General Partner at Electric Capital Maria Shen divides her list of the most innovative onchain experiments from the last 3 years into four categories. For human coordination mechanisms, she highlights Nouns DAO for its complex treasury system and spin-off projects and Curta for its recognition of solving hard problems. In the “pricing historically difficult assets” category, Love on Leverage prices momentum during a live dating show and Orb Land allows users to access Q&As with influencers. Her “markets for unique assets” category includes liquid NFT markets. The final category is for incentive mechanisms for onchain art, represented by the 5/9 chess engine's NFT-per-move mechanic.

Electric Capital's Annual Developer Report reveals trends around the increase in multichain development, the U.S. losing developer share, and the growth of new chains like Base and Bitcoin L2s. Infrastructure improvement has enabled the rise of social applications, which are in an experimental stage reminiscent of social media in 2003. NFTs are becoming multichain and are expected to serve as the foundation for various digital assets in the future.

Electric Capital's Crypto Market Map tracks over 1,500 significant crypto projects organized into six tech layers and 137 categories. The map, which shows the rapid growth and specialization of the industry since 2019, highlights core infrastructure, scaling, interoperability, developer tools, protocols, and applications. Despite its comprehensive scope, the map remains in beta. Electric Capital is inviting community contributions for further improvement.

Electric Capital's "Crypto Market Map" now features over 1,700 crypto projects, with significant contributions from 233 community members who added projects to the market map categories. The map categorizes projects across six layers from user-facing apps to foundational infrastructure, highlighting the role of regular community input to keep the database current and reflective of ongoing developments in the crypto space.

This market map from Electric Capital highlights over 250 crypto projects working in the zero-knowledge space. It is categorized based on a spectrum of core tech to user-facing, further subcategorized into specific use cases. Years of ZK research are coming to life by advancing scalability and trustlessness and introducing new use cases across all of crypto. 80% of projects are infrastructure-focused, though the application sector is expected to grow.