As reported by COINOTAG on December 31, insights from Pantera Capital’s General Partner, Lauren Stephanian, suggest an optimistic outlook for the cryptocurrency venture capital landscape by 2025. With an increasingly crypto-friendly regulatory environment in the U.S., investor confidence is reportedly on the rise, signaling potential growth in funding allocations towards blockchain initiatives. Despite acknowledging that the current bull market is not sustainable indefinitely, Stephanian emphasized the uncertainty surrounding the timing of capital deployment slowdown in the upcoming year. Pantera Capital remains proactive in its investment strategy, with a keen focus on sectors such as crypto AI, decentralized finance (DeFi), and innovative Layer 1 blockchains designed to enhance application-level functionalities, indicating a strategic pivot towards emerging technologies that promise to reshape the blockchain ecosystem.