Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, speaking at the main stage of TOKEN2049 on the first day of the conference in his talk titled "What Excites Me About the Next Decade," said:

People often say that crypto is still in its early stages, that we are still building the infrastructure. It's true, things like the internet took a long time to achieve, and I think people have been saying this almost since Bitcoin was launched. But a real challenge we face today is that the crypto space is no longer in its early stages.

Ethereum as a project has been around for over 10 years, and in the 15 years since Bitcoin's inception, we've seen things like ChatGPT go from non-existent to suddenly emerging and fundamentally changing people's understanding of AI.

Therefore, we must ask ourselves a question: how do we actually look at all of this? Are we really still in the early stages? My answer to that question is that I don't think we are early in crypto, but we are certainly in a special stage.