First Draft Club

CLUB TED

thoughts from a16zcrypto.com/stateofcrypto for discussion cc @a16zcrypto:

competition gets most intense when resources are limited. in consumer crypto, resources = users.

given the intense tribalism rampant on crypto twitter, it's no surprise that crypto isn't onboarding new users — and we haven't since april.

since april, there has been a 3.25x increase in # of unique users on blockchains (37M to 125M) and plateaued mobile wallet users (27M).

great, you may think. think again. 

from april to september:
- transactions across blockchains dropped from 2.67B to 2.1B; the avg txns per unique user dropped nearly 75% from 72 to 16.8

- DEX volume dropped nearly 30%. stablecoin volume dropped almost 25%, although had a record month in august. NFT buyers dropped 25%

- worse, imo, is the # of active and interested developer building publicly in crypto has been on a downward trend since january 2022

if you're a consumer app targeting crypto only, i hope you have enough runway to wait for a true bull market.

started my /firstdraft and expanded it to twitter since it was relevant to users there. will do a follow-up on @paragraph tomorrow!

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started my /firstdraft and expanded it to twitter since it was relevant to users there. will do a follow-up on @paragraph tomorrow!

https://x.com/tednotlasso/status/1843101766327627875

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

I read it yesterday and want to do a deeper dive into the data - but a great first draft. I do think one reason we’ve had a hard time onboarding new consumers is that we may have been too early- not enough easy to use products. That is changing with better products but we still have a ways to go. On the development side, there are new initiatives that I believe will have an impact. But we also need to better define/segment audiences. Do consumers really need to understand each blockchain? I argue only devs do. Thanks for sharing- looking forward to reading the follow up.