Crypto's financial tools are moving beyond crypto, with 'frontier markets' framed as the next stage

The author argues crypto's financial tools are outgrowing the sector's speculative, self-referential economy and can serve users with no interest in crypto itself—what the author calls post-crypto finance. The piece proposes "Frontier Markets" as a category for this expansion, covering prediction markets, perpetual exchanges, and compute exchanges whose products may converge. Key points: creating a market differs from operating an exchange; defining underlyings like compute indices or corporate KPIs is harder than trading them; and payments and tokenization have already crossed into the broader economy, with markets as the next stage.

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