a16z crypto releases 17 major trends to watch in the crypto sector for 2026, covering stablecoins, tokenization, and finance

Jinse Finance reported that a16z released its annual “Big Ideas” this week, featuring insights from partners across the Apps, American Dynamism, Bio, Crypto, Growth, Infra, and Speedrun teams. The report includes 17 key points, representing observations on future trends by several a16z crypto team partners (as well as a few guest contributors), covering topics from agents and AI; stablecoins, tokenization, and finance; privacy and security; to prediction markets, SNARKs, and other applications… as well as the evolution of building methods.