What are your biggest non-price predictions for 2022?
 
What are your biggest crypto technology and crypto community-related predictions for 2022?
Serious predictions only. Please do NOT post price predictions or shill specific coins.
A few of mine:
- Bitcoin, being super conservative, will not have any large updates.
- Ethereum's beacon chain merge will happen mid-year and be largely uneventful. The focus will shift even more to rollups.
- Ethereum Layer 2 will still be very fragmented. Shared liquidity across Layer 2s will begin to form late 2022 but will not have significant implementation before the end of the year.
- Meme coins will not be as popular in 2022 as in 2021. SHIB in particular will still not have a use case (especially given gas costs).
- At least one major CeFi or DeFi lending platform will be heavily investigated on suspicion of fraud or self-dealing.
- NFTs will still be disliked by everyone outside of the crypto community.
- The US SEC will not pass any major crypto regulation. At most, they'll classify a select few cryptoassets as securities as examples, and rest will decentralize to regulate themselves.
- Fewer US crypto investors will use non-stablecoins for crypto debit card purchases, mainly due to how much of a giant pain it is to do accounting for crypto taxes. More people will change their trading behavior simply to avoid the complexity of US taxes.
- At least one new minor country will adopt cryptocurrency as legal tender, and one major country (probably Turkey) will ban it.
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