Some summer reads from a16z crypto — covering everything from algorithms, cryptography, markets, and system design to time travel, space, food, and philosophy.
Reading for education or entertainment, non-fiction or fiction, there’s something on this list for everyone. 📚🧵👇
Who doesn’t like rewards and unique NFT prizes? 🤫
The Arbitrum Odyssey is a campaign with @ratwell0x , @sugoiNFT and @offchain that promises an exciting Web3 experience.
We will be tweeting out the tasks each week so turn those notifications on! 🔔
https://t.co/JNgilcEUTv
The time has come, arbinauts… 🧑🚀
🔵 An 8-week long journey into Ethereum’s premier L2, Arbitrum…
The Arbitrum Odyssey has begun - but before you enter, brief yourself below! 👇
Imo, crypto now going through something vaguely like post-2000 tech crash. We proved modest product market fit in several areas, but A. Products and infrastructure need to be much better to truly cross chasm to mainstream. B. And adoption is ~5 years behind where some hoped. /1
If you’re doing an airdrop and majority of your userbase is airdrop farmers, don’t fight them too early on. Airdrop farmers and mercenaries have their uses. You use them to create mirage of usage to draw in actual users and find PMF. Don’t cut them off too early.
a16z crypto's 1st annual overview of industry trends.
For creators, entrepreneurs and builders seeking to understand the evolution of the internet and the current journey towards a decentralized, community-owned and operated alternative to web2 platforms. https://t.co/3UfgYrK9um
Following a negative earnings report, @coinbase released a disclosure that if they did go bankrupt investors’ crypto would be subject to bankruptcy proceedings.
Check out @dunleavy89's Analyst Note on why Coinbase is likely at no risk of bankruptcy:
https://t.co/AuZW8SFmcP
Flow is a normie blockchain.
In a world in which L1s are battling for 300 million crypto users, going for the other 4.7 billion internet users is crazy differentiated enough that it just might work.
This is the longest Not Boring ever, so 10 tidbits below:
ZK Rollups capable of general computation are often considered key to Ethereum’s endgame, but a year ago, leading researchers believed we were many years away.
Today, we’re launching the first EVM-compatible ZK Rollup on public testnet.
https://t.co/oecCcn5pIY