I take encouragement from the remarks made by the chairmen of the SEC and CFTC that were surprisingly optimistic about blockchain and crypto.
The comment of Virginia Senator Mark Warner who gave testimony to the Senate hearing was also very encouraging. It is quite clear that he sees the enormous transformative potential of crypto and blockchain:

''I think we may be on top of something that’s transformational, and I don’t think you can separate the underlying, distributed-ledger blockchain from some of these crypto assets,” Warner argued. “If we had the same rate of increase the next two years that we’ve had the last couple [of] years, we’re talking now a couple hundred billion, we’d be at north of 20 trillion dollars caught up in this area by 2020.”