- The rise of decentralized finance.
- Ownership through NFTs (I personally love ENS [1]).
- Truly decentralized proof-of-stake ready for prime time, pending only the merging of the PoW network into the PoS network that launched a year ago [2].
- Predictable gas fees with EIP-1559, including a variable block size.
- A bunch of layer-2 scaling solutions live, including optimistic rollups, zero-knowledge rollups, validium solutions, and plasma solutions [3].
- Private transactions on zero-knowledge L2 chains with shielded transactions [4].
[1] https://ens.domains/ [2] https://beaconcha.in/ [3] https://l2beat.com/ [4] https://zk.money/