Looking at the past financial crises that happened, they all seem to have a few things in common, such as the mass adoption of a new financial product or technology (e.g. mortgage backed securities in 2008, dotcom boom in 2000). Given the extent to which institutions (and some influential figures) have been manipulating crypto recently, do you guys think this narrative is likely?
There is too little money in the cryptomarket and too little adoption mass for cryptocurrencies to trigger a financial crisis.
If you are talking about "crypto winter" then it happens regularly and this can be called a local financial crypto crisis, but not a global one.
But the money in cryptocurrencies is gradually becoming more and more
Although, of course, to argue that the collapse of cryptocurrencies will serve as a kind of trigger for another financial crisis is a very big assumption that has little chance of being realized in real life. Rather, we can say that cryptocurrencies, on the contrary, have some stabilizing effect on the market, sterilizing the excess money supply that spills out thanks to the policy of quantitative easing before this and the current inclusion of the printing press by governments to support the economy and overcome the negative consequences of the pandemic, but like medicines, these measures have side effects.