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Real-World Digital Asset Use Cases Set to Transform Finance in 2025
The post Real-World Digital Asset Use Cases Set to Transform Finance in 2025 appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. In today’s issue, Mick Roche from Zodia Markets provides a stablecoin outlook for 2025. Then, Layne Nadeau from NVAL answers questions about cryptocurrencies’ role in energy markets and AI in Ask an Expert. –S.M. You’re reading Crypto for Advisors, CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter that unpacks digital assets for financial advisors. Subscribe here to get it every Thursday. Digital Asset Outlook for 2025 While 2024 may be remembered as the year bitcoin went mainstream, we believe the focus in 2025 will shift to real-world use cases for digital assets — often considered crypto’s Achilles’ heel. To enable these use cases, stablecoins will likely emerge as the backbone for broader corporate adoption. Stablecoins were initially designed to facilitate trading, lending, and borrowing in digital assets, primarily on digital asset trading platforms (centralized exchanges, or CEXs). However, we are now witnessing a shift from these original purposes toward “real-world” applications. This can be seen in the chart below in the growing prominence of the “other” category in the stablecoin ecosystem. Challenges of current systems Today, international fiat currency transfers rely on the correspondent banking system, which has mostly stayed the same since real-time gross settlement systems were adopted in the early 1990s. Membership charges, transaction costs, and volume-based discounts typically determine fees. Settlement processes are opaque, governed by price-time priority systems that lack transparency for end users. Why stablecoins are transformative As representations of money on the internet, stablecoins offer unmatched flexibility, speed, and availability — key factors driving their increasing adoption. Here are some of their real-world applications: Cross-border payments: Stablecoins enable the transfer of USD assets across borders at speeds comparable to email, in stark contrast to the days-long delays of SWIFT transactions. This advantage is especially significant in emerging markets, where the Bank for International Settlements has reported a decline in…
The post Real-World Digital Asset Use Cases Set to Transform Finance in 2025 appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
In today’s issue, Mick Roche from Zodia Markets provides a stablecoin outlook for 2025. Then, Layne Nadeau from NVAL answers questions about cryptocurrencies’ role in energy markets and AI in Ask an Expert. –S.M. You’re reading Crypto for Advisors, CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter that unpacks digital assets for financial advisors. Subscribe here to get it every Thursday. Digital Asset Outlook for 2025 While 2024 may be remembered as the year bitcoin went mainstream, we believe the focus in 2025 will shift to real-world use cases for digital assets — often considered crypto’s Achilles’ heel. To enable these use cases, stablecoins will likely emerge as the backbone for broader corporate adoption. Stablecoins were initially designed to facilitate trading, lending, and borrowing in digital assets, primarily on digital asset trading platforms (centralized exchanges, or CEXs). However, we are now witnessing a shift from these original purposes toward “real-world” applications. This can be seen in the chart below in the growing prominence of the “other” category in the stablecoin ecosystem. Challenges of current systems Today, international fiat currency transfers rely on the correspondent banking system, which has mostly stayed the same since real-time gross settlement systems were adopted in the early 1990s. Membership charges, transaction costs, and volume-based discounts typically determine fees. Settlement processes are opaque, governed by price-time priority systems that lack transparency for end users. Why stablecoins are transformative As representations of money on the internet, stablecoins offer unmatched flexibility, speed, and availability — key factors driving their increasing adoption. Here are some of their real-world applications: Cross-border payments: Stablecoins enable the transfer of USD assets across borders at speeds comparable to email, in stark contrast to the days-long delays of SWIFT transactions. This advantage is especially significant in emerging markets, where the Bank for International Settlements has reported a decline in…
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