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AI Agents Do More Than Just Place Orders: The Next Entrepreneurial Opportunity Lies in Matching and Trust
Breaking down how AI agents can expand Uber-like matching to complex transactions, highlighting that bilateral networks and trustworthy transaction mechanisms are the real moat. Written by: Guy Wuollet Compiled by: AididiaoJP, Foresight News Uber simplifies demand into one thing: calling a car from A to B. The network is responsible for finding drivers who are willing to take the order at a suitable price.
a16z Frontier Partner: Agents Should Rebuild Uber-like Transaction Networks
Author: Guy Wuollet, General Partner at a16z Frontier Compiled by: Gu Yu, ChainCatcher Uber provides a simple way for you to express what you want: a ride service from one place to another. The network finds drivers willing to provide that service at a price you can accept. More drivers increase the availability of rides for passengers, and more passengers give drivers a reason to join. I believe that agents will make it possible to build such networks around a wider range of goods and services.
Building networks for agents
Uber gives you a simple way to express what you want: a ride from one place to another. The network finds a driver willing to provide it at a price you’ll accept. More drivers improve availability for riders, and more riders give drivers a reason to join. I believe agents will make it possible to build networks like this around a much wider range of goods and services. They can help people express more complicated preferences and find suppliers willing to meet them.
Investing in OpenReserve: the bank that never closes
The business day used to matter. Businesses were open Monday through Friday, and occasionally on weekends. You went to work, often literally from 9 to 5, and then left for the rest of your day. Business was static. It started; it stopped. The internet changed that. Amazon transformed your local bookstore from a physical shop with business hours to an always-open global storefront for every imaginable product.
Investing in OpenReserve: the bank that never closes
The business day used to matter. Businesses were open Monday through Friday, and occasionally on weekends. You went to work, often literally from 9 to 5, and then left for the rest of your day. Business was static. It started; it stopped. The internet changed that. Amazon transformed your local bookstore from a physical shop with business hours to an always-open global storefront for every imaginable product.
a16z: Beyond Payments—Stablecoins Reshape the Global Financial Landscape
By Noah Levine, Guy Wuollet, and Robert Hackett Translated by Luffy, Foresight News The global financial system is being rebuilt atop new infrastructure—and this transformation is advancing far faster than most outside the crypto industry realize. Stablecoins sit at the heart of this shift. Once niche trading tools, they have evolved into foundational financial infrastructure and are now becoming the bedrock for next-generation global financial products.
Blockchains for TradFi: What banks, asset managers, and fintechs should know
Blockchains are a new settlement and ownership layer, one that’s programmable, open, and global by default, unlocking new forms of entrepreneurship, creativity, and infrastructure. Growth in monthly active crypto addresses is generally tracking the internet’s growth to a billion users, stablecoin transaction volume is outpacing traditional fiat volume, legislation and regulation are finally catching up, and crypto companies are getting acquired or going public.
6 use cases for Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (DePIN)
Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, or DePIN, offer a new model for building and operating real-world systems. Although the term “DePIN” might feel conflated with decentralized energy, there are many other industry applications. So why decentralize physical infrastructure?
AI x crypto crossovers
The economics of the internet are already changing. As the open web collapses into a prompt bar, we have to wonder: Will AI lead to an open internet or a maze of new paywalls? And who will control it — big centralized companies or broad communities of users? That’s where crypto comes in. We’ve discussed the intersection of AI and crypto quite a bit; but briefly, blockchains are a new way to architect internet services and build networks that are decentralized, credibly neutral, and ownable by users.
Why DePIN matters, and how to make it work
Existing physical infrastructure networks like telecommunications, energy, water, and transportation are often natural monopolies — markets where it’s cheaper for one company to deliver a good or service than it is to encourage competition. In most first world countries, they’re overseen through complex government oversight and regulatory capture.
a16z: 11 major use cases to explore the intersection of AI and encryption
Source: a16z crypto; Translation: Golden Finance xiaozou The economic model of the Internet is changing. As the open Internet collapses into a simple prompt box, we can't help but ask: Will AI lead us to an open Internet, or build a new paywall maze? And will it be highly centralized giant companies or the vast user community that controls all of this? This is where cryptography comes in handy. We have discussed the intersection of AI and cryptography many times.
a16z crypto: The ultimate digital transformation of finance
Author: Guy Wuollet, Partner at a16z crypto; Translator: Shaw, Jinse Finance As someone working in the crypto industry, I've always had a question: Why do Wall Street and increasingly more American politicians insist on using the term "digital assets"? Almost all assets we handle daily exist in digital form. I can't even remember the last time I carried cash with me. All my financial assets, including my bank and securities accounts, are digitized.
Introducing the Nakamoto Challenge: Addressing the Toughest Problems in Crypto
Introducing the Nakamoto Challenge: Addressing the Toughest Problems in Crypto Guy Wuollet company building We’re fortunate to have a broad view across the crypto landscape and the opportunity to talk with the best builders, founders, and entrepreneurs. As a result, we hear about many interesting problems that the smartest people are working on. Some are problems that everyone has and are just too challenging to solve, and some are poorly documented and exist only as tribal knowledge.
Investing in Gensyn
Investing in Gensyn Ali YahyaGuy Wuollet The recent advancements in AI are incredible and have the power to save the world. But building AI systems requires ever-larger deployments of computational power for the training and inference of today’s largest and most powerful models. This means big technology companies have an advantage over startups in the race to capture value from AI, thanks to privileged access to computing power and the economies of scale of large data centers.
Investing in Gensyn
The recent advancements in AI are incredible and have the power to save the world. But building AI systems requires ever-larger deployments of computational power for the training and inference of today’s largest and most powerful models. This means big technology companies have an advantage over startups in the race to capture value from AI, thanks to privileged access to computing power and the economies of scale of large data centers.
7 Sanity Checks Before Designing a Token
7 Sanity Checks Before Designing a Token Guy Wuollet Tokens are a powerful new primitive that can be defined in many ways; I’ve argued why we ought to consider the study and design of tokens as much broader than just “tokenomics” here. Tokens clearly allow for a very rich design space. But we’re still in the early stages of exploring, let alone improving token design.
Tokenology: Moving beyond ‘tokenomics’
“Tokens” are a hot-button topic for those in crypto and web3. Even beyond web3, tokens are capturing mindshare from anyone interested in art, cryptography, design, economics, gaming, math, psychology, and more. Tokens have been described as everything from a “breakthrough in open network design” to a “new digital primitive” (analogous to the website). We can generally define tokens “as an internet-native unit of value”.
Tokenology: Moving beyond ‘tokenomics’
Tokenology: Moving beyond ‘tokenomics’ Guy Wuollet “Tokens” are a hot-button topic for those in crypto and web3. Even beyond web3, tokens are capturing mindshare from anyone interested in art, cryptography, design, economics, gaming, math, psychology, and more. Tokens have been described as everything from a “breakthrough in open network design” to a “new digital primitive” (analogous to the website). We can generally define tokens “as an internet-native unit of value”.
Investing in Aztec
We believe blockchains are a new computational platform with a breakthrough capability: trustlessness. In the ‘90s, the earliest days of the consumer internet adoption, encryption represented a significant challenge. Many things we take for granted today – like e-commerce, secure accounts, and access control – might not have been adopted if all internet communication was in plaintext. Blockchains are at a similar crossroads. Almost all blockchains today are fully transparent.
Investing in LayerZero
The past few years have seen a surge in the number of sidechains, rollups, and Layer-1 blockchains which support and scale applications handling billions of dollars worth of value. The multichain future is here, but there are currently limitations. Bridging between chains can be an expensive, uncertain, and unsecure process requiring users to pay for gas on both the original and destination chain.
Investing in Iron Fish
A common complaint about the internet – in both web2 and web3 – is that privacy is an elusive privilege and not viewed as a priority in many cases. In web2, data breaches and outright hacks have plagued social networks and financial services, and users must take proactive measures to avoid tracing and surveillance.
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Investing in Nym
Privacy-preserving technologies are essential for the modern world. Much of human information is now stored and exchanged online, and vast swathes of that information are meant to be private. Encryption allows users to keep their data private from applications. Messaging apps like Signal encrypt messages so only the sender and receiver are able to read them. A third party like a company, ISP, or malicious actor can’t decrypt the encrypted content.
Investing in Matter Labs
A persistent problem in web3 today is the issue of scalability: as blockchains like Ethereum add users and experience unpredictable surges in network demand, they increasingly run into the same hitches of slow transaction times, high gas fees, and reverted transactions.
Investing in Angle
Crypto assets like ETH and BTC have been challenging to use for payments, lending, and a variety of other financial applications in large part because of their price instability. Take lending as an example. Making a loan in ETH carries an additional risk: besides the fact that the loan may not be repaid, the price of ETH could change as the loan becomes due. Stability unlocks many use cases.
Investing in Helium
From the start, our core thesis has been that blockchains are a new class of computers. The three fundamental components of any computer are computation (your CPU), storage (your hard drive), and networking (your network interface card). Existing smart contract platforms like Ethereum are optimized for computation. There are also blockchains optimized for storing data like Filecoin and Arweave.
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