Crypto: The next cycle could trigger a historical adoption

What if the next crypto cycle was not only bullish, but a historic turning point? During the Waib Summit 2025, several experts said that a single cycle could be enough to pass the crypto from 659 million in December 2024 to 5 billion users within ten years. A global adoption in progress, no longer carried by speculation alone, but by the rise of concrete uses, the maturity of blockchain technologies and a renewed interest of individuals as well as institutions.

A crypto growth cycle separates us from massive adoption

While the Crypto market undergoes violent correction phases, Thomas Prévot, manager of France operations at Crypto.com, A book A striking prediction during the Waib Summit 2025 in Monaco: “We are at a growth cycle of massive adoption. I'm not talking about a billion users, but five billion. ”

He specifies that this adoption would not be limited to sleeping wallets or occasional speculators, but would aim at daily use of cryptos, “As ubiquitous as the use of credit cards today”. A change of scale that could lastingly transform the place of crypto in the world economy.

For panel stakeholders, several concrete factors could catalyze this next CAP:

• The general public speculation as a short -term engine: “We saw the quadruple market in a few months, only by speculation” Recalls Roy Van Krimpen (OKX), in reference to the Haussier cycle of 2021;

• The role of market cycles: Prévot evokes a mass adoption which would intervene after the next bearish phase, at the start of a new bull market, when media attention and interest reach summits;

• The rise of established players: platforms like Crypto.com or OKX today have a much stronger infrastructure and user base than in 2021, which mechanically increases their ability to absorb a new vague adoption;

• The psychological threshold effect: reaching the first billion users would be a major turning point, comparable to the arrival of the Internet in homes at the turn of the 2000s, according to several stakeholders.

The shared vision at Waib Summit is therefore clear: a massive crypto adoption could be reached not in the distant future, but from the next bullish cycle. However, this perspective is based above all on market capacity to reproduce, or even exceed, the speculative dynamics that marked the last Bull Run.

The daily use of the blockchain, the key to the next level?

To cross the symbolic threshold of the second billion, and reach out to the five billion users, a deep change is necessary. This time, it would no longer be a question of attracting via promises of performance, but of building real, daily use of blockchain technology.

“The second option is based on an adoption based on use”, said Van Krimpen, referring to concrete cases such as payments, identification or value transfers without intermediaries. These changes imply a slower behavioral evolution, but also more stable over the long term.

With this in mind, Chinan Turakhia, director at Coinbase, insists on the need for solutions adapted to beginners. Ergonomics, accessibility and simplicity of use become pillars to transform crypto into a daily tool.

It is only in this condition that she will be able to get out of her technophile niche to reach emerging markets, non -banished users or simply citizens looking for alternatives. In addition, projections such as those of Willy Woo, Crypto analyst, give an overview of the economic potential of a massive adoption: “If only 3 % of world portfolios allocated Bitcoin a share, its price could reach $ 700,000.”

This massive adoption scenario is obviously accompanied by colossal challenges: the scalability of networks, regulation, educational infrastructure and institutional acceptance with Bitcoin which is increasingly entering business strategies. However, it also opens the way to a redefinition of the global financial system. If the next wave of users is no longer only motivated by gain, but by usefulness, crypto could permanently establish itself as a global technological standard.