According to TechFlow, in response to the phenomenon that Meme coins continue to dominate the narrative, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed several directions for expanding and improving the functionality and scope of cryptocurrencies:

1.zk reputation/identity/credentials;

2. p2p cross-border payments (lower fees and user experience improves rapidly during this cycle);

3. Decentralized social networking;

4. Prediction market (actually available in this cycle);

5. Privacy;

6. Enterprise applications implemented through zk validiums;

7. zk+ censorship-resistant voting.