Was reading how stablecoins are about to truly hit the US economy with upcoming legislation - something that, imo, will rapidly cascade into long-lasting global consequences.

Wish I had an economics degree.  
I don’t, so I just made something up - because why not.

So... after the US Empire starts to come on-chain... 🧵

2025-2027

- The crypto market cap goes exponential.
- Most autocratic regimes follow suit, jumping in and launching their own stablecoins within months.
- Some chains scale more easily than others; speed wins over security and decentralization.
- Unsafe chains start collapsing - millions of people and entire nations lose everything.
- Centralized chains go full-on war (cyber & physical) against decentralized chains.

1/4

2027-2028

- Authoritarian regimes place all bets on centralized chains; democracies do the opposite.
- Network states start rising but get attacked by collapsing nations - civil wars erupt.
- The Flippening: The majority of the world economy moves on-chain.

2028-2033

- WW3: Battle of the Dying Empires — US vs. China
- AI-powered warfare and economic automation reshape everything - unstoppable feedback loops push nations to the brink.
- Global chaos accelerates, bio warfare, famine and economic collapse cause a population drop to 5 billion.

2/4

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- Off-chain currencies fully collapse and disappear; empire-pegged stablecoins remain.
- A non-pegged stablecoin - HOPE - starts rising.

2033-2038

- Out of the dust, a new global hierarchy takes shape.
- Untouched by war and rich in natural resources, South America leads the world economy - Africa rises alongside it.
- Southeast Asia emerges as a key force, bridging trade and technology.

- The world comes back online: fully on-chain, decentralized, open source.
- With big tech algorithm-driven empires gone, real value starts floating to the top - humanity begins to truly connect for the first time.

3/4

- The remaining nations abandon national currencies and fully switch to HOPE.
- Empire stablecoins start disappearing.
- National armies cease to exist as the national currencies funding them disappear.
- Empires and nations cease to exist—because no armies.

2038-2045

- HOPE becomes the world currency; community currencies and RWA-backed tokens flourish.
- Network states collapse - The Commons arise.

- People stop killing people.
- People stop killing animals.
- People start saving the planet.

2045-♾

- As humanity embraces life, a new signal emerges.
- First contact is established.

- Earth joins the World Brain.
- Intergalactic Era / Nirvana / etc.

4/4