# BACKGROUND: MARKET SIZE OF WEB3 SPACE

<mark style="color:green;">**The Cryptocurrency Market Size, Transaction Volume, & Growth Trajectory**</mark>&#x20;

The current market size and future prospect of the cryptocurrency industry are wildly impressive. As of 2020, the crypto market was valued at $826.6B.&#x20;

After experiencing the immense growth catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the same year, during the succeeding year it climbed to over $1 TRILLION and was primed to grow at the rate of 11% annually.&#x20;

At the time of writing, the global cryptocurrency market surpassed expectations and boomed to a value of $1.13 TRILLION.

<mark style="color:green;">**Cryptocurrency Market Participants & Growth Trajectory**</mark>&#x20;

Similarly, the growth of crypto adoption is usually doubling year over year.&#x20;

What does that mean? Next year, at this time, there could be DOUBLE the participants there are today.&#x20;

Meaning double the transactions, potentially! At the end of 2020, 106 million people owned crypto assets.&#x20;

By 2021, the rate of crypto adoption grew by 178%.&#x20;

Taking these numbers into consideration, the Web3 industry looks to potentially experience a much faster adoption rate than even the internet did within its first decade of inception (between 1990 and 2000).&#x20;

Cryptocurrency users are expected to increase to over 1 BILLION market participants by 2024, even if the adoption rate slows by 20% of the aggregate.


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