Tom Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2023

Blockchains are databases application developers use to build novel user experiences. Just as hundreds of different databases exist in web2, different blockchains have evolved in web3. They provide faster & less expensive transactions for application developers. In September, I published the State of Web3 in Data.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Like in web2, building an app on a blockchain requires several layers & components. Picking the best of each can be a challenge for a developer. Once the stack is fixed, a developer might want to choose the best database characteristics for an app : lower latency for a game, greater security for a financial exchange.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2022

Ad Networks educate users about new projects while providing revenue to Publishers, application developers and content publishers. Attribution vendors and Analytics vendors will poll various blockchains constantly to provide up-to-date data. These ad networks’ will use public wallet information to target users.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2022

L1s or blockchains, the public databases that record transactions, dominate the revenue share across the top projects producing 78% of revenue. Infrastructure companies selling to web3 developers should benefit from a surge in revenue as the web3 ecosystem flourishes. Exchanges place second. Right behind, NFT exchanges rank third.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As blockchain technology rapidly gains the attention of a mass audience, the conversation is still centered solely around technical topics related to the scalability of a network — transactions per second, latency, and throughput, for example.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 19, 2022

But these networks couldn’t talk to each other in a standardized way - paralleling the limited interoperability of blockchains today. In 1974 and 1975, a team at DARPA including Vint Cerf developed a standard called TCP/IP. Cosmos has been promoting the Inter Blockchain Connectivity (IBC) standard for messaging.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 29, 2022

But let’s break the data down by category into the top 5 by revenue: L1s (blockchains), DEXs (decentralized exchanges), Credit (lenders), NFT Marketplaces (buy & sell Bored Apes), & Yield Aggregators (systems to maximize interest rates on deposits). There’s none. The correlation asymptotes to zero.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 27, 2022

In addition to enjoying efficient funnels, app developers avoid minting, staking, and trading fees until the user wants to move assets out of the app’s ecosystem. Virtual wallets will form the backbone of the next-generation ads stack , replacing the cookie with a blockchain wallet.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2022

Developers building sophisticated applications employ 10, 20, maybe 30 services. Developers pay for low-latency storage with the same protocol token as they would pay for compute. Migrate the database (blockchain) and the file system to ensure on-chain asset ownership survives the company.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Steven authored many of the seminal papers behind modern blockchains. More than innovating technically, Steven has guided Offchain Labs’ developer relations strategy in a unique way in the ecosystem. Arbitrum is a L2, a layer 2, that sits atop Ethereum, improving its performance & cost to write transactions.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

For example, quantifying the number of active wallets, the population of active developers, & other dynamics within the ecosystem. Developers push about 300,000 smart contracts to Ethereum every month, a figure that has been flat for the last five months. The slides are embedded here with summary commentary below and linked here.

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SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2024

At the time, a lot of people were very skeptical because our investment in Chain was the first blockchain investment by any major payments network. Peter is a founder twice over, and most recently ran strategy and business development for Very Good Security.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 16, 2021

When a user spins up a validator to verify transactions on a blockchain, stresses the testnet and is rewarded with tokens, stakes tokens to generate yield, burns tokens to transact, or receives an airdrop for tweeting, a cryptoco expends tokens to acquire a customer. equity and tokens are different instruments. But not today.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 19, 2018

New databases like Hadoop, Cassandra, Cockroach/Spanner, Mongo, Blockchain store and retrieve data faster, at larger scale, across geographies or in untrusted environments. Devops combines the responsibilities of software developers and infrastructure operations.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

QuikNode is a Miami-based startup powering blockchain applications with lightning fast Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BSC and xDai nodes. This allows anyone building an app that applies blockchain technology to do so by building directly on top of QuikNode’s globally distributed Web3 infrastructure. Table of Contents. Where Web 2.0

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Blockchain powers the experience. At that moment, the point of maximum intent , you create a blockchain wallet to store your new avatar. User & developer counts are relatively flat. I think it’s a project that deserves more visibility than it has received. Reddit’s Collectible Avatars launched in August 2022.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The next frontier in computing, which will take shape this decade, is building apps on programmable blockchains. Programmable blockchains are interesting for the same reason that innovation on smartphones spiked after opening up development to third parties via app stores.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Full stack developers are a coveted breed. We are glad to share a list of 22 leading full stack developers you must follow in 2022 to stay in touch with the latest trends and developments in the SaaS and IT spaces. #1 Since 1999, John Sonmez has been a highly popular blogger and speaker devoted to helping developers.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

It is based on blockchain and allows businesses to take care of their finances on a number of platforms and in multiple currencies. Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform. Based in: Hong Kong. Funding to Date : $1.6M

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Developers are taking advantage of the flexible, interlocking nature of blockchains to create new applications that … The post The State of Crypto: A Builder’s Guide From Crypto Startup School appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Crypto has gone through an eventful year.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 3, 2023

We aim to research ideas, develop informed perspectives, & ply those insights to support founders from their earliest stages. Decentralized Infrastructure as Database : Blockchain technologies invert data ownership by shifting control to the end user. I aim to continue this work for many years at Theory Ventures.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2018

The technology innovation catalyzed by Bitcoin and Blockchain is creating many multibillion dollar economies quickly. They financed the development and deployment of switches, routers, modems and the installation of copper lines to connect new data centers. The ICO market today bears many similarities to the dotcom era.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 2, 2024

The advent of blockchain technology and growing disillusionment with traditional social networks have reignited interest in decentralization.  ” Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 8, 2024

Evan & the Mysten team were instrumental in the creation of Meta’s high-performance blockchain techology before leaving to start Mysten. There are few key ideas Mysten espouses about blockchains that have led to dramatic improvements in performance & usability.

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IT World

MAY 7, 2019

Starbucks is working with Microsoft to develop a blockchain-based supply chain tracking system and mobile app that will allow customers to track the supply chain journey of the beans they buy and the coffee they drink.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

She is also an active tech investor in Asia, complementing the financing with business development insights. In 2012, she became Assistant VP at JJL Overseas Education in Beijing, soon enough becoming its VP of Global Development. And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. Jessica Liu. Maxine’s passion?

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2020

Okay, so we know community is important — whether for developer relations for your platform or just other types of communities — but how do we measure the success of community initiatives and even artifacts … The post a16z Podcast: Measuring & Managing Community Orgs, Developer Relations and Beyond appeared first on Andreessen (..)

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It brings together delegates from across the entire ecosystem with all the key formats covered, from mobile, PC and console to XR, AI, and blockchain technology. After launching 10 years ago, the PG Connects roadshow has landed in America, Canada, Finland, Jordan, India and Hong Kong, with a genuinely international client base.

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IT World

MARCH 6, 2019

The largest chunk of worldwide spending on new blockchain networks – nearly $2.9 The research firm also noted that blockchain implementations are moving quickly beyond the pilot and proof-of-concept phase to real-world production systems. Further reading: What is blockchain? Further reading: What is blockchain?

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 5, 2018

“Can you explain to me why public key/private key technology is important on the Blockchain?” The speculators believe great investments develop competitive advantage through innovation, disruption and displacement. ” He pointed out the Bitcoin ATM that charges 10% from his cigarette-infused Prius.

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SaaS Metrics

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What happens when the nimbleness of SaaS intersects with the unmatched security of blockchain? Companies develop next-gen solutions that are not just groundbreaking but also solve real-world problems. Read more The post Blockchain Integration in SaaS: Unleashing New Possibilities first appeared on SaaS Metrics.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 10, 2020

One that … The post a16z Podcast: Turning Open Source Developers Into Superfans appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. In this episode, we continue our community series with a recent discussion that applies to many kinds of community building.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 9, 2020

Now veteran gamer Kevin Chou is using blockchain technology to realign the economic relationships between game developers and their massive player base. The combination of cloud, social, and mobile has turned gaming from a niche hobby into a massive industry.

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IT World

MAY 3, 2019

Microsoft today announced its first Azure-based, managed blockchain platform using JPM's Quorum enterprise-class distributed ledger technology. Since 2015, Microsoft's Azure cloud service has allowed users to install a number of blockchain platforms, including Enterprise Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, R3 Corda, and Quorum.

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SaaS Metrics

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

This means that instead of a business developing its own software, it can pay monthly to use already-developed software. The post The Advantages of Blockchain-as-a-Service first appeared on SaaS Metrics. SaaS gives people access to software on a subscription basis. While SaaS models have been popular for a.

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ITPro

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Another blockchain project has been announced by Microsoft which aims to integrate blockchain and its cloud services.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

IBM continued its Red Hat and open-source integration work this week by adding Red Hat OpenShift support to its blockchain platform and bringing a Kubernetes Operator for Apache CouchDB along side its hybrid-cloud services offering.

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