What could be the next new asset class after crypto?

[YOSHIE]

Real estate and precious metals as assets are thousands of years old, stocks started trading around 1600, cryptocurrencies (crypto assets) emerged in 2009... what asset class is next?

Wow, this is quite far-fetched speculation, I can't imagine what asset models will come out in the future, apart from the ones you mentioned.
Is it possible that the Al digital currency in the future will be used by the public like current cryptocurrencies, I have a feeling that the Al digital asset will come out in 2030, maybe we haven't seen the type or logo of the digital currency yet.

But my illusion is like this:


This is my illusion, that's not how Al's digital currency should be.
Who knows if this speculation will come true in the future.

[dansus021]

Personally I dont know because crypto market itself is pretty new I mean its been here only for a couple of decades, I think Crypto is the final form of money itself just like the AI the final of technology from there both crypto and AI could potentially unlock other things.

Maybe something with tokenized asset or thing that bring closer between traditional market and new market like crypto

[bangjoe]

Real estate and precious metals as assets are thousands of years old, stocks started trading around 1600, cryptocurrencies (crypto assets) emerged in 2009... what asset class is next?

No one knows what will become a new class of assets, if there were people would have hunted it today, look at how bitcoin, if people knew that bitcoin would be like this then since it was first launched there would be a lot of buying, but in fact it is clearly different, we have to go through many obstacles and obstacles and even insults to bitcoin until bitcoin can be recognized and reach the highest price, it is inseparable from human stupidity in predicting the future, because the basic key of a class asset is its limited number.

[pooya87]

I think it will be something AI-related and I have two main reasons for it.

1. The obvious AI-boom that we all saw over the past couple of years. Which is a bubble that is going to grow in the coming years even more. They are hyping it up too. The advertisements are already going crazy with their exaggerations and the Hollywood has already produced a ton of content contributing to that hype.

2. AI-dollar replacing Petrodollar. With the world dumping the dollar once again, the US regime is trying to introduce the next scam to rip the world off a little longer with its uncapped dollar with $40 trillion debt. Just like they replaced Bretton Woods scam with Petrodollar scam they have been trying to replace Petrodollar scam with AI-dollar (compute-dollar/Tech-dollar) scam.

We could anything AI-related shoot to the moon (or better said "pumped" because it is a hype not natural). That includes computer hardware, the tech companies, even the energy sector... The hype is strong and could be the next major global bubble and bubble burst (aka catastrophe), remember how all those stocks dumped when China overnight revealed DeepSeek.

[uneng]

Assets have to be scarce and have a real usage, so it will mean there will be a real value implied. That is why the asset is going to be considered by investors as an alternative to put their money into. Bitcoin is valuable due to those two reasons, just like real estate and precious metals.

Now, thinking about something which doesn't exist right now, but which could have those two characteristics it's hard, because if something can be created from thin air, it means it's not scarce. Most elements related to technology and virtuality seem to be infinite.

I can think on natural resources like water and energy sources as powerful classes of assets in the future.

[JeffBrad12]

Computing powa is the new oil. Invest in GPU’s that have the biggest video ram because that’s where the real shit is at at the moment. Own your local AI infrastructure because these are the last moments you are allowed to buy one.

The ability to think independently without having to have permission from some corporate is the new asset class.

Think independently and freely and more importantly, privately.

Unless you own your own AI infra, you are only allowed to think what your $20 gpt subscription lets you.

Yeah computing power, seems more likely. There is a hint from NVIDIA and friends about their new arm chip consumer grade computing which I suspect, gonna be cloud based.
These company want to make people depend on subscription for compute power instead of buying their own computing like PC. I can see the dystopian we are heading . Data center owner will be the new gold hoarder.

[|MINER|]

Real estate and precious metals as assets are thousands of years old, stocks started trading around 1600, cryptocurrencies (crypto assets) emerged in 2009... what asset class is next?

Actually, if we had known this, maybe we wouldn't have waited so long, but would have created or published it ourselves and become billionaires.
I don't think there's a direct answer to the question you asked, but yes, the answer I have is that only time will tell what the next asset will be.

I personally don't think it's wise to dwell on such thoughts for now. Rather, I think we should take profit from what's happening now and move forward.

[rbynxx]

Your examples take centuries before another asset comes into play, then we may not see that in our lifetime. I think I'd cherish what is now and that's crypto for sure, maybe with declining resources and the rising population, we may have to fight for drinkable water as an asset class. We may never know tbh, we just have to guess.

[Oasisman]

Computing powa is the new oil. Invest in GPU’s that have the biggest video ram because that’s where the real shit is at at the moment. Own your local AI infrastructure because these are the last moments you are allowed to buy one.

Exactly!
Not so many people have yet to realize this. Even with the sudden rise of GPU prices in the market, some people still think it's normal and were part of the hyper inflation we're experiencing these days.
We are on the era where everything runs in a computer and AI is about to completely take over in the next few years. Computing power will surely skyrocket as the market not only see it as a demand, but a necessity.
Honestly, I think it is going to be as precious as rare metals.

[aoluain]

Computing powa is the new oil. Invest in GPU’s that have the biggest video ram because that’s where the real shit is at at the moment. Own your local AI infrastructure because these are the last moments you are allowed to buy one.

The ability to think independently without having to have permission from some corporate is the new asset class.

Think independently and freely and more importantly, privately.

Unless you own your own AI infra, you are only allowed to think what your $20 gpt subscription lets you.

Correct!
That said...i was looking to buy some and the computer I wanted that could have done something like that ^ was not available AT ALL, lol

As far as an asset class...clearly it would be something equal to a current AI "token" or a derivative.
Nothing else is on the horizon, imho.

But wouldnt all that hardware become obsolete in a matter of months or at max a handful of years?

New asset classes are definitely going to be centered around energy and finance in a digital form.
Its really hard to focus on any single area really because development is happening quite fast and
probably getting faster.

I think it will be something AI-related and I have two main reasons for it.

1. The obvious AI-boom that we all saw over the past couple of years. Which is a bubble that is going to grow in the coming years even more. They are hyping it up too. The advertisements are already going crazy with their exaggerations and the Hollywood has already produced a ton of content contributing to that hype.

2. AI-dollar replacing Petrodollar. With the world dumping the dollar once again, the US regime is trying to introduce the next scam to rip the world off a little longer with its uncapped dollar with $40 trillion debt. Just like they replaced Bretton Woods scam with Petrodollar scam they have been trying to replace Petrodollar scam with AI-dollar (compute-dollar/Tech-dollar) scam.

We could anything AI-related shoot to the moon (or better said "pumped" because it is a hype not natural). That includes computer hardware, the tech companies, even the energy sector... The hype is strong and could be the next major global bubble and bubble burst (aka catastrophe), remember how all those stocks dumped when China overnight revealed DeepSeek.

I think the AI asset class has already been created and controlled by a very few people/tech companies.

[mindrust]

Computing powa is the new oil. Invest in GPU’s that have the biggest video ram because that’s where the real shit is at at the moment. Own your local AI infrastructure because these are the last moments you are allowed to buy one.

The ability to think independently without having to have permission from some corporate is the new asset class.

Think independently and freely and more importantly, privately.

Unless you own your own AI infra, you are only allowed to think what your $20 gpt subscription lets you.

Correct!
That said...i was looking to buy some and the computer I wanted that could have done something like that ^ was not available AT ALL, lol

As far as an asset class...clearly it would be something equal to a current AI "token" or a derivative.
Nothing else is on the horizon, imho.

But wouldnt all that hardware become obsolete in a matter of months or at max a handful of years?

New asset classes are definitely going to be centered around energy and finance in a digital form.
Its really hard to focus on any single area really because development is happening quite fast and
probably getting faster.

They very well might become obsolete very fast but so far the opposite has been happening. Old components are suddenly getting more valuable. Look at DDR4 ram prices, they are not going down. Look old GPU prices, they are also going up.

SSD's, HDD's, DDR5, DDR4, GPU's... Everything has been going up up up and more up.

Component shortages are everywhere.

It doesn't look like current hardware will go obsolote anytime soon. Maybe after 2030...

[macson]

Real estate and precious metals as assets are thousands of years old, stocks started trading around 1600, cryptocurrencies (crypto assets) emerged in 2009... what asset class is next?

Your question is so ridiculous. If people knew which asset would be the next big thing after cryptocurrency, they'd invest their money in it to become millionaires. But the fact is, no one can predict which asset will be the next big thing like crypto. That's why people can only speculate on which assets will boom next by looking at technological advancements or other sectors. Whether they're smart (or just incredibly lucky), they can find the opportunity earlier than others.

[Odusko]

Real estate and precious metals as assets are thousands of years old, stocks started trading around 1600, cryptocurrencies (crypto assets) emerged in 2009... what asset class is next?

We should expect whatever comes along the line because as a matter of fact, cryptocurrency still have alot of space to cover and thinking of the next big thing could seems to be something that we are quick to move it of the ave of crypto right now, Real estate have been around for ages and yet it relevance as an investment is still growing massively, so cryptocurrency will keep emerging and new concepts will also come onboard.

[STT]

Its easily got to be something to do with AI tokenized work and perhaps even Quantum.  A currency that allows a kind of cost value between units of computation that can move as fast as the workload demands and transmit an economy there.   If there is a utility in describing that value for supply vs demand then it will probably come into existence.
   I believe the banks are trying to do as much or at least lay the groundwork, so their project becomes the leader. Companies like Visa or just old banks dont want to miss out on this next wave of what is basically still fiat in its underpinnings and still centralized but digital blockchain also.

[JaanusRaim]

Assets have to be scarce and have a real usage, so it will mean there will be a real value implied. That is why the asset is going to be considered by investors as an alternative to put their money into. Bitcoin is valuable due to those two reasons, just like real estate and precious metals.

Now, thinking about something which doesn't exist right now, but which could have those two characteristics it's hard, because if something can be created from thin air, it means it's not scarce. Most elements related to technology and virtuality seem to be infinite.

I can think on natural resources like water and energy sources as powerful classes of assets in the future.

I think just as you that the first step could be to think about the criteria that the next new asset class must have. You say that 1)assets have to be scarce and 2)have a real usage...
I fully agreed with the first but do not agree with the second. Because an asset with absolutely no real usage other than just investment is possible.
If we put the abovementioned assets in the line in accordance with their real usage importance in their value then real estate is in the one extreme and Dogecoin (and other similar cryptos that are really not cryptocurrencies) are in the other extreme. Silver is about in the middle, gold is more towards DOGE and Bitcoin is somewhere between gold and silver ?
Yes, Bitcoin has real usage - the first very important and powerful real usage of Bitcoin was SilkRoad... I think the SilkRoad was one of the best BTC advertising miracles of all the Bitcoin history - the Real Usage that even the blind monkey understood and accepted - it helped BTC to gather popularity (reputation) may-be more than any other real usage case later.... the international money transfers become much easier with the aid of BTC as well that is the second important real usage of Bitcoin and so on and so on...
BUT it is wrong to say that BTC (fundamental) value comes only from its real usage and that BTC price has to be proportional with BTC real usage in the long run. We and only we (as the community) give value to an asset and though our decision is often partly caused by the real usage of that asset, the last is not the only determinant of our decision.

And it is the same with many other assets and asset classed too. Real usage seems to be only one determinant of assets value.

NB! Look at the famous and fruitful Falkvinge-error
https://falkvinge.net/2013/03/06/the-target-value-for-bitcoin-is-not-some-50-or-100-it-is-100000-to-1000000/
Falkvinge got 100% right result with faulty calculation and I think the word cryptocurrency was the main cause of that. He assumed that BTC has to have the real usage as a currency in the same proportion than the market cap in relation to the main currencies like USD. Now we have the situation where BTC has achieved Falkvinges target price but not his target the real usage. Not at all! This disproportion comes from the fact that BTC has achieved much higher reputation as an investment asset than only its real usage could justify.

[gracreavix]

Computing powa is the new oil. Invest in GPU’s that have the biggest video ram because that’s where the real shit is at at the moment. Own your local AI infrastructure because these are the last moments you are allowed to buy one.

The ability to think independently without having to have permission from some corporate is the new asset class.

Think independently and freely and more importantly, privately.

Unless you own your own AI infra, you are only allowed to think what your $20 gpt subscription lets you.

This makes a lot of sense based on how the world is currently going. AI is slowly becoming part of almost everything we do today, and the people that own the infrastructure behind it can/will likely end up being in a very strong position, just like those who controlled key resources during previous technological shifts.

The idea of independent thinking. Real.

[salad daging]

Haven't thought about it yet, there is no sign that a new asset will emerge that shakes the world.

What about the ever-increasing development of AI, will it become an asset or just like any other stock? AI projects are still going into stocks and more integration into crypto projects so I don't think new assets will be there so far.

For me there is nothing that can exceed bitcoin.

[Kelward]

Real estate and precious metals as assets are thousands of years old, stocks started trading around 1600, cryptocurrencies (crypto assets) emerged in 2009... what asset class is next?

This is quite hard to imagine because before cryptocurrency everything that is an asset has to do with physical things and paperworks then Bitcoin came and changed that narrative being a decentralized asset and limited supply currency plus. Bitcoin as an asset is the peak of what many of us could imagine, even from it's creation many of us didn't give it a chance as an asset but today it has become a store of value.

I think that any innovations and assets that will come after what we have on ground now would still rotate around physical and digital forms so it will be pretty much replicas and innovations of what we have now. Perhaps an asset or technology that will make us to teleport or prove that it can make us to live longer or forever I'm sure that the super rich will own them and can sell at very expensive price.

[hyudien]

Real estate and precious metals as assets are thousands of years old, stocks started trading around 1600, cryptocurrencies (crypto assets) emerged in 2009... what asset class is next?

We will never know what the next asset after crypto will be, but there will always be new ideas from people to create something new. Similarly, when previous generations created the assets we know today, did they imagine at the time that these assets would become very valuable? No, and it could be that in the future assets that seem absurd today will become very valuable. No one knows.

[henmark]

Computing powa is the new oil. Invest in GPU’s that have the biggest video ram because that’s where the real shit is at at the moment. Own your local AI infrastructure because these are the last moments you are allowed to buy one.

The ability to think independently without having to have permission from some corporate is the new asset class.

Think independently and freely and more importantly, privately.

Unless you own your own AI infra, you are only allowed to think what your $20 gpt subscription lets you.

This makes a lot of sense based on how the world is currently going. AI is slowly becoming part of almost everything we do today, and the people that own the infrastructure behind it can/will likely end up being in a very strong position, just like those who controlled key resources during previous technological shifts.

The idea of independent thinking. Real.

Utilizing AI to make money is the new way and the people who rush to it, will be like gold rush, and the makers of shovel will be the ones who make the most money, not the gold diggers. A friend of mine had a mining operation for example, which he used to mine ETH back in the day, it wasn't a "huge" one compared to many others, but it reached like 400k dollars worth at some point, now it worths a lot less of course.

Now he turned that into a "server" where you can use it for your AI, because most people do not have enough powerful PC to use AI locally, so they use either stuff like Claude or chatgpt or whatever, or if they want to use AI locally on their PC and build their own, then they need a powerful PC. What he does is offer people his server so they can build it there, sort of like AWS.