This is the year the world came onchain.
When we launched our first State of Crypto report, the industry was still in its adolescence. The total crypto market was worth about half what it is today. Blockchains were much slower, more expensive, and le
Each year, the State of Crypto report from a16z crypto cuts through the noise and tracks crypto’s evolution across markets, technology, policy, and culture.
Now in its fourth edition, the 2025 State of Crypto report reveals how crypto has gone ma
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.