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A16Z 2025 Big Ideas for Crypto
A list of crypto, blockchains, web3 trends for 2025 -- including the intersection of AI & crypto, prediction markets, voting, and much more
Editor’s note: a16z released its omnibus list of “big ideas” tech builders may tackle in the year ahead, according to partners across AI, American Dynamism, bio/ health, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, infrastructure, and other areas. But researchers and technologists have decades’ worth of design frameworks for incentivizing people to (truthfully) share what they know in different information contexts — from data pricing and purchasing mechanisms, to a “ Bayesiantruthserum ” for eliciting subjective assessments — many of which have already been applied in crypto projects. This past year, teams continued to reinvent the wheel across the blockchain stack — with yet another bespoke validator set, consensus protocol implementation, execution engine, programming language, RPC API.
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