As the cryptocurrency economy nears its end of the year, long-term investors should pay close attention. The three-year compound annual growth rate shows that network adoption is outpacing market capitalization growth. User activity has cooled this year, but capital, liquidity, and real economic activity have surged. As stablecoins and artificial intelligence drive exponential adoption, blockchain is evolving into a yield-generating system—rising real returns and falling inflation. Soon, staking yields and sovereign bond yields will converge. Governments will then face two choices: Tax machine transactions or staking returns. Either way, cryptocurrency will become the foundation of the AI economy.