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5.31.23 / articles
Factors of decentralization of web3 protocols: Tools for planning greater decentralization

Miles JenningsStephen WinkAdam Zuckerman
5.24.23 / articles
Building Cicada: Private on-chain voting using time-lock puzzles

Michael Zhu
5.16.23 / articles
A new mining tax on crypto?

Joshua Gans
5.15.23 / articles
Vampire attacks: A theory (and thread) on 'blood sucking' platform competition

John William HatfieldScott Duke Kominers
5.2.23 / articles
Crypto news & regulatory update: April 7, 2023 – April 28, 2023

a16z crypto Regulatory Team
5.2.23 / articles
6 questions every founder should ask about pricing strategy

Jason RosenthalMaggie Hsu
5.1.23 / articles
Hiring in web3: Principles for finding talent in volatile times

Ian DutraMehdi Hasan
4.27.23 / articles
Data availability sampling and danksharding: An overview and a proposal for improvements

Valeria NikolaenkoDan Boneh
4.21.23 / articles
7 Sanity Checks Before Designing a Token

Guy Wuollet
4.21.23 / articles
Tokenology: Moving beyond ‘tokenomics’

Guy Wuollet
4.19.23 / articles
Building Magi: A new rollup client for Optimism

Noah Citron
4.11.23 / articles
2023 State of Crypto Report: Introducing the State of Crypto Index

Daren MatsuokaEddy LazzarinRobert HackettStephanie Zinn
4.10.23 / articles
Crypto news & regulatory update: March 17, 2023 – April 7, 2023

a16z crypto Regulatory Team
4.6.23 / articles
A new NFT launch strategy: The wave mint

Scott Duke Kominers1337 Skulls Sers
4.5.23 / articles
Checks and balances: Machine learning and zero-knowledge proofs

Elena Burger
3.25.23 / articles
Crypto news & regulatory update: February 28, 2023 – March 17, 2023

a16z crypto Regulatory Team
3.6.23 / articles
Crypto news & regulatory update: February 03, 2023 – February 28, 2023

a16z crypto Regulatory Team
3.3.23 / articles
Comment to the Office of Science and Technology Policy on Digital Assets Research and Development (3.3.23)

Miles JenningsMichele KorverBrian QuintenzTim Roughgarden
3.1.23 / articles
Considerations for the Regulation of Algorithmic Stablecoins

a16z crypto Policy Team
2.25.23 / articles
Through the looking glass: A cross-chain sealed-bid auction using Aztec Connect

Michael Zhu
2.17.23 / articles
Regulate Web3 Apps, Not Protocols
Part IV: Practical Application

Miles JenningsBrian Quintenz
2.3.23 / articles
Crypto News & Regulatory Roundup: January 13, 2023 – February 03, 2023

a16z crypto Regulatory Team
2.2.23 / articles
Symbolic testing with Halmos: Leveraging existing tests for formal verification

Daejun Park
1.31.23 / articles
Consensus Canon

Andrew Lewis-Pye
1.25.23 / articles
The cryptoeconomics of slashing

Sreeram KannanSoubhik Deb
1.24.23 / articles
Regulate Web3 Apps, Not Protocols
Part III: The Web3 DAO Dilemma

Miles Jennings
1.19.23 / articles
Encouraging informed participation in decentralized governance: the problem with slashing or majority rewards 

Ethan Bueno de MesquitaAndrew Hall
1.13.23 / articles
Interactive Storytelling A Creator's Journey: 'Pleased 2 Meet U'

pplpleasr
1.13.23 / articles
Crypto News & Regulatory Roundup: December 16, 2022 - January 13, 2023

a16z crypto Regulatory Team
1.13.23 / articles
When is decentralizing on a blockchain valuable?

Marco Reuter
1.12.23 / articles
Progressive decentralization: a high-level framework

Jad EsberScott Duke Kominers
1.11.23 / articles
Regulate Web3 Apps, Not Protocols
Part II: Framework for Regulating Web3 Apps

Miles JenningsBrian Quintenz
12.27.22 / articles
22 Top Pieces from 2022

a16z crypto editorial
12.18.22 / articles
Some books we’re reading (and games we’re playing) this winter

a16z crypto editorial
12.18.22 / articles
Books for crypto builders and beyond

a16z crypto editorial
12.17.22 / articles
Crypto News & Regulatory Roundup: November 19 – December 16, 2022

a16z crypto Regulatory Team
12.15.22 / articles
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)

Michele KorverScott WalkerMiles JenningsJai RamaswamyBrian Quintenz
12.15.22 / articles
A few of the things we’re excited about in crypto

Michael BlauJoseph BonneauNoah CitronValeria NikolaenkoCarra WuGuy WuolletMichael Zhu
12.14.22 / articles
Asiacrypt ‘22: Field Notes

Joseph Bonneau
12.7.22 / articles
NFTs and a thousand true fans

Chris Dixon
12.5.22 / articles
Theory of Cryptography Conference ‘22: Field Notes

Miranda Christ
11.30.22 / articles
Leader Election from Randomness Beacons and Other Strategies

Miranda ChristValeria NikolaenkoJoseph Bonneau
11.19.22 / articles
Crypto News & Regulatory Roundup: November 9-18, 2022

a16z crypto Regulatory Team
11.18.22 / articles
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2022: Field Notes 

Valeria Nikolaenko
11.16.22 / articles
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Sneaky Solidity Implementation of a Sealed-Bid Auction

Michael Zhu
11.16.22 / articles
Achieving Crypto Privacy and Regulatory Compliance

Joseph BurlesonMichele KorverDan Boneh
11.16.22 / articles
Privacy-Protecting Regulatory Solutions Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Full Paper

Joseph BurlesonMichele KorverDan Boneh
11.11.22 / articles
Crypto Regulatory Roundup: October 18 – November 9, 2022

a16z crypto Regulatory Team
11.8.22 / articles
Paying People to Participate in Governance

Ethan Bueno de MesquitaAndrew Hall
11.7.22 / articles
Building Helios: Fully trustless access to Ethereum

Noah Citron
11.5.22 / articles
CESC ‘22: Field Notes from the Zero Knowledge Workshop

Valeria Nikolaenko
11.4.22 / articles
Strategic Behavior in Cryptocurrency Protocols

Matt Weinberg
11.3.22 / articles
a16z crypto's Comment Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets (11.03.22)

Jai RamaswamyScott WalkerMichele KorverMiles Jennings
10.27.22 / articles
Generalized property tests for ERC4626 vaults

Daejun Park
10.27.22 / articles
Crypto Regulatory Roundup: September 27 – October 17, 2022

a16z crypto Regulatory Team
10.21.22 / articles
Toppling the Internet’s Accidental Monarchs: How to Design web3 Platform Governance

Porter SmithAndrew Hall
10.18.22 / articles
Public Randomness and Randomness Beacons

Joseph BonneauValeria Nikolaenko
10.17.22 / articles
Zero Gas Wasted: Winning the IAmTheOptimizor Challenge

Noah CitronMatt Gleason
10.14.22 / articles
Wallet Security: The ‘Non-Custodial’ Fallacy

Nassim EddequiouaqRiyaz Faizullabhoy
10.13.22 / articles
Building Partnerships with NFT Projects and Communities

Pyrs CarvolthMaggie Hsu
10.9.22 / articles
Virtual Society, Blockchains, and The Metaverse

Elena Burger
10.7.22 / articles
a16z crypto's Comment to Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Climate-Related Financial Risk

Jai RamaswamyScott WalkerMichele KorverMiles Jennings
10.7.22 / articles
On Paper to On-Chain: How Auction Theory Informs Implementations

Michael Zhu
9.29.22 / articles
Regulate Web3 Apps, Not Protocols

Miles Jennings
9.21.22 / articles
A Call to the SEC: Treat Crypto Assets as if Clients Matter

Scott WalkerNeel Maitra
9.19.22 / articles
LVR: Quantifying the Cost of Providing Liquidity to Automated Market Makers

Jason MilionisCiamac MoallemiTim RoughgardenAnthony Lee Zhang
9.16.22 / articles
Zero Knowledge Canon, part 1 & 2

Elena BurgerBryan ChiangSonal ChokshiEddy LazzarinJustin ThalerAli Yahya
9.15.22 / articles
What The Merge Means

Ali Yahya
9.14.22 / articles
‘Proof-of-Merge’ NFT to Commemorate Ethereum

Michael BlauMason Hall
9.13.22 / articles
SNARK Security and Performance

Justin Thaler
9.12.22 / articles
SBC 22: Field Notes From Science of Blockchain 2022

Elena BurgerBryan ChiangValeria NikolaenkoDaejun ParkCarra WuGuy Wuollet
9.10.22 / articles
NFT Sales: Clearing the Market, Avoiding Gas Wars

Scott Duke KominersTim Roughgarden
9.7.22 / articles
On-Chain Trusted Setup Ceremony

Valeria NikolaenkoSam Ragsdale
8.31.22 / articles
The Can’t Be Evil NFT Licenses

Miles JenningsChris Dixon
8.26.22 / articles
a16z crypto’s Response to the Department of Treasury’s Request for Comment

Michele Korver
8.25.22 / articles
Treasury Management: A Guide to Navigating Downturns

Jeff AmicoMaggie HsuEd LynchEmily Westerhold
8.14.22 / articles
Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks

Sriram Krishnan
8.11.22 / articles
Measuring SNARK performance: Frontends, backends, and the future

Justin Thaler
8.9.22 / articles
In Defense of Stablecoins

Miles Jennings
8.8.22 / articles
Andreessen Horowitz Response to Treasury RFC (8.8.22)

Scott WalkerMichele KorverJai RamaswamyMiles Jennings
8.8.22 / articles
Why blockchain performance is hard to measure

Joseph Bonneau
8.3.22 / articles
Why NFT Creators Are Going cc0

FlashrektScott Duke Kominers
7.28.22 / articles
DAO governance attacks, and how to avoid them

Pranav GarimidiScott Duke KominersTim Roughgarden
7.15.22 / articles
Info Diet: a16z Crypto's Elena Burger

Elena Burger
7.5.22 / articles
a16z crypto's Comment to the U.S. Department of Commerce on Developing a Framework on Competitiveness of Digital Asset Technologies

Miles JenningsMichele Korver
7.3.22 / articles
Some Books We’re Reading This Summer

a16z crypto editorial
6.29.22 / articles
Lightspeed Democracy: What web3 organizations can learn from the history of governance

Andrew HallPorter Smith
6.27.22 / articles
Toys, Secrets, and Cycles: Lessons from the 2000s

Chris Dixon
6.27.22 / articles
zkDocs: Zero-knowledge Information Sharing

Sam RagsdaleDan Boneh
6.24.22 / articles
A Tool for Detecting Metamorphic Smart Contracts

Michael Blau
6.7.22 / articles
Smart Contract Security: A Simple Checklist for Web3 Development

Andy BealNassim EddequiouaqRiyaz FaizullabhoyChristian Seifert
6.4.22 / articles
How to pick a DAO legal entity

Miles JenningsDavid Kerr
6.2.22 / articles
Cryptoeconomics - an excerpt

a16z crypto editorial
6.2.22 / articles
Metaverse Land: What Makes Digital Real Estate Valuable

Scott Duke Kominers
6.1.22 / articles
Blockspace: What Comes After PCs, Broadband, and Smartphones

Chris DixonMario Gabriele
5.31.22 / articles
web3 with a16z, a show about the next internet

Sonal Chokshia16z crypto editorial
5.27.22 / articles
a16z Comment Letter on the SEC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding the Statutory Definitions of Dealer

Jai RamaswamyMiles JenningsScott WalkerMichele Korver
5.17.22 / articles
Introducing the 2022 State of Crypto Report

Daren MatsuokaEddy LazzarinChris DixonRobert Hackett
5.6.22 / articles
7 Essential Ingredients of a Metaverse

Elizabeth HarkavyEddy LazzarinArianna Simpson
5.4.22 / articles
A Conversation: What’s Next in Web3 Games?

Jonathan Lai
4.21.22 / articles
Announcing a16z crypto research

Ali YahyaChris Dixon
4.18.22 / articles
a16z Crypto’s Comment on SEC Exchange Act Proposal

Jai RamaswamyMiles Jennings
4.15.22 / articles
Decentralized Speed: Advances in Zero Knowledge Proofs

Elena Burger
4.7.22 / articles
Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How

Miles Jennings
3.31.22 / articles
The NFT Mint ‘Sweet Spot’: Data on Early Decisions

Daren Matsuoka
3.27.22 / articles
Privacy-Protecting Crypto Airdrops with Zero Knowledge Proofs

Sam Ragsdale
3.19.22 / articles
What’s next in web3

Chris Dixon
3.19.22 / articles
Blockchains and performance

Chris Dixon
3.19.22 / articles
Embrace and extend

Chris Dixon
3.19.22 / articles
Collected web3 twitter threads

Chris Dixon
3.18.22 / articles
The NFT Starter Pack: Tools for Anyone to Analyze NFTs

Eddy LazzarinDaren Matsuoka
3.9.22 / articles
Identifying Authentic NFTs (Especially Against Attackers)

Michael Blau
3.6.22 / articles
Some reasons to build your startup in web3

Chris Dixon
2.18.22 / articles
The Missing Link Between Web2 and Web3: Custody

Mahesh Vellanki
2.9.22 / articles
A Guide to DeSci, the Latest Web3 Movement

Sarah Hamburg
2.4.22 / articles
Go-to-Market in Web3: New Mindsets, Tactics, Metrics

Maggie Hsu
1.23.22 / articles
web3 critics misunderstand decentralization

Chris Dixon
1.13.22 / articles
DeFi Gives Financial Privacy — Will Regulation Take It Away?

Eugene Volokh
1.8.22 / articles
How web3 data portability reduces the power of centralized services

Chris Dixon
1.7.22 / articles
How to Build a Better Internet: 10 Principles for World Leaders Shaping the Future of Web3

Tomicah TillemannJames Rathmell
1.1.22 / articles
NFTs and ownership

Chris Dixon
12.17.21 / articles
The Future of Work is Not Corporate — It's DAOs and Crypto Networks

Ben Schecter
12.17.21 / articles
Prediction for the New Year: A Web3 Midterm

Tomicah TillemannJames Rathmell
12.11.21 / articles
Seven types of NFTs

Chris Dixon
12.9.21 / articles
The web3 Playbook: Using token incentives to bootstrap new networks

Chris Dixon
11.26.21 / articles
The internet is not yet mature

Chris Dixon
11.25.21 / articles
Economic loops for startups

Chris Dixon
11.21.21 / articles
The myth of "ETH killers"

Chris Dixon
11.20.21 / articles
DAOs, A Canon

Sonal ChokshiZoran BasichGuy Wuollet
11.18.21 / articles
Decentralized Identity: Your Reputation Travels With You

Scott Duke KominersJad Esber
11.16.21 / articles
Blockchain Networks and the Human Factor: How to Know Whether They're Accessible

Dieter ShirleyBenjamin Ebner
11.8.21 / articles
Usability / monetization death spirals

Chris Dixon
11.3.21 / articles
Building and Running a DAO: Why Governance Matters

Tarun Chitra
10.22.21 / articles
Composability is to software as compounding interest is to finance

Chris Dixon
10.5.21 / articles
Our Proposals to the Senate Banking Committee

Tomicah TillemannMiles JenningsJames Rathmell
10.2.21 / articles
How open lost to closed in web2

Chris Dixon
9.30.21 / articles
A Novel Framework for Reputation-Based Systems

Jad EsberScott Duke Kominers
9.27.21 / articles
Stablecoins, Stability, and Financial Inclusion

Katie HaunTomicah TillemannJames Rathmell
9.26.21 / articles
Why Web3 Matters

Chris Dixon
9.20.21 / articles
Tokens: A New Digital Primitive

Chris Dixon
9.13.21 / articles
Minimum Viable Participation in Crypto: Games, Costs, & Accessibility

Elena Burger
8.22.21 / articles
Turning networks into economies

Chris Dixon
8.16.21 / articles
Blockchains are the new app stores

Chris Dixon
8.11.21 / articles
Going from web 2 to web 3: “Your take rate is my opportunity”

Chris Dixon
8.9.21 / articles
Crypto & The Infrastructure Bill — Fact Sheet

a16z crypto Regulatory Team
7.27.21 / articles
A few common ways new technologies can be misunderstood

Chris Dixon
7.17.21 / articles
The internet treats bad business models as defects and routes around them

Chris Dixon
6.15.21 / articles
Decentralized Finance: What It Is, Why It Matters

Marvin Ammori
6.15.21 / articles
Composability is Innovation

Linda Xie
6.15.21 / articles
How the Coming Privacy Layer Will Fix the Broken Web

Howard Wu
6.15.21 / articles
Designing Internet-Native Economies: A Guide to Crypto Tokens

Patrick Rivera
6.15.21 / articles
Why Creator Tokens Will Precede Community Tokens

Alex Masmej
6.15.21 / articles
“Fantasy Hollywood” — Crypto and Community-Owned Characters

Cuy Sheffield
4.2.21 / articles
NFT Canon

Sonal ChokshiChris DixonDenis NazarovJesse WaldenLinda Xie
1.14.21 / articles
Who Will Control the Software That Powers the Internet?

Chris Dixon
1.4.21 / articles
Why a16z Opposes Secretary Mnuchin’s FinCEN Midnight Crypto Rulemaking

Katie Haun
12.28.20 / articles
The State of Crypto: A Builder's Guide From Crypto Startup School

Future Editorial
12.21.20 / articles
Five Charts That Tell the Story of 2020 in Crypto

Eddy Lazzarin
10.18.20 / articles
Doing Old Things Better Vs. Doing Brand New Things

Chris Dixon
7.24.20 / articles
The Long-Tail Problem in AI, and How Autonomous Markets Can Solve It

Ali Yahya
5.15.20 / articles
The Crypto Price-Innovation Cycle

Chris DixonEddy Lazzarin
4.30.20 / articles
Resources from a16z for Understanding Crypto

a16z crypto editorial
4.8.20 / articles
Crypto’s Business Model is Familiar. What Isn't is Who Benefits

Jesse Walden
3.9.20 / articles
Monetization for Gamers in the New Cryptoeconomy

Kevin Chou
2.22.20 / articles
Reading Between the Lines: SEC, Telegram, and Rule 144

Scott Kupor
1.30.20 / articles
The Rise of Crypto is Leading to a Safer Internet

Diogo Monica
1.27.20 / articles
What is Blockchain: Computers That Can Make Commitments

Chris Dixon
1.9.20 / articles
Progressive Decentralization: A Playbook for Building Crypto Applications

Jesse Walden
12.23.19 / articles
A Green Beret’s Journey to Blockchain and Crypto

Alex Pruden
12.19.19 / articles
What’s Next for the Internet?

Chris DixonJonah Peretti
11.12.19 / articles
Web 3.0 and the Future of Trust

Ali Yahya
11.8.19 / articles
Crypto Glossary: Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain

Alex PrudenSonal Chokshi
10.22.19 / articles
Mutability in Crypto and Recent Moves by the SEC

Scott Kupor
10.14.19 / articles
Exploring Architectures for Blockchain Scalability

Ali Yahya
9.17.19 / articles
CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo on Regulating Crypto

Christopher Giancarlo
8.29.19 / articles
Decentralized Applications: What’s Now, What’s Next

Arianna Simpson
8.29.19 / articles
Taking Crypto Beyond Volatility: Stablecoins

Sep Kamvar
8.29.19 / articles
The Architecture of Crypto Innovation

Neha Narula
8.29.19 / articles
Social Networking in 2030: How Could Crypto Change Things?

Chris Dixon
7.22.19 / articles
Incomplete Contracts (and Scaling Crypto)

Jesse Walden
6.23.19 / articles
Founding Stories: Anchorage

Diogo MonicaNathan McCauleyChris Dixon
6.19.19 / articles
On Crypto and Its Implications for American Technology Innovation

Scott Kupor
5.15.19 / articles
Kik and the SEC: What’s Going On and What Does It Mean for Crypto?

Katie Haun
5.7.19 / articles
7 Trends in Blockchain Computing

Olaf Carlson-WeeChris Dixon
4.19.19 / articles
Five Open Problems for the Blockchain Computer

Ali YahyaFrank Chen
4.19.19 / articles
Towards a Decentralized Storage Network for the Blockchain Computer

Ben FischAli Yahya
3.21.19 / articles
Shareholders vs. Stakeholders? No: Customers

Scott Kupor
3.11.19 / articles
On Startups, Platforms, and Innovation

Scott Kupor
3.2.19 / articles
Past, Present, Future: From Co-ops to Cryptonetworks

Jesse Walden
1.22.19 / articles
What comes after open source?

Denis Nazarov
12.21.18 / articles
Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon

Brian ArmstrongChris Dixon
12.16.18 / articles
4 Eras of Blockchain Computing: Degrees of Composability

Jesse Walden
12.16.18 / articles
Crypto, the Future of Trust

Ali Yahya
12.15.18 / articles
Beyond Cryptocurrencies

Linda Xie
12.14.18 / articles
Crypto, Beyond Silk Road

Katie Haun
11.2.18 / articles
Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman (3 of 3)

Katie HaunPaul KrugmanRodrigo Pacheco
11.2.18 / articles
A Skeptic’s View of Crypto (2 of 3)

Paul Krugman
11.2.18 / articles
3 Common Myths People Have About Crypto (1 of 3)

Katie Haun
10.31.18 / articles
Software-Related Forum Posts Through the Years (and the 10th Anniversary of the Bitcoin Whitepaper)

Chris Dixon
8.20.18 / articles
Crypto and the Evolution of Open Source

Denis NazarovJesse WaldenDevon Zuegel
7.26.18 / articles
Cryptonetworks and Cities: Analogies

Denis NazarovJesse WaldenAli YahyaDevon Zuegel
7.26.18 / articles
Cryptonetworks and Decentralization: Building Blocks

Chris DixonAli YahyaDevon Zuegel
6.18.18 / articles
Addressing the Regulatory Gap for Individual (Retail) Crypto Investors

Scott Kupor
5.4.18 / articles
An Intro to Crypto: Building Blocks

Linda Xie
5.4.18 / articles
Analogies, the Big Picture, and Considerations for Regulating Crypto

Scott KuporSonal Chokshi
2.10.18 / articles
Crypto Canon

Sonal ChokshiChris DixonDenis NazarovJesse WaldenAli Yahya
11.24.17 / articles
Field Notes: Devcon3 — Ethereum Developer’s Conference

Michael Wee
7.27.15 / articles
On Native Bitcoin Apps, Open Source Communities, and What Happened Before Satoshi Nakamoto Vanished

Mike HearnSonal Chokshi
10.24.14 / articles
Beyond Bitcoin: The Blockchain

Chris DixonEd FeltenMatthew Green
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