Author: Martin Young, CoinTelegraph; Compiled by: Five Baht, Golden Finance

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley said that with the help of artificial intelligence and tokenization, 2025 may see small , a boom in niche businesses, more corporate adoption of Bitcoin, and a “resurgence” in mergers and acquisitions that could benefit cryptocurrencies.

In a series of X posts on January 5, Horsley said he believed the world of 2025 was "on the verge of change."

Tokenization helps small businesses

In an X post, Horsley also made some predictions about tokenization. He believes that most of the focus will be on demand-side benefits, such as making currencies Access to market funds is democratized, but the real revolutionary potential lies on the supply side.

The transformative power of tokenization, he said, could come from giving a slew of untapped small businesses access to capital markets.

The real-world asset (RWA) tokenization industry could be the next key narrative in crypto in 2025, according to Brickken founder and CEO Edwin Mata. He noted: “Tokenization of real-world assets is transforming traditional markets by enabling assets such as real estate, debt and equity to be digitized and traded on the blockchain.”

Artificial intelligence will drive a surge in the number of micro-companies

” I think AI is likely to drive an explosion in the number of companies and tokenized companies,” Horsley shared his thoughts on AI developments in the coming year in another post.

“AI can dramatically increase the number of niche companies. These companies will never be able to go public but can be tokenized. It could be an important new long-tail capital market.”

An example of how artificial intelligence can facilitate tokenization. Source: Hunter Horsley

‘Bitcoin Standard’ Companies

Horsley also predicts that a major theme in 2025 will be the emergence of “Bitcoin Standard Companies”, companies that hold BTC on their balance sheets. “There will be many companies joining the Bitcoin standard in 2025,” Horsley said.

MicroStrategy, which hinted at another purchase on Monday, is the largest corporate holder of BTC with 446,400 coins, worth about $43.7 billion at current market prices.

In late 2024, several smaller companies announced that they had begun developing strategies to invest in and hold Bitcoin as part of their treasury.

Removing controls on mergers and acquisitions

Horsley said Trump may "remove controls" on mergers and acquisitions of major companies, which wouldGood for cryptocurrencies.

Horsley predicted in a Jan. 6 article in ” – “may finally be able to realize its market value”.

“The big companies may get bigger, and the mid-sized companies may shrink,” he said, adding, “If that happens, I think it will accelerate the development of cryptocurrencies,” The premise is that large companies operate based on their own interests rather than the interests of their users.

“The concept of cryptocurrency is premised on not trusting large institutions to do what is in your best interest. This is underscored by the fact that large companies are getting bigger.”