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The new comms playbook: show, don’t promise

The next era belongs to builders with receipts

Jun 20•Paul Cafiero

The money flow is the moat

The best businesses sit inside the flow of value. Stablecoins and programmable networks are making that pattern available to every startup.

Jun 17•Jason Rosenthal

The race to own AI

One of the more interesting side effects of the AI boom is the scramble to own pieces of it.

Jun 13•Robert Hackett

3 product-market fit patterns working right now

Product-market-fit (PMF) is one of the single greatest determinants of whether a company lives or dies.

Jun 6•Jason Rosenthal

What prediction markets actually know

The questions they answer that other markets can't — and what they still need to get right

May 30•Scott Duke Kominers

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When prediction markets fail

Jan 24•Andy Hall

The WhatsApp moment for money is here

Feb 14•cdixon

'Open Agentic Commerce' and the end of ads

Mar 21•Samuel Ragsdale

8 big ideas for 2026 (and more trends to watch)

Jan 3•a16z crypto

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The tokenization boom in 7 charts

How tokenization is changing what assets are, how they move, and who can build on top of them

May 23•Robert Hackett

Finally, finance's digital transformation

May 21•Guy

Why the CLARITY Act is really about whether decentralized networks can exist as first-class institutions in the United States.

May 15•Miles Jennings and a16z crypto

Why 'stablecoins' won't age well

The category has moved on. The name hasn't.

May 9•Robert Hackett

We raised a $2.2B crypto fund

Why now

May 5•cdixon, Ali Yahya, Guy, and Eddy Lazzarin

Can AI agents actually pull off DeFi exploits?

We asked whether off-the-shelf AI could turn DeFi vulnerabilities into real exploits. The answer was… complicated.

Apr 29•Daejun Park and Matt Gleason

How stablecoins found their story in 9 charts

A new picture is emerging of what stablecoins are for

Apr 25•Robert Hackett and Jeremy Zhang