We are excited to announce that a16z crypto is expanding into Asia and opening our first office in Seoul, South Korea. As part of this, we’re thrilled to have SungMo Park join our team as Head of APAC go-to-market to lead the Seoul office and start
Timelines to a cryptographically relevant quantum computer are frequently overstated — leading to calls for urgent, wholesale transitions to post-quantum cryptography.
But these calls often overlook the costs and risks of premature migration, and i
The open source implementation of Jolt, the most performant zkVM to date, is based on a new design paradigm. Here, a16z crypto Research Partner Justin Thaler, explains some of the core concepts behind the technology: including, the sumcheck protocol, instruction sets, and curve-based commitment schemes.