Digital Economy Compass 2022 Chapter 1: The ascent of the crypto economy

The ascent of the crypto economy

• Cryptocurrencies with their disruptive potential have gone mainstream
• How blockchain technology is reimagining the world of internet, money, and finance

Cryptocurrencies with their disruptive potential have gone mainstream

• How do cryptocurrencies work?
• Timeline of selected events leading to the rise of cryptocurrencies
• Global number of cryptocurrencies
• Selected categories of cryptocurrencies based on their use cases
• Average market capitalization of the crypto segment in US$ billion in 2021
• Market capitalization of different asset classes in comparison in US$ billion
• Global cryptocurrencies revenue forecast in US$ billion
• Total transaction volume for 2021 in US$ trillion
• Transaction finality of different cryptocurrencies in minutes in January 2022
• Annualized and average daily price volatility of top eight coins by market capitalization in 2021
• How Stablecoins work?
• What are the different types of Stablecoins?
• The biggest crypto heists of all time in US$ million
• US$100 of investment in shares of Bitcoin and Ether compared to mega corporations' stocks in 2012 and its respective yield in 2021 in US$
• 52-week rolling correlation between Bitcoin (BTC) with S&P500, NASDAQ and Gold
• Top ten countries by cryptocurrency users in 2021
• Share of transaction type based on the off-chain activities
• Bitcoin equivalent in US$ million held by governments of different countries
• How do CBDCs work?
• What can organizations do with cryptocurrencies?
• Venture and private investment into crypto and blockchain sub verticals in US$ billion
• Public companies with highest number of Bitcoins on their balance sheet
• Average weekly Bitcoin price compared to net crypto asset institutional inflow and outflow
• Selected key players per segment in the crypto space
• Selected cryptocurrency exchanges and company figures
• Global crypto spot exchanges share of annual trading volume
• Coinbase analysis
• How does crypto mining wor?
• Global distribution of bitcoin mining hashrate
• Energy consumption by country including Bitcoin and Ether in TWh per year
• What is the difference between crypto mining and staking?

• Newer iterations of blockchain technology
• Different blockchain types and their use cases
• Overview of public blockchain opportunities
• Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0 revenue opportunities
• Differences between Centralized Finance (CeFi) and Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
• DAO comparison to traditional company
• Global TVL across multiple DeFi blockchains in US$ bn
• Smart contracts as DeFi foundation
• Ethereum (ETH) price in US$
• Gartner Hype Cycle for Blockchain 2021
• What is a non-fungible token (NFT)?
• Timeline of events leading to the rise of NFTs
• Creating and purchasing an NFT
• Top-5 most expensive NFTs sold in million US$
• Top-20 NFT marketplaces by sales volume in US$ million 2021
• Share of all-time NFT sales volume by blockchains
• Top-10 countries by NFT users in 2021
• The NFT financialization landscape
• NFT segment share from total sales volume of segments
• Intersection of the Metaverse
• User numbers of selected metaverse and blockchain connected areas in million