It may sound strange coming from the chief executive of a cryptocurrency exchange, but in the long run my goal is actually quite simple: I want crypto to become boring.

That may seem an odd ambition at a time when digital assets still dominate headlines, yet history suggests the technologies that reshape industries rarely remain exciting forever. Their real success usually arrives when they stop attracting attention and become part of everyday infrastructure.

Few people today spend time thinking about the systems that route an email across the internet or the protocols that allow websites to appear instantly on a screen. Those technologies did not disappear because they failed. They disappeared because they became…