According to Yat Siu, GameFi is best understood as gamified finance and gaming is a prime on-ramp to onboard billions into Web3 alongside RWAs and institutional adoption, highlighting a multi-sector growth path for crypto participation (source: Yat Siu on X, Jan 18, 2026). The post cites Animoca Brands Research’s Digital Assets Outlook 2026, which aggregates insights from over 60 industry leaders and outlines 10 market-structure themes for 2026: O2O year (off-chain to on-chain), perpification of everything, crypto exchange vs traditional brokers, silent DEX surge, DAT consolidation, stablecoin adoption curve, a year of on-chain vaults, global retail brands leading consumer crypto issuance, a Bitcoin Pizza moment for crypto agent pay, and a race for on-chain privacy (source: Animoca Brands Research, Digital Assets Outlook 2026). For traders, these themes direct attention to sectors with potential order flow and liquidity impact such as perp DEXs, spot DEXs, stablecoin rails, on-chain vault strategies, RWA tokenization, consumer brand tokens, agent-based crypto payments, and privacy protocols as framed by the report’s 2026 roadmap (source: Animoca Brands Research, Digital Assets Outlook 2026). The emphasis on gaming-driven onboarding and institutional participation ties near-term trading focus to GameFi infrastructure, exchange-broker competition, and stablecoin settlement usage as core execution venues and rails in 2026 (source: Yat Siu on X, Jan 18, 2026; Animoca Brands Research, Digital Assets Outlook 2026).