Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As blockchain technology rapidly gains the attention of a mass audience, the conversation is still centered solely around technical topics related to the scalability of a network — transactions per second, latency, and throughput, for example.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In this crossover episode from new show “web3 with a16z”, a16z general partners Chris Dixon and Ali Yahya and a16z crypto head of research Tim Roughgarden, with host Sonal Choksi, set context and discuss the connections between blockchain, crypto, and web3, as well as how lessons from earlier eras of the web do and don’t apply to (..)

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2018

And the Blockchain is here. Network effect businesses, those like AirBnB and Facebook, face a theoretical risk from blockchain startups. Blockchain technology incentivizes network participants. The SEC is actively investigating ways to provide main street with access to startups. I received a token for using a service.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The same cost-reduction phenomenon is occurring with blockchains, though it’s not nearly as well publicized. The cost to save data to a blockchain is called gas. Some newer blockchain databases like Sui have further pushed that cost to $0.0019 as of this writing. for Optimism & $0.08 for Arbitrum. Optimism 0.15

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 9, 2022

… The post Virtual Society, Blockchains, and The Metaverse appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 13, 2023

… The post When is decentralizing on a blockchain valuable? appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Like in web2, building an app on a blockchain requires several layers & components. Picking the best of each can be a challenge for a developer. Once the stack is fixed, a developer might want to choose the best database characteristics for an app : lower latency for a game, greater security for a financial exchange.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 18, 2022

… The post Why Blockchain Performance is Hard to Measure appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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SaaS Metrics

JANUARY 14, 2022

Blockchain is becoming more widespread as the modern era progresses. Blockchain swoops in as a saint to provide visibility and transparency among corporations lacking trust and value while executing transactions. The post Amazon Managed Blockchain; What does it do? first appeared on SaaS Metrics.

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IT World

APRIL 4, 2022

To that end, blockchain company Equideum Health and Nokia have announced plans build a SaaS-based marketplace where patient information is amassed for sale to researchers. The market for patient healthcare data is booming.

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SaaS Metrics

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The post The Advantages of Blockchain-as-a-Service first appeared on SaaS Metrics. This means that instead of a business developing its own software, it can pay monthly to use already-developed software. While SaaS models have been popular for a.

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IT World

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Four years after IBM and Maersk first unveiled TradeLens , the companies have announced they will be withdrawing TradeLens offerings and will discontinue the blockchain-based supply chain platform. The platform will go offline by the end of the first quarter in 2023.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

… The post SBC 22: Field Notes from Science of Blockchain 2022 appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 17, 2024

The chart above shows both the historical performance & also explains how web3 blockchains like Ethereum generate revenue & profits. But Ethereum demonstrates the compelling value that web3 blockchains can create. Ethereum generated $370m in profit on $825m in revenue for about a 45% net income margin.

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SaaS Metrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

The problem of scalability is one of the main reasons why blockchain technology is not yet widespread. Scalability refers to the ability of a blockchain network to handle an increasing number of transactions. So far, most blockchains are not capable of competing with Visa, MasterCard, or Paypal.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2024

Evan & the Mysten team were instrumental in the creation of Meta’s high-performance blockchain techology before leaving to start Mysten. There are few key ideas Mysten espouses about blockchains that have led to dramatic improvements in performance & usability.

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IT World

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The impending shutdown of one of the largest digital shipping tracking ledgers is likely a sign that costly customized enterprise blockchain projects managed by consortiums are doomed — and have been for a long time. This] seems like the last chapter in the era of costly enterprise blockchain projects.”

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 11, 2023

You won’t find people outside of tech hubs googling for microservices or layer 2 blockchains or serverless databases with any great frequency. For each of the 14 weeks, more people searched for ChatGPT than Taylor Swift according to Google Trends data. But Minnesotans & Idahoans & Vermontans are searching for ChatGPT.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 29, 2022

In January, L1s (blockchains) generated 78% of revenue across public web3 projects. As blockchains look to foster healthy ecosystems, they will need to build a portfolio of application developers across different categories. Exchanges clocked in second at 6.4%, then NFTs & marketplaces at 5.9%. L1s have fallen from 78% to 41%.

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SaaS Metrics

AUGUST 20, 2020

In order to understand how the recent growth of blockchain technology has affected it, it’s best to begin with a couple of definitions. There are some major changes taking place in the world of software as a service. Also called SaaS, this segment of the business universe has undergone massive transformations in the past decade.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2023

Blockchains are databases application developers use to build novel user experiences. Just as hundreds of different databases exist in web2, different blockchains have evolved in web3. In September, I published the State of Web3 in Data. I’ve been watching one of those charts very closely : slide 25 which tracked L2s & L1s.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Whether in corporations, boardrooms, or political elections, voting is something we see in all kinds of social systems… including blockchains. It’s the natural human tendency for how to organize decisions, and in distributed systems without centralized middlemen, it’s the only …

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 7, 2023

In that transition, web3 software & infrastructure companies will shed their language of wallets, blockchains, & tokens for terms most buyers understand : accounts, databases, & credits. But web3-to-web2 sales must be the future for companies to scale.

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IT World

AUGUST 12, 2019

Public tests of blockchain-based mobile voting are growing. Even as there's been an uptick in pilot projects, security experts warn that blockchain-based mobile voting technology is innately insecure and potentially a danger to democracy through "wholesale fraud" or "manipulation tactics."

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ProfitWell

MARCH 6, 2019

On this episode of the ProfitWell Report, Marcelo Furtado , Co-Founder at Convenia , asks us a brilliant SaaS marketing question: How does having "blockchain" or "crypto" in your marketing impact willingness to pay? There’s a ton of hype around blockchain in general, which is why we’re answering our question today. Click to enlarge.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 23, 2019

During this time, he saw first-hand that underlying the Syrian refugee crisis, the rise of radical extremism, and other global conflicts … The post A Green Beret’s Journey to Blockchain and Crypto appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Steven authored many of the seminal papers behind modern blockchains. Arbitrum is a L2, a layer 2, that sits atop Ethereum, improving its performance & cost to write transactions. More than innovating technically, Steven has guided Offchain Labs’ developer relations strategy in a unique way in the ecosystem.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 19, 2022

But these networks couldn’t talk to each other in a standardized way - paralleling the limited interoperability of blockchains today. Web3 builders are debating their way through this era’s protocol wars, defining the networking stack to connect blockchains. Stanford operated a computer network.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 19, 2019

In a previous video , a16z crypto Deal Partner Ali Yahya laid out five open problems for building the blockchain computer. One of those problems is building a decentralized storage network. In this video, we double-click on the decentralized storage …

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This team is responsible for developing Facebook’s blockchain (Diem) and the Move programming language, two fundamental projects within the ecosystem. In addition, they are developing a blazing fast NFT platform which aims to enable seamless movement of NFTs across blockchains.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 27, 2022

Virtual wallets will form the backbone of the next-generation ads stack , replacing the cookie with a blockchain wallet. Blockchain infrastructure is beautiful - a marvel of collaboration across the internet. Blockchain infrastructure is beautiful - a marvel of collaboration across the internet.

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IT World

APRIL 30, 2019

After nearly a year of testing, Amazon on Tuesday announced the general availability its Amazon Managed Blockchain , a fully managed service that makes it easy to create and manage scalable blockchain networks.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Blockchain powers the experience. At that moment, the point of maximum intent , you create a blockchain wallet to store your new avatar. I think it’s a project that deserves more visibility than it has received. Reddit’s Collectible Avatars launched in August 2022. Collectible Avatars allow users to buy profile pictures.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 16, 2022

Obstacles exist: Blockchain transaction costs are real, but fees will fall over time. The incumbent marketing hegemons aren’t prepared for this new world with limited knowledge of blockchains and systems architected for cookies. Apps could encode user metadata as an NFT governed by a smart contract that enforces royalties.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

When Facebook launches its cryptocurrency Libra in 2020, it will need a public-facing blockchain network for consumers who purchase items using digital wallets and a private blockchain network for the banks backing the new digital currency. Calibra, Facebook's digital wallet, will store Libra, Facebook's digital currency.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 19, 2022

We swapped the transaction database from PostGres to a blockchain like Ethereum or Sui , and the file storage from AWS S3 to a decentralized storage provider, perhaps Filecoin or ArWeave. Compare this image to a web3 architecture with the web3 parts in red. Only the transaction database & the file storage changed color.

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IT World

JANUARY 17, 2019

SAP has launched a supply chain tracking service based on blockchain that will enable drug wholesalers to authenticate pharmaceutical packaging returned from hospitals and pharmacies. Further reading: What is blockchain? Further reading: What is blockchain? The most disruptive tech in decades ].

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