Artemis founder: TradFi participants will drive crypto assets from $3.5 trillion to over $100 trillion

Jon Ma, founder of Artemis, an institutional data platform for cryptocurrencies, shared his experience of entering the crypto industry from the traditional financial sector. He said that when he first came into contact with Bitcoin in 2015, he did not take it seriously until he paid attention to and purchased Bitcoin and other crypto assets again in 2017. He said that through exchanges with Erik Voorhees of Shapeshift, he began to realize the possibility of separating money from the government. In the following years, he missed the DeFi boom and the rise of NFTs, but re-entered the crypto field in 2021, invested in Solana and its NFTs, and tried to participate in DeFi projects. He also supported Filipino scholars through Axie Infinity with his girlfriend. He believes that in the future, participants in the traditional financial field will drive crypto assets from US$3.5 trillion to more than US$100 trillion. Asset management companies such as Fidelity and BlackRock are actively launching digital asset ETFs and related products, and the world's largest fintech companies Stripe and Visa are also likely to benefit from the crypto payment network.