What: Raynor de Best, Specialist Expert Financial Services & Real Estate at Statista, shared interesting insights about the topic of cryptocurrencies as it continues to develop as a trending topic facing businesses into 2022.

Why it is important: Cryptocurrencies, whilst not new, reached a new level of popularity in 2021 and increasingly got the attention of mainstream audiences across the world. NFTs accelerated this further, as they provide "real world" applications for these digital coins. One of these applications, the metaverse, could continue to grab headlines in 2022, along with China releasing its own digital currency during the 2022 Winter Olympics as a response to unregulated cryptocurrencies.

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