
Fidelity Digital Assets research analyst Matt Hogan said not making any Bitcoin allocation could become more of a risk to nations than making one.
Countries are expected to add Bitcoin into national strategic reserves in 2025, kicking off significant growth in the crypto market, Fidelity Digital Assets said in its latest research paper.
“We anticipate more nation-states, central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and government treasuries will look to establish strategic positions in Bitcoin,” said Fidelity Digital Assets research analyst Matt Hogan in the firm’s Jan. 7 paper titled “2025 Look Ahead.”
He added that these entities may take notice of the playbook employed by Bhutan and El Salvador “and the substantial returns they have been able to glean from such positions in a relatively short amount of time.”
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s Blockchain Innovation Hub will no longer exist in its current dedicated form starting in 2025.
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s (RMIT) pioneer Blockchain Innovation Hub — billed as the first social science research center into blockchain — is set to largely sideline its dedicated blockchain research unit in 2025, despite a historic crypto market rally.
From next year, the Hub will operate as a research group under the university’s finance school, and researchers will have to go back to teaching, according to a Dec. 12 email seen by Cointelegraph and confirmed by an RMIT spokesperson.
In the email, RMIT deputy vice-chancellor of business Colin Picker said the university is honing in on efficiency and must choose carefully where it sends resources. He said the new Blockchain Hub model was strategic as it will support student learning while allowing research to continue.
DeSci advocates say “traditional science” has fallen prey to regulatory capture and been maligned by corporate greed and now a blockchain-based update is in order.
Decentralized science (DeSci) — a new field that updates scientific research with blockchain and crypto — may hold the key to revolutionizing the future of science by bootstrapping new blockchain-based funding models and making research more accessible.
Speaking to Cointelegraph, Joshua Bate, the founder of DeSci World, said DeSci is a much-needed “update” to the broken software of trad science, which he says has become crippled by pointless incentives, including gatekept data, regulatory capture and corporate greed.
Bate said DeSci can be thought of as an extension of the “open science movement” — an initiative of researchers sharing data and publishing open research that began as far back as the 1600s.