1. Surprise - Life goes on
2. Much more projects will die
3. New projects will start
4. It will be a year of crypto education
5. It will be a year of maturation
6. Delays of fully POS in Ethereum
7. Improvements in User Experience - Keep an eye out for (Elrond - work on exquisite user experience is being done)
8. Facebook in crypto?
9. ..... - You write your predictions
Expectations as such is not surprising. The tendency is that the market behavior this year is by far the worst so in order to still have confidence, they would have positive prediction for next year. But the bottomline is lack of assurance that the market would be mobing in a positive direction next year. The best thing to do now is to just wait and see it for ourselves.