2022 Forbes Blockchain50: A Closer Look
. A16z, which invested in over 60 crypto and blockchain startups, recently closed a $2 billion venture firm, and is rumored to be raising a $4.5 billion fund to deploy. A16z also scored big when Coinbase went public last April. It’s shares are now estimated to be north of $4.3 billion. Paradigm, co-founded by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam, recently closed a $2.5 billion fund, the largest ever.
Venture firms did not just make the list for their savvy dealmaking. These firms are becoming active participants in networks themselves, including the operation of full-scale nodes to bootstrap networks and participating in governance decisions that help define the future of the networks.This year, we also gained some details on how large corporations are approaching blockchain.
Exactly half of the firms in our list had an average valuation greater than $50 billion at the end of December 2021, with the seven largest averaging $495 billion in size. Still, this is almost half the amount of the seven largest in 2021 . A major reason for this change is the dropping off of three large firms at the top in terms of market cap -
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