography: I am sure that mining farms in Antarctica is a matter of time, not desire or objective factors of another kind. The trend toward digitalization due to the current policy of isolation, the increasing requests for Web 3.0 concept implementation, all the same problems of centralized finance, and, of course, the demand for freedom of expression that is so clearly visible in 2019-2020 in the examples of Hong Kong, Chile, USA, Belarus and other regions will come together here.
The introduction of blockchain solutions will lead to the next step – the creation of full-fledged avatars of an off-digital (offline) world, and with that, a transactional model, where AI (whatever it may be understood as), humans, smart and not so smart devices, etc. will inevitably have to be equated, so that all networks (mash-dynamic, IoT, Internet, IPFS nodes outside the Internet and others) become truly the beginning for the noosphere: and in a purely practical and not just philosophical aspect.
Accordingly, the network effect (or its variants: as Metcalfe’s law) will be no less important than the law of supply and demand or E=mc2. However, how exactly it will be expressed is a separate question.
During this time (3-5-7-10 years) it will be necessary to solve a lot of problems: to create a real, not hype decentralized finance market; to establish validation rules and others related to security (L/D)PoS-systems; to close the first-second-third level mining and move to mining 4. 0 (at the expense of acts of SaO – subjects/objects); set up gateways between decentralized, distributed and centralized systems; strengthen the transition from electoral (democratic) to consensual (anarchic) model of organization, using the principles of turquoise organizations and other P2P-communities, etc.
However, we can go even further and see that in the next 1-3 years the integration of DEX (decentralized liquidity-based or direct dealing exchanges) and DAO (decentralized autonomous organizations: VIZ is a good example) will intensify and lead to a unified network based on blockchain solutions of different order (whether simple atomic swaps or new-format multiblockchains like Polkadot and Cosmos), which means it will be possible to create a virtually unlimited number of financial, social, cultural and other worlds connected through standardization at low levels and totally dissimilar at the presentation stage (whether it will be Dapps – decentralized applications, or App – is not so important anymore).