Capitalization of crypto assets/currencies in 2022– $2 trillion, 16 times growth in 3 years  

The era of Dig­i­tal­iza­tion 4.0 is the mat­u­ra­tion of Blockchain tech­nolo­gies and plat­forms (World­Wide Ledgers) into a new de­cen­tral­ized In­ter­net of val­ues of the fu­ture, into the de­vel­op­ment and dis­rup­tion of ex­ist­ing In­ter­nets of in­for­ma­tion, peo­ple and things with ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence in the par­a­digm of open ecosystems.

2021 was marked by an ex­plo­sive growth of in­ter­est and ac­tiv­ity in cryptoassets/currencies, both from in­no­va­tors in de­cen­tral­ized crypto fi­nance (DeFi) busi­nesses and tech­nolo­gies, non‐fungible to­kens (NFT) and Self‐Sovereign Iden­tity (SSI) tech­nolo­gies, and among pub­lic reg­u­la­tors in terms of cen­tral­ized cryp­tocur­ren­cies is­sued by cen­tral banks (СBDC).

The most strik­ing fact of the rapid de­vel­op­ment is the rise in the cap­i­tal­iza­tion of crypto as­sets – 16 times in 3 years, and the daily trad­ing vol­ume by al­most 5 times as of Jan­u­ary 16, 2022, de­spite, or per­haps due to, the coro­n­avirus pandemic.