A year ago we partnered with Blockworks Research to study where digital assets were actually heading — not just the price cycle, but the underlying shifts in infrastructure, regulation, and user behavior. Looking back today, many of the signals we highlighted are either already playing out or clearly moving in that direction. Institutional participation has deepened. Stablecoins are increasingly discussed as legitimate payment rails. Tokenization is becoming part of mainstream financial conversations. And perhaps most importantly, the line between traditional financial infrastructure and blockchain networks continues to narrow. At the time, some of these ideas still felt early. Today they feel inevitable. Markets move fast, but structural change in finance takes time. What matters is identifying the direction before the narrative becomes obvious. Worth revisiting the report a year later. https://www.okx.com/en-us/campaigns/okx-blockworks-research-report(Haider)