Eerik Potter

a16z and Their Crypto Fragmentation Empire Okay everyone, I’ve taken a look at this piece of shit, whatever it’s called, and I’m going to be straight up on this one. @a16zcrypto, and the organization as a whole, is corrupt, heavily biased, and not interested in decentralization or crypto principles at all. They’re intentionally investing in multiple projects because fragmentation makes them more money; that’s their model. They initially invested in $ICP alongside Polychain, but what @Dfinity is increasingly doing with its projects makes the tokens a16z is more heavily invested in obsolete, and that’s seen as a threat to their profit-driven VC business model. So the a16z "State of Crypto" report is not research at all; it’s portfolio marketing disguised as analysis. Every time it would’ve made sense to mention $ICP, they instead highlighted some idiotic project still in its speculative phase, focusing on something that’s already fully functional on the Internet Computer as if it’s nothing. $ICP is nowhere to be found, not once. So let me break it down simply, because this pattern of omission is getting pathetic and way too obvious at this point, lol. The Nonsense They Glorify What a16z does mention are the usual NPC projects: Solana, the well-known rug-pull network of fraudsters, praised multiple times; Ethereum and its Layer 2 "fixes" for its dysfunctional architecture, with Arbitrum (the best Layer 2, not gonna lie I use it), Base (I despise Coinbase, not even giving further context why), and Optimism (who even uses that nonsense, lol); Helium, used as a DePIN example (what a joke, lmao); and even smaller projects such as Kalshi. What they conveniently ignore, however, is $ICP. There’s no mention of its native Bitcoin integration without bridges, zero acknowledgment of on-chain AI despite dedicating an entire chapter to AI+crypto convergence, no mention of full-stack on-chain applications, and zero recognition of decentralized cloud compute that’s actually real. What a16z Pretends Doesn’t Exist To go further on their AI+Crypto section, it’s honestly pathetic. They talk about "blockchain solving AI’s trust challenges" yet totally ignore the Internet Computer’s on-chain AI stack with @CaffeineAI and its GPU-enabled Gyrotron milestone. They discuss boring bridges like LayerZero and Circle CCTP but skip over the Internet Computer’s threshold ECDSA and native Bitcoin integration, both designed to make bridges obsolete. They brag about developer growth on Ethereum and Solana but ignore the Internet Computer’s 500+ active developers and 100K+ deployed canisters, all with a much smaller market cap. Even in the infrastructure section, where $ICP literally redefines blockchain architecture itself, there’s complete silence. So to conclude this nonsense, the "State of Crypto" isn’t analysis; it’s a VC cash grab wrapped in fake research. a16z praises every duct-tape project that feeds their fragmentation profit model and ignores anything that threatens their control. $ICP nails every metric in their own report, AI, DePIN, scalability, developer activity, yet it’s erased because it breaks their Ethereum–Solana puppet show. This isn’t ignorance believe me, it’s deliberate. Their empire depends on keeping crypto fragmented and in their centralized control, exactly what the Internet Computer’s existence threatens to destroy.