2026: The Year of the Fire Horse - Curvegrid’s Journey Into Accelerating Global Digital Asset Infrastructure
Jan 6, 2026
The State of Digital Assets in 2025
According to The Block’s 2025 Digital Assets Outlook Report, the broader crypto market reached an all-time high of approximately $3.8 trillion, with institutional adoption rising by more than 30%, hybrid finance products blurring lines between traditional and digital finance, and tokenization gaining mainstream traction.
2025 also brought broader regulatory clarity, with stablecoin regulation progressing in 30 jurisdictions around the world.
Digital assets continued to dominate the crypto and fintech sector, and the Ethereum ecosystem remained a central force in this evolution. Throughout 2025, Ethereum has been the network of choice for many enterprises, serving as the foundational infrastructure for digital assets and powering everything from tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and stablecoins to decentralized finance and enterprise blockchain initiatives.
Institutional adoption for Ethereum in particular accelerated significantly, with ETFs and corporate reserves controlling nearly 8% of the total ETH supply. An increasing number of TradFi organizations have been launching on Ethereum, including J.P. Morgan, which debuted its first tokenized money market fund on Ethereum mainnet, and Securitize, announcing its plans to launch regulated shares on the L1 network in the coming year.
On the protocol side, continued technical progress helped move blockchain adoption from experimentation to production. Advancements such as Kohaku (a toolkit for adding privacy features to Ethereum transactions), EIP-7702, increased fintech L1 adoption, and a growing focus on scalability enabled more real-world use cases to go live.
Curvegrid Continues Building in Digital Assets
Against this backdrop of a rapidly evolving digital asset landscape, 2025 marked a pivotal transition for Curvegrid, and this momentum continues into 2026. As digital assets mature and enterprise adoption accelerates, we sharpen our focus on building infrastructure that enables teams to launch, manage, and scale blockchain-powered financial products with confidence.
As we move into 2026, we continue to deepen our support for tokenization and digital asset initiatives while continuing to evolve MultiBaas, our enterprise-grade platform for blockchain development. Last year, we made improvements to our frontend and backend UI, developed an EIP-7702 delegation checker app, and expanded support to three additional networks to our already existing 15 networks:
Lisk
Filecoin
XRPL EVM Mainnet
Our work is centered on helping organizations move from proofs-of-concept to production-ready deployments, bridging the gap between traditional systems and on-chain infrastructure.
Japan Smart Chain: Powering the Next Generation of Digital Assets in Japan
The Curvegrid team has been deeply involved in building Japan Smart Chain (JSC), Japan’s sovereign Layer 1 blockchain with an Ethereum-equivalent protocol powered by our blockchain platform MultiBaas.
By mid-year 2025, JSC’s Kaigan testnet was successfully launched, and we co-hosted two community events in Fukuoka and Tokyo. Our engineering team continues to focus on productionizing JSC’s Mizuhiki protocol, laying the groundwork for a mainnet launch this year.
2025 Events at a Glance
We remained committed to the broader Ethereum ecosystem. Beyond product development, we sponsored 5 hackathons in 2025, including:
ETHGlobal Taipei (April)
Nairobi Mini Hack (September)
ETHGlobal Buenos Aires (November)
One of our biggest events was the Ethereum 10-year anniversary celebration in Tokyo on July 30th, in collaboration with ETHGlobal, Mercari, AKINDO, Students Web3 Unit, and other local Japanese organizations.
We hosted nine workshops, including a close-knit technical session for builders in Kesennuma, as well as multiple online workshops supporting student developer communities such as Dev3Pack and builders in Nairobi, where we taught participants how they can build on the Lisk blockchain using our tools.
We also took part in numerous speaking engagements, including a talk that co-founder Jeff Wentworth delivered about Blobs at ETHTaipei. Meanwhile, co-founder William spoke at Web3Salon’s VC Connect event during WebX, the GITEX Global 2025 conference in Abu Dhabi, supported by JETRO, and EDCON in Osaka.
We travelled overseas throughout 2025, attending conferences to connect with developers and partners across regions:
North America
Asia-Pacific
Middle East
Latin America
Galloping Forward
As we’ve now entered 2026 (Hinoe-Uma 丙午, the Year of the Fire Horse), the Curvegrid team looks ahead with continued momentum. The Fire Horse symbolizes speed, resilience, and bold forward motion, values that closely align with how we are building the future of digital asset infrastructure.
This year, we’re excited to strengthen our presence in the global fintech and Web3 ecosystem, deepen our relationships with developers and enterprises, and support them as they turn experimentation into scalable businesses.
Happy new year!