The State of Crypto Innovation:
2026 and Beyond

About this Report

The State of Crypto Innovation is a concise report that maps where Web3 momentum is at (and heading towards) in 2026.

Currently, it’s clear that Web3 still struggles with fully realizing the potential of its many innovations—both in terms of adoption and usability.

On the one hand, noticeable metrics and trends demonstrate industry growth. Chief among these are the increasing participation of financial institutions in the crypto market, the normalization of prediction markets as the first crypto-native use case to truly break into the mainstream, a near-universal consensus on stablecoins as the future of commerce, and DeFi’s maturity as a niche.

On the other hand, the value poured into crypto over the last 10 years creates a near-universal sentiment of disconnect between this value and the pace of technological progress. This leads many to question the approaches taken by industry participants to drive adoption and the long-term potential of Web3 as a whole.

This report’s primary goal is to consolidate the opinions of well-known, reputable builders to uncover shared trends and priorities for driving crypto adoption, as well as reflections on the industry’s trajectory. For this, we interviewed spokespersons from projects directly influencing adoption by everyday consumers from the following sub-industries:

• Chain abstraction
• Account abstraction
• Modular infrastructure
• Customizable blockchains
• RWAs
• Tokenization
• Stablecoins

Notably, we excluded application builders from this exercise with the goal of focusing on the infrastructural trends that, in turn, enable applications to drive adoption by executing on them. Similarly, projects’ individual responses are anonymized and synthesized to highlight the strongest shared trends and priorities emerging across the group. This allows us to focus on ecosystem signals rather than spotlighting particular viewpoints. However, in some cases, specific examples were retained to showcase authoritative views on certain subjects. Complementary information and explanations have also been inserted to provide context and support (or challenge) respondents’ opinions with recent data.

The result is what follows: a glimpse into builders’ perspectives on the innovations showing traction today. Although the methodology used for this report does not seek to be considered exhaustive, it is our hope that it helps inspire further industry development and gives readers a better understanding of the current state of the multi-faceted adoption puzzle.

Executive Summary

“Institutional adoption appears when complexity disappears.”

CentrifugeTokenization & Onchain Asset Management

In 2026, Web3 has more to show than ever, both in terms of real-world adoption and decentralized infrastructure.

High usage metrics, new regulations, and the consolidation of certain applications and protocols demonstrate that technical progress has positioned the industry at an intermediate stage between narrative-following and measurable maturity. In particular, DeFi, RWAs, and stablecoins have become too big to ignore, establishing themselves as industry pillars and setting themselves to become ingrained into the finance and payments industries.

Meanwhile, crypto infrastructure innovations (like modular chains, ready-made blockchain development kits, account and chain abstraction, and AI agent upgrades) have the potential to both attract and unlock trillions in capital by improving the usability of new and existing Web3 tools, putting crypto’s unique value propositions at the forefront of online experiences.

Throughout this report, builders in Web3 express their views on four core areas regarding these innovations:

• Their value for the industry.
• How they can interact with the mentioned consolidated trends and help accelerate them.
• The unique insights and learnings collected by developing them.
• The steps needed for them to drive broader crypto adoption.

As conclusions, and besides showcasing the trajectory of the innovations highlighted here, this report showcases a unified perspective on a central point: the biggest opportunity ahead is making it possible for Web2 teams to leverage Web3 without needing to be blockchain experts.

Projects converge on the need for the industry to continue moving in two simultaneous paths to achieve this:

• Allowing tested innovations time to mature, spread, and become established without rushing to develop competing standards.
• Thoughtfully continuing to embed solutions to real-world needs (such as compliance) within decentralized, Web3-native innovations. This is particularly needed by enterprises making a transition to or adding Web3 features.

Overall, responses highlight a need to prioritize thoughtful standardization, execution, and pragmatism over fragmentation. They also foreshadow the importance of preparing for crypto to act as the rails for an AI agent-heavy economy, a trend also discussed in this report and currently developing at the fringes of traditional solutions.

Key Takeaways

Eight cross-cutting findings from our interviews with builders across chain abstraction, account abstraction, modular infrastructure, customizable blockchains, RWAs, tokenization, and stablecoins.

Chapter One

Rails for Adoption—Modularity, Account Abstraction, and Intents

Crypto has achieved one of the fastest adoption curves of any major technology in history (0–500M users in 16 years), largely by leveraging its powerful financial properties.

As a multi-trillion-dollar industry, it has demonstrated potential for massive capital inflow, despite significant UX deficits.

However, as the industry’s recognition and potential grow, so does its need to address core limitations to appeal to less-savvy users. Resultingly, three infrastructure technologies have established themselves as the foundation for making crypto and blockchain technology accessible to enterprises and users: Account abstraction (ERC-4337), modular blockchains, and intents.

In the opinion of our responders:

• Account abstraction (AA) is currently the main innovation in crypto’s user experience. Demonstrated by its success in eliminating gas and simplifying users’ interactions in many of 2025–2026’s top dApps (Polymarket, Hyperliquid, Pump.fun). Solana’s native account abstraction and the ERC-4337 EVM standard have also acted as the foundation for chain abstraction and other cross-chain technologies.
• Intents are the next practical layer that turns AA into something usable at scale. In the last year they have matured from theoretical “all-encompassing” systems to a narrower, high-impact scope (eliminating chains, bridges, and gas inside self-contained apps). They’re also at the core of chain abstraction, and face the challenge of acting as a “translator” for AI agents as the niche develops.
• Modularity brings blockchain benefits closer to consumers by facilitating specific use cases that fit their real-world models. It is currently delivering institutional and RWA adoption by giving builders sovereignty, compliance controls, predictable economics, and native interoperability without sacrificing ecosystem connectivity.

Figure 01 · Diagram

The Three Pillars of Adoption Infrastructure

As responders identify, these innovations, together, provide a framework for more real-world blockchain use cases, more attractive and complex applications, and simpler interactions.

Next, we’ll elaborate on their points of view on each of them, and provide further data on their state, development, and future outlook.

Modularity: Blockchain-level Innovation

Modularity lets developers launch sovereign, purpose-built chains (appchains or dedicated L1s/L2s) that give them full control over key factors within their chain while “inheriting” the decentralization, security, interoperability, and tooling of established ecosystems.

This idea emerged in the early 2020s but stayed mostly experimental until recently. During this time, two core changes have occurred:

• Several L1 ecosystems have embraced modularity at their core, launching tooling that allows developers to build blockchains reliant on their “home” systems. Complementary solutions offering outsourced data availability and security (e.g. staking) have also emerged.
• Upgrades across major ecosystems have removed high staking requirements, introduced native interoperability layers, and sharply reduced deployment costs.

Thanks to these, modularity has transformed from an experimental concept into a consolidated, production-ready architecture with growing adoption.

“The appchain thesis on Avalanche has matured significantly. What has emerged most strongly is demand from compliance-driven and enterprise use cases—teams that need sovereignty over their validator set, gas economics, and data access for regulatory reasons.”

AvalancheLayer-1 Network · Enterprise L1 Infrastructure

Respondents identify modularity as a pillar of today’s Web3 ecosystem, allowing enterprises and projects to launch their own chains in a way that public chains can’t. They identify an ongoing demand from institutions, corporations, and RWA issuers that need sovereignty without sacrificing connectivity, particularly in terms of:

• Control over validators
• Ability to set custom gas economics
• Owning data access at the protocol level
• Setting or meeting regulatory compliance requirements
• Maintaining cost certainty
• Optimizing performance and customizing for target use cases

Here, data confirms our surveyed projects’ views: 2025 and early 2026 have seen well-known, consolidated corporations deploy production-grade, sovereign chains that bring real-world businesses (in RWAs, payments, entertainment, and institutional finance) onchain at scale.

Furthermore, these chains have established themselves with proven transaction volumes, TVL/revenue growth, and multi-billion-dollar commitments:

Figure 02 · Data Visualization

Enterprise & RWA Chain Deployments, 2025–2026

These deployments prove the modular thesis has matured: enterprises now launch custom, compliant, high-performance chains that inherit larger ecosystem’s security with ease—and in fact, they’re driving billions in tokenized value, transactions, and millions in direct onchain revenue while optimizing for business use cases.

“The goal is to let chains specialize—whether for throughput, compliance, or application design—while stablecoins remain interoperable and dependable across them all.”

NobleStablecoin Issuance Network

Standout Example: The Avalanche Ecosystem

One of our surveyed projects and leading modular ecosystem, Avalanche, also elaborates on this with examples and concrete figures from their experience:

• FIFA selected Avalanche for its own L1 to serve five billion fans ahead of the 2026 World Cup.
• BlackRock (BUIDL), Franklin Templeton (BENJI), KKR, Apollo, and SkyBridge all have launched tokenized funds on Avalanche L1s.
• Wyoming launched the first U.S. state-issued stablecoin (FRNT) on Avalanche.
• Balcony is tokenizing 370,000+ property parcels in New Jersey (~$240B value) in the largest blockchain real-estate tokenization project in U.S. history.
• Dinari (FINRA-registered) launched its own L1 for tokenized U.S. equities, with partners including VanEck, BitGo, and Gemini.
• Progmat, Japan’s leading tokenized securities platform (MUFG-backed) is launching a dedicated Avalanche L1, migrating $2B+ in real estate, bonds, and RWAs into the ecosystem.
• Avalanche is targeting 200 institutional deployments by end-2026.

These examples showcase that modularity is quickly moving beyond DeFi and Web3-native use cases into regulated, high-value verticals.

Account Abstraction: Account-level Simplicity

Account Abstraction, native to Solana and spearheaded by ERC-4337 on Ethereum, was the first practical, permissionless solution to simplify Web3’s UX with gas sponsorships, tx batching, session keys, and account recoveries.

Although AA was launched in 2023, it wasn’t until recently that its features stopped feeling experimental and became ubiquitous over Web3. This happened in huge part thanks to next-generation blockchains natively embracing it, as well as embedded wallets packaging it into a simplified development experience.

“The biggest unlock this year has been making Web3 feel exactly like Web2 at the surface layer. Embedded wallets with email OTP and social login, combined with account abstraction features like sponsored gas and batched transactions, have removed the ‘install a wallet and learn seed phrases’ barrier.”

MagicWallet Infrastructure

Given AA’s native status on Solana, its maturation and impact can be perhaps better understood through ERC-4337 metrics, which mark a clear before-and-after for the EVM ecosystem. For example:

• dApps implementing ERC-4337 have reported 40% or higher increases in user conversion rates, according to independent reports. Some firms, like Web3Auth, Privy, and Biconomy, cite 3–10x higher onboarding conversion rates due to gasless transactions and AA features (up from 35–38%).
• Others, like Abstract Global Wallet, report ~10x better retention and ~3x more transactions per wallet.
• Alchemy also highlights up to 3x higher transaction completion rates with gasless AA flows.

Figure 03 · Chart

Cumulative ERC-4337 UserOps Across Chains

Despite its simplicity, with enough context and interpretation, the above chart tells a clear story of the adoption and innovative nature of account abstraction:

• The cumulative number of UserOps across supported blockchains exceeds 336 million. This represents exponential growth from near-zero in early 2023 to consistent multi-million monthly volumes, reflecting broad adoption.
• AA adoption has recently seen a diversification spike, with growing presence in multiple chains. This represents a considerable jump from 2–3 chains initially driving most UserOps.
• Despite considerable usage spikes during 2024’s airdrop-farming meta and a subsequent downfall as the trend wound down, nowadays it can be considered that adoption has “normalized”, contributing to AA’s current ubiquitous feel.
• The fact that most transactions occur on Base underscores the competitive advantage of chains that embrace AA as a paradigm vs. adopting it later.
• Ethereum’s growing share of adoption showcases the chain’s improving usage for complex use cases as its scaling roadmap makes the chain cheaper without forcing users to rely on L2s.

“Passkeys/WebAuthn + secure enclaves have been the biggest practical leap for UX. On the AA side, ERC-4337 has proven itself with reliable paymasters, batching, and session keys in production.”

OpenfortAccount Abstraction Infrastructure

Another key insight is that most ERC-4337 usage, in fact, comes from wallet and account solutions themselves, with two of its main applications being:

• Coinbase Smart Wallet (~60% of all recent ERC-4337 activations). CSW is Base’s native embedded wallet solution.
• Safe4337Module, the official open-source smart contract module from Safe, which gives Safe users all the AA benefits without migrating wallets. Safe4337 is the application that sponsors the most gas for users across chains.

Respondents uniformly characterize both AA and ERC-4337 as mature innovations and commented extensively on their future post-EIP-7702, which will be covered in Chapter 2.

Intents: Making Composability Work for Users

Intents play a key role as the practical layer on top of account abstraction. They shift the paradigm from “execute this transaction” to “achieve this outcome,” delivering on composability, one of Web3’s core tenets, without complicating users’ experiences.

First proposed in the early 2020s as general-purpose solutions, intents remained largely theoretical until recently. They have since become a practical, fast-maturing reality thanks to tighter integration with account and chain abstraction, enabling predictable, gasless, cross-chain experiences and unlocking new use cases.

Figure 04 · Diagram

Intent-based Execution Flow

Our responders share the view that intents have quickly matured into a battle-tested Web3 primitive. They broadly cite that, currently, intents play a key role in user experiences (including the chain abstraction experience) by eliminating chains, bridges, and gas.

“The combination of EIP-7702 and intents will be exciting as it brings cross-chain execution to more crypto users.”

ZeroDevAccount Abstraction · Smart Account Infrastructure

The above claims are not unfounded. As chain abstraction disseminates and intent-based cross-chain protocols act as a foundation for it—and as more apps adopt intent-centric design—data showcases sustained growth:

1. Across Protocol has processed $28B+ in bridged volume with zero exploits. It is now widely regarded as the default architecture for intent-based cross-chain transfers and even a foundational element for other solutions.

2. NEAR Intents, an outcome-based cross-chain execution layer exploded in 2025, recently reached $10B+ all-time swap volume (including $7B in 2025 alone) across 13M+ swaps, 125+ assets, and 25+ blockchains.

3. Intent-based DEXs (CoW Swap, UniswapX, 1inch Fusion) continue to show strong traction. CoW Swap alone recorded $87B in trading volume in 2025 (more than double 2024), while the broader intent-based aggregation segment maintains top-3 market share among all DEX aggregators.

These numbers confirm the respondents’ view: intents have established themselves as measurable, production-grade infrastructure with real volume, user growth, and UX improvements.

At this stage, intents have matured into the default execution layer for cross-chain and programmable actions. Responders also comment on ERC-7683 (the cross-chain intents standard) quickly emerging as the standard for defining a common format for expressing and fulfilling cross-chain intents. It has seen rapid adoption across major L2s as the de facto standard for expressing and settling cross-chain intents. Meanwhile, additional proposals are already in progress to expand solver networks, improve intent composability, and unify fulfillment across ecosystems.

Furthermore, and similarly to other innovations covered in this report, our responders identify native integration with EIP-7702 as the greatest catalyst ahead in the context of growing demand. This will, in turn, enable further expansion of chain abstraction and set the stage for AI agents to leverage decentralized networks. The next chapter will dive deeper into this territory, as well as into respondents’ overall future outlook.

“Intent-driven interactions are one of the most promising 2026 trends, alongside chain abstraction and ERC-8004 for autonomous agents.”

EtherspotAccount Abstraction & Modular Smart Accounts

Chapter Two

The Upgrade Moment—7702, Chain Abstraction, and the Agentic Economy

A reality that neither respondents nor broader crypto trends ignore is that, for the first time, there’s steady (and growing) market demand for crypto—particularly in the shape of RWAs and stablecoins.

2025 and early 2026 have firmly established these as crypto’s strongest institutional pillars. Stablecoin market capitalization surpassed $250 billion, with daily transfer volumes frequently exceeding $100 billion, while RWA tokenized assets crossed $40 billion in TVL. These sectors are now widely projected to continue rapid growth, with optimistic estimations projecting stablecoin circulation to reach $1 trillion by the end of 2026 and RWAs surpassing $100–200 billion within the next 18 months and heading toward multi-trillion-dollar scale by 2030.

Respondents both in the RWA and infrastructure worlds recognize the importance of innovation for aiding and accelerating this adoption, characterizing it as a generational opportunity. In this context, they identify three sectors set to make the biggest impact by leveraging the innovations mentioned in Chapter 1:

• EIP-7702 account abstraction: Part of the 2025 Pectra upgrade, allows any existing EOA to temporarily delegate execution to smart contract logic without changing its address or requiring migration, turning EOAs into smart accounts on demand.
• Chain abstraction: A combination of intent-centric design and account abstraction to remove the complexity of interacting across multiple blockchains, providing users and applications with a unified experience. It abstracts away chain switching, bridging, gas tokens, and fragmented liquidity, aiming to make Web3 feel like one ecosystem.
• AI agents: Autonomous, onchain agents capable of executing complex financial tasks such as routing payments, managing liquidity, rebalancing portfolios, and settling trades without constant human intervention, powered by the combination of account abstraction, intents, and chain abstraction.

As in Chapter 1, the next sections will delve deeper into the above areas. However, instead of analyzing them one by one (as their adoption and—like in the case of AI agents—development are still in progress), it will focus on their combined effects and relationship to one another.

EIP-7702: The “Upgrade” Moment

“Account improvements like EIP-7702 further reduce friction by enabling smarter, more flexible interactions without forcing users into new mental models.”

CentrifugeTokenization & Onchain Asset Management

As mentioned above, EIP-7702 delegates execution for an EOA to smart contract code without changing its address or requiring migration. This unlocks gas sponsorships, batching, session keys, and policy controls for most of Web3’s accounts, helping the transition into ubiquitous AA.

Since launch, EIP-7702 has seen rapid adoption across chains, particularly as more of them gradually adopt it:

Figure 05 · Chart

EIP-7702 Adoption Across Chains

Respondents across the board describe EIP-7702 as a pivotal step to take Web3’s usability to new heights:

• Asset issuers and RWA platforms see it as the piece that finally makes multi-chain issuance and settlement practical.
• Infrastructure and wallet teams highlight its role in eliminating the last major UX barriers for everyday users.
• Chain abstraction builders note that it plays a significant role in making chains feel invisible and strengthening intent-based systems.
• Builders across the board recognize its potential to open the gates for AI agents to create a first-of-its-kind economy.

Figure 06 · Diagram

EIP-7702 as a Unifying Layer

The forward-looking consensus is that EIP-7702 sets the stage for mass-scale adoption of smart accounts, and as a step toward a unified Web3.

As for its current adoption, the chart below shows that while “upgraded” EOAs can be counted in the millions, it’s still early for 7702. Due to its novelty factor, EIP-7702 has been repeatedly used in phishing attacks and to sweep vulnerable wallets in several instances—unfortunately making crime still its #1 source of “usage”. However, positive momentum can be seen in its use by retail wallets and decentralized services, the areas where most assets are either used or stored.

Figure 07 · Chart

EIP-7702 Usage Breakdown

“7702 unlocks two critical features that were not possible before:

1. Multi-chain batch transactions (Atomic multi-chain operations through temporary delegation).
2. Unified state management: Consistent session across chains via EIP-7702 principles.”

AvailData Availability & Unified Layer

As responders characterize it, 7702 by itself takes Smart Account adoption further and gives access to 90% of all accounts to AA. However, it becomes truly critical only in combination with other innovations.

Effects on Chain Abstraction

Chain abstraction (ChA) removes the complexity of using multiple blockchains by giving users and applications a unified experience—no manual bridging, chain switching, or fragmented balances across chains.

ChA’s greatest surge in development happened over the past 18 months. What began as experimental solutions in 2024 has rapidly matured into production-grade infrastructure in 2025–2026, driven by the combination of account abstraction, intent-based routing, and modular stacks.

Thanks to this, chain abstraction (whether at the account, blockchain, or orchestration level) is closer to becoming the new normal, with more protocols aiming to operate across chains without users having to explicitly think about it. Responders, in fact, stress that ChA is increasingly becoming a requirement for consumer-facing dApps and institutional products.

“Once smart accounts become the norm thanks to 7702, their usage in facilitating a better multi-chain experience is the obvious next step.”

Particle NetworkChain Abstraction & Universal Accounts

Data backs up respondents’ viewpoint that chain abstraction has moved from concept to one of the fastest-growing areas of Web3 infrastructure:

• Leading protocols like Li.Fi have processed $80B+ in total transfer volume and 100M+ transfers across 60+ chains.
• Cross-chain bridging volume has grown dramatically, reaching monthly peaks of $17B+, with intent-based and abstracted solutions now handling a growing share of that flow.
• Major L2s and wallets are actively integrating chain abstraction layers, making seamless multi-chain experiences the new standard rather than the exception.

As noted above, AA sits alongside intents at the core of chain abstraction solutions. As such, 7702 can deliver chain abstraction to a segment of Web3 previously excluded from it, potentially upgrading Web3’s user experience as a whole. Respondents also note the importance of 7702 combining with chain abstraction in applications using embedded wallets, a growing segment that has found success in recent times:

• Privy reported that embedded wallets accounted for over 70% of new wallet creations in consumer-facing Web3 apps in 2025.
• Dynamic stated that embedded wallets are responsible for 65–75% of new user onboarding across the dApps they power.
• Openfort analysts forecast embedded wallets reaching 55–60% of overall Web3 activity by Q1 2027, driven by consumer apps and gaming.

“The most powerful aspect of DeFi is that it’s programmable and composable — simple actions can be combined to create workflows that are more efficient for users. EIP-7702 brings that composability to the wallet layer, which is exciting because it enables practical UX improvements like gasless execution and seamless multi-step DeFi interactions without exposing users to underlying complexity.”

Li.FiCross-Chain Liquidity & Bridge Aggregation

As a result, the user and developer experience in Web3 gets radically simplified: any existing EOA (including email, social, or passkey-based wallets) can access chain abstraction, allowing developers to launch chain-agnostic apps from Day 1.

The combination also sets the stage for what responders uniformly characterize as the next leap: autonomous AI agents that can safely operate across ecosystems using scoped permissions and intent-based execution.

2026: The Time for Agents

“AI agents are increasingly operating at the edges of the system — routing payments, managing liquidity, retrying failed transactions… EIP-7702 simplifies account behavior and approvals, making it easier for both users and automated agents.”

NobleStablecoin Issuance Network

As respondents state, the combination of EIP-7702 and AI agentic frameworks results in unparalleled access not only to Smart Accounts, but also to these agents. In fact, consulted projects uniformly agree that AI agents will become the ultimate beneficiaries of the decentralized technology stack and the innovations cited in this report.

With scoped permissions, gas sponsorship, and cross-chain execution now accessible to legacy EOAs, autonomous agents can reliably route payments, manage liquidity, rebalance portfolios, and execute complex strategies across ecosystems without constant human intervention.

Despite being considered mostly conceptual or experimental technology, AI agents are currently fully operational, performing real economic tasks such as trading, yield optimization, liquidity management, and content generation. However, they’re still narrow in scope, operating with limited autonomy, typically following predefined rules or requiring human oversight for higher-value decisions.

Data confirms this growing adoption, with:

• >400,000 agents already have purchasing power and have executed 140 million USDC transactions in just nine months.
• x402 (agent-to-agent payment standard) averages ~57,000 daily transactions.
• Virtuals Protocol alone hosting >18,000 live tokenized agents.
• Daily active on-chain AI agents on Base exceeding 250,000 in Q1 2026 — 400% year-over-year growth.
• Autonomous agents now account for 19% of all Web3 activity and interact with 4.5 million daily active wallets across platforms.

This, of course, combined with broader AI trends, which indicate that:

• By end of 2026, 40% of enterprise applications will include task-specific AI agents (up from <5% in 2025) — an 8× increase in one year.
• 10× increase in agent usage and 1,000× growth in inference demands by 2027.
• 80% of Fortune 500 companies already deploy active AI agents, and this number will only grow.
• 79% of organizations have some level of AI agent adoption; 96% plan to expand in 2026.

Respondents also issue the opinion that, in the pursuit of automated agents that can execute real economic activities (payments, procurement, trading, rebalancing, compliance), non-traditional systems might have an edge. Traditional systems lack native programmable money, verifiable cross-system execution, scoped permissions, and standardized intents to compete, whereas Web3 and crypto continue to offer a permissionless, secure alternative.

Notably, and as a final note on the evolution of existing innovations, as AI agents grow in usage, intents play a central role, enabling them to express high-level desired outcomes rather than specifying exact transactions. This will allow for the growth and development of competitive solver networks to handle execution, improving reliability, cross-chain functionality, and safety. As Web3 evolves in this direction, agents will become capable of handling more complex, multi-step objectives with reduced supervision, though fully general-purpose and unsupervised agents at meaningful scale may remain several years away.

“AI agents need wallets that can have scoped spending permissions, gas sponsorship… Smart accounts and intents will play a big role in unlocking this.”

RhinestoneModular Smart Account Infrastructure

Next Steps for Readers and Builders

This report provides a comprehensive picture of crypto’s consolidated, accelerating innovations. It firmly establishes respondents’ conviction of a field with a clear direction and a maturing, cohesive foundation that seeks to improve the usability and potential of its innovations—all the while establishing synergies with new technologies and interoperability with its predecessors.

To finalize it, below we suggest next steps for different industry participants based on our findings and the 7702 Collective’s goals: