The traditional problems of open source economics may apply to Cryptoeconomic Primitives.
The combination of Primitives will enable the creation of protocols and systems that weren’t possible prior to their existence.
With the continued explorations of existing primitives and invention of new ones, we will undoubtably see rapid, compounding utility—where we can experiment with all permutations of existing primitives, tokens and protocols to create new primitives tokens and protocols to infinity.
The emergence of Cryptoeconomic Primitives is an early sign of maturing knowledge and infrastructure in the cryptocurrency industry.
These Cryptoeconomic Primitives will inevitably contribute to the rewiring of how society functions at large.
Bitcoin developer, Jameson Lopp, posted a simple observation days after CoinGecko published its 2025 dead coins report. The timing crystallized a tension that's shaped crypto since the first Bitcoin fork.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins told Fox Business in December that he expects US financial markets to move on-chain “in a couple of years. ” The statement landed somewhere between prophecy and policy directive, especially coming from the architect of “Project Crypto,” the Commission's formal initiative to enable tokenized market infrastructure.
Solana's verified X account fired a shot on Jan. 14: “Starknet has 8 daily active users, 10 daily transactions, and still somehow has a 1b MC and 15b FDV[…] Send it straight to 0. ” The data used in the ‘sh*tpost' appears to trace back to an April 2024 snapshot, as the FDV figure was wrong.
Optimism announced a 12-month token buyback program on Jan. 8, allocating 50% of Superchain revenue to monthly OP token purchases starting in February. The buyback pressure is estimated at roughly $9.
Optimism announced a 12-month token buyback program on Jan. 8, allocating 50% of Superchain revenue to monthly OP token purchases starting in February. The buyback pressure is estimated at roughly $9.
Beijing's reported request for Chinese tech firms to halt orders of Nvidia's H200 chips arrives at a moment when Bitcoin has become uncomfortably tethered to AI equity sentiment. As The Information and Reuters reported on Jan.
More than 80% of the tokens launched this year are trading underwater, marking a definitive shift in the market's appetite for venture-backed cryptocurrency projects. Data from Memento Research showed that it tracked 118 major token generation events in 2025 and found that 100 of them, or 84.