Emerging markets are where onchain is already daily life—paying suppliers, sending money home, saving in stable value. For investors, the upside is real; so are the swings.
Here’s a clear view of the opportunity, where risk shows up, and the patterns we see behind resilient outcomes. 🧵
Africa, SEA, and LatAm keep compounding: mobile-first users, stablecoin payments, and onchain savings easing everyday frictions.
Growth driven by utility, not hype.
But currencies, liquidity, and rules can move overnight. In 2024, the Argentine peso fell ~50% vs USD; the Nigerian naira fell ~40%.
Onchain feels it too—de-pegs, paused off-ramps, bridge outages.
The real pressure points:
• FX & liquidity shocks
• Policy reversals / licensing delays
• Uneven governance & transparency
• Patchy data (hard to verify, slow to update)
But these don’t kill the EM thesis—they define the terrain.
Across cycles, the most durable outcomes share six habits—patterns we’ve seen keep people liquid, credible, and calm when markets move.
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