Author: Davis Canellis, Blockworks; Compiler: Wu Baht, Golden Finance

In the mid-16th century, Nostradamus made 942 predictions in 8 years.

It is said that he dictated each prophecy to his secretary as a poem. This was because he had been hallucinating from large doses of nutmeg.

This article has five cryptocurrency prophecies that may come true by 2025. If not fulfilled, they could easily be repeated over hundreds of years, like the prophecies of Nostradamus.

1. AI chatbots will gamify flash loan attacks

We rarely hear about flash loan attacks anymore.

Apparently, the U.S. Department of Justice essentially stopped them last year when it arrested Eisenberg ("It was just a profitable trading strategy").

That is until some evil edge lord trained an AI model to hunt for potential targets in the dirtiest, most illiquid corners of DeFi.

After all, who is to blame: the instant engineer or the LL.M. with a crypto wallet?

2. Bitcoin ETFs may be hacked

Never mind that most ETFs have abstracted the actual handling of the tokens away from their own responsibilities - probably a WhatsApp chat with a Coinbase custody support representative replaced.

Next year will mark the return of major cryptocurrency hacks.

We certainly haven’t seen one in a while. Perhaps the Ronin hack was the last hack to actually do harm.

Be on the lookout for fake Chick-fil-A coupons that may have been obtained by mistake by a North Korean phishing email, or by an ETF issuer.

3. The Federal Trade Commission will sue Meme Coin

You may have heard that the next SEC chairman should be more friendly to cryptocurrencies.

But that’s just the SEC. There are still a dozen U.S. institutions that may still be making some real baby boomer moves next year.

The FTC has gone after cryptocurrency companies including Celsius and Voyager in the past and has also filed federal lawsuits against fraudsters who peddled fake investment schemes.

I will be watching the FTC characterize random meme coins and start prosecuting them. The void left by Gensler can only be filled by another short-sighted regulator.

4. "Crypto Lottery" will become a public good

Cryptocurrency already has its own pseudo-lottery system: Meme currency.

If you really enjoy buying Powerball and Mega Millions, why not buy a random Pump.fun memecoin every week and hope to make a fortune one day (as long as you can time it right).

CauseSo, it’s about time someone—perhaps from the public interest-focused Ethereum space—writes an unstoppable, permissionless crypto lottery that pays out once a week.

5. IRL live broadcasters will adopt prediction markets

It is too obvious to suggest that live broadcasters like Speed ​​and KSI mint their own Meme coins (or will they become social tokens?).

Speaking now: Major streamers will figure out how to use prediction markets to crowdsource their content.

For example: Speed ​​suggested that he would compete in sprinting at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, which could be a prediction market. All his viewers can bet on whether that's the case, or push him for any other challenge on the subject.