Members of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) have hinted at a potential upcoming blockchain product, as seen in two separate April 18 tweets.
Engineer tweets orange circle
Noah Citron, an engineering associate for a16z, tweeted an image of the orange circle emoji — that’s, a dot that includes the corporate’s most important emblem shade.
coming quickly pic.twitter.com/8kADUuervL
— ncitron.eth (@NoahCitron) April 18, 2023
Although the tweet doesn’t embody different particulars of the upcoming product, it carefully resembles an earlier tweet from Coinbase. In February, Coinbase tweeted a blue dot (consistent with its personal shade scheme) earlier than it launched the layer 2 community Base.
A16z maintains a cryptocurrency division and sometimes invests in crypto corporations.
That truth, mixed with the orange circle’s similarity to Coinbase’s advert scheme, means that the corporate’s upcoming product is probably going blockchain-related.
Optimism connection is unlikely
Similarities to Coinbase solely go thus far, nevertheless. Coinbase constructed the Base community on the prevailing layer 2 community Optimism, which provoked hypothesis that a16z could do the identical.
However Eddy Lazzarin, CTO at a16z Crypto, mentioned on Twitter that the upcoming product is “not an L2.” That assertion seemingly minimize off this line of hypothesis.
Such hypothesis doesn’t appear to have considerably affected the worth of Optimism’s OP token, regardless of stories on the contrary. The worth of Optimism (OP) is up 2.6% over the previous 24 hours, whereas the complete crypto market is up 2.0% over the identical interval.
Optimism is the sixty fifth largest cryptocurrency, reporting a market cap of $845 million. It gained a major quantity of its worth across the time of its February airdrop.
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