Are crypto coins startups?

Lately, I've started seeing Bitcoin as a fintech startup. It's an open startup. Anyone can invest at any stage. The promise was that it will be the next currency, but since then it's pivoted to (trying to) being a store of value. This leaves room for other fintech coin "startups" to deliver on that promise. In that sense, investing in a coin is like startup investing.

Wikipedia used to be shunned as an unreliable source just 10 years ago. Now, everyone relies on it. While we won't cite it in a paper, there's no longer the sense that "anybody can edit it, so it could be fake info". Wikipedia was accessible to everyone from the start.

Now, I know that the similarities end there. Encyclopedias are very different from finance.

What do you think?