1/ The US is still on the fence wrt crypto. But the rest of the world isn’t waiting on the sidelines anymore.

Non US policymakers are embracing crypto
Non US consumers are using crypto

Let's dig in 🧵 2/In the past six months, global policymakers have embraced crypto:
-EU approved MiCA
-UK passed new crypto law
-Hong Kong is approving crypto exchange licenses
-Dubai created a crypto regulator
-Brazil created a virtual service provider license
-Japan wants to be a crypto hub

1/ Most people believe crypto has a gender problem. I crunched some data to test this narrative.

It turns out crypto adoption skews MORE towards women in some cases.

And for maybe the first time ever, rich democracies are LOSING the gender equity game

Let's dig in 👇 2/ First, let's plot crypto gender data against GDP. It turns out "Crypto Bro" is a rich country phenomenon

Countries with high gender imbalance in crypto adoption tend to be rich

Meanwhile those with nearly perfect crypto gender parity are some of the poorest in the dataset

Next time someone tells you NFTs, DeFi, or DAOs are a newfangled scam, remind them that this tech is based on 30+ years of hard research and thinking 🧵: 0.0/ Back in 2013, @VitalikButerin imagined four major applications Ethereum could enable:

1) smart contracts 🧠
2) financial instruments 💸
3) non-fungible assets 🎨
4) DAOs 🤖

All of these have a long history of thought behind them.