According to Deep Tide TechFlow news, 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 pay much attention; it wasn't until the peak of the 2017 bull market that he started buying cryptocurrencies like BTC and Litecoin. During this time, conversations with ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees made him realize that government and currency could be separated.
After that, he missed the DeFi summer of 2020 and the NFT boom of 2021, only 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 set up a scholarship program in the Philippines.
Ma stated that compared to traditional SaaS, fintech, and internet consumption sectors, cryptocurrencies have created a larger global labor and financial system. Looking ahead, he expects traditional financial (TradFi) participants to drive the market value of crypto assets from the current $3.5 trillion to over $100 trillion.
With large asset management institutions such as Fidelity and BlackRock launching digital asset ETFs, and payment giants like Stripe and Visa entering the crypto payment space, traditional financial players will become the main force shaping the global digital financial system after 2025.
