Crypto New Era Window Period! Young people have always been the pioneers and leaders of the new era! Throughout the development history of the cryptocurrency industry, we will find that young people always occupy an important position The period from 2008 to 2017 was the "wilderness era" and "foundation building stage" of the cryptocurrency industry In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released a Bitcoin white paper, and in 2009, the mainnet went online and mined the Genesis block Vitalik v God, born in 1994 Ethereum crowdfunding in 2014 and mainnet launch in July 2015. Zhao Changpeng, CZ, born on September 10, 1977 2013-2017: Accumulation period in the cryptocurrency industry join The wallet team serves as the technical supervisor. Later became co-founder and CTO of OKCoin (predecessor of OKX) 2017: Founded Binance and soared to new heights With the strategy of "fast coin listing, large trading volume, and low transaction fees", it quickly rose to prominence. Within six months of its launch, Binance (BNB) surged to become the world's largest exchange and subsequently became popular. Sun Yuchen, born in 1990 I became the Chief Representative of Ripple Labs in Greater China in 2013 and founded TRON in 2017. He Yi, born in 1986 Entered the cryptocurrency industry in 2013 and served as co-founder of OKCoin. Co founded Binance in 2017, responsible for global marketing, public relations, and branding. Wu Jihan, born in 1986 Early Bitcoin Evangelist of 2011 Co founded Bitmain in 2013 Founder of Matrixport in 2021, Chairman of Bit Deer Zhu Su, born in 1987 Started investing in early cryptocurrency assets around 2015, co-founder of 3AC in 2012 Dovey Wan, born in the 1990s Entered the blockchain industry in Silicon Valley around 2015. Co founded Primitive Ventures after 2017 Maoshi World Divine Fish, born around 1980. Bitcoin mining in 2011, one of the earliest miners Co founder and CEO of Cobo Wait, wait, there are still too many. The above rankings are not in any particular order, but only list some important figures in the development history of the cryptocurrency industry. This stage can be said to be the gradual maturity of the technological foundation, the emergence of early exchanges and wallet tools, and the start of commercialization. Basically, most people were exposed to cryptocurrency between 2011 and 2015, and participated in projects or investments around the age of 20-30. The crossroads of crypto from 'savage growth' to 'institutional integration' have entered a truly popularized stage, which is the window to a new era. The cryptocurrency industry in 2025 will be a deep-water stage of "institutional entry+technological upgrading+regulatory transition". Speculation is still ongoing, but the main trend has shifted from the "fast money era" to the "infrastructure era". The real opportunity must belong to practitioners who dare to build in the long term, embrace compliance, and know how to make reductions. The core issues currently faced User growth bottleneck: The threshold for wallet usage is still high, and the total number of active users on the chain is growing slowly (For this issue, I personally believe that there may have been new solutions or better ways to address it. Currently, there is already an established cryptocurrency custody trading platform working on it.) Security issue: Emerging projects frequently mine, DeFi and wallets still face hacking risks Foam risk: "hot spot rotation" is extremely fast, and the project life cycle is generally shorter and shorter Compliance pressure: It is more difficult for project parties to operate anonymously, and regulatory requirements are more refined New narrative weakness: Investors begin to scrutinize 'pseudo innovation', real value landing projects are becoming increasingly scarce