BREAKDOWN: 5 Key Takeaways From a16z's State of Crypto Report
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🗓️ 21 May 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
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This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR and FTX US.
Venture giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) recently published its inaugural "State of Crypto" report. In this edition of the “Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at five key takeaways from the research as well as UST-luna investor postmortems.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:14.9 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, near an FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:24.6 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, |
| 0:31.1 | May 21st, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. Now, before we get into the weekly recap, |
| 0:35.7 | if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dig deeper into the |
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| 0:42.3 | bit.e.combe, also a disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, |
| 0:48.7 | I also work with FTX. Finally, if you have not registered yet, I highly recommend you go sign up for Consensus, |
| 0:57.8 | CoinDesk's premier crypto festival. It's happening in Austin, Texas, between June 9th and June 12th, |
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| 1:09.5 | crypto ecosystem. If you are interested in the sort of |
| 1:12.7 | big picture power shift side of crypto that we talk about so much here, you won't want to miss |
| 1:17.7 | speakers like Congressman Patrick McHenry or Senator Kirstenjillibrand. If you are interested |
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| 1:30.6 | All right. |
| 1:31.1 | So today we're doing two main things on the weekly recap. |
| 1:34.3 | First, we're going to go back and look at some of the postmortems from funds involved |
| 1:38.7 | with Tara Luna that have finally started to trickle out. |
| 1:41.3 | And second, we're going to do a key takeaway discussion from |
| 1:44.8 | the A16Z State of Crypto report from earlier this week. |
| 1:49.0 | Teterra and Luna first. |
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