Web3 entrepreneurship has all the elements of explosive growth of innovation

2021 For years Web3 It is a key year for the industry , It has developed from a new community into a new industry .

In the past year , We have witnessed a massive influx of talent and capital Web3 ecology , So in the underlying infrastructure and consumer oriented DApp There has been a lot of innovation in .

They are destroying money 、 Finance and even the Internet itself .

The opportunity to

Web3 Generally refers to the builder 、 The Internet owned by users and creators .

Through the use of tokens and decentralized technology , To destroy centralized institutions . Cryptocurrency 、DeFi and NFT, These are the first to find suitable market entry points and obtain consumer recognition .

However Web3 The large-scale adoption of technology has just begun . The world is less than 10% Of the population has cryptocurrency , and Web3 Although the number of users of the application has reached tens of millions , But with Web2 Compared with billions of users , Still dwarfed .

Internet user growth

The experience of the first two waves of Internet and mobile technology shows , Once the technology reaches 10 Billion users , Mass market applications are only beginning to gain major traction .

by comparison , At present, Ethereum has only 1.8 Billion addresses , At the current growth rate , It also needs to be 5 year .

Since the advent of the Internet , We are probably in the early stage of the greatest technological innovation , This is VC It provides one of the most asymmetric upward opportunities in modern history .

Wind pitch

2021 year , Venture capital is betting on encryption startups around the world 300+ Billion dollars .

Now there are more than 65 Home crypto Unicorn , With more than 40 Home was founded in 2021 year , near 50 Encryption startups are 2021 Raised more than 1 Billion dollars .

2021 In, blockchain related start-ups raised funds on average every day 2000 Thousands of dollars , Average seed financing from 2020 Year of 150 Million dollars to 330 Thousands of dollars .

Global venture capital investment in cryptocurrency and blockchain companies

a16z stay 6 Month raised 22 A billion dollar encryption Fund ,Paradigm stay 10 Month raised 25 A billion dollar encryption Fund . In addition, like Tiger and Sequoia Large traditional funds are also waiting to actively enter the market through later equity .

Coinbase Venture Is the investor with the most cryptounicorns in the portfolio , stay 2021 the 100 Multiple investments .

As more and more institutional capital flows Web3 The ecological system , It is expected that the valuation will be raised , The competition between venture capital funds will intensify .

As distribution becomes more competitive , Differentiation of different vertical fields , For example, stage （ Early and late ）、 Geography （ West and East ）、 value-added （ Token Economics 、 government 、 Developers access 、 Liquidity, etc ） Will become the key to the Fund .

Start a business

2021 In nearly 50 Encryption startups raised more than 1 Billion dollars , Historically, these funds were raised by exchanges 、 Led by fintech and institutional service platforms . This year is still the case , for example FTX、Celsius、Gemini and Fireblocks.

We also see increasing attention to consumer apps ,Sorare、Moonpay、Forte and Dapper Labs The large-scale financing raised is proof —— Each of them focuses on getting the next billion users to join the digital asset ecosystem .

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As decentralized technologies and applications mature , And things like metacosmic adoption ,Web3 The adoption of mainstream consumer grade will become inevitable .

Web3 Ecosystem is currently talent （ Developers and Entrepreneurs ） And capital （ Venture capital and institutions ） Melting pot of , And with new technology primitives （ Blockchain /Crypto） Combination , You have all the elements needed for the explosive growth of innovation and value creation .