A simple guide to the web3 developer stack
The Coinbase Blog | Ethereum
by Coinbase
1y ago
A guide to the projects and companies working to make web3 development as easy as web2 Around the Block, from Coinbase Ventures sheds light on key trends in crypto. Written by Jonathan King, Connor Dempsey, & Hoolie Tejwani Special thanks to Mike Armstrong, Aaron Henshaw, Michael Atassi, Steven Willinger, and Shan Aggarwal for helping to inform this article. Despite the rise of Bitcoin and Ethereum, along with the emergence of new categories like DeFi, NFTs, GameFi and DAOs, web3 developers represent less than 1% of the 31.1M software developers globally.* So why are there ..read more
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Coinbase Ventures Q2 recap and market outlook
The Coinbase Blog | Ethereum
by Coinbase
1y ago
Coinbase Ventures Q2 recap and market outlook Around the Block sheds light on key trends in crypto. Written by Connor Dempsey, sourced from the work and insights from the entire team at Coinbase Ventures & Corp Dev TLDR: Coinbase Ventures deal activity reflected the overall pace of the venture landscape, down 34% QoQ. Activity remained up 68% YoY, reflecting the steady growth of our venture practice over the past year Among the key trends observed, we believe that Web3 gaming will onboard the next massive wave of crypto users, with experienced founders from Web2 gaming con ..read more
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The crypto market downturn explained
The Coinbase Blog | Ethereum
by Coinbase
1y ago
Around the Block from Coinbase Ventures sheds light on key trends in crypto. Written by Connor Dempsey. Data by Mike Cohen. TLDR: Central Banks and governments responded to the March 2020 COVID market shock with unprecedented interest rate cuts, money printing, and stimulus These easy money policies kicked off a multi-year bull run for equities and crypto, before eventually causing inflation that was further exacerbated by COVID supply shocks BTC, ETH, the NASDAQ, and S&P each peaked at the tail end of 2021, when it became clear that inflation was not under control and tha ..read more
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Coinbase Ventures Q1 recap and market outlook
The Coinbase Blog | Ethereum
by Coinbase
1y ago
Around the Block from Coinbase Ventures sheds light on key trends in crypto. Written by Connor Dempsey TLDR: Despite the market downturn, Q1 was another highly active quarter for crypto venture funding. On the infrastructure side, we’re seeing a ton of activity within cross-chain solutions and DAO tooling. New layer-1s are still being incubated. Familiar DeFi primitives developed on Ethereum are expanding into newer layer 1s, and Polkadot is picking up steam. NFT projects are focused on bringing more utility to the space, with Yuga Labs making serious waves over the quart ..read more
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Ventures’ Takeaways from ETH Denver
The Coinbase Blog | Ethereum
by Coinbase
1y ago
The last time ETH Denver was held in person, ETH’s market cap stood at $30B, DeFi hadn’t had its breakout summer, and few people outside of the 6,000 attendees knew what an NFT was. Fast forward to 2022 and a 10x in ETH’s market cap, the rise of NFTs, a DAO resurgence, and a year where Ethereum did more transactional volume than Visa, a record crowd of 12,000 in Colorado were met with an entirely different energy. What had historically been an event for hackers and coders received an infusion of artists and creatives, as well as a governor, a former presidential candidate, and a heavy dose of ..read more
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Crypto’s 69 most interesting charts from 2021
The Coinbase Blog | Ethereum
by Coinbase
1y ago
As most of us were enjoying some R&R over Christmas break, Coinbase Cloud protocol specialist Elias Simos was scouring the web for the most interesting crypto charts of 2021: 69 of them to be exact. In the latest Around The Block podcast, we sit down with Elias and discuss some of the most interesting data points from the year, and what it all means for the future. (High level takeaways below) https://medium.com/media/7b9a66be5a63161f98b8f7001a2394bc/href Listen on Apple or Spotify Metaverse and smart contract assets outperform Price isn’t everything, but the two top performin ..read more
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Reflecting on Coinbase Ventures’ record year in 2021
The Coinbase Blog | Ethereum
by Coinbase
1y ago
Around the Block from Coinbase Ventures sheds light on key trends in crypto. Written by Connor Dempsey, Ryan Yi & Justin Mart. 2021 was a historic year for both crypto markets and venture capital funding. Driven in part by institutional inflows, Bitcoin soared to new highs to start the year, the entire market followed suit nearing a record $3T market cap in November. Meanwhile, $30B in venture funding poured into the space: more than all prior years of crypto’s history combined. 2021 was also a record year for Coinbase Ventures, with just under 150 deals, averaging a new deal every ..read more
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A simple guide to the Web3 stack
The Coinbase Blog | Ethereum
by Coinbase
1y ago
Web3 is the latest buzzword to see an uptick in interest in recent months — What does it actually mean? Around the Block from Coinbase Ventures sheds light on key trends in crypto. Written by Connor Dempsey, Angie Wang & Justin Mart. A lot of definitions have been thrown around, but at Coinbase, we generally think of Web3 as a trustless, permissionless, and decentralized internet that leverages blockchain technology. Web3’s defining feature is ownership. Whereas the first iteration of the commercial internet (Web1) was read-only for most users, and Web2 allowed users to both re ..read more
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DAOs: Social networks that can rewire the world
The Coinbase Blog | Ethereum
by Coinbase
1y ago
Exploring the new world of decentralized autonomous organizations Around the Block from Coinbase Ventures sheds light on key trends in crypto. Written by Justin Mart & Connor Dempsey. What the internet did for communication, DAOs can do for capital. The internet and social networks have made it easier for like minded individuals to communicate than ever before, regardless of geographic location. The advent of digitally native money and finance have now enabled a new kind of social network that allows for like minded individuals to not just communicate, but also coordinate around ..read more
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Scaling Ethereum & crypto for a billion users
The Coinbase Blog | Ethereum
by Coinbase
1y ago
A guide to the multi-chain future, sidechains, and layer-2 solutions Around the Block from Coinbase Ventures sheds light on key trends in crypto. Written by Justin Mart & Connor Dempsey. As of late 2021, Ethereum has grown to support thousands of applications from decentralized finance, NFTs, gaming and more. The entire network settles trillions of dollars in transactions annually, with over $170 billion locked on the platform. But as the saying goes, more money, more problems. Ethereum’s decentralized design ends up limiting the amount of transactions it can process to just 15 per s ..read more
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