Korea Blockchain Week 2025: Field Notes
Editor’s note: Field Notes is a series where we report on the ground from significant industry, research, and other events. In this edition, we round up quick team observations from Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) 2025, which took place September 22-28 in Seoul, Korea. The a16z crypto team was also present there last year, where founding general partner Chris Dixon spoke at the kickoff event and launched the Korean edition of Read Write Own (written up here by Korean news agency Yonhap).
The big picture
Korea has massively modernized and grown its economy in previous decades, yielding a consumer base that’s digitally native and excited to adopt the latest technology….