Here are some (broadly-defined) areas where I believe crypto can make a difference in the world.

1/ Payments
Problem: Payments are highly inefficient, especially when sending them across borders. People spend $647 billion on remittances every year, with an average cost of 6.25%.

Thanks Pomp 🌪 for having me on your podcast!

A great time to build 💪

This week, cdixon.eth joined the Financial Innovation Caucus for a bipartisan discussion about the importance of crypto assets and the need for the U.S. to be a world leader in regulatory clarity for crypto assets.

Looking forward to speaking and signing books at Harvard Blockchain’s Blockchain Conference in Boston tomorrow.

It'll be a fireside with professor Tom Eisenmann, who taught me many of the lessons on building networks that I wrote about in Read Write Own. Hope to see you there!

Today we're sharing our biggest open source release yet: Jolt Alpha, our zkVM built new from the ground up. The UX is excellent and it's time to share what we've learned. In short: it's fast and concise.

Learn more below!

The State of Crypto index, which measures innovation and adoption in the crypto industry based on 14 key non-financial metrics, hit another all time high last month.

Several of the underlying metrics also individually hit all time highs. Here are some highlights 👇

Read Write Own is 'the first thing I've read that explained blockchain in a way that I understood it.'
-Rick Rubin

BIG NEWS:
i'm investing $30M in the next 45 days via the a16z SPEEDRUN program 😎

Yes, $750k per startup that joins the SPEEDRUN program plus obv it'll be a great way to work together on something. So come work with me at a16z's SPEEDRUN program -- we'll invest, work with you,

Required Reading: Read Write Own by cdixon.eth

In the first 3 chapters, Chris puts up the cleanest diagnosis of the current state of tech and why, despite so much transformative tech over the past 3 decades, we're still waiting for the creator revolution we've been promised.

Even

Today we’re announcing the full cohort for CSX Spring 2024 in London

Our Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) Spring 2024 program kicks off this week, with the founders of 25 promising early-stage startups gathered in London. Over 10 weeks, they’ll learn from each other and receive

Today, we’re announcing that we’re leading Espresso Systems’ Series B ☕

Ethereum’s scalability end-game is all about rollups—potentially thousands or even millions of rollups, each one a mini-ecosystem or an application that is built on top of Ethereum’s bedrock of security. The

Chris Dixon and I hung out Monday at our new secret social club

Michael Ma won’t let us say anything more than that though

Meeting students is my favorite part of the book tour- lots of great energy and ideas.