Crypto Is Ready To Be Boring Now
Alex Blania and Sam Altman at the World Unwrapped event in San Francisco on December 11th, 2025
Christian Catalini
If you have been watching the crypto space, you might have noticed that things are moving faster lately. Usually, that just means “numbers go up,” but this time the catalyst isn’t a bull market or a new cryptographic breakthrough. It is simply that the rules are finally being written down. With stablecoin regulation falling into place, the handbrake is off. Projects are racing to move from “crypto for crypto people” to actual mainstream products, operating on the theory that if you aren’t constantly worried about going to jail, you can be a lot more ambitious about building actual businesses.
It turns out that when the…
