Since blockchain technology appeared, there has been a persistent problem in its development: how to make it scale to billions of users. Bitcoin was famously never really designed for this, and today other platforms like Ethereum are also struggling. If you could crack this problem, the thinking goes, you’d end up with the hottest property […]
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Andreessen Horowitz has a new crypto fund — and its first female general partner is running it with Chris Dixon
Silicon Valley powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz has some big, and bigger, news today. First, it closed a dedicated crypto fund late last week from a subset of its limited partners, who’ve provided the firm with $300 million in capital commitments. The fund had become the worst-kept secret in the venture industry, largely because so many other […]
View More Andreessen Horowitz has a new crypto fund — and its first female general partner is running it with Chris DixonA16Z and Founders Fund sink $28M into IRL asset blockchain Harbor
Harbor helps businesses legally issue cryptocurrency tokens that represent ownership of real-world assets like real estate, fine art, company equity, and investment funds. This “tokenization” might sound boring, but it could be a big business that unlocks trading of illiquid property. Harbor‘s intention to become a fundamental bridge between the offline and crypto economies has […]
View More A16Z and Founders Fund sink $28M into IRL asset blockchain Harbor