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
Lasso and Jolt are two new technologies that represent a fundamentally different approach to SNARK design – one that is not only faster but potentially easier for developers to reason about and build on. In this presentation from the 2023 ZK Summit, Sam Ragsdale and Michael Zhu, members of the a16z crypto engineering team, walk through this new design with an eye toward helping engineers who would like to use it.