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
A chat between Farcaster co-founder and CEO Dan Romero and a16z crypto CTO Eddy Lazzarin. Their conversation, hosted for founders at the 2023 Crypto Startup School, covers Dan’s principles for building, the importance of testing and talking with users, the reasons for not prematurely optimizing, cultivating community, and more.