Eddy Lazzarin
One of the reasons I’m so optimistic about the future of crypto and web3 is that it has attracted many of the world’s smartest people to start building and problem-solving in this space. It takes a truly special intellect to stand out among the technologists in this field, and we’re fortunate to have one of those people on our team. I’m happy to share that Eddy Lazzarin has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer for a16z crypto. In this role, Eddy will continue to lead the engineering and data science teams that he built from the ground up, and also now manage our world-class research and security teams.
In 2019, one year after we launched the first crypto fund, Eddy joined a16z crypto as a data scientist and investing partner. He quickly distinguished himself as a true crypto polymath, able to go deep on any topic and deliver the data and code needed to win nearly any argument. Before joining us, he’d held data science and engineering roles at Facebook and Netflix.
Eddy became our Head of Engineering in 2021, attracting top talent and providing invaluable support to our portfolio companies. a16z crypto’s engineers are continuously adding to our suite of open-source tools that benefit the entire ecosystem, including the Helios light client for Ethereum, privacy-protecting airdrops using zero-knowledge proofs, a starter pack for NFT analysis, and most recently the Halmos formal verification tool. Eddy’s also great at deconstructing and explaining complex topics, as he does in this proposed framework for token design and protocol development.
Since we formed a16z crypto research less than a year ago, the team led by Tim Roughgarden produced both fundamental research and expository articles on topics ranging from AMM liquidity provision to progressive decentralization to public randomness to SNARK security to measuring blockchain performance. We’ll continue to widen their aperture, tackling new challenges and advancing the science and technology for the next generation of the internet.
Thanks Eddy for all your contributions to a16z and our portfolio, and congratulations on your new role.
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