Gen Z are Blockchain digital transformation leaders
If blockchain adoption has ‘caught fire’ in a slowing growing flame of cryptoeconomics, then professionals and investors in their 20s are leading the way.
Blockchain engineers are in demand, even at the heart of what the media call the ‘crypto winter’, a period of transition for cryptocurrency communities, investors and blockchain startups.
Developers are still flocking to Blockchain
Generation Z are those born after 1995, the oldest being just twenty-four years old. With many of the most lucrative software engineering jobs being in blockchain, communities such as Ethereum, EOS, Tron, Waves and others are attracting software engineering talent from all over the world.
Regardless of the price of Bitcoin, there are still over 2,000 ‘altcoins’ listed on coinmarketcap.com. Many of these represent startups that will still be around in 3, 5 or 10 years. Gen Z view tokenized communities as the beginning of how DApps will create more ethical platforms.
GenZ already ‘opted-in’ to Crypto
Young Millennials and the elders of Gen Z participated in an ICO craze in late 2017 and early 2018 that changed the world and created a ‘decentralization’ movement and elevated Bitcoin into part of mainstream culture.
This more than any other movements, bigger than Fortnite, bigger than the rise of Netflix, positions the Gen Z cohort as the driver of blockchain’s adoption and more decentralized networks, platforms and possibilities for the realization of public blockchains.
Decentralization is a Generation Z Value
The majority of Gen Z are still teenagers in 2019. How they envision the internet is how the internet will become in years to come. Gen Z engineers, developers, investors and entrepreneurs all signal that young people see crypto as positive and blockchain adoption as inevitable.
As incredible as enthusiasm for crypto and blockchain are among young people, it’s the peer-to-peer preference and aspect of decentralization that appears to be the most sustainable in the psychology of Generation Z.
The Future of Apps and decentralized networks
The intersection of micro video apps and tokens might be the future of how GenZ creates stories made for more decentralized networks. One place this will occur in 2019 is an app called YEAY, where lifestyle, product and brand recommendations abound.
Gen Z will be invested in crypto, blockchain development, and thinking about decentralization online more than any other generation. Vitalik Buterin was born in 1994, on the cusp of Millennials and Gen Z, yet Ethereum remains the best example of the future of token economics.
In 2019, we don’t know exactly what the future of crypto, public blockchains or even digital assets look like, but we do know Gen Z will be leading blockchain’s mainstream adoption for years to come.
