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 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.