At first glance, there is no relevance. Because at the fundamental aspects,,, crypto is completely different from fiat as a monetary system. But that was the era of Bitcoin.
Now we have tokens, centralized and issued by companies (think of Ripple) and we even have stablecoins,,, and such things as securities tokens now.
So, all these forms of crypto are basically having the same principles of financial management as fiat. Therefore, expertise from financial historians make sense for them.
I agree, you couldn't have said it much better. What are your thoughts on the Ampleforth protocol and why a historian would want to join them in the first place?