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Today, we’re excited to share the 2023 State of Crypto Report and introduce the State of Crypto Index. Our 2023 report aims to address the imbalance between the noise of fleeting price movements and the data that tracks the signals that matter, and the durable progress of web3 technology. Overall, the report reflects a healthier industry than market prices may indicate, and a steady cycle of development, product launches, and innovation. The State of Crypto Index is an interactive tool to track the health of the crypto industry from a technological, rather than financial, perspective. To offer a more accurate and nuanced measure of the state of crypto, the index represents the weighted average monthly growth of 14 industry metrics – from the number of verified smart contracts to the number of transacting wallets and more. In other words, the index displays, in a single chart, the rate of innovation and adoption of web3. The tool is also interactive, so you can tweak the parameters to form your own views. Report here: https://lnkd.in/gx5MCDrN One of the key insights that you’ll find from the report is that blockchains have more active users, and more ways to engage than ever before. We’re seeing more monthly active addresses – unique addresses sending on-chain transactions each month – than ever.  Last month we saw 15 million addresses, more than twice as many as two years ago when prices were still elevated. One explanation: there are increasingly more ways to engage with blockchains and web3 applications. From DeFi to web3 games – more than 700 of which launched last year – a variety of new applications create addresses for their users to interact with, without having to download or connect a wallet. Check out a few more of the takeaways from the report here: https://lnkd.in/gx5MCDrN Lastly, we encourage you to explore the State of Crypto index yourself. We made the tool interactive, allowing you to tweak the parameters and create different views of the industry. We plan to update the data on an ongoing basis so that it is as accurate as possible over time. If you uncover an interesting insight, please share your thoughts with us! State of Crypto Index: https://lnkd.in/gcuw_sh3

Hilmar Veigar Pétursson has been leading CCP Games for over 2 decades. Under Hilmar’s management, CCP’s critically acclaimed science-fiction game EVE Online celebrated an unprecedented ten consecutive years of subscriber growth. Join us for this talk moderated by a16z crypto CTO, Eddy Lazzarin, to hear about why CCP Games is embracing crypto, Hilmar's thoughts about different gaming economies, the science/formula to making friends and more! https://lnkd.in/geUUme6e

Out today: Read Write Own in Korean. (First of many international versions) https://lnkd.in/gJ3PudSp

New podcast episode covering what we're reading -- including picks from our latest summer reading list and evergreen recommendations as well -- as well as how we read, and why we read (religion, mythology, fantasy, infotainment, fiction vs nonfiction, and more). w/ Sonal Chokshi , Robert Hackett, Stephanie Z., & Tim Sullivan Tune in: https://lnkd.in/gtvay9Ud

🤌 – Chris Dixon, Read Write Own 🟧

A conversation on incentives, market design and mechanism design within the infrastructure and application layers. w/ Tim Roughgarden, Scott Kominers, Pranav Garimidi https://lnkd.in/g6HvxJut

Here are some books we're reading this summer. https://lnkd.in/dDrW2jjz

In this talk, moderated by Tim Roughgarden (head of research at a16z crypto), a16z crypto research partners Valeria Nikolaenko, Joseph Bonneau, and Justin Thaler explore diverse aspects of cryptography, delving deeply into their respective research areas. https://lnkd.in/gBsKfmF4

This throwback episode is all about the theme of decentralized media/decentralized content creation. We cover creative collaboration and community; creator access; IP and evolution of the internet; and where NFTs and web3 specifically comes in -- do we really need web3 for this? The conversation also touches on topics such as the metaverse, storytelling across mediums, managing writer’s rooms, favorite TV shows, nostalgia, and much more. with Rob McElhenney, Chris Dixon, Sonal Chokshi https://lnkd.in/gH3Ec5Nj

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