X account: Amara's law: "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." The financial system is moving onchain. One of the biggest shifts happening over the next decade. Especially with the adoption of agentic finance.
X account @brian_armstrong name, the financial system is moving onchain, and agentic finance will become an important shift over the next decade.
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Amara's law: "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."
The financial system is moving onchain. One of the biggest shifts happening over the next decade. Especially with the adoption of agentic finance.
Key points
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Amara's law: "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."
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The financial system is moving onchain. One of the biggest shifts happening over the next decade. Especially with the adoption of agentic finance.
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Blockchain finance and the crypto asset industry: If financial activity continues to move onchain and adopt agentic finance, long-term demand for onchain settlement, custody, payments, and related infrastructure may increase.
Why it matters to readers
This is X account @brian_armstrong’s assessment of the long-term direction of the financial system. It is an opinion statement and does not provide independent data or specific implementation progress.
Focus: blockchain finance and the crypto asset industry. Observation period: the next several years to years
Risks and unknowns
Verifiable onchain business adoption data published by financial institutions or payment platforms
Actual users, transaction volume, and regulatory progress of agentic finance products
Reversal conditions for the impact assessment on the blockchain finance and crypto asset industry: onchain finance adoption stagnates over the long term, while regulatory restrictions or security incidents hinder the implementation of agentic finance and onchain settlement.