According to BlockBeats, on December 25, Jon Ma, founder of the crypto data platform Artemis, shared his cryptocurrency investment journey. He first encountered Bitcoin in 2015 through a computer science course but did not take it seriously; he only started purchasing cryptocurrencies like BTC and Litecoin at the peak of the 2017 bull market. Conversations with ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees during this period made him realize that government and currency could be separated.
Since then, he missed the DeFi summer of 2020 and the NFT craze of 2021, returning to the crypto market in mid-2021 by purchasing SOL and Solana NFTs through FTX US and getting involved with projects like ENS and Wonderland Money. He also participated in Axie Infinity with his girlfriend and established a scholarship program in the Philippines.
Ma stated that compared to traditional SaaS, fintech, and internet consumer sectors, cryptocurrency has created a larger global labor and financial system. Looking ahead, he expects traditional finance (TradFi) participants to drive the market capitalization of crypto assets from the current $3.5 trillion to over $100 trillion.
With major asset management institutions like Fidelity and BlackRock launching digital asset ETFs, and payment giants like Stripe and Visa entering the crypto payment space, traditional financial participants will become the main force shaping the global digital financial system after 2025.
