This is the year the world came onchain.
When we launched our first State of Crypto report, the industry was still in its adolescence. The total crypto market was worth about half what it is today. Blockchains were much slower, more expensive, and le
Each year, the State of Crypto report from a16z crypto cuts through the noise and tracks crypto’s evolution across markets, technology, policy, and culture.
Now in its fourth edition, the 2025 State of Crypto report reveals how crypto has gone ma
An evaluation of long-range attacks on proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains, where the validators leak historical keys to the adversary, with Valeria Nikolaenko (a16z crypto Research Partner). Valeria discusses approaches to mitigating these attacks and bootstrapping the blockchain from genesis without centralized checkpoints.