This week, a16z released its annual "Big Ideas" from partners in the Apps, American Dynamism, Bio, Crypto, Growth, Infra and Speedrun teams. The 17-point offering is a look at future trends from multiple a16z crypto team partners (and several guest contributors), ranging from agents and AI; stablecoins, tokenization and finance; privacy and security; to prediction markets, SNARKs and other applications... to the evolution of how we build.
South Korea has suspended its wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) and tokenized deposit program, and plans to launch a stablecoin.