So far in our four-part 2025 Big Ideas series, you've heard from teams all over A16C,

from American Dynamism to healthcare to FinTech and more.

But one team you haven't heard from yet, A16Z Crypto.

And that's because we have an entire episode dedicated to their 14 big ideas for 2025,

ranging from crypto wallets for AI agents to

decentralized chatbots, to proof of personhood, prediction markets, crypto app stores, and

so much more. After such a banner year where, among other things, Bitcoin hit all-time highs

above $100,000, it really should be no surprise that our Web3

team thinks there's a lot to come next year. So if you'd like to stay up to date with all

things Web3 and the next generation of the internet, check out Web3 with A16Z. And of course,

if you'd like to see all 50 big ideas, including all 14 from crypto, head on over to A16Z.com slash big ideas.

Welcome to Web3 with A6 and Z. I'm Sonal, and today, Robert and I are excited to bring you two special

end-of-year episodes, which also look ahead to 2025. Because we're covering our annual

big ideas, which include some tech trends individual team members are excited about, it's a

firm-wide list with crypto having the biggest showing every time, and this year our team had

14 trends compared to nine last year and seven the year before.

You can check out the full list at A6NZ Crypto.com slash big ideas. This episode is part one of two.

You don't have to listen to them in any particular order, covering the trends of stable coins,

app store distribution and discovery, where the next users will come from, how builders improve and

choose infrastructure, and simplifying user experience. Our guests for each of those are Sam Broner,

Maggie Sue, Darren Matsuoka, Yolkim Noi, and Chris Lyons. Robert and I follow with some meta-commentary

at the end, so stay tuned until then. And be sure to also check out our other Big Ideas episode, which covers all the ideas at the

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