Balaji Srinivasan, an angel investor and cofounder of multiple companies including Earn.com and Counsyl, gives an overview of “Applications: Today and 2025.” Srinivasan starts off by tracing the history of crypto from Bitcoin and Ethereum to the present. He highlights the crypto applications that have already gotten traction — infrastructure providers such as exchanges, wallets, and miners; decentralized finance (DeFi) apps; and stablecoins that eliminate the volatility of early cryptocurrencies — and looks ahead to the ones that are likely to emerge in the next five years. These include personal tokenization, new financial instruments, decentralized autonomous organizations and gaming.
Andreessen Horowitz’s Crypto Startup School brought together 45 participants from around the U.S. and overseas in a seven-week course to learn how to build crypto companies. Andreessen Horowitz is partnering with TechCrunch to release the online version of the course over the next few weeks.
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Bidali
May 21, 2020 at 1:29 am
This is amazing for someone who is not that familiar with crypto.
Israel Shiloh
August 24, 2021 at 12:22 am
I guess Im asking randomly but does any of you know a method to log back into an Instagram account?
I was stupid forgot the login password. I would appreciate any assistance you can give me!
Temur Mirzosharipov
May 21, 2020 at 8:25 pm
great talk, thanks for sharing!
Temur M
May 21, 2020 at 8:25 pm
great talk, thanks for sharing!
Temur M (Temur M)
May 21, 2020 at 8:25 pm
great talk, thanks for sharing!
BU
May 23, 2020 at 12:10 pm
Great session thank you for sharing it!
Prashant Chamarty
May 23, 2020 at 2:22 pm
This is great. Please could we have the presentation as well. Thanks.
Daniil Orain
December 23, 2020 at 6:35 pm
Google the video name and you’ll see the first pdf link. I can’t attach the link here cause the comment will be labeled as spam.
Bobby Richardson
June 7, 2020 at 12:20 pm
As long as people understand that if a blockchain is “a database for storing things of value” – value doesn’t mean money.
Last Jedi
August 31, 2020 at 2:35 pm
really good video. where can i get the presentation ?
Cas NWK
December 18, 2020 at 6:17 pm
My abstract:
(2:10) History:
First bitcoin (2009)
.1. Physical cash: A hands B cash -> B knows A no longer has it
.2. Naive digital cash: A sends B serial number -> A still has a copy (double spending)
.3. Centralized digital cash: C is a bank -> trusted to debit A & credit B
.4. Decentralized digital cash: C is replaced by miners updating blockchain
(5:22) Then Blockchain: a tamper-resistance database for storing things of value
(5:44) Then Ethereum (2014): more programmable: Smart contracts => ICO boom
(6:33) 2017-2018: ICO boom / Bust: many won’t work, some will.
(8:05) Concepts: Technological
.1. BC is a database to store things of value
Cryptocurrency: digital gold and cash – BTC, ETH, ..
Tokens: ERC20 – Digital alternative to equity -> network effects tradeable
Digital assets: ERC721 – Nonfungible scarce assets – ingame assets .. real estate
Identity ERC725 – Present proof of cryptoidentity .. demonstrate that you posset an asset
.2. BTC is a protocol, payments are now packets: a fully packet-driven tx of value without reference to a bank
.3. => machines can now hold & send money.
The internet allowed programs to autonomously communicate
The blockchain allows tem to autonomously transact => a fundamental prerequisity for intelligent agents.
.4. BCs have already 10X’d gold, swift, crowdfunding
10x better than gold
10x faster than swift (minutes vs days)
10x larger than kickstarter
10x faster than delaware
.5. BC have already created many billion dollar entities
Coin founders (devs of new coins)
Miners
Exchanges (reveneus)
.6. BC means you have a choice of who to trust (to store value)
Before: bank
After: bank, exchange or your computer
.7. BC enable internet-scale cap tables: with tokens, organisations can now give users a piece of their “cap tables” programmaticaly
Before: Excel: few shareholders, managed centraly. No custody, poor visibility, limited liquidity till IPO.
After: Etherscan: unlimited token holders, internationally tradeable, transparent and liquid around the clock from start
.8. BC-first is the new mobile-first
.9. BCs break network effects
.10. BCs transform social networks
Before: Like, poke, Message
After: Paid DMs, surveys, Tasks
.11. BC is a partial move away from cloud towards privacy
(19:16) Concepts: Community
BC’s value derives from its community
As context, 3 random people are not economically aligned: each of them can lose or win on their own, independently, without any impact on the others
BC community is economically aligned. price up -> all benefit / price down / attcaked -> all lose
Holders -> none can win unless they all win
..
(23:00) Applications: 2020
3 apps at $1B reveneu: exchanges, mining, issuance (are the infrastructure parts of crypto)
1 app at $100M (growing) reveneu: hardware wallets
Stablecoins at $5B+ in stored value (mainly USDT, but USDC, DAI, ..)
DeFi now at almost $1B in stored assets (Maker, Synthetix, Compound: leaders, but many more apps)
(25:30) Applications: 2025
Privacy Coins + Privacy Features (Dash, Enigma, Beanstalk)
Lending + Interest (Compound, Maker)
Scaling (Starkware, ..)
Decentralized Cold Storage (Casa)
SaaS-for-gas (Starkware, ..)
Insurance (Opyn, Nexus Mutual)
Multiwallets with many verbs (MyCrypto)
Security innovation (ZenGo)
Novel financial instruments (Fomo3D, PoolTogether)
BC games (egamers, Forte, EOS)
Crypto social networks (Voice, Twetch)
Decentralized DNS (ENS, Unstoppable, Blockstack, Handshake)
Automated Market Making (Uniswap, Kyber Bonding Curves)
Decentralized Identity (3Box)
Personal Tokenization (CNSL, Dinwiddie)
Mutuals + Guilds (Moloch, Gitcoin)
Founder’s Rewards (Zcash, BCH)
On-Chain Developer Bounties (Tezos)
Clients for dApps
Developer Tools (Alchemy, Bison Trails)
Oracles and Prediction markets
DAOs – Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Community-Owned Organizations
(36:26) Q&A….
Cas NWK
December 18, 2020 at 6:17 pm
Great video.
Brandon Cheung
January 16, 2021 at 12:42 pm
This was a sneak peek into the future.
Stock Moe
January 16, 2021 at 7:09 pm
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Satoshi Stacker
January 16, 2021 at 7:09 pm
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MasiTrades
January 16, 2021 at 7:09 pm
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January 16, 2021 at 7:09 pm
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Target Hit
January 16, 2021 at 7:09 pm
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Scott ray
January 16, 2021 at 7:09 pm
Bitcoin investment is profitable
Altcoin Daily
January 16, 2021 at 7:09 pm
Bitcoin investment is profitable
BITCOIN FIRM
January 16, 2021 at 7:09 pm
Bitcoin investment is profitable
Moneyline
January 16, 2021 at 7:09 pm
Bitcoin investment is profitable
Interactive Brokers
January 16, 2021 at 7:09 pm
Bitcoin investment is profitable
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January 16, 2021 at 7:10 pm
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January 16, 2021 at 7:10 pm
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Do well to Tell him I referred you to him
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January 16, 2021 at 7:10 pm
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MasiTrades
January 16, 2021 at 7:10 pm
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Olymp Trade Global
January 16, 2021 at 7:10 pm
*+ 1( 9 0 8 ) 2 7 4 – 0 9 6 5*
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Target Hit
January 16, 2021 at 7:10 pm
*+ 1( 9 0 8 ) 2 7 4 – 0 9 6 5*
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Scott ray
January 16, 2021 at 7:10 pm
*+ 1( 9 0 8 ) 2 7 4 – 0 9 6 5*
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Altcoin Daily
January 16, 2021 at 7:10 pm
*+ 1( 9 0 8 ) 2 7 4 – 0 9 6 5*
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BITCOIN FIRM
January 16, 2021 at 7:10 pm
*+ 1( 9 0 8 ) 2 7 4 – 0 9 6 5*
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Moneyline
January 16, 2021 at 7:10 pm
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Interactive Brokers
January 16, 2021 at 7:10 pm
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Juan
April 18, 2021 at 10:31 pm
TWETCH.app
MixVidz Entertainment
July 25, 2021 at 2:47 pm
What for
MixVidz
July 25, 2021 at 2:47 pm
What for
Geetesh Iyer
April 24, 2021 at 5:04 am
He sold a company for 375 . Damn, no respect for millions .
bhavesh rughwani
May 10, 2021 at 7:03 am
This is gold
Moe Basij
June 3, 2021 at 7:24 am
I just cant wait to build some great products. Find me if you want some brain to brainstorm
Imkong Akum
June 7, 2021 at 7:07 pm
Is he the ceo of 21inc HPZTokken??
Arun Krishnamoorthy
July 1, 2021 at 6:36 am
I would like to know about hpz token? Is it really a part of 21 inc?
Imkong Akum
July 1, 2021 at 7:56 am
@Arun Krishnamoorthy I doubt
Arun Krishnamoorthy
July 3, 2021 at 7:07 am
Is there a way to contact this guy directly to know more about hpz? I have trying to get any contact available for some time.
shahnam iqbal
July 13, 2021 at 6:24 pm
@Arun Krishnamoorthy I hv invested in hpztoken , n getting money credited daily. Still I am thinking of further investing n wanted to recheck n came across this video.
Christina
July 14, 2021 at 10:01 am
I want to knw the same
sulaiman blessed
July 22, 2021 at 1:28 pm
@shahnam iqbal oh you too invested?
Š Ø Š
August 2, 2021 at 12:55 pm
Wt iz HPZ TOKEN
REAL OR FAKE
?
BABA IMTIYAZ
August 2, 2021 at 12:55 pm
Wt iz HPZ TOKEN
REAL OR FAKE
?
parag choudhuri
August 14, 2021 at 11:36 pm
Hpz token is a fake company.. I have lost my money… They are showing there real colors this days
Udit Chugh
June 22, 2021 at 2:20 am
Great presentation by Balaji but also great questions by the audience.
Cryptobros_Flo
June 29, 2021 at 10:18 am
Great! Thanks a lot for that amazing video and the essential information on crypto applications
lucky mehta
July 1, 2021 at 2:18 pm
It’s fake I lost so much money in it
lucky mehta
July 30, 2021 at 7:20 pm
@KANGLEI INSTA REEL it’s a fake one I wish I can file crime case against fraud companies after couple of days
Amona Lysa
July 30, 2021 at 8:20 pm
@lucky mehta Did you really lost money in hpztoken?
Currently I’m making money in hpztoken.
lucky mehta
July 31, 2021 at 3:23 am
@Amona Lysa it’s a fake application firstly they used to say to invest you and then suddenly stops ur payments and start saying referral to people and there is no guarantee of ur hard earned money bullshit company
Amona Lysa
July 31, 2021 at 5:01 am
@lucky mehta how many days you did?
For me now it’s been 1month
Amona Lysa
July 31, 2021 at 5:06 am
@lucky mehta bro, please share your true experience with hpztoken. Now many people are doing this. Let’s save all of us
Vito Shohe
August 8, 2021 at 1:37 am
@Amona Lysa he is fake trying to mislread hpz token
lucky mehta
August 9, 2021 at 4:15 pm
@Vito Shohe who is fake bro I wish I could file a complaint against such fraud companies
Vito Shohe
August 9, 2021 at 4:23 pm
I got payment the company is till running
lucky mehta
August 9, 2021 at 5:14 pm
@Vito Shohe great u earn dont teach me atleast I have faced the worst and bastard hpz token company people who used to invite us and makes fool of us. And looted our hard earned money.
Aryan Gupta
August 10, 2021 at 2:13 am
@Vito Shohe bro you’re not getting the withdrawals done , my withdrawal are also stuck from 5-6 days and also they’re not responding to the texts , their number is responding as not reachable. If you know they have any other number so let me know please .
Human Beans
August 12, 2021 at 2:24 pm
Withdrawals are pending since July 30th in Hpz, I have invested a decent amount there and I feel so idiot now. Hoping and praying to recover my capital amount and nothing else 😭.
Julia Pamei
August 12, 2021 at 10:26 pm
Hpz token was paying on regular basis until 30th July, now payments are stucked and in the whatsapp admin. Kept on saying everything will be back to normal by 15th Aug, and all of a sudden yesterday they announced we’ve to recharge for 3000 rupees to continue with Hpz VALID members , if not all our investment would be frozen. And now we’re to make up our mind before 15th August. I would like to know if anybody here has done the recharge of 3000rs yet?
anmol behera
August 13, 2021 at 7:01 pm
@Julia Pamei even I’m confused to put 3000 or not .
Julia Pamei
August 13, 2021 at 9:47 pm
@anmol behera I’m not sure of anything but I just took my own of risk and did the recharge of 3000rs n now I’m in a new group of Hpz members with over 200+, fingers crossed. Admin said I will be able to withdraw by 15th once again. I’ll keep you all updated.
Amazing
August 14, 2021 at 6:04 pm
@Vito Shohe I haven’t got my withdrawal yet, it has been 12+ days and now I have to recharge 3000 otherwise my account will be frozen ..
Any suggestion??
Vito Shohe
August 14, 2021 at 6:14 pm
@Amazing fraud dnt recharge
lucky mehta
August 14, 2021 at 6:43 pm
@Deekshitha Deekshu I reachage 19800 plan they ask me again to reacharge 6800 for 2 people I did but after that they stopped my income then again I reacharge for 2 more person 5570 to each member after 4 days of earning they stopped all my team accounts 56 accounts
Amona Lysa
August 14, 2021 at 7:10 pm
@Julia Pamei for you 3000rs, for me 5000rs. I don’t know why. It should be 3000rs for me also
Amona Lysa
August 14, 2021 at 7:14 pm
@Amazing same thing happened to me. More than 1.2Lakh is stuck
Julia Pamei
August 15, 2021 at 5:08 am
@Aryan Gupta I myself haven’t spoken to our group manager so far, but I do have her whatsapp no. And she replies time to time. Let me know if you still want her whatsapp no.?
lucky mehta
July 1, 2021 at 2:19 pm
Stop make fool of people
An- Unknown World
July 16, 2021 at 3:22 pm
Is hp token is his company??? Plz reply me
MixVidz Entertainment
July 25, 2021 at 2:49 pm
I think so
parag choudhuri
August 14, 2021 at 11:34 pm
In hpz token they have told that… But this is completely wrong… I lost my money in hpz 😔
MixVidz Entertainment
August 15, 2021 at 3:22 am
@parag choudhuri me too
MixVidz
August 15, 2021 at 3:22 am
@parag choudhuri me too
Lousing Ed
August 15, 2021 at 3:22 am
@parag choudhuri me too
An- Unknown World
August 15, 2021 at 6:19 am
@parag choudhuri I have an recovery app
parag choudhuri
August 15, 2021 at 6:24 am
@An- Unknown World really..?
Gajanan Dixit
August 16, 2021 at 5:22 am
@parag choudhuri kit na loss
parag choudhuri
August 16, 2021 at 5:58 am
@Gajanan Dixit 580 de kar machine kharida tha… Kuch hi dino main 800+ ho gya tha
Andy Kale
July 26, 2021 at 7:57 pm
HPZ Token App is Real Or Fake
Srihari bavi
July 29, 2021 at 3:12 pm
Hope is fake or real …on cash credits
Srihari bavi
July 29, 2021 at 3:13 pm
All are investing in hzp by seeing web page by him
k
August 2, 2021 at 1:29 pm
Can we trust balaji srinivasan and invest money
regal Bombay cream
August 2, 2021 at 1:29 pm
Can we trust balaji srinivasan and invest money
lucky mehta
August 8, 2021 at 6:51 pm
Stop making fool of us
Mr. D
August 8, 2021 at 7:44 pm
Funny he said he is bearish on uniswap lol
DavidRandoll•ETH
August 8, 2021 at 7:44 pm
Funny he said he is bearish on uniswap lol
David
August 8, 2021 at 7:44 pm
Funny he said he is bearish on uniswap lol
Balakrishna kulal
August 12, 2021 at 12:23 pm
Apka Naam pe HPZ tocken investment chal raha he … Apko patha he kyaa
ARMA DeaDLy ATtACK IN WORLD wiDe
August 12, 2021 at 12:23 pm
Apka Naam pe HPZ tocken investment chal raha he … Apko patha he kyaa
Amazing
August 14, 2021 at 5:49 pm
Anyone know anything about this hpz Token …
Cause I have already invested there but now I haven’t got my withdrawal yet.
Is hpz token fake or real??
parag choudhuri
August 14, 2021 at 11:33 pm
Fake…
Shahroz Khan
August 18, 2021 at 12:35 pm
A big scam by HPZ Tekken
Amit kumar
August 27, 2021 at 2:37 am
HPZ 1000 cr
Time Stone Gaming
August 18, 2021 at 12:35 pm
A big scam by HPZ Tekken
Dillayer R Marak
August 22, 2021 at 1:44 am
Helo great scammer, where is news about hpztoken, much cry little wool.
Pratik Indani
September 10, 2021 at 5:34 pm
Amazing
vidhound
September 15, 2021 at 8:15 pm
That slide with the presumably-then-current crypto prices, showing Bitcoin at $3,594 and ETH at $114, is so weird to see now!
Snow Ventures Animation and Design
November 11, 2021 at 7:01 am
haha
Indranil Mukherjee
November 11, 2021 at 7:01 am
haha
Annelies Powell
October 1, 2021 at 4:00 am
Why crypto it’s relevant for noobs, in noob language. Fucking brilliant.
Annelies
October 1, 2021 at 4:00 am
Why crypto it’s relevant for noobs, in noob language. Fucking brilliant.
sirius eneegy
October 13, 2021 at 6:31 am
1. blockchian is a database of storing value (8:35)
2. packet driven transmission (9:41)
3.autonomous transaction (10:20)
4.gold equivalent (11:00)
5.coin founders , miners , exchangers (12:45)
6. a choice of who to trust (13:43)
7.blockchian enabled cap table (14:03)
8.(blockchian disruptors)15:28
9.(network effects) 16:26
10.blockchian transforms social networks (17:48)
11.private key is kept in local than in cloud (19:02)
kishore reddy
November 6, 2021 at 3:49 pm
By far the best explanation on crypto’s ..
Snow Ventures Animation and Design
November 11, 2021 at 7:03 am
Great session. Can’t wait for all of this to be a global phenomenon sooner than what Balaji predicted.
Indranil Mukherjee
November 11, 2021 at 7:03 am
Great session. Can’t wait for all of this to be a global phenomenon sooner than what Balaji predicted.
Algolxxxxxx
November 11, 2021 at 4:44 pm
Some good arguments.
V Vv
November 30, 2021 at 9:23 am
Open ended question.. how long you think lads when we get the first LED BULB on a BLOCKCHAIN. no reason absolutely useless still an led on blockchain….
Raymond Baldasaro
December 10, 2021 at 6:30 am
Well said, and very informative. Plus in layman terms so anyone can understand.
Mayurr
December 12, 2021 at 11:47 am
Just found this.. awesome video
Mayur
December 12, 2021 at 11:47 am
Just found this.. awesome video
gankala8
February 2, 2022 at 3:54 pm
Balaji is the new God of Crypto!
monkins1010
February 7, 2022 at 12:16 pm
One soundbite that struck a chord with me from that is
*Blockchain means you have a choice who to trust – I think this is a better framework than saying trust-less, the goal is not to trust no one but have a greater choice who to trust with custody of valuable assets*
We can expand on that and educate people by highlighting that the current metric most people use to trust people in the blockchain space is most probably a centralized entity, which has its own profit making in a rent seeking fashion agenda which may not be the best for the individual. Therein lies the problem….. The solution: Verus Identities! the only fully self sovereign, revocable, recoverable, ability to hold funds complete decentralized identity system out. With Verus Identities we can make better choices with better information on who we trust with the credence of an individual, cooperation, project backed up by blockchain security and decentralization.
Bad actors are whittled out and easily seen because blockchains / tokens / projects are spawned from an ID system which is in L1 UTXO blockchain and underpins the foundation of everything created on Verus.
Mairu Gupta
February 10, 2022 at 7:54 am
Love the high representation of women in the crypto startup school, need more of this in India!
Linh
February 10, 2022 at 1:06 pm
With ZK-rollups, privacy is retained and all good L1 should have privacy functions, so privacy coins might not be as relevant. The rest of the predictions are interesting though
William Schaeuble
February 19, 2022 at 6:45 pm
Chainlink is lucky to have him! And he is lucky to be apart of Chainlink!
William S
February 19, 2022 at 6:45 pm
Chainlink is lucky to have him! And he is lucky to be apart of Chainlink!
Sanki King
May 30, 2022 at 11:15 pm
Most dry ending to a talk, the moderator was terrible.
DanTooRP
June 4, 2022 at 8:30 pm
Bearish on AMM’s take aged badly 😅
Kpop Sociology
August 12, 2022 at 4:28 pm
Fascinating – the last piece about multiple pseudonymous identities was particularly interesting!