What are your biggest non-price predictions for 2022?

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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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