This article was submitted by a Guest Contributor. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the Guest Contributor. Andreseen Horowitz (a16z), a venture capital firm, just released its inaugural “State of Crypto” report. The 56-page deck is worth reading in its entirety. It provides an overview of the crypto landscape, from macro outlook, development of L1 blockchains, DeFi, NFTs, and more. If you’re unfamiliar with a16z, they are one of the most prolific tech VCs in the world. They’ve invested in many household tech companies: Stripe, Airbnb, Facebook, Coinbase and Slack, just to name a few. As crypto started to reach mainstream adoption over the last few years, a16z saw an opportunity to bet big on what they saw as the next major computing cycle. This comes after PCs in the 1980s, the internet in the 1990s, and mobile computing in the early 2000s. In 2018, they created a16z Crypto together...