Bitcoin (BTC) has helped to create a new world of opportunity in a wide variety of ways. The value present within bitcoin would compound and compound some more more before it would extend into more digital assets.
Now, we see that more financial services are coming into the picture to address the new world after the birth of bitcoin. From your DEX applications to the general ETH ecosystem, you are seeing a new paradigm that is trending.
While the US dollar has served as a critical foundation to the global financial system, it looks like crypto coins on applications like COMP and Bancor might be more beneficial. We could see an expansion of the crypto market via the defi market with defi protocols, ERC20 assets and various derivatives.
But while more are throwing around terms like the kyber network and the governance token, with MKR, sushiswap, synthetic (SNX), thorchain, WBTC, it is necessary to learn about the basic concepts before branching out.