7 Trends in Blockchain Computing

Olaf Carlson-Wee and Chris Dixon

In a follow-up to one of our most popular podcast episodes that originally aired in April 2017, a16z crypto general partner Chris Dixon returns to talk with Olaf Carlson-Wee of Polychain Capital in a free-wheeling conversation about the seven major trends they see happening in blockchain computing now as we shift from basic protocol design to pragmatic product launches:

  • Improving developer productivity
  • Scaling out versus scaling up
  • On-chain governance
  • Proof of Stake Networks, and especially their resilience to attacks
  • 2017: year of of fund raising, 2019: year of launches
  • Autonomous and re-mixable code
  • Killer apps: distributed finance and beyond

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