From radical idea to global standard.
Bitcoin was born in 2009 as a nine-page whitepaper. Sixteen years later it tops $2 trillion in market cap and is the best-performing asset in modern financial history on any rolling window longer than three years. Ethereum rewrote what can be programmed on top of money. Stablecoins now settle more annual volume than Visa: Visa processed ~$13T in 2024 while stablecoins moved over $27T in on-chain transfers per Visa Onchain Analytics and Artemis adjusted metrics.
