12 Real-World Stories of How Millions of People Are Using Crypto Services Today
San Francisco • Mar 20, 2024
As the crypto partner to thousands of investors, our team hears one question time and time again: “Where are the real-world uses?”
In our latest white paper, fully revised for 2024, we provide the answer: They’re everywhere. In this piece, you’ll get a glimpse of 12 real-world examples of crypto in action—and what they could mean for both everyday users and crypto investors.
While these projects are diverse, they share a common theme: Entrepreneurs and innovators are turning to crypto to improve the status quo.
XP: Ticketmaster, Minus the Gouging
Coinbase Wallet: Sending Money via Text Message
Attestiv: Fighting Deepfakes With Blockchains and AI
Farcaster: Social Media Built for Innovators
Render: A Marketplace for Computing Power
Gridless: Tackling Africa’s Electricity Crisis by Mining Bitcoin
Nouns DAO: An Online Community With a Bank Account
Ondo Finance and Superstate: Tokenizing Real-World Assets
Helium Mobile Network: Decentralized Wireless Plans for $20 per Month
Stablecoins: The World’s Reserve Currency in Every Pocket
Polymarket: Solving the Trust Problem for Prediction Markets
Bitcoin: Crypto’s Original Use Case
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Read White PaperBitwise Asset Management is a global asset manager specializing in crypto and onchain finance with a nine-year track record and more than $14 billion in client assets. The firm’s suite of over 70 investment products—spanning ETFs, option income strategies, model portfolios, DeFi vaults, tokenized funds, and staking—helps investors access opportunities across the financial frontier. Bitwise serves more than 5,500 private wealth teams, RIAs, family offices, and institutional investors, as well as 21 banks and broker-dealers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York and London.
