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    Pantera Capital: How has Crypto as a Service affected us?

    By: blockbeats|2026/03/08 05:00:04
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    Original Title: 2026: The Invisible Revolution
    Original Author: Paul Veradittakit, Pantera Capital
    Original Translation: AididiaoJP, Foresight News

    2026 will be a pivotal year. We will see "crypto as an industry" evolve into "crypto as a service".

    Over the past decade, the crypto world has been full of various gimmicks. The approval of the Bitcoin ETF in 2024 gave it mainstream financial recognition. In 2025, everyone was busy building the underlying infrastructure. By 2026, real value will belong to companies that use blockchain to solve entrenched problems in traditional industries while making users completely unaware of the presence of blockchain.

    The future crypto unicorns will no longer rely on hype. They will be the kind of companies that use blockchain technology to significantly increase product efficiency, tap into multi-billion-dollar markets, and completely hide the complex technology.

    Crypto Tech Beats "Weekend"

    During the Iran conflict outbreak, the US stock market was closed for the weekend and unable to respond to sudden global risks. However, the crypto market did not stop, with Bitcoin briefly rising to $74,000. Commodities were the first to complete price discovery on the decentralized prediction market Hyperliquid, even before the traditional markets opened. This is not an isolated case—similar situations occurred last month when China announced policies.

    Traditional hedge funds are increasingly pouring into this field. The crypto market's "24/7 non-stop" is no longer just a slogan but a structural advantage that traditional finance cannot match.

    Nevertheless, the current valuation of the crypto market is still far below the level its fundamentals should reach. Without a doubt, we are once again in a bear market (the fourth one I've experienced), but this time is entirely different: regulations are becoming clearer, institutional funds have entered, and the infrastructure is improving.

    This sentiment was particularly strong at the recent Hong Kong Consensus conference. The vibrancy of the Asian market contrasts sharply with the West. There, the support of both the incumbent and opposition parties, new institutional funds, and a strong focus on consumer applications are driving bullish sentiments.

    Key Highlights for Asia in 2026:

    · Cross-Border Payments through Stablecoins, especially in the B2B sector. For the more fragmented Asian economy, crypto payments are a natural choice.

    · Tokenization of Gold, Stocks, and Real Estate. Asian banks and fintech companies are catching up to the U.S.

    · Perpetual Contract Trading on DeFi. Fueled by retail investors, the development speed may surpass that of the West.

    · Prediction Markets are expected to become a key track, although the form may differ from the West.

    Core Trend: "Crypto as a Service"

    The core theme of 2026 is transitioning from "Crypto as an industry" to "Crypto as a service." The goal is no longer to show users the blockchain but to make them completely forget about the existence of blockchain.

    Over the past decade, we have been eager to create the "Crypto Wonder" — Gas Fee Wars, TPS Races, Modular Stacks, ZK Proofs. The ETF in 2024 was mainstream institutional acknowledgment. In 2025, we laid down all the underlying infrastructure. In 2026, it's time to turn the page.

    Saying Goodbye to the "Casino" Era

    The new generation of unicorns will not be the kind of "L3 network built for AI-NFT." They will be the ones leveraging blockchain to improve product efficiency tenfold, while completely hiding the technology and thus unlocking billion-dollar markets.

    This perfectly explains our recent investment logic:

    Pantera Capital: How has Crypto as a Service affected us?

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    Novig: Farewell to the "Rake" Era ($75 Million Series B)

    Traditional sports betting is a monopolistic distorted market. The house edge extracts high commissions from each bet, resulting in a user profitability rate of only 2%. Our $75 million lead investment in Novig is because they treat sports betting as a high-frequency financial product. Through a peer-to-peer trading model, Novig users have an average profitability rate of 23%. Most users don't care if there's a decentralized order book in the background; they only know they can get the best odds in the U.S. here. This is a vivid example of "Crypto as a Service."

    Based: Consumer-Grade Super App ($11.5 Million Series A)

    We recently led Based's Series A funding round. This is a composable Web3 consumer-grade super app built on the Hyperliquid ecosystem. In the past, "consumer-grade crypto" was often equated with "clumsy user experience." Based is changing that by making on-chain interactions feel as smooth as top-tier fintech apps. Cross-chain bridging, gas fees, and other complex operations have been abstracted away, making users unaware of the underlying complexities. They can simply focus on the social and financial value their assets bring.

    Doppler: Default Asset Issuance Infrastructure ($9 Million Seed Round)

    If Based and Novig are cool new cars, then Doppler is the high-performance fuel system. We led Doppler's $9 million seed round, aiming to become the default infrastructure for on-chain asset issuance. It allows developers to issue assets with institutional-grade security and compliance standards without having to build everything from scratch. Doppler is like the Stripe of on-chain assets—pure utility packaged behind a clean API.

    Why "Invisibility" Is More Important Than "Viral Spread"

    This trend of "invisibility" is also prevalent throughout our entire investment portfolio:

    · Real-World Assets: Tokenized government bonds are no longer an experiment in the crypto world; they are becoming the backend liquidity cornerstone of global trade.

    · AI Agents: Blockchain provides AI agents with a trusted "truth layer" through predictive markets and verifiable data, enabling them to autonomously and credibly interact with digital assets.

    · Agent-Based Payments will accelerate all of this. Payment standards like x402 enable AI agents to transact directly using crypto assets. The gradual clarity in stablecoin regulation further smoothes this payment track.

    Advice for Entrepreneurs

    If you are planning to start a business in 2026, my advice is simple: Stop focusing solely on technology and talk more about the practical problems you can solve. If the page in your pitch deck explaining the consensus mechanism comes before discussing customer ROI, it means your mindset is still stuck in 2022.

    What we are looking for are teams that are building the next Novig, Based, or Doppler — those who truly understand what “mass adoption” means: It is only when a technology becomes so seamless that people completely forget it exists that it truly enters the mainstream.

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    Crypto Tech Beats "Weekend"
    Core Trend: "Crypto as a Service"
    Saying Goodbye to the "Casino" Era
    STX
    Novig: Farewell to the "Rake" Era ($75 Million Series B)
    Based: Consumer-Grade Super App ($11.5 Million Series A)
    Doppler: Default Asset Issuance Infrastructure ($9 Million Seed Round)
    Why "Invisibility" Is More Important Than "Viral Spread"
    Advice for Entrepreneurs

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