Research

(80) Results
8.24.23 / articles
On the impossibility of stateless blockchains

Miranda ChristJoseph Bonneau
8.22.23 / articles
Introducing our summer '23 research seminars

Tim Roughgarden
8.10.23 / articles
Approaching the 'lookup singularity': Introducing Lasso and Jolt

Justin Thaler
8.10.23 / articles
Understanding Lasso and Jolt, from theory to code

Sam RagsdaleMichael ZhuJustin Thaler
7.12.23 / articles
17 misconceptions about SNARKs (and why they hold us back)

Justin Thaler
7.10.23 / articles
New paper alert: “Transaction Fee Mechanism Design with Active Block Producers”

Maryam BahraniPranav GarimidiTim Roughgarden
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
5.5.23 / podcasts
Of data availability & danksharding

Valeria NikolaenkoDan BonehRobert Hackett
4.27.23 / articles
Data availability sampling and danksharding: An overview and a proposal for improvements

Valeria NikolaenkoDan Boneh
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
3.3.23 / videos
Credible Auctions: A Trilemma

Mohammad Akbarpour
2.10.23 / videos
Cryptoeconomic Security for Data Availability Committees

Ertem Nusret Tas
2.3.23 / videos
Scaling Avalanche with Subnets and Specialized VMs

Patrick O’Grady
1.31.23 / articles
Consensus Canon

Andrew Lewis-Pye
1.27.23 / videos
Consensus Based on Proofs of Space and Time

Bram Cohen
1.25.23 / articles
The cryptoeconomics of slashing

Sreeram KannanSoubhik Deb
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 / videos
The Value of Decentralization Using the Blockchain: An Economic Analysis

Marco Reuter
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
1.6.23 / videos
Foundations of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design

Elaine Shi
12.16.22 / videos
Twilight: A Differentially Private Payment Channel Network

Saar Tochner
12.16.22 / videos
Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Dynamic Participation

Ling Ren
12.14.22 / articles
Asiacrypt ‘22: Field Notes

Joseph Bonneau
12.9.22 / videos
Blockchain Incentives and Authentication

Ittay Eyal
12.9.22 / videos
He-HTLC: Revisiting Incentives in Hashed Time-Locked Contracts

Kartik Nayak
12.5.22 / articles
Theory of Cryptography Conference ‘22: Field Notes

Miranda Christ
12.2.22 / videos
The Economics of Cryptocurrency Mining

Aviv Zohar
12.2.22 / videos
Multi-Dimensional Blockchain Resource Pricing

Abdou Ndiaye
11.30.22 / articles
Leader Election from Randomness Beacons and Other Strategies

Miranda ChristValeria NikolaenkoJoseph Bonneau
11.18.22 / videos
SNARK Design Part III

Justin Thaler
11.18.22 / videos
De-Anonymization in Bitcoin

Sarah Meiklejohn
11.18.22 / articles
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2022: Field Notes 

Valeria Nikolaenko
11.8.22 / articles
Paying People to Participate in Governance

Ethan Bueno de MesquitaAndrew Hall
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
10.28.22 / videos
Arbitrage Extractable Value

Anthony Lee Zhang
10.28.22 / videos
Liquidity Provision and Automated Market Making

Ciamac Moallemi
10.21.22 / videos
The Blocklace: A Partially-Ordered Generalization of the Blockchain

Ehud Shapiro
10.18.22 / articles
Public Randomness and Randomness Beacons

Joseph BonneauValeria Nikolaenko
10.14.22 / videos
DAG Meets BFT: The Next Generation of BFT Consensus

Alexander Spiegelman
10.14.22 / videos
Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG)-Based Consensus Protocols: An Introduction

Andrew Lewis-Pye
10.7.22 / videos
Introduction to Consensus (Part II)

Andrew Lewis-Pye
10.7.22 / videos
Introduction to Consensus (Part I)

Andrew Lewis-Pye
10.7.22 / articles
On Paper to On-Chain: How Auction Theory Informs Implementations

Michael Zhu
9.19.22 / articles
LVR: Quantifying the Cost of Providing Liquidity to Automated Market Makers

Jason MilionisCiamac MoallemiTim RoughgardenAnthony Lee Zhang
9.16.22 / videos
Introduction to Validating Bridges and Layer-2 Protocols

Patrick McCorry
9.16.22 / articles
Zero Knowledge Canon, part 1 & 2

Elena BurgerBryan ChiangSonal ChokshiEddy LazzarinJustin ThalerAli Yahya
9.13.22 / articles
SNARK Security and Performance

Justin Thaler
9.12.22 / podcasts
Ethereum, Merge and Beyond

Tim BeikoTim RoughgardenAli YahyaSonal Chokshi
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
9.9.22 / videos
Mechanisms to Infer the Wisdom of the Crowd

Mallesh M. Pai
9.9.22 / videos
How to Build Robust Payment Channel Networks

Zeta Avarikioti
9.2.22 / videos
Bringing Decentralized Governance to Tech Platforms

Andrew Hall
9.2.22 / videos
The Evolution of Decentralized Governance

Andrew Hall
8.29.22 / podcasts
PoS Blockchains - Designs, Consensus, Attacks

Valeria NikolaenkoTim RoughgardenSonal Chokshi
8.26.22 / videos
Anonymous Credentials and Decentralizing ID Systems

Foteini Baldimtsi
8.22.22 / videos
Digital Signatures for web3

Foteini Baldimtsi
8.18.22 / videos
SNARK Design, Part II

Justin Thaler
8.18.22 / videos
SNARK Design, Part I

Justin Thaler
8.13.22 / videos
Long-range Attacks on Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Blockchains

Valeria Nikolaenko
8.13.22 / videos
A Survey of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Blockchain Designs

Valeria Nikolaenko
8.11.22 / articles
Measuring SNARK performance: Frontends, backends, and the future

Justin Thaler
8.8.22 / articles
Why blockchain performance is hard to measure

Joseph Bonneau
8.6.22 / podcasts
Top Tech Topics, Explained

Tim RoughgardenJoseph BonneauScott Duke KominersAli YahyaChris Dixon
8.6.22 / videos
An Evolution of Models for Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Sarah Meiklejohn
8.6.22 / videos
EigenLayr: Permissionless Feature Addition to Ethereum

Sreeram Kannan
7.30.22 / videos
Introduction to Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs)

Joseph Bonneau
7.30.22 / videos
Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms

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

Pranav GarimidiScott Duke KominersTim Roughgarden
6.29.22 / articles
Lightspeed Democracy: What web3 organizations can learn from the history of governance

Andrew HallPorter Smith
6.14.22 / podcasts
Auction Design for web3

Scott Duke KominersTim RoughgardenSonal Chokshi
6.2.22 / articles
Cryptoeconomics - an excerpt

a16z crypto editorial
9.30.21 / articles
A Novel Framework for Reputation-Based Systems

Jad EsberScott Duke Kominers
11.8.19 / articles
Crypto Glossary: Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain

Alex PrudenSonal Chokshi
11.24.17 / articles
Field Notes: Devcon3 — Ethereum Developer’s Conference

Michael Wee
explore
clear filters
Focus Areas
Formats
Popular Tags
All Tags
podcast: web3 with a16z

A show about building the next internet, from a16z crypto

Any investments or portfolio companies mentioned, referred to, or described on this page are not representative of all investments in vehicles managed by a16z and there can be no assurance that the investments will be profitable or that other investments made in the future will have similar characteristics or results. Exits include current and former a16z portfolio companies which have been acquired as well as companies which have undergone an initial public offering or direct public offering of shares. Certain publicly traded companies on this list may still be held in Andreessen Horowitz funds. A list of investments made by funds managed by a16z is available here: https://a16z.com/investments/. Excluded from this list are investments for which the issuer has not provided permission for a16z to disclose publicly as well as unannounced investments in publicly traded digital assets. Further, the list of investments is updated monthly and as such may not reflect most recent a16z investments. Past results of Andreessen Horowitz’s investments, pooled investment vehicles, or investment strategies are not necessarily indicative of future results.

© 2023 Andreessen Horowitz WTUVKUCXZLYAD
GGCMUGJX