cryptosphere

Noun

cryptosphere (uncountable)

1. The habitat of the cryptozoa.
   • The teeming multitudes are to be found hidden in the soil, or beneath the debris that covers much of the earth's surface. The latter environment, the cryptosphere, provides a series of microhabitats that link their inhabitants with the environment in which they evolved many millions of years ago.2020 [1975], John Cloudsley-Thompson, Terrestrial Environments, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22
2. (collective, informal) The cryptocurrency community.
   • The core-team Apes describe the graffiti-covered bathroom of the club itself — which looks like a sticky Tiki bar — in a way that echoes that project’s broader mission: “Think of it as a collaborative art experiment for the cryptosphere.”2021 November 1, Samantha Hissong, “How Four NFT Novices Created a Billion-Dollar Ecosystem of Cartoon Apes”, in Rolling Stone
   • The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg.2022, Simon Dingle, Steven Boykey Sidley, chapter 7, in Beyond Bitcoin, Icon Books, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   cryptoverse