12 Big-Picture Power Shifts to Watch in 2022

A powerful countdown to kick off the new year.

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On “The Breakdown’s” first episode of the new year, NLW looks at the most important power shifts that he’s watching this year, including:

Fed vs. stock market
U.S. midterm elections
Stablecoins vs. CBDCs
China and Russia vs. the dollar
Bitcoin vs. fiat
IMF vs. El Salvador
Bitcoin DeFi vs. other DeFi
DeFi vs. KYC
DAOs vs. other forms of capital formation
NFT/Web 3 games vs. traditional
NFTs vs. record labels
Web 3 vs. Web 2

“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is Time by OBOY. Image credit: Donald Iain Smith/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk.

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Nathaniel Whittemore

NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.