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
Web3 has introduced an entirely new set of user experience challenges, from education and on-ramps to seed phrases and security, that pose challenges to mass adoption. In this talk Ben Scharfstein (Co-founder & CEO, Stelo) shares practical principles to help founders build simpler, more powerful web3 products – many of which he learned, while designing tools that aim to protect people from critical security pitfalls in the web3 user experience.