Vitalik: The current cryptocurrency field is no longer in its early stages

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated during his keynote speech "What Excites Me About the Next Decade" on the first day of the TOKEN2049 main stage:

People often say that crypto is still in its early stages, and we are still building the infrastructure. Indeed, it took a long time for something like the internet to materialize, and I think people have been saying this almost since the launch of Bitcoin. And one real challenge we face now is that the crypto space today is no longer in its early stages.

Ethereum as a project has existed for over 10 years, and in the 15 years since Bitcoin's inception, we have seen things like ChatGPT evolve from completely non-existent to suddenly emerging and completely changing people's understanding of artificial intelligence.

Therefore, we must ask ourselves a question: how should we view all of this? Are we really still in the early stages? My answer to this question is that I don't think we are in the early stages of crypto, but we are indeed in a special phase.