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
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.