Mike Manning

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In this post, my partner @pyrs and I cover how to adapt and differentiate mission and benefits statements for web3 partnerships and sales enablement. We also go over the artifacts founders need to have before taking their products to-market https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/how-to-write-missions-statements/

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Watch @cdixon.eth and fellow a16z GP David George go deep on AI and Crypto in our new AI Revolution episode

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I'm grateful to have worked with Brian the past 3 years. He's the expert and advocate for US crypto leadership that we need in this important position. Congrats, Brian! 🇺🇸

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I’m excited to announce that we’re leading the $15M seed round in @joinlegend to simplify DeFi & help bring the next 100M users onchain. While DeFi activity has grown, it has also become more complex, & remains too complicated for many people to use. Legend is pointing the way to a simpler user experience & broader adoption. Their first product is an embedded smart contract wallet that allows users to borrow, lend, or swap across chains without manual wallet connections or the risk of interacting with malicious websites. Legend’s founders @json, @hayesgm, & @mykel all worked together at DeFi pioneer Compound. Geoffrey was an inventor of the Compound protocol, and a co-founder of Compound Labs. Mykel & Jayson worked together on product and design at Compound Labs before Jayson took the reins as CEO. With their user-facing product expertise and empathy for DeFi developers, the Legend team is perfect to address the UX challenge that’s still hindering DeFi adoption. We’re delighted to support them.

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Largest US banks in 1970 ($70B in assets): 1. BofA 2. First National City (now Citi) 3. Chase Largest US banks in 2024 ($7.88T in assets): 1. Chase 2. BofA 3. Citi I'm curious: any other industries where the top 3 companies didn't change in 55 years while also growing at least 111x?

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Congrats, Ted!!

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EPMD, Business as Usual

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Feels like a Reggae Sunday

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I’m excited to announce that we’re co-leading the $10M seed round in Merit Systems, which is building a new economic model for open source. Open source software is the lifeblood of the internet, but it’s poorly funded and too reliant on volunteer contributions. Merit is building a protocol that attributes and rewards contributors proportionally to the value they create. The goal is to enable code repositories to become the organizing unit for protocol networks, in the same way that companies are the organizing units for corporate networks. Merit was founded by @samrags and @rfs. As an @a16zcrypto investor and engineer, Sam developed Jolt, one of the fastest and most promising zkVMs. Similarly, Ryan excelled at Blockchain Capital as an investor and engineer. @mason, a gifted technologist and investor also from a16z, joined the Merit team to help them scale. We are excited to back the Merit team and support them with their ambitious mission.

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I'm streaming it on the app now! Love me some KEXP. Still have fond memories or tuning into Rap Attack every Sunday night in the '90s, when it was KCMU

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"Blockchains can help achieve the original ideals of the internet, helping keep it creative, open, and diverse." - @cdixon.eth https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/blockchain-ai-internet/

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Our @a16zcrypto winter reading list just dropped.📚 My contribution: "The Ends of the World" by Peter Brannen 🌋 https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/winter-reading-list-2024/

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"In 2025, blockchain alternatives will offer more choice, open source innovation, and community-controlled options. They will carry the torch of the open internet." - @cdixon.eth in WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/blockchain-open-web-user-data/

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Rooting against the Seahawks and for the US of A

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Good haul from Thrillhouse in SF today

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Taking the time to do the things I never haaaaad

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Helios is becoming a multichain light client for Ethereum. Light clients are fundamental to Ethereum scaling. A future with thousands of rollups doesn’t feel far away, and the closer we get, the more critical rollup interoperability will become. 🧵👇

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It’s marketing week at CSX! @ted is schooling our cohort on building a community

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We’ve just released our latest State of Crypto report. It shares insights on key trends — like stablecoins, L2s, and AI — plus, crypto’s rise as a hot policy issue, new data on builders and users, and much more. Here are 7 top takeaways ⬇️ 1. Crypto activity and usage hit all-time highs 2. Crypto has become a key political issue ahead of the U.S. election 3. Stablecoins have found product-market fit 4. Major scaling upgrades have drastically reduced onchain transaction costs 5. DeFi remains popular — and it’s growing 6. Crypto could solve some of AI’s most pressing challenges 7. More scalable infrastructure has unlocked new onchain applications Check out the full report: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/state-of-crypto-report-2024/

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Very interesting, sounds like it’s worth reading

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