Digital asset prices may not climb in a steady, predictable line. Instead, they could lurch upward in a single dramatic move once cryptocurrency adoption crosses a key threshold, according to Dom Kwok, co-founder of the blockchain education platform EasyA.

Kwok, who frequently fields questions about crypto market dynamics on social media, said the most common query he receives is whether prices will rise gradually or skyrocket all at once. His answer is unambiguous: the spike will be sudden.

The framework behind that conviction is the technology adoption S-curve, a model he studied at the Wharton School. The concept describes how new technologies typically spread through society in three distinct phases: a slow initial period dominated…