Blockchain 2025 through a Hashed Prism: Asia and Breakthrough Trends

Hashed, a digital asset investment fund and community builder, has just released the report “Hashed Thesis 2025: Leading Blockchain's Global Adoption with Asia at Its Core”.

The report outlines the golden era of blockchain in 2025, a period in which the technology is widely applied globally, with Asia as the leading hub for the transformation.

Looking Back at the Crypto Market in 2024

Opening the report, Hashed reviewed the remarkable achievements of the cryptocurrency market in 2024. The first is the huge growth of stablecoins. The cryptocurrency has seen its trading volume, number of users and number of transactions skyrocket, asserting its position as a financial pillar in the blockchain world.

In addition, layer 3 scaling solutions have successfully solved the scalability node for DApp requiring high performance.

A good example is B3, a layer 3 blockchain specializing in gaming, which achieved 1.8 million active accounts and 110 million transactions in just four months. This growth rate is seven times faster than Ethereum in the early stages.

The Hashed report also highlights the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the cryptocurrency sector.

“AI” was the hottest keyword in crypto discussions throughout 2024, accounting for 45% of all topics discussed in November (according to data from Kaito). This shows that the community is very interested in combining AI and blockchain to create new applications.

In addition, the array of real asset tokenization (RWA) also attracted huge attention, with billions of dollars pouring in from major financial institutions.

In parallel, new Bitcoin token standards such as Ordinal and BRC-20 also open up new opportunities for DeFi and strengthen Bitcoin's position, not only as a store of value but also as a platform for many other applications.

What Will Crypto Trends in 2025 Be?

Besides summing up the achievements of 2024, the Hashed report also mentions some trends of the Crypto 2025 market.

Asia to lead the 2025 Blockchain wave

Hashed believes that Asia, with its young tech-savvy population, fast-growing digital economy, and culture open to innovation, will be at the forefront of driving blockchain growth globally.

Asia is full of ideal elements for blockchain applications, from finance to entertainment and everyday life. The report points out that a wave of new users, a diverse blockchain ecosystem, and government support are key factors driving the Asian market's appeal.

Stablecoin - Currency of the Future

Hashed Predictions stablecoinwill move beyond the scope of cryptocurrency trading, entering into consumer (B2C) and enterprise (B2B) finance.

South Korea is a good example, where stablecoins already account for 10% of the commercial payments market share, showing the real application potential of the currency.

This trend is driven by the need for more efficient payments, reduced costs and increased speed of international transactions.

The fact that SWIFT — the leading international payment system — is studying stablecoin integration further confirms the inevitable shift of the global financial system to a real-time payment model.

The stability of stablecoins also facilitates their use as collateral. In doing so, promote the free flow of capital across borders, optimize global financial efficiency and make it easier for people to access financial services.

Web3 Social Network with Automated Digital Entities

Hashed points out that the current Web3 social network cannot yet compete with centralized platforms. However, the emergence of “Autonomous Digital Entities” with infinite content creation capabilities will create a major turning point.

These entities, combined with smart contract, will turn user interaction into economic value, distribute profits to token holders and create a self-reinforcing attention economy.

Simply put, when users interact with content, they contribute to generating profits for those who own the tokens of these entities.

Decentralized AI - The Future of Artificial Intelligence

The report analyzes the limitations of centralized AI, including governance lack of transparency, data monopolies, and privacy concerns.

Decentralized AI is proposed as an alternative, distributing power, ownership and participation to everyone in the network, ensuring data control and fairness.

This model promotes transparency and accountability, contributing to trust building in the digital ecosystem.

Further reference:AI Agent Changes How Users Interact with Blockchain

High quality data

Hashed sees high-quality data as the new “gold mine,” which is key to creating the next technological breakthroughs.

In the same way that AI models and computing power were once scarce resources, now high-quality data is becoming extremely valuable.

However, much of the data is now “hidden” in centralized systems, leaving their potential untapped. Hashed believes that blockchain is the solution to unlocking this huge repository of data.

Blockchain allows users to own and control their data, and creates a secure and transparent data sharing mechanism.

Moreover, blockchain also allows users to monetize data through new economic models. Projects like Zettablock and Story Protocol are good examples that show this enormous potential.

User-friendly blockchain application

The next wave of blockchain applications will focus on the user experience, bringing blockchain closer to the masses. Blockchain will revolutionize daily operations, improve efficiency and transparency.

To achieve this, blockchain applications need to be as friendly and easy to use as traditional applications that people are already familiar with.

The goal is to make blockchain accessible to everyone, regardless of their technical knowledge. Blockchain applications will be designed to simplify complex processes, remove technical barriers and provide a seamless experience for users.

This will help promote the application of blockchain into everyday life, from leisure activities to financial services.

Modhaus, for example, allows fans to interact directly with idols through tokens. The mobile-friendly interface will make it easy for users to access DeFi and decentralized financial services.

Social networks combined with blockchain

Telegram and TON are good examples of blockchain integration into social networks, attracting hundreds of millions of Web3 users through simple games.

Line and Kakao are also actively integrating blockchain into messaging applications and developing social networking, gaming, DeFi, and RWA applications.

The report points out that blockchain social networks need to develop additional features, infrastructure, and technical support to enhance user retention and drive long-term engagement.

Market trading on blockchain

Blockchain is revolutionizing the field of trading, bringing efficiency and transparency to both high-growth assets and traditional industries.

With high-growth assets, blockchain enables trading of new types of assets such as computing capacity or the right to use urban space.

For traditional industries, blockchain helps “upgrade” financial markets such as securities and commodities, enhancing transparency and efficiency.

Hashed believes that blockchain-powered trading markets will play an important role in driving the application of this technology, benefiting both investors, businesses and the economy.