In an effort to inject some optimism to ring in 2023, Blockhead brings you some exciting metaverse and NFT projects to keep your eye on this year.
2022 was a bleak year for the crypto industry. Worse still, crypto winter doesn’t seem to be warming up any time soon. However, it’s not all and gloom going into the new year.
With the industry focusing on crypto lending, staking and pricing, “metaverse” is a term you probably haven’t heard too much of in 2022. However, whilst the rest of the crypto industry was sinking, metaverse firms have been quietly building (some more so than others).
Europe’s rare and severe enforcement action against Coinbase highlights systemic compliance breakdowns that collide with the company’s calls for softer treatment in the United States.
As the SEC loosens custody rules for digital assets, it's not a win for deregulation but a concession to reality. Investor protection now hinges on keeping people inside a broken system, not perfecting it.
Kalshi’s clash with state regulators highlights a looming question in U.S. law: Can federal licenses override state restrictions? The outcome could reshape how decentralized markets are regulated.
The trade that once let equity investors proxy Bitcoin exposure is breaking down. With treasury firms underperforming their underlying assets, the model is shifting from accumulation to debt management—and many DATCOs may not make it through the next phase.
Institutional inflows are transforming crypto from a retail-led market into a derivatives-driven asset class, with options now central to risk, liquidity, and price formation.
Crypto markets are set to be shaped less by single data prints and more by deeper forces – central bank credibility, AI-driven risk cycles, tariff-led inflation pressures, and dollar liquidity – creating a year defined by volatility, not clean trends.
Short-term charts point to weakness and fading momentum, even as long-term forecasts split sharply between institutional-driven upside and warnings of a deep mean reversion.
