To date, they're behaving exactly as we'd expect them to, given their nature as ponzi schemes in a speculative bubble.
Cryptocurrency adoption is not violating any widely held economic tenets: these ponzi schemes are behaving in line with the economic tenets that cover these things.
The speculative bubble of cryptocurrencies is very much in line with our understanding within behavioural economics of how foolish people with money behave when faced with a superficially appealing proposition that they don't fully understand.