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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.