Bitcoin, blockchain, a nd cryptocurrencies burst onto the wo r ld stage in 2008, when the online posting of a pseudonymous white paper envisioned a new way to transfer value over the internet.1
In the decade-plus since, the cryptoasset market has gone through all the classic phases of a disruptive technology: massive bull markets a nd crushing pullbacks, periods of eupho r ia a nd moments of despair, FOMO (fear of missing out), fear, a nd everything in between.