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
This talk explains how multidimensional fee mechanisms can increase the efficiency of resource usage in blockchains. Traditionally, single dimensional resource markets don’t capture the true constraints and often leave excess performance on the table. Guy Goren (Aptos Labs) discusses some potential designs for implementing multidimensional fees along with explaining the main open problems before they can be put into production.
About the presenter
Guy is a researcher at Aptos Labs. He has also worked as a researcher at Protocol Labs, and is a PhD candidate at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
About a16z crypto research
a16z crypto research is a multidisciplinary lab that works closely with our portfolio companies and others toward solving the important problems in the space, and toward advancing the science and technology of the next generation of the internet.
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