With growing activity and innovation around token-based network models, builders are wondering how to distinguish different types of tokens — and which might be the best choice for their business. At the same time, both consumers and policy makers
Pricing is a common conundrum for marketplace builders. Many marketplaces heavily subsidize user activity to bootstrap initial growth and liquidity — giving their product or service away for free (or at a steep discount). But that’s not sustainab
In this talk, Tim Roughgarden(head of research at a16z crypto), Scott Kominers(research partner), and Pranav Garimidi(research analyst) discuss incentives, market design and mechanism design within the infrastructure and application layers.