Nick Tomaino, founding father of the cryptocurrency funding firm 1confirmation, made noteworthy feedback concerning the cryptocurrency sector.
Tomaino, posting on the X platform, acknowledged that the period of “straightforward income” within the crypto market is over and that the expansion mannequin based mostly on token hypothesis shall be changed by product-focused progress.
In response to Tomaino, the entire market capitalization of cryptocurrencies is at present round $3.1 trillion. Whereas this determine represents a lower of roughly 14% within the final yr, it’s value noting that the entire worth of the cryptocurrency market was zero in 2009. Tomaino argued that this long-term perspective reveals the sector remains to be in its early phases.
The founding father of 1confirmation acknowledged that 2025 shall be a turning level for the crypto sector, and supplied the next evaluation:
Tomaino argued that enterprise capital-backed “pump-dump” fashions, memecoins, and DAT (Digital Asset Treasury)-like buildings are not sustainable. In response to Tomaino, these fashions have did not ship significant worth to traders in the long run.
Nonetheless, he acknowledged that final yr marked the primary time in crypto historical past that merchandise not based mostly on token hypothesis carried out higher. Tomaino particularly talked about prediction markets and stablecoin-based merchandise, including that the trail to attaining “distinctive returns” sooner or later lies in creating and actively utilizing such merchandise.
Nick Tomaino identified three basic factors which have remained unchanged within the business over time:
- It’s all the time very important to have the ability to discern the true nature of fraudulent schemes.
- The decline in belief in establishments on a world scale and the rising significance of the web are enduring macro traits; on this setting, dependable and impartial currencies supply significant funding alternatives.
- There are solely two cryptocurrencies that may really ship on the precept of “dependable neutrality.”
At this level, Tomaino acknowledged that solely Bitcoin and Ethereum met these standards.
*This isn’t funding recommendation.

