Andreessen Horowitz December 11, 2025
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What our Crypto partners are observing for the year ahead

Over the past two days, we’ve shared the ideas our Infrastructure, Growth, Bio + Health, Speedrun, Apps, and American Dynamism teams think builders will tackle in 2026.

Today, we’re sharing are 17 things that various a16z crypto partners (plus a few guest contributors) observe about what’s ahead — on topics ranging from agents and AI; stablecoins, tokenization, and finance; privacy and security; to prediction markets, SNARKs, and other applications… to how we’ll build. (To stay up to date on trend updates, builder guides, industry reports, and other resources in crypto, be sure to subscribe to the a16z crypto newsletter. )

And then tomorrow, we’ll finish the week with a...

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