a16z Crypto CTO: State of Crypto 2023
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🗓️ 19 April 2023
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Summary
Today, we're talking about the State of Crypto with Eddy Lazzarin, the CTO of a16z Crypto.
The 2023 a16z Crypto Report was published last week and discussed a number of topics, including developer activity, transaction volume, users, and so much more.
What are the best insights as we look forward to the rest of the year?
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Resources:
2023 State of Crypto Report
https://a16zcrypto.com/content/article/state-of-crypto-report-2023/
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| 0:00.0 | Thankless Nation, we've got a special episode for you today. |
| 0:12.2 | We're talking about the state of crypto in the year of our Lord 2023. |
| 0:16.7 | That's right now. |
| 0:17.7 | How are we doing in crypto? |
| 0:19.0 | David, a report came out last week that was absolutely fantastic. |
| 0:23.1 | This is a report from A16Z. |
| 0:25.4 | What are we covering today? |
| 0:27.0 | The A16Z crypto report for 2023. |
| 0:30.9 | These reports come out as snapshot for the state of the industry, the state of the ecosystem. |
| 0:37.4 | Where are we in crypto's development in 2023? |
| 0:40.6 | I remember Ryan, one of these reports, not too dissimilar from the report that we are |
| 0:45.0 | going through today, came out in 2019 and talked about similar metrics, developer activity, |
| 0:51.1 | transaction volume, users. |
| 0:53.9 | And it was one of the things that I remember way back when in 2019 or 2018 that allowed |
| 0:59.0 | me to have conviction in what was a dark time in the world of crypto. |
| 1:03.1 | It was a bear market. |
| 1:04.5 | It was a challenging bear market. |
| 1:06.2 | And sometimes these reports are really useful to remind us about the secular bull market |
| 1:13.2 | that almost all metrics are about crypto. |
| 1:15.7 | They're up and to the right, no matter what you want to look at. |
| 1:18.8 | And this is a way and it's also important to remind ourselves who this audience is |
| 1:24.3 | who this audience for this report is. |
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