Sam Broner

@sambroner

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1/ I’m excited to announce the cohort for our fourth Crypto Startup Accelerator program (CSX 04), starting this week in San Francisco. CSX helps early-stage startups building on blockchain technologies to accelerate development and product-market fit. It is an intensive program that provides the expertise, mentorship, and support that startups need to build ambitious products across industries. Over the next two months, the founders of these companies will get firsthand guidance and support from a16z crypto’s investing and operating teams. We connect founders with capital, industry experts across the a16z network, and a cohort of leading web3 teams. a16z CSX also invests a minimum of $500,000 in each company that’s accepted. The founders in CSX 04 are coming to San Francisco from countries around the world: Canada, France, Germany, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, and across the US.

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Today’s payment landscape is dominated by gatekeepers that charge high fees that cut into the profitability of every business they touch, and justify those fees in the name of ubiquity and convenience — while they stifle competition and limit the creativity of builders. In this post, @sambroner explains how stablecoins can do better: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/how-stablecoins-will-eat-payments/

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I wasn’t yet a follower! Next time!

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FWIW that guy was @garrett -- guys a hooper!

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A guy at my weekly basketball game asked me if he could pay the game fee in stablecoins. Obviously yes! Cost him $20 + $0.0033. And FWIW, with Aave I've made more than that ~$0.0033 in interest (4.5% APR on $20) since the game. Maybe I should have paid the fee??

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Introducing our special end-of-year podcast episodes! They look ahead to 2025 — covering our annual Big Ideas lists, where various a16z crypto team members share what they are personally excited about. These two episodes cover: - Stablecoins payments, and where the early adopters will come from - App store distribution, curation, and discovery - Where the next crypto users will come from - Turning passive holders into active users - How builders improve, and better choose, infrastructure - Simplifying user experience And much more! Part 1: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/podcast/trends-2025-stablecoins-app-stores-infrastructure-ux-more/ Part 2: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/podcast/trends-2025-ai-crypto-agents-depin-proof-of-personhood-unique-id-decentralized-autonomous-chatbots-tees/ w/ @sambroner @maggiehsu @darenmatsuoka @smc90 @hackr, @chrislyons & @jneu

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I wrote an oped in The FT. My goal isn't to defend or to diminish memecoins. It’s to point out the backward incentives of a regulatory regime in the US that lets only memecoins thrive — while companies & tokens with more productive uses face hurdles. https://www.ft.com/content/1ceaa1c6-47df-4430-950e-ffcbf1cc8f7b

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Universe is pretty cool

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If you are building in crypto, you should apply to a16z's CSX in NYC. Applications close today. Incredible things will be built in NYC this fall. Please DM me if you have any questions or are hesitating to apply. https://apply.a16zcrypto.com/

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Shogun (very good, strong rec) is a brutal reminder of how much I second screen while watching TV. "What'd that guy say? Oh right it's Japanese and I need to read the subtitles"

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Two weeks left to apply to Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) for our NYC cohort later this year. The London group looks incredible and starts soon. If you have any questions, send me a message on Warpcast! https://apply.a16zcrypto.com/

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DUNA AMA. Happening now 👇

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This is a big open question to me. Curious if you ever figured it out!

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No pics, but F&F pizza in Carroll Gardens! Another blackbird special, but the people behind Frankie’s are killing it.

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You gotta line up 6+ apartment tours on day 1 and bring your paperwork. Good luck out there!

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At some point soon, local-first & web3 will meet

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Note: This is general purpose! You can turn any blog post into a frame. But maybe be gentle on the service until I have time to improve error handling. https://warpcast.com/sambroner/0xe53edba3

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This was a fun project! Make any website into a frame! Urls should not include the protocol, so https://example.com becomes example.com. New URLs will take 10-15 seconds. Website may go down when, for instance, my laptop closes 😆

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http://165.227.216.111/url/a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/read-write-own-intro/

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A warm Farcaster welcome to @skyler-jokiel!

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