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Mainstream media will frame this as a niche academic exercise, but the real story is the growing recognition that GDP fails to capture digital, environmental, and intangible value—areas where crypto-native assets (e.g., tokenized carbon credits, decentralized physical infrastructure) could become benchmarks. If new indicators incorporate on-chain metrics (e.g., network activity, staking yields), Bitcoin and Ethereum could be revalued as infrastructure rather than speculative tools.

The United Nations calls on scientists to help design economic progress indicators beyond GDP.

UN Seeks Economic Metrics Beyond GDP as Crypto Reckons Long-Term Impact

UN's move beyond GDP is a tacit admission that fiat-centric metrics are broken, potentially accelerating crypto adoption as the ultimate progress gauge.