5分钟看懂a16z《2022加密行业状态报告》

Odaily星球日报Publicado em 2022-05-18Última atualização em 2022-05-18

Resumo

我们正处于第四个“价格创新”周期的中间段。

用户

大约在 10 年前,知名风投 a16z 闯入加密行业。时光飞逝,如今整个市场发生了翻天覆地的变化。2022 年 5 月 17 日,a16z 发布了首份加密行业趋势年度概览报告。
为了让大家更快、更清晰地了解这份报告的主要内容,我们提炼了五个总结要点,你只需要 5 分钟就能充分了解这份报告说了些什么。下面,就让星球君(ID:o-daily)和大家一起来看下吧(文末有彩蛋)。
关键要点#1 :我们正处于第四个“价格创新”周期的中间段

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任何市场都具有周期性,加密也不例外。
夏天让位于冬天的寒冷,冬天在炎热的夏天解冻,BUIDLer 们在黑暗时期取得的进步最终会在尘埃落定时重新引发市场的乐观情绪。最近,加密货币市场十分低迷,因为我们现在可能正在进入第四个“价格创新”(price-innovation)周期的中间段。虽然价格通常是衡量市场表现的滞后指标,但在加密货币中,价格却是领先指标。价格是一个钩子,数字推动了兴趣,然后推动了想法和活动,进而推动了创新。这种反馈循环称为“价格创新循环”,自 2009 年比特币问世以来,它一直是推动加密行业经历多次不同浪潮的引擎。
要知道,2000 年代初互联网泡沫破灭后发誓放弃科技和互联网的人都错过了十年来最好的机会:云计算、社交网络、在线视频流、智能手机等。
关键要点#2 对于创作者来说,web3 比 web2 好得多

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Web2 巨头的收购率很高,Web3 平台提供更公平的经济条款,比如, Meta 在 Facebook 和 Instagram 上拥有接近 100% 的用户接受率,而 NFT 市场 OpenSea 的这一指标只有 2.5%。但正如美国国会议员里奇·托雷斯(Ritchie Torres)所说,“当大型科技公司的吸纳率高于黑手党时,您就会知道我们的经济存在严重问题。”
2021 年,基于以太坊的 NFT(ERC-721 和 ERC-1155)的初级销售,加上 OpenSea 二级销售支付给创作者的版税,总计让创作者获得了 39 亿美元收入,而 Meta给指定创作者的费用只有 10 亿美元,只有前者的约四分之一。
考虑到 web2 与 web3 用户的数量,你会发现绝对值差距更大,因为 a16z 统计了 22,400 个 web3 创建者(基于 NFT 集合的数量),而在 Meta 平台上发布内容的用户有近 30 亿。虽然Spotify和YouTube向创作者支付的费用更高——分别为 70 亿美元和 150 亿美元——但“人均”差距是惊人的。根据我们的分析,web3 为每位创作者支付了 174,000 美元,而 Meta 为每位用户支付了 0.10 美元,Spotify 为每位艺术家支付了 636 美元,YouTube 为每个频道支付了 2.47 美元。
一句话,Web3 看似很小但却很强大。
关键要点#3 加密正在对现实世界产生影响


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金融系统现状已经让很多人感到失望,根据世界银行的数据,超过 17 亿人没有银行账户,而过去几年对去中心化金融(DeFi)和数字美元(基于美元的稳定币)的需求正在急剧增加。
另一方面,加密货币也在解决其他破碎的市场,比如:
* Flowcarbon 正在通过使这些日益重要的账户单位在区块链上透明和可追溯来改进碳信用。
* Helium是一个草根无线网络,正在对根深蒂固的电信巨头提出第一个合法的、分散的挑战。
* Spruce 使人们能够控制自己的身份,而不是将这种权力拱手让给像谷歌和 Meta 这样的显示中介,它们通过数据挖掘商业模式从人们的信息中获利。
不仅如此,DAO 正在展示了陌生人如何经济地协调和合作以实现目标,NFT 授予人们关于个人资料图片、艺术品、音乐、游戏内物品、访问通行证、虚拟世界土地和其他数字商品的虚拟财产权。代币激励使新来者能够绕过“冷启动”问题并快速启动网络效应。
事实上,加密不仅仅是一种金融创新,更是一种社会、文化和技术创新。毫不夸张地说,我们现在可能只触及到这一领域的表面。
关键要点#4 以太坊是加密领导者,但面临竞争

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以太坊在 web3 对话中占主导地位,但现在也有很多其他区块链对其发起调整,比如 SolanaPolygonBNB Chain、Avalanche 和 Fantom 等。
就开发者的兴趣而言,以太坊拥有最多的开发者,每月有近 4,000 名活跃开发者。(见幻灯片 18。)其次是 Solana(近 1,000 个)和比特币(约 500 个)。
然而,以太坊也是一把双刃剑。由于以太坊历来重视去中心化而不是扩展性,因此其他区块链已经能够通过承诺更好的性能和更低的费用来吸引用户。
区块链是新计算浪潮的热门产品,就像 90 年代和 2000 年代的个人电脑和宽带,以及过去十年的手机一样。创新空间很大,相信未来会有多个赢家。
关键要点#5 我们仍处于加密行业的早期阶段

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虽然很难知道 Web3 用户的确切数量,但可以推断出这场运动的规模。根据各种链上指标,估计目前全球有 700 万到 5000 万活跃的以太坊用户。
就发展阶段而言,类比早期的商业互联网,我们大约相当于处在 1995 年左右。到 2005 年,互联网用户达到 10 亿——顺便说一句,2005 年也 Facebook 和 YouTube 等未来巨头开始成形的时候。
同样,如果趋势线如所描绘的那样继续下去,到 2031 年 web3 可能会达到 10 亿用户(准确数字很难估计)。
也就是说,我们仍处于加密行业的早期阶段,还有很多工作要做。
让我们继续 BUIDL 吧!

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