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- A Tool for Detecting Metamorphic Smart Contracts
- Accelerating the world computer: Implementing Jolt, a new state-of-the-art zkVM
- Building Cicada: Private on-chain voting using time-lock puzzles
- Building Helios: Fully trustless access to Ethereum
- Building Jolt: A fast, easy-to-use zkVM
- Building Magi: A new rollup client for Optimism
- Ethereum, Merge and Beyond
- Generalized property tests for ERC4626 vaults
- Hidden in Plain Sight: A Sneaky Solidity Implementation of a Sealed-Bid Auction
- Identifying Authentic NFTs (Especially Against Attackers)
- Lasso + Jolt: An engineering overview
- On Paper to On-Chain: How Auction Theory Informs Implementations
- On-Chain Trusted Setup Ceremony
- Privacy-Protecting Crypto Airdrops with Zero Knowledge Proofs
- Pro tip: Implementing stateful invariant testing with Halmos
- Programming Languages & Crypto
- Release notes: Halmos v0.1.0
- Smart contract design patterns
- Symbolic testing with Halmos: Leveraging existing tests for formal verification
- The NFT Mint ‘Sweet Spot’: Data on Early Decisions
- The NFT Starter Pack: Tools for Anyone to Analyze NFTs
- Through the looking glass: A cross-chain sealed-bid auction using Aztec Connect
- Token design: Mental models, capabilities, and emerging design spaces
- Understanding Dencun, the biggest upgrade to Ethereum since The Merge
- Understanding Lasso and Jolt, from theory to code
- Visualizing Lasso: A fast new lookup argument for SNARKs
- Zero Gas Wasted: Winning the IAmTheOptimizor Challenge
- Zero Knowledge Canon, part 1 & 2
- zkDocs: Zero-knowledge Information Sharing
- ‘Proof-of-Merge’ NFT to Commemorate Ethereum
code & engineering
- 3 mental models for crypto infrastructure
- 5 rules for token launches
- 6 questions every founder should ask about pricing strategy
- 7 Sanity Checks Before Designing a Token
- A conversation with U.S. Congressman Patrick McHenry
- A Creator's Journey to Self-Sovereignty: The Why Is in the Who
- A Skeptic’s View of Crypto (2 of 3)
- a16z Podcast: Bitcoin’s Growing Pains — and Possibilities
- a16z Podcast: From the Internet’s Past to the Future of Crypto
- a16z Podcast: The Regulatory Landscape for Crypto
- a16z Podcast: The State of the Bitcoin Ecosystem, and a Theory on Satoshi
- a16z Podcast: Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
- Age of Wonders: NFTs, Art, AI, Cycles of Computing
- An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks
- An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code
- Announcing the Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) Spring 2024 Cohort
- Applications: Today & 2025
- Art and Awe in the Age of Machine Intelligence
- Best practices for corporate structures
- Beyond Cryptocurrencies
- Blockchain Networks and the Human Factor: How to Know Whether They're Accessible
- Blockchain Primitives: Cryptography and Consensus
- Bridge Hack, Wallet Hack
- Building and Overcoming the Hard Things
- Building and Running a DAO: Why Governance Matters
- Building Companies and Developer Communities
- Building culture
- Building Dapper Labs
- Building Optimism: A conversation with Optimism founder Jing Wang
- Building Partnerships with NFT Projects and Communities
- Building PROOF: A conversation with Kevin Rose and Chris Dixon
- Building social platforms: A conversation with Chris DeWolfe
- Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
- Consumer products 101
- Creator to founder: A conversation with Greg Solano, Co-founder of Yuga Labs
- Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger
- Crypto Business Models
- Crypto Canon
- Crypto Networks and Why They Matter
- Crypto Policy & Regulation: What's Going On?
- Crypto Regulations, Illicit Finance, Privacy and Beyond
- Crypto, the Future of Trust
- DAO governance attacks, and how to avoid them
- Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman (3 of 3)
- Decentralization
- Decentralization for Defense
- Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How
- Decentralized Applications: What’s Now, What’s Next
- Designing effective governance
- Economic loops for startups
- Editorial content: Strategies and tactics
- Evaluating cross-chain messaging protocols
- Finding users & building partnerships in web3
- Founder talk with Dan Romero, Co-founder & CEO of Farcaster
- Founding Stories: Anchorage
- From lifespan to healthspan
- Getting ready to launch a token: What you need to know
- Go-to-market in web3
- Go-to-Market in Web3: New Mindsets, Tactics, Metrics
- Going from web 2 to web 3: 'Your take rate is my opportunity'
- Governance FAQs
- Hiring in web3: Principles for finding talent in volatile times
- How Anatoly Yakovenko built Solana
- How Brian Armstrong built Coinbase
- How to Build a Better Internet: 10 Principles for World Leaders Shaping the Future of Web3
- How to build a social presence in web3 and beyond
- How to build an engaged web3 community
- How to build in web3: New talks from Crypto Startup School '23
- How to engage with U.S. policymakers
- How to hire and scale in web3
- How to launch a token: Operational guidelines from creation to custody
- How to navigate token launch risks
- How to not get hacked and other security lessons learned
- How to pick a DAO legal entity
- How to set up people operations for web3 founders
- Info Diet: a16z Crypto's Elena Burger
- Interactive Storytelling A Creator's Journey: 'Pleased 2 Meet U'
- Interactive Storytelling A Creator's Journey: 'Pleased 2 Meet U'
- Intro to intellectual property for web3
- Launching and marketing your project
- Launching compliant tokens
- Leading through uncertainty (with Coinbase CEO)
- Let's get digi-physical: From 'tap' chips to Taylor Swift
- Lightspeed Democracy: What web3 organizations can learn from the history of governance
- Machiavelli for DAOs: Designing Effective Decentralized Governance (part 2)
- Machiavelli for DAOs: Principles for Fixing Decentralized Governance (part 1)
- Managing Distributed Workforces
- Measuring SNARK performance: Frontends, backends, and the future
- New year's breathing exercise
- NFT Sales: Clearing the Market, Avoiding Gas Wars
- On Native Bitcoin Apps, Open Source Communities, and What Happened Before Satoshi Nakamoto Vanished
- On promoting healthspan and quality of life
- On the decentralized web and human rights around the world: 'Hacking Authenticity'
- Opportunities for Crypto in Gaming
- Paying People to Participate in Governance
- Post-quantum blockchains
- Preliminary thoughts on proxy delegation
- Preparing for the pitch
- Principles for web3 product design
- Progressive decentralization: a high-level framework
- Progressive Decentralization: A Playbook for Building Crypto Applications
- PSA: A Setup for 'Minimium Viable Security'
- Read Write Own: Table of contents
- Regulation 101
- Setting Up and Scaling a Crypto Company
- Smart Contract Security: A Simple Checklist for Web3 Development
- Snowboards, software, and scaling (with Shopify CEO)
- Some Books We’re Reading This Summer 2022
- Some reasons to build your startup in web3
- Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks
- The Can’t Be Evil NFT Licenses
- The Crypto Price-Innovation Cycle
- The Future of Work is Not Corporate — It's DAOs and Crypto Networks
- The internet is not yet mature
- The internet treats bad business models as defects and routes around them
- The Missing Link Between Web2 and Web3: Custody
- The NFT Staircase: How digital ownership benefits brands and consumers
- The Read Write Own Manifesto
- The theory and practice of web3 auctions
- The web3 Playbook: Using token incentives to bootstrap new networks
- Token Securities Framework and Launching a Network
- Toppling the Internet’s Accidental Monarchs: How to Design web3 Platform Governance
- Treasury Management: A Guide to Navigating Downturns
- Turning networks into economies
- Wallet Security: The ‘Non-Custodial’ Fallacy
- Web3 business strategy
- When is decentralizing on a blockchain valuable?
- Workshop on Rollup Sequencer Economics: Small Group Discussion
- Zero knowledge made simple
company building
- A Call to the SEC: Treat Crypto Assets as if Clients Matter
- A Green Beret’s Journey to Blockchain and Crypto
- A new mining tax on crypto?
- a16z Comment Letter on the SEC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding the Statutory Definitions of Dealer
- a16z Comment Letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- a16z Comment Letter to the Department of the Treasury and IRS regarding the Proposed Digital Asset Broker Reporting Requirements
- a16z Crypto Amicus Brief in the Florida Tornado Cash Lawsuit
- a16z crypto's Comment Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets (11.03.22)
- a16z crypto's Comment to Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Climate-Related Financial Risk
- a16z crypto's Comment to Secretariat to the Financial Stability Board Bank for International Settlements on Financial Stability Board, International Regulation of Crypto-asset Activities (12.15.22)
- a16z crypto's Comment to the U.S. Department of Commerce on Developing a Framework on Competitiveness of Digital Asset Technologies
- a16z crypto's Response to the UK's HMT Crypto Consultation - April 2023
- a16z Crypto/OpenSea IRS Comment Letter
- a16z Crypto’s Comment on SEC Exchange Act Proposal, Part 1
- a16z Crypto’s Comment on SEC Exchange Act Proposal, Part 2
- a16z crypto’s Response to the Department of Treasury’s Request for Comment
- Achieving Crypto Privacy and Regulatory Compliance
- Addressing the Regulatory Gap for Individual (Retail) Crypto Investors
- Amicus Brief re: Tornado Cash Lawsuit - May 2023
- Analogies, the Big Picture, and Considerations for Regulating Crypto
- Andreessen Horowitz Response to Treasury RFC (8.8.22)
- Blockchain's two cultures: The computer vs. the casino
- Case studies for “Grading recent actions: How the SEC, CFTC, and the courts measure up”
- CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo on Regulating Crypto
- Comment Letter re: Regulation Best Execution
- Comment letter: Regarding convertible virtual currency mixing
- Comment Letter: Safeguarding Advisory Client Assets - May 2023
- Comment to the Office of Science and Technology Policy on Digital Assets Research and Development (3.3.23)
- Considerations for the Regulation of Algorithmic Stablecoins
- Crypto & The Infrastructure Bill — Fact Sheet
- Crypto News & Regulatory Roundup: December 16, 2022 - January 13, 2023
- Crypto News & Regulatory Roundup: January 13, 2023 – February 03, 2023
- Crypto News & Regulatory Roundup: November 19 – December 16, 2022
- Crypto News & Regulatory Roundup: November 9-18, 2022
- Crypto news & regulatory update: April 7, 2023 – April 28, 2023
- Crypto news & regulatory update: August 18 - September 1, 2023
- Crypto news & regulatory update: December 23, 2023 – January 12, 2024
- Crypto news & regulatory update: December 4 – 22, 2023
- Crypto news & regulatory update: February 03, 2023 – February 28, 2023
- Crypto news & regulatory update: February 28, 2023 – March 17, 2023
- Crypto news & regulatory update: January 12 – February 9, 2024
- Crypto news & regulatory update: March 1 – March 15, 2024
- Crypto news & regulatory update: March 17, 2023 – April 7, 2023
- Crypto news & regulatory update: November 20 - December 4, 2023
- Crypto news & regulatory update: October 2 - 23, 2023
- Crypto news & regulatory update: October 23 – November 20, 2023
- Crypto news and regulatory update: April 28, 2023 – May 16, 2023
- Crypto news and regulatory update: July 14, 2023 – July 28, 2023
- Crypto news and regulatory update: July 28 - August 18, 2023
- Crypto news and regulatory update: June 7, 2023 – July 14, 2023
- Crypto news and regulatory update: May 16, 2023 – June 6, 2023
- Crypto news and regulatory update: September 1 - 15, 2023
- Crypto news and regulatory update: September 15 - 29, 2023
- Crypto Regulatory Roundup: October 18 – November 9, 2022
- Crypto Regulatory Roundup: September 27 – October 17, 2022
- Crypto, Beyond Silk Road
- Decentralized Finance: What It Is, Why It Matters
- Deep Dive on Decentralization
- DeFi Gives Financial Privacy — Will Regulation Take It Away?
- Factors of decentralization of web3 protocols: Tools for planning greater decentralization
- Grading recent actions: How the SEC, CFTC, and the courts measure up
- How bad policy favors memes over matter
- In Defense of Stablecoins
- IOSCO Crypto and Digital Asset Markets Consultation Response
- It’s time to move crypto from chaos to order
- Joint Amicus Brief re: SEC v. Coinbase
- Kik and the SEC: What’s Going On and What Does It Mean for Crypto?
- Mutability in Crypto and Recent Moves by the SEC
- On Crypto and Its Implications for American Technology Innovation
- On Startups, Platforms, and Innovation
- Our Proposals to the Senate Banking Committee
- Policy Principles
- Prediction for the New Year: A Web3 Midterm
- Privacy-Protecting Regulatory Solutions Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Full Paper
- Reading Between the Lines: SEC, Telegram, and Rule 144
- Regulate Web3 Apps, Not Protocols
- Regulate Web3 Apps, Not Protocols Part II: Framework for Regulating Web3 Apps
- Regulate Web3 Apps, Not Protocols Part III: The Web3 DAO Dilemma
- Regulate Web3 Apps, Not Protocols Part IV: Practical Application
- Shareholders vs. Stakeholders? No: Customers
- Stablecoins, Stability, and Financial Inclusion
- State of Crypto 2023: Spotlight on crypto policy
- The DUNA: An Oasis For DAOs
- Tornado Cash Amicus Brief in Eleventh Circuit
- What regulators can learn from the aftermath of the Titanic
- Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet?
- Why a16z Opposes Secretary Mnuchin’s FinCEN Midnight Crypto Rulemaking
policy & regulation
- 17 misconceptions about SNARKs (and why they hold us back)
- A new era in SNARK design: Releasing Jolt
- A new NFT launch strategy: The wave mint
- A Novel Framework for Reputation-Based Systems
- A Survey of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Blockchain Designs
- A technical FAQ on Lasso, Jolt, and recent advancements in SNARK design
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2022: Field Notes
- Adaptivity and Asynchrony in Distributed Key Generation
- All About That Gas
- An Evolution of Models for Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- Anonymous Credentials and Decentralizing ID Systems
- Approaching the 'lookup singularity': Introducing Lasso and Jolt
- Arbitrage Extractable Value
- Asiacrypt ‘22: Field Notes
- Auction Design for web3
- Automated Market Making and Arbitrage Profits in the Presence of Fees
- Beyond ZK: Next Steps for Compliance and Constrained Encryption on Blockchains
- Blockchain Incentives and Authentication
- BlockSTM: Scaling Blockchain Execution
- BLS Multi-Signatures for Blockchain Applications
- Boosting Lasso+Jolt through faster commitments – with far-reaching consequences
- Bringing Decentralized Governance to Tech Platforms
- Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Dynamic Participation
- CESC ‘22: Field Notes from the Zero Knowledge Workshop
- Checks and balances: Machine learning and zero-knowledge proofs
- Configurable Asset Privacy and Proof-Carrying Disclosures
- Consensus Based on Proofs of Space and Time
- Consensus Canon
- Correcting some SNARK misconceptions
- Credible Auctions: A Trilemma
- Crypto Glossary: Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain
- Cryptoeconomic Security for Data Availability Committees
- Cryptoeconomics - an excerpt
- DAG Meets BFT: The Next Generation of BFT Consensus
- Data availability sampling and danksharding: An overview and a proposal for improvements
- De-Anonymization in Bitcoin
- Designing reward systems for web3 governance
- Digital Signatures for web3
- Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG)-Based Consensus Protocols: An Introduction
- Distributed Data Storage, DAS, and Danksharding
- Distributed Randomness Beacons
- EigenLayr: Permissionless Feature Addition to Ethereum
- FAQ on Jolt’s initial implementation
- Field Notes: Devcon3 — Ethereum Developer’s Conference
- Foundations of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design
- Grassroots Cryptocurrencies: A Foundation for a Digital Economy
- He-HTLC: Revisiting Incentives in Hashed Time-Locked Contracts
- High-Frequency Trading and the Design of Financial Markets
- Holdup, innovation, and platform governance
- How to Build Robust Payment Channel Networks
- Interchain Timestamping for Interchain Security
- Introducing our summer '23 research seminars
- Introduction to Consensus (Part I)
- Introduction to Consensus (Part II)
- Introduction to Validating Bridges and Layer-2 Protocols
- Introduction to Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs)
- It's All about Trust
- Jolt, zkVMs, and speeding up blockchain
- Lasso in a nutshell
- Lasso, Jolt, and the Lookup Singularity, Part I
- Lasso, Jolt, and the Lookup Singularity, Part II
- Leader Election from Randomness Beacons and Other Strategies
- Limits on Revocable Proof Systems
- Liquidity Provision and Automated Market Making
- Long-range Attacks on Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Blockchains
- LVR in a minute with Tim Roughgarden
- LVR: Quantifying the Cost of Providing Liquidity to Automated Market Makers
- Manipulating leader selection in BFT protocols
- Mechanism Design 101
- Mechanisms to Infer the Wisdom of the Crowd
- Multi-Dimensional Blockchain Resource Pricing
- Network Effects, Moats, & the Business of web3
- New paper alert: Atomic and fair data exchange via blockchain
- New paper alert: Naysayer proofs
- New paper alert: “Transaction Fee Mechanism Design with Active Block Producers”
- Oblivious RAM: From Theory to Large-Scale Real-World Deployment
- Of data availability & danksharding
- On the impossibility of stateless blockchains
- One Dollar, Many Flavors: Inferring Preferences for Stablecoins
- Optimal flexible consensus and its application to Ethereum
- Patents, Intellectual Property and the Rise of the Rent-Seeking Society
- Permissionless consensus
- PoS Blockchains - Designs, Consensus, Attacks
- Post-Quantum Single Secret Leader Election
- Products and Protocol
- Proving as Fast as Computing - Part 1
- Proving as Fast as Computing - Part 2
- Public Randomness and Randomness Beacons
- Recent latest message driven GHOST
- Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms
- Revisiting accepted wisdom in SNARK design
- SBC 22: Field Notes From Science of Blockchain 2022
- Scaling Avalanche with Subnets and Specialized VMs
- Secure Smart Contract Development
- Shoal: Improving DAG-BFT latency and robustness
- SNARK Design Part III
- SNARK Design, Part I
- SNARK Design, Part II
- SNARK Security and Performance
- Strategic Behavior in Cryptocurrency Protocols
- Sui Lutris: Combining broadcast and consensus in a production blockchain
- Tackling Pain-Points with Optimistic Rollups
- The Blocklace: A Partially-Ordered Generalization of the Blockchain
- The cryptoeconomics of slashing
- The Economics of Cryptocurrency Mining
- The Effects of Retroactive Rewards on Participating in Online Governance
- The Evolution of Decentralized Governance
- The lookup singularity
- The problem with slashing or majority rewards
- The Value of Decentralization Using the Blockchain: An Economic Analysis
- Theory of Cryptography Conference ‘22: Field Notes
- Top Tech Topics, Explained
- Transaction Fee Mechanism Design with Active Block Producers
- Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) for Blockchain Applications
- Twilight: A Differentially Private Payment Channel Network
- Using on-chain voting for information aggregation
- Vampire attacks: A theory (and thread) on 'blood sucking' platform competition
- Verifiable delay functions
- Why blockchain performance is hard to measure
- Workshop on Rollup Sequencer Economics: Open Questions, organized
- Zero Knowledge Summit (zkSummit) 2024: Field notes
research
- 2023 State of Crypto Report: Introducing the State of Crypto Index
- 22 Top Pieces from 2022
- 4 Eras of Blockchain Computing: Degrees of Composability
- 5 ways you/ your company can use NFTs
- 7 Essential Ingredients of a Metaverse
- 7 Trends in Blockchain Computing
- A Conversation: What’s Next in Web3 Games?
- A few common ways new technologies can be misunderstood
- A few of the things we’re excited about in crypto (2023)
- A few of the things we’re excited about in crypto (2024)
- A Guide to DeSci, the Latest Web3 Movement
- a16z Podcast: The Five Stages of Bitcoin — Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
- An Intro to Crypto: Decentralization, the Big Picture
- Art, Authenticity, and Anarchy
- Beyond Bitcoin: The Blockchain
- Big Tech killed the internet — blockchains can help revive it.
- Blockchain & internet glossary (A–Z): Key terms from Read Write Own
- Blockchains / Crypto / web3
- Blockchains and performance
- Blockchains are the new app stores
- Blockspace: What Comes After PCs, Broadband, and Smartphones
- Books for crypto builders and beyond (2022)
- Books for crypto builders and beyond (2023)
- Cheat Codes for Creating Legendary Videogames: gl hf dd
- Collected web3 twitter threads
- Composability is Innovation
- Composability is to software as compounding interest is to finance
- Crypto and the Evolution of Open Source
- Cryptonetworks and Cities: Analogies
- Cryptonetworks and Decentralization: Building Blocks
- Crypto’s Business Model is Familiar. What Isn't is Who Benefits
- DAOs, A Canon
- Decentralized Creativity & Collaboration
- Decentralized Identity: Your Reputation Travels With You
- Decentralized Speed: Advances in Zero Knowledge Proofs
- Designing Internet-Native Economies: A Guide to Crypto Tokens
- Doing Old Things Better Vs. Doing Brand New Things
- Don’t trust, verify: An introduction to light clients
- Embrace and extend
- Exploring Architectures for Blockchain Scalability
- Five Charts That Tell the Story of 2020 in Crypto
- Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer
- Forget what you know about crypto: The next era of internet innovation is here
- Fundraising and Deal Structure
- How open lost to closed in web2
- How the Coming Privacy Layer Will Fix the Broken Web
- How web3 data portability reduces the power of centralized services
- Incomplete Contracts (and Scaling Crypto)
- Introducing the 2022 State of Crypto Report
- It's time to take back the internet
- Mainstreaming NFTs: Use Cases, Art, More
- Mental Models for Navigating Crypto Markets & Cycles
- Metaverse Land: What Makes Digital Real Estate Valuable
- Methods to the Madness
- Minimum Viable Participation in Crypto: Games, Costs, & Accessibility
- Monetization for Gamers in the New Cryptoeconomy
- Money, power, politics, and the internet's next battleground
- NFT Canon
- NFTs and a Thousand True Fans
- NFTs and ownership
- Past, Present, Future: From Co-ops to Cryptonetworks
- Product cycles vs financial cycles
- Puzzles (& crypto)… with bonus puzzle!
- Read Write Own: A new era
- Secrets and how to prove them: A magician’s guide to zero-knowledge proofs
- Securing and Evolving NFTs
- Seven types of NFTs
- Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?
- Software-Related Forum Posts Through the Years (and the 10th Anniversary of the Bitcoin Whitepaper)
- Some books we’re reading (and games we’re playing) this summer 2023
- Some books we’re reading (and games we’re playing) this winter 2022
- State of Crypto: Trends, data, more
- Taking Crypto Beyond Volatility: Stablecoins
- The Architecture of Crypto Innovation
- The Art of Technology, the Technology of Art
- The Crypto Price-Innovation Cycle
- The four horsemen of centralization
- The Long-Tail Problem in AI, and How Autonomous Markets Can Solve It
- The Metaverse, Crypto, Virtual Society
- The myth of "ETH killers"
- The Rise of Crypto is Leading to a Safer Internet
- The story of the internet, emergent networks, and their effects
- Tokenology: Moving beyond ‘tokenomics’
- Tokens: A New Digital Primitive
- Towards a Decentralized Storage Network for the Blockchain Computer
- Toys, Secrets, and Cycles: Lessons from the 2000s
- Usability / monetization death spirals
- Virtual Society, Blockchains, and The Metaverse
- Web 3.0 and the Future of Trust
- web3 critics misunderstand decentralization
- web3 with a16z, a show about the next internet
- What Are Blockchains: Computers That Can Make Commitments
- What comes after open source?
- What The Merge Means
- What’s Next for the Internet?
- What’s next in web3
- Why Creator Tokens Will Precede Community Tokens
- Why decentralization matters
- Why NFT Creators Are Going cc0
- Why Web3 Matters
- “Fantasy Hollywood” — Crypto and Community-Owned Characters
tech trends
- 3 Common Myths People Have About Crypto (1 of 3)
- AI & Crypto
- Apple iCloud: Doing this 1 thing can help stop hacks
- Books, shows, apps: Some recommendations for winter 2023
- Chain Choices: Or, How to Decide What Blockchain to Build On
- Communicating in Crypto, and Beyond
- Debating Blockchain Architectures (with Solana)
- Financial Freedom, Company Building, More
- Introduction to Selfish Mining
- Resources from a16z for Understanding Crypto
- Strategy & Operations for web3 (with Uniswap COO)
- The State of Crypto: A Builder's Guide From Crypto Startup School