I see that this as going to be a 10-plus-trillion dollar industry within the next decade. Stateside, we're seeing national efforts to turn to existing agencies, asking for recommendations on and study of certain areas, whether it's trading platforms, how stable coins are—tokenized versions of a dollar that exist on these blockchains—and what appropriate frameworks are. We can do the same thing here, and we should do the same thing here. There's the opportunity, again, to lean into this to figure out how we legitimize it and make sure that it's being used in an appropriate way.
There are thousands or tens of thousands of jobs for developers for platforms, whether they're.... Today, we're talking largely about exchanges, but there are going to be structured products and new verticals that emerge.
We've seen a proliferation of stable coin activity in NFTs, which is digital art that's living on a blockchain. We're seeing decentralized finance and the opportunity to build lending and trading. Different types of finance exist natively on a blockchain.
As someone who goes to these various events, I see all that developer activity, and I would love to see it here, but we need, as everyone else has mentioned, a national framework and initiative to consult with industry to figure out how we make that appropriate.