TechFlow, December 11 — The a16z crypto team released its 2026 Crypto Trends Report, outlining 17 key predictions for the industry. The report notes that stablecoins now reach an annual transaction volume of $46 trillion, surpassing both PayPal and Visa, positioning them as the foundational settlement layer of the internet; privacy technology will become the most critical competitive moat in blockchain; tokenization of real-world assets will evolve through more crypto-native approaches; the AI agent economy will require establishing a "Know Your Agent (KYA)" framework; DeFi security will shift from "code is law" to "compliance is law." Additionally, the report predicts that personalized wealth management will become widely accessible to the mass market via cryptographic technologies, prediction markets will scale significantly when integrated with AI, and decentralized messaging systems will become crucial in resisting threats posed by quantum computing.
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