Although we are still hoping to see really mainstream key applications that reach, you know, the total average user,

we've seen a lot of the prerequisites for that snap into place and things have gotten a lot better

a lot cheaper a lot faster and I think all those things together is what paints this

optimistic picture.

Welcome to Bankless, where today we explore the state of crypto for the year

2024.

This is Ryan Sean Adams.

I'm here with David Hoffman, and we are here to help you become more

bankless. So, bankless listener, what is the state of going bankless? How many people are in

crypto? How are we doing? How many builders are in this space? What are overall the big trends? What products are getting used? All of these questions and the answers to those questions are contained in the report that we're about to go through in today's

episode. We have two guests from A16Z every year they put together a

fantastic report they chart the data sets over time and we get into that data

there's a lot of visuals accompanying today's episode. over time and we get into that data.

There's a lot of visuals accompanying today's episode,

so make sure you tune in via YouTube

or the Spotify video feed

so you can follow along with us.

First, before we get into the episode,

a message from our friends and sponsors over at B3.

B3 games comes from the base team and they're getting into the world of on-chain gaming.

The base chain is pretty fast, but not fast enough to build on chain games, so they left and built B3,

a layer 3 ecosystem optimized for games. Think like the OP stack, but for on chain games. every game can launch its own roll-up on

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