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A list of crypto and web3 trends for 2024 including the intersection of AI & blockchains, AI & gaming, play to earn games, NFTs, SNARKs, more
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Led by CEO and Founder Ben Leventhal, Blackbird seeks to reward and delight consumers with elevated dining experiences, powered and personalized by web3.
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Within every era of technology, the most talented entrepreneurs have taken unsolved problems and open questions and turned them into businesses.
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When I was 22, I spent several months working in the field in South Africa. I was there as a part of a research project funded by the National Science Foundation, whose aim was to better understand the role of that regio...
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It just so happened that on the first afternoon I met the Irreverent Labs team, I was having a pretty miserable day. I had way too many calls scheduled, and due to a set of unusual circumstances, I was working out of a h...
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Since DeFi emerged several years ago, a broad range of web3 financial services have been created and widely adopted, but a crucial one was notably absent: undercollateralized lending. Most web3 lending protocols only sup...
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Since the early years of the crypto movement, software engineers have been primarily focused on building and enhancing base-layer infrastructure that can support applications. This year we’ve seen an explosion of Layer 2...
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In today’s episode we’re talking about an emerging model of gaming called play to earn, in which players can make actual money based on how much time and effort they put into a game. Play to earn is also part of broader trends — the changing relationship between players and platforms, new incentives for participants in blockchain-based networks, and the new internet era that is coming to be known as a web3.
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NFTs have already begun reshaping the internet, and those with rare properties are starting to illuminate the composability and functionality that’s central to web3. A new generation of products is reaching hundreds of m...
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Jeff Bezos famously said "your margin is my opportunity," referring to the way Amazon grew market share by lowering prices and eating into competitor margins. In the transition from web2 to web3, a similar trend is takin...
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One of the main forces that has driven the rise of crypto networks is composability –– the ability to remix and recombine software components, without needing authorization or approval from a gatekeeper. By removing wall...
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Last year, when COVID swept into the Philippines, nearly 7.3 million people in the country lost their jobs and their livelihoods as the country went into lockdown. A rural province of Nueva Ecija, near Cabanatuan City, w...
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We’re at an exciting moment in the history of crypto because as the industry matures and adoption accelerates, entrepreneurs from all backgrounds are flooding into the space, bringing new perspectives, skill sets, and ex...
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When crypto first emerged, the traditional finance world mostly ignored it. We expected these institutions would eventually want to participate in the crypto economy, and that there would be a need for a company that wou...
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This is a special episode of the a16z podcast — it's an audio history, told through the voices of the a16z crypto team, about what crypto is, how it really works, and why it matters. This "innovation overview" is meant as a resource, and it features hallway-style conversations with the a16z team as well as outside experts. In brief segments, we’ll take you from the ground up — from the basics, to the most current developments, and beyond that to a look at what we might see in the future.
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One of the challenges in any new industry — crypto being no exception — is building things that are not just cool for the sake of cool, but that manage to reach and delight a broad set of users. Technology is at its best...
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Ethereum has proven itself to be an extremely popular computing platform, with both developer and user demand growing dramatically. Since May of 2020, the capacity used per block (a strong proxy for demand) has stabilize...
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Decentralized apps or “dApps” are the much-promised innovation of crypto. Imagine a decentralized version of every major application out there today, as well as new applications native to crypto. Given how early things s...