From Ideology to Infrastructure: The 'Linux Moment' of Cryptocurrency

Source: TokenPost Original Title: [Editorial] The ‘Linux Moment’ of Cryptocurrency, the End of Ideology and the Victory of Practicality Original Link: The era of ‘crypto natives’ has ended. Now, cryptocurrencies can only survive by becoming invisible infrastructure.

The solid foundation of the internet world is ‘Linux’. The vast majority of servers worldwide run on Linux, and the heart of the Android smartphones we use every day is also Linux. But ordinary users don’t even know they are using Linux. They don’t need to know — as long as internet speeds are fast and applications run smoothly.

This is precisely the turning point facing the cryptocurrency market now — taking the ‘Linux path’. In recent years, the crypto industry misjudged the public’s willingness to follow its values. They believed that concepts like decentralization, self-custody(Self-custody), and radical transparency could change the world.

But this assumption is wrong. Ultimately, what drives the market is not grand ideas, but the public’s choice of thorough ‘pragmatism’.

Recent adoption of cryptocurrency infrastructure by institutions and mainstream applications is very enlightening. They have completely excluded the ‘culture’ of cryptocurrencies, only taking their ‘technology’. This may be an inconvenient truth for crypto purists, but from an industry perspective, it is an unavoidable outcome.

Now, cryptocurrencies are entering the mainstream as infrastructure rather than culture. Like Linux, they are infiltrating various fields as a dull, invisible, brandless foundational technology.

Stablecoins replace payment networks, public blockchains become value settlement tools, and on-chain systems significantly reduce transfer costs. But 95% of users don’t realize they are using ‘cryptocurrency’. They only want cheaper, faster, more reliable results. That is the true innovation.

The reason early market entrants succeeded is that they became ‘less crypto’. They stripped away industry jargon, abstracted the complex wallet creation process, and boldly adopted centralized frontends. They optimized not the ideology, but ‘liquidity’ and ‘usability’.

We are moving from the era of hoodie-wearing developers to the era of business suits — the so-called ‘white-collar’ era. In the next decade, the dominance of the crypto market will not depend on inventing new primitive technologies, but on whether these technologies can seamlessly integrate with existing legacy systems.

The key is: the ability to make products appealing even to buyers who do not believe in crypto philosophy, and the ability to translate crypto language into business language.

The market no longer rewards illusory ‘hype’. Instead, it rewards clarity, positioning, and substantive liquidity. Like Linux, only when cryptocurrencies disappear from the public eye and operate silently in the background can they achieve true success. It is precisely where the grand slogans fade that the real future of cryptocurrency exists.