Personally, I think the trend of DeFi and NFTs will remain long and develop strongly in the coming time. In addition, some areas that I am also quite interested in this market are the combination of games, gambling games with blockchain. There are also things like CBDC which will also be something that I am quite interested in the future in this market.
On the contrary, I am not so excited about CBDC, for those who won't know it stands for Central Bank Digital Currency which means the centralized banks will issue a token of their own which would work just like cryptocurrency.
The reason I don't like the concept and not too excited about it is because it gives all the control to the banks and it would literally become a digital wallet and we already have many digital wallets so why do we need a new one? Crypto is so popular because it's decentralized and if you centralize crypto, I don't think there would be much of a purpose being served.
Why would someone use CBDC when they can use USDT which although isn't decentralized, at least is much more anonymous.