The end of Crypto 1.0 is inevitable. As the market matured under natural dynamics, a clear pattern emerged: virtually every cryptocurrency's ultimate goal became listing on a top-tier centralized exchange — from Coinbase to Binance. This created a hard ceiling on market caps. Traditional institutional capital simply wouldn't participate on those platforms, effectively trapping innovation beneath a glass layer. Once NASDAQ and the NYSE launch tokenized stock trading, everything changes. Traditional financial capital will naturally migrate toward this new crypto-native equity layer. Major native cryptocurrencies — Bitcoin, Ethereum, SOL, BNB, and others — will be listed and traded as "broad stock tokens" alongside traditional equities. This emerging broad tokenized securities market will be the true launchpad for Crypto 2.0. In the future, the primary listing target for high-quality crypto projects will no longer be legacy CEXs, but these institutional-grade tokenized stock platforms. This shift breaks the old market cap ceiling entirely. Low-quality VC coins and meme coins will be filtered out by the rigor of this new mechanism. Only projects strong enough to earn a spot on NASDAQ or NYSE-level infrastructure will successfully list and thrive. At the same time, the traditional venture capital paradigm itself will evolve and ultimately erode. The familiar angel, Seed, Series A–D funding model will gradually dissolve. Promising projects will first gain liquidity on decentralized exchanges, allowing both traditional VCs and retail investors to participate early by simply purchasing the project's token on-chain. This new investment model — decentralized, liquid, and merit-based — will slowly replace the old closed-round system. Like the broader transition, this will unfold over many years. In the Crypto 2.0 era, blockchain technology becomes the foundational infrastructure of modern society. This includes stablecoins, broad tokenized equities, and other on-chain asset classes — such as high-quality real-world assets stored on Bitcoin, Ethereum, or similar networks, potentially in the form of inscriptions or advanced token standards.

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