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Prediction markets are a hot topic again — even cartoon characters are talking about them (cf South Park). But beyond the buzz, what is a prediction market, exactly? How do they work, how are they designed, and what makes them work?
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Lasso is a new lookup argument that presents 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 the presentation a16z crypto research engineer Michael Zhu walks through a visual map of Lasso, from motivations to the details of Lasso itself.