Note how the proximity between productive clusters encodes production capability: low tech industries are far apart from high tech industries, similar products within an industry share the same color and are clustered together, and enablers are closer (i.e machinery and chemicals should be present to allow for an electronics manufacturing industry to flourish). The key insight from Hidalgo’s and Hausmann’s work is that “the complexity of a (country) economy is related to the multiplicity of useful knowledge embedded in it, and that hard to transfer, tacit knowledge is what constrains the process of growth and development”. In other words, the present information content of the economy is a predictor of future growth. We have to make adaptions to apply this concept to crypto economies, but since international trade flows and information flows are abstractions with universal properties, the key principles hold well.