Inflation drives demand for digital value hedging, investors turn to utility tokens

Against the backdrop of rising inflation, practical tokens pegged to decentralized infrastructure and real-world use cases are becoming increasingly popular and becoming a tool to avoid macroeconomic fluctuations. Unlike speculative assets, these tokens have an active ecosystem, governance role, and growing demand from developers and businesses. Market data shows that some utility tokens outperform the overall cryptocurrency market, thanks to their role in DeFi, NFT and scalable blockchain services. Analysts believe this is a long-term shift in investor behavior to assets with real utility and value preservation.