How much is the crypto market worth today?

Today, the crypto market is valued at around $1.75 trillion — roughly the size of Google. And in Silicon Valley, engineers and executives are bolting from cushy jobs in droves to join the crypto gold rush. As it’s gone mainstream, crypto has inspired an unusually polarized discourse.

Who is investing in crypto?

It’s hard to say who’s investing in crypto, especially since a lot of activity takes place anonymously or under pseudonyms. But some surveys and studies have suggested that crypto is still dominated by affluent white men. Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange, estimated in a recent report that women made up only 26 percent of crypto investors.

What is crypto & how does it work?

These days, “crypto” usually refers to the entire universe of technologies that involve blockchains — the distributed ledger systems that power digital currencies like Bitcoin, but also serve as the base layer of technology for things like NFTs, web3 applications and DeFi trading protocols. Ah yes, blockchains.