The whole world is looking at the wrong cryptocurrency market

While cryptocurrencies focus on the markets of the U.S. and the EU, real adoption is happening in Argentina, Nigeria, and the Philippines, where crypto assets solve survival needs.

The whole world is looking at the wrong cryptocurrency market

Opinion

Opinion by: Maksym Sakharov, CEO of the group at WeFi

The cryptocurrency industry has focused on the same markets: the United States and the European Union. The conversation has mainly revolved around regulatory clarity, speculative gains, and institutional access, whether from Silicon Valley venture capital firms or Wall Street exchange-traded fund issuers.

Unfortunately, this fixation is blinding much of the industry to a more pressing reality, where the future of cryptocurrency adoption is not in New York, London, or Brussels, but in Lagos, Buenos Aires, and Manila.