#  @a16zcrypto a16z crypto a16z crypto posts on YouTube about crypto, blockchain, investment, business the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/youtube::UCTHq3W46BiAYjKUYZq2qm-Q/interactions)  - [--] Week [-----] -67% - [--] Month [------] +252% - [--] Months [-------] +221% - [--] Year [-------] +55% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/youtube::UCTHq3W46BiAYjKUYZq2qm-Q/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +50% - [--] Month [--] -12% - [--] Months [---] +6.90% - [--] Year [---] +51% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/youtube::UCTHq3W46BiAYjKUYZq2qm-Q/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.48% - [--] Month [------] +3.50% - [--] Months [------] +15% - [--] Year [------] +25% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/youtube::UCTHq3W46BiAYjKUYZq2qm-Q/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [vc firms](/list/vc-firms) #48 [finance](/list/finance) 58.16% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) 29.79% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 10.64% [stocks](/list/stocks) 7.8% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 7.8% [exchanges](/list/exchanges) 4.96% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 3.55% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) 2.13% [nfts](/list/nfts) 2.13% **Social topic influence** [crypto](/topic/crypto) #4076, [blockchain](/topic/blockchain) 22.7%, [investment](/topic/investment) 17.02%, [business](/topic/business) 14.89%, [ceo](/topic/ceo) #3542, [decentralized](/topic/decentralized) 11.35%, [stablecoins](/topic/stablecoins) #761, [web3](/topic/web3) 8.51%, [bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) 7.8%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 7.8% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@smc90](/creator/undefined) [@rhackett](/creator/undefined) [@stephbzinn](/creator/undefined) [@timorg](/creator/undefined) [@stonecoldpat0](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [USDC (USDC)](/topic/usdc) [Coinbase Global Inc. (COIN)](/topic/coinbase) [Solana (SOL)](/topic/solana) [Layerzero (ZRO)](/topic/layerzero) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "From Eater to Blackbird: Ben Leventhal on Restaurants Loyalty and Rebuilding Payments Restaurants generated more than a trillion dollars in sales last year but they dont control the payment rails those dollars flow through. In this episode Ben Leventhal (founder of Eater Resy and now Blackbird) joins show host Robert Hackett to explain why thats a problem how loyalty and payments have failed independent restaurants and where crypto fits into fixing it. Ben breaks down: - Why most restaurant tech misses the point - How Blackbird uses crypto without making restaurants think about crypto - What" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8h2MrgthJlg) 2026-02-11T11:00Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "From Oculus to Anduril: Palmer Luckey on Power Technology and the Future In this special 100th episode Chris Dixon sits down with Palmer Luckey founder of Anduril founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of technology geopolitics and building. Recorded live at our Founders Summit the discussion explores what it really takes to build hardware at scale where todays biggest technological bottlenecks lie and why optimism about the future is still warranted despite geopolitical turmoil regulatory constraints and other barriers to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qxPE7dvjVOk) 2026-01-23T17:14Z 20.8K followers, 39.8K engagements "Crypto x restaurants Eater Resy and Blackbird founder on getting restaurants onchain Why 3x founder Ben Leventhal (founder of Eater Resy and now Blackbird) wants to get restaurants onchain. Follow a16z crypto for more. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7pMZvsNXEnb0CYcPiDQywE Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/web3-with-a16z-crypto/id1622312549 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@a16zcrypto 📩 Subscribe for more industry reports trend updates news analysis builder guides and other" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6u7Am4m7Ppg) 2026-02-11T17:24Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "Cryptos Killer App Why Everyones Really Into Stablecoins Right Now What if payments worked like email instant global and free In this episode of web3 with a16z crypto a16z crypto Founder Chris Dixon and Deal Partner Sam Broner dive deep into into the sudden rise of stablecoins with host Robert Hackett. They unpack: - Why stablecoins are exploding in volume outpacing even Visa - How traditional payment systems extract hidden fees from consumers and businesses - Why stablecoins could be the email protocol for money - What regulation needs to unlock mainstream adoption - The overlooked" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BRKxLO0LAy0) 2025-05-23T17:29Z 20.8K followers, 10.6K engagements "What not to call stablecoins Stablecoin use cases and what not to call them with Sean Neville (cofounder of Circle and co-creator of USDC now CEO of Catena) and Zach Abrams (cofounder of Bridge now part of Stripe). 📩 Subscribe for more industry reports trend updates news analysis builder guides and other resources: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subscribe/ 🎙 Like subscribe comment share the show: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/podcast/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AtGOLdH_uhc) 2025-12-17T23:14Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "Why Open Networks Winwith Christian Catalini After working on one of the most ambitious corporate-backed digital currency projects at Facebook Christian Catalini has strong views on how money should move. Christian is the cofounder and chief strategy officer of the global payments startup Lightspark and a former architect of Metas shuttered Libra project one of the most ambitious attempts to create a corporate-backed digital currency. In this episode we explore Bitcoin as infrastructure lessons from building blockchains at a tech giant and the case for open financial networks. - why Bitcoin" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DdC0_cHqdvM) 2026-01-14T19:27Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson on Stablecoins Bitcoin and Innovation Bets Every traditional financial institution faces the same dilemma: evolve or fall behind build or buy. But when safety predictability and trust is paramount how do traditional finance companies innovate How do they place their innovation bets and decide what to explore and not to explore Fidelity Chairman and CEO Abigail P. Johnson shares an inside look into Fidelitys decade of crypto experimentation -- from early Bitcoin mining to building foundational custody infrastructure to stablecoins and much more. Johnson shares how" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=M0S816O3y5g) 2025-12-04T22:45Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "From Wallets to Super Apps: The Internet's New Interface (with Phantom CEO) Crypto wallets are no longer just wallets. Theyre the front door to a decentralized internet. In this episode Phantom CEO Brandon Millman joins a16z crypto Investment Partner Jay Drain and host Robert Hackett to unpack how crypto wallets are evolving into full-blown consumer finance platforms and why they may be the most credible candidates to become the internet's next super apps. We explore Phantoms journey from a Solana-first wallet to a multi-chain platform why wallets are uniquely positioned to win trust around" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TF4784FRuUs) 2025-12-19T20:13Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "How the dollar went bottom-up (with LayerZero's Bryan Pellegrino) Bryan Pellegrino cofounder and CEO of LayerZero on the structural shift happening in money right now Follow a16z crypto for more. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ Substack: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subscribe/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cPfcWkxWFzA) 2026-02-13T20:42Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "How Stablecoins Will Eat Payments Stablecoins are transforming how money moves. In this talk a16z crypto's Sam Broner breaks down why stablecoins matter how they work and why they could unlock billions in value for both small businesses and Fortune [---] retailers. Sam explains the three major types of stablecoins why fiat-reserve stablecoins dominate today and how programmable low-cost payments open entirely new business models. He also walks through real examplesfrom coffee shops to Kroger Walmart Chipotle and global B2B supply chains. Whether you're building fintech infrastructure AI agents" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=oy16iHKcys4) 2025-12-09T18:50Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "Building PROOF: A conversation with Kevin Rose and Chris Dixon a16z crypto founding partner Chris Dixon sits down with Kevin Rose long-time entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of PROOF the web3 collective behind NFT project Moonbirds. The conversation covers Kevins path to building in crypto growing and involving a passionate community and navigating downturns. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments. More from: - Crypto Startup" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qj1oNgL99l4) 2023-08-03T00:11Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Books That Defined Our Year with @smc90 @rhackett @stephbzinn @Tim_Org In a now-annual tradition the a16z crypto editorial team discuss themes (and picks) from a16z crypto'slatest reading lists as well as books we keep re-reading childhood favorites classics adaptations on adaptations in book and movie form and much more. We cover: What genres are we reading now how and why How is technology from AI and ChatGPT to the internet and audio changing reading Why are certain themes in the zeitgeist right now Is all non-fiction just fiction now (and should we lean into this for education) Are" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sqYQVCvyPaY) 2025-12-23T19:37Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "The Obsession That Destroys Startups (with LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino) In this episode we talk about one of the most destructive mental traps founders can fall into and how to avoid it. Host Robert Hackett sits down with Bryan Pellegrino cofounder and CEO of LayerZero one of the core infrastructure projects that enables blockchains to talk to one another. We cover why crypto went multichain how its competing with legacy financial systems and a firsthand lesson from Elon Musk. Highlights 0:00 Introduction 0:47 The need for interoperability 1:04 How crypto went multichain 2:51 The" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vRa39DPXrxM) 2026-01-07T23:14Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "A Constitution in the Sky with Andrew Hall a16z crypto Research Series As new technology platforms and artificial intelligence reshape how billions of people all over the globe interact learn and make decisions an ancient question takes on new urgency: How can humanity stay in control of its own destiny The tools we created to enable collective decision-making and check concentrated power property rights courts legislatures elections were built for a physical world. Now as our lives move increasingly online some of the most consequential choices affecting society are made not by politicians" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-tMbCZ2L1Kg) 2025-12-13T16:17Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "How Stablecoins Won: Bridge Co-Founder & USDC Co-Creator Share the Story Behind Crypto's Killer App The real story behind the rise of stablecoins as told by Sean Neville (cofounder of Circle and co-creator of USDC now CEO of Catena) and Zach Abrams (co-founder of Bridge now part of Stripe). They share lessons on finding product-market fit surviving early chaos and building financial infrastructure that can scale. They also explore the earliest days of USDC when stablecoins were far from obvious and regulatory frameworks didnt exist. Sean shares how his conviction in money running at internet" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2y4i6yqcorI) 2025-12-10T22:03Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "Granular Synchrony: A New Network Timing Model for Distributed Computing with Ling Ren Today's mainstream network timing models for distributed computing are synchrony partial synchrony and asynchrony. These models are coarse grained and often make either too strong or too weak assumptions about the network. In this talk Ling Ren (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) introduces a new network timing model called granular synchrony that models the network as a mixture of synchronous partially synchronous and asynchronous communication links. The new model is not only theoretically" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4nqn5h3rrqM) 2025-10-29T20:10Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "Investing in DePIN: From Protocols to Power Plants a16z crypto general partner Guy Wuollet explores the next major shift in infrastructure from centralized monopoly-run systems to user-owned decentralized physical networks. Drawing on real-world examples across telecom energy transportation AI compute and data Guy explains why traditional models are failing and how new network designs are reshaping the physical world. He also covers: - Why centralized infrastructure struggles with scale incentives and innovation - How decentralized networks unlock unused physical resources - The rise of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9MUXZYAKoOs) 2026-01-29T21:36Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "Quantum attacks: When and how When should blockchains start working about quantum attacks a16z crypto general partner Ali Yahya explains the timelines for quantum computing and what they mean for startup founders. Follow a16z crypto for more. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ Substack: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subscribe/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9sTcPnfInZ8) 2026-02-10T00:19Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "How good does VR have to be for everyone to use it Palmer Luckey founder of Anduril founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift on the future of VR. Follow a16z crypto for more: X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@a16zcrypto Subscribe for industry reports trend analysis builder guides and more: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subscribe/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=D9cPnGWNkog) 2026-01-24T22:01Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "Stablecoins: The future of money Zach Abrams cofounder and CEO of Bridge (now part of Stripe) on stablecoins as the next evolution of fintech much like credit cards were decades ago and why were still in the early innings. Follow a16z crypto for more. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7pMZvsNXEnb0CYcPiDQywE Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/web3-with-a16z-crypto/id1622312549 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@a16zcrypto 📩 Subscribe for more industry reports trend updates news" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HYGqCvMBcGg) 2026-02-04T19:29Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "How DePIN Turns Protocols Into Power Plants What if our most important services basic Internet connectivity electricity and access to water were owned by users not companies In this talk a16z crypto general partner Guy Wuollet explains decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) and why they may be one of the most important use cases for crypto. Resources: Find Guy on X: https://x.com/guywuolletjr Why DePIN matters and how to make it work: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/listicles/why-depin-matters/ Follow a16z crypto across. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: / posts Youtube: /" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IuE331PJczc) 2026-01-27T19:04Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "Building EigenLayer with Sreeram Kannan In this conversation moderated by a16z general partner Ali Yahya EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan breaks down how decentralized trust networks modular security and permissionless innovation are reshaping the crypto landscape. From Ethereums evolution to the role of actively validated services (AVSs) this deep dive covers the next frontier of blockchain scalability and coordination. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PXy7hC7wtZA) 2025-03-25T19:00Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "What are prediction markets Kalshi CEO explains 🔮 Kalshi Cofounder and CEO Tarek Mansour explains prediction markets and what this means for the future of finance and forecasting. Follow a16z crypto on. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7pMZvsN. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast. 📩 Subscribe for more industry reports trend updates news analysis builder guides and other resources: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subsc. 🎙 Like subscribe comment share the show: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/podcast/ *** As always none of the following should" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QcRqmCNqDhs) 2025-11-19T17:50Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "State of Crypto 2025: The Latest Data Trends and Themes Revealed Each year the State of Crypto report from a16z crypto cuts through the noise and tracks cryptos evolution across markets technology policy and culture. Now in its fourth edition the [----] State of Crypto report reveals how crypto has gone mainstream: from stablecoins and tokenized assets to institutional adoption by major financial players. In this episode we break down the key findings and trends from the report with: - Daren Matsuoka a16z cryptos Head of Data & Fund Strategy (lead author) - Eddy Lazzarin a16z cryptos CTO" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SFKJEQlrShY) 2025-10-22T16:24Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "Proofs of Useful Work from Arbitrary Matrix Multiplication with Omri Weinstein Omri Weinstein (Hebrew University) revisits the longstanding open problem of implementing Nakamotos proof-of-work (PoW) consensus using a real-world computational task T(x) (as opposed to artificial random hashing) in a truly permissionless setting where the miner itself chooses the input x. The core challenge in designing such a Proof-of-Useful-Work (PoUW) protocol is to use the native computation of T(x) to produce a PoW certificate with negligible overhead over T(x) ensuring malicious miners cannot game the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SWUG4qkJ7Iw) 2026-01-26T17:44Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "Bridge CEO Zach Abrams: Stablecoins Are The Next Platform for Money What happens when money moves 10x or 100x faster than it does today In this episode Zach Abrams cofounder and CEO of Bridge (now part of Stripe) lays out a bold vision for the future of money: a world where stablecoins become the dominant payment rail most transactions happen between non-human agents and entirely new financial infrastructure is required to keep up. Zach explains why stablecoins are the next evolution of fintech much like credit cards were decades ago and why were still in the early innings. We dig into" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SZ0gtjnwuu4) 2026-02-02T20:27Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "The future of oats is the future of everything Why is Palmer Luckey optimistic about the future In short: The present of oats is the future of everything. In this special 100th episode Chris Dixon sits down with Palmer Luckey founder of Anduril founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of technology geopolitics and building. Follow a16z crypto for more: X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@a16zcrypto Subscribe for industry reports trend analysis" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WTyVv3PpYRw) 2026-01-23T18:11Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "What is Jolt The simplest and most extensible zkVM explained. The simplest and most extensible zkVM explained by research partner and Jolt co-creator Justin Thaler. Jolt is a RISC-V zkVM uniquely designed around sumcheck and lookup arguments (Just One Lookup Table). Jolt is fast (state-of-the-art performance on CPU) and relatively simple (thanks to its lookup-centric architecture). Papers: Jolt: SNARKs for Virtual Machines via Lookups Arasu Arun Srinath Setty Justin Thaler https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1217 Twist and Shout: Faster memory checking arguments via one-hot addressing and increments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WxjOF1oPmNs) 2026-02-10T21:37Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "What is DePIN The Case for Decentralizing the Real World with Guy Wuollet What if our most important services basic Internet connectivity electricity and access to water were owned by users not companies In this talk a16z crypto general partner Guy Wuollet explains decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) and why they may be one of the most important use cases for crypto. Most people understand how blockchains decentralize digital services. But energy grids telecom networks transportation and other physical systems are controlled by centralized incumbents. DePIN flips that model" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=b3vndSjUSfY) 2026-01-09T19:36Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "Prediction Markets and Pricing the Future (with Kalshi CEO) In this episode of web3 with a16z crypto host Robert Hackett talks with Kalshi Cofounder and CEO Tarek Mansour about how prediction markets are enabling people to trade directly on real-world events from elections to inflation and what this means for the future of finance and forecasting. Tarek explains why prediction markets arent gambling how regulation has been central to Kalshis success and why the company is embracing crypto and stablecoins as key components of its international strategy. He also discusses lessons learned about" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bwZqqhFZmws) 2025-11-19T09:01Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "How to Prove False Statements: Practical Attacks on Fiat-Shamir The Fiat-Shamir (FS) transform is a prolific and powerful technique for compiling public-coin interactive protocols into non-interactive ones. Roughly speaking the idea is to replace the random coins of the verifier with the evaluations of a complex hash function. The FS transform is known to be sound in the random oracle model (i.e. when the hash function is modeled as a totally random function). However when instantiating the random oracle using a concrete hash function there are examples of protocols in which the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gOX30oemfLM) 2026-02-02T03:40Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "Why Privacy Will Be the Biggest Moat in Crypto Most blockchains are starting to look the same. So what actually creates defensibility in crypto a16z crypto General Partner Ali Yahya explains why privacy not performance will determine the long-term winners in crypto and how it creates powerful network effects. In conversation with a16z crypto show host Robert Hackett Ali lays out how privacy creates lock-in and winner-take-most dynamics without sacrificing decentralization. They also dive into the technologies making privacy possible today from zero-knowledge proofs to trusted execution" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gj_wFzWv5Fk) 2026-01-30T11:01Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "Blind Signatures with Georg Fuchsbauer a16z crypto Research Series Blind signatures first conceived for e-cash allow a user to obtain a signature on a message that is hidden from the signer. In this talk Georg Fuchsbauer (TU Wien) overviews central blind signature schemes and discusses potential applications in blockchain systems. About the presenter Georg is an associate professor at TU Wien the university of technology in Vienna Austria. He did his PhD supervised by David Pointcheval at ENS Paris to which he returned as an Inria researcher after postdocs at Bristol University UK and ISTA" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jgy1eof0cP0) 2025-11-17T16:53Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "Radical idea: How about a boring bank Palmer Luckey (founder of Anduril Industries and Oculus VR) talks about building a bank for companies that want to know their money will be there when they need it not a crypto bank" but a modern bank that supports stablecoin deposits and is designed to operate through uncertainty. *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=m4jOdJS0SG8) 2026-01-30T20:51Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "An Economic Model of the L1-L2 Interaction with Fahad Saleh a16z crypto Research Series Fahad Saleh (University of Florida) provides an economic model of the interaction between a Layer-1 (L1) blockchain and an associated Layer-2 (L2) showing that even when the L1 hosts value-generating decentralized applications (dApps) its onchain investment and cryptoasset market value can both converge to zero. These results arise because when transaction activity migrates to L2 onchain L1 investment (e.g. liquidity provision) endogenously follows the transaction activity to L2. A decline in L1 onchain" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mCTbvj6xSm0) 2026-01-26T17:44Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "The Problem with "Don't Be Evil" There are a lot of debates around ads access open vs. closed happening right now. But the question is *who* controls these networks. That's where decentralization comes in. Cant be evil beats dont be evil every time. a16z crypto general partner Ali Yahya defines decentralization: it's about moving unilateral control even when intentions are good. *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mvMeKkDGI8c) 2026-02-05T18:01Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "Rethinking Crypto Attacker Models with Mahimna Kelkar a16z crypto Research Series Blockchains operate in a radically new highly adversarial environment where subtle protocol flaws can be immediately monetized by anonymous actors. This fundamentally intertwines an assortment of fields cryptography distributed systems and mechanism design among many others. As a consequence blockchain security can no longer be thought of from a single lens. In this talk Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell University) shows how attackers can erode security through the very same tools typically used to build secure" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ncp3VYC_8ow) 2026-02-02T03:40Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "Building Secure Distributed Computing Systems for Blockchains Over Blockchains with Aniket Kate Traditionally secure distributed computing (SDC) systems have been developed in standalone communication settings such as synchronous partially synchronous and asynchronous point-to-point networks. In this talk Aniket Kate (Purdue University) explores some key SDC primitives tailored for blockchain environments from both theoretical and systems perspectives. He highlights how the blockchains built-in consensus (aka state machine replication) can be harnessed to enhance SDC protocols. Specifically" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=q9Ap8tPbCV8) 2025-12-07T17:27Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "Alpenglow: Solana's New Consensus with Roger Wattenhofer a16z crypto Research Series What should a modern blockchain protocol look like In this talk Roger Wattenhofer (Anza and ETH Zurich) discusses Alpenglow Solanas new consensus protocol. Alpenglow features some interesting innovations such as its voting protocol resulting in a fast finalization latency. Alpenglow achieves a low latency by finalizing blocks in a single round of voting if 80% of the stake is participating and in two rounds if only 60% of the stake is responsive. Alpenglow's 20+20 resilience allows the protocol to operate" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uTKRjXyFylA) 2025-11-03T16:47Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "What's stopping crypto a16z crypto General Partner Ali Yahya on why crypto needs privacy to reach more people starting with why users tolerate surveillance in social media but not in finance. Follow a16z crypto for more. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ 📩 Subscribe for more industry reports trend updates news analysis builder guides and other resources: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subscribe/ 🎙 Like subscribe comment share the show: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/podcast/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uaHX5NU1nXE) 2026-02-02T18:06Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "The Transaction Supply Chain for High Performance L1s with Pranav Garimidi In this talk we discuss the transaction supply chain in detail for high performance chains. We use Solana and Aptos as case studies to consider the unique challenges that come with scale and discuss the different space of solutions that have been used along with the outstanding problems. Pranav Garimidi is a research analyst at a16z crypto. He does research on problems in mechanism design and algorithmic game theory as it relates to blockchain systems. He is especially focused on how incentives interact across the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xOzNAn5jzUg) 2025-12-07T17:27Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "From Creative Process to Outcomes Uniswap founder Hayden Adams and multimedia artist KidSuper come together for a dynamic conversation on creativity branding and the intersection of crypto and culture. From Uniswaps iconic airdrops to groundbreaking fashion moments at Paris Fashion Week they explore how experimentation risk-taking and storytelling drive innovation. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=87f1-TqTAJ8) 2025-02-15T17:52Z 16.8K followers, [---] engagements "ep [--] Financial Freedom Company Building More This wide-ranging conversation covers company building big to small -- including what cadence and when is the right "time" to ship; the relationship between centralization decentralization platforms and financial freedom; moving from web2 to web3 in both crypto AND payments. as well as why bitcoin views on remote work and much much more. Our guest is David Marcus CEO and co-founder of Lightspark; Marcus was also a co-creator of Diem (aka Libra and Novi the cryptocurrency project initiated by Facebook). Before that he was vice president of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8_z6fkB_mAE) 2023-09-10T17:54Z 18.9K followers, [---] engagements "Post-Quantum Single Secret Leader Election with Dan Boneh a16z crypto research In a Single Secret Leader Election (SSLE) a group of participants aims to randomly choose one leader from the group with the restriction that the identity of the leader will be known only to the chosen leader. At a later time the elected leader should be able to publicly reveal their identity and prove that they have won the election. The election process itself should work properly even if many registered users are passive. Among the many applications of SSLEs they have the potential to enable more efficient" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8caTi0JNGYA) 2023-08-29T20:59Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "Why Uniswap chose unicorns What's in a name CEO Hayden Adams shares the backstory of the unicorn art in Uniswaps branding. For more on the power of creativity brand industry jargon and making technology not just more broadly available but more culturally and socially understood check out the full discussion on @a16zcrypto between Hayden Adams founder and CEO of Uniswap Labs (and inventor of the Uniswap Protocol) and Colm Dillane the multimedia artist behind fashion darling KidSuper in conversation with Sonal Chokshi *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8inyHB8DS8k) 2025-11-15T00:10Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Year Crypto Grew Up: A Data Scientist's Take on Crypto Trends This is the year the world came onchain. Head of Data and Fund Strategy at a16z Daren Matsuoka shares the data driving the crypto industry. 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 less reliable. In the last three years crypto builders weathered a major market drawdown and political uncertainty but continued to make significant infrastructure improvements and other" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Azc5UP5RcCg) 2025-10-27T21:52Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "Bringing Decentralized Governance to Tech Platforms with Andrew Hall a16z crypto research talks An overview of tech platforms and how a lack of social legitimacy can erode growth. Andrew Hall (Stanford Graduate School of Business) addresses how platforms can create governance systems in ways that people believe are fair and legitimate while getting more and better output and content from developers creators sellers and other platform producers. Andy offers a political economy perspective on the governance failures inherent in web2 platform structures proposes some ideas for how these" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CWaGciMkDWA) 2022-09-02T16:43Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements "Tackling Pain-Points with Optimistic Rollups with Jeremy Clark a16z crypto research Optimistic rollups like Arbitrum and Optimism are in wide use today as an opt-in scalability overlay (L2s) for blockchains like Ethereum. Two practical pain-points exist for users of optimistic rollups: [--]. withdrawing ETH takes [--] days (a "withdrawal window") to allow disputes before finalizing and [--]. withdrawing ETH to L1 requires the user to first have ETH on L1 to pay gas fees. Here Jeremy Clark (Concordia) proposes methods for sidestepping those pain-points. His solution involves making withdrawals" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cf-DVsKOLko) 2023-09-12T19:58Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "No idea works on the first try #shorts Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on the misconception that successful companies are overnight successes. Behind the scenes are years of hard work and a few moments where a reasonable person might have given up" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DBTc1Bo2TwY) 2023-05-20T16:06Z 19.3K followers, [----] engagements "The Economics of Cryptocurrency Mining with Aviv Zohar a16z crypto research talks Mining which stands at the center of cryptocurrency protocols is understood well from a security standpoint but stands on less firm ground from the perspective of economic incentives. Aviv Zohar (Hebrew University) discusses several recent results on the economics of mining protocols including some recently discovered manipulations that miners can perform as well as recent attempts at formalizing the behavior of miners from a financial perspective. He presents work here on proof-of-work mining as option pricing;" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DDZvgoXtwow) 2022-12-02T19:18Z 18.9K followers, [----] engagements "Building Dapper Labs Roham Gharegozlou We sat down with Roham Gharegozlou the CEO of Dapper Labs the web3 company behind CryptoKitties NBA Top Shot the Flow blockchain and more to distill years of experience within crypto and beyond. The conversation covers building the right brand partnerships sorting signal from noise when finding product-market fit and opportunities in web3 user and developer experience. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G6jTJARneS4) 2023-07-14T17:05Z 18.8K followers, [----] engagements "Arbitrage Extractable Value with Anthony Lee Zhang a16z crypto research talks Liquidity Providers (LPs) for Automated Market Makers (AMMs) suffer from impermanent loss - yet no definition of impermanent loss exists that allows it to be quantified precisely. In this presentation Anthony Lee Zhang (University of Chicago) proposes to define the loss from AMM liquidity provision as Arbitrage Extractable Value (AEV). AEV is equal to the slippage incurred by AMM LPs from trading at prices worse than centralized exchange prices. AEV is equal to the profits arbitrageurs make from AMM-CEX arbitrage." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G8qxxlqvMBk) 2022-10-28T14:01Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "Founder talk with Dan Romero Co-founder & CEO of Farcaster A chat between Farcaster co-founder and CEO Dan Romero and a16z crypto CTO Eddy Lazzarin. Their conversation hosted for founders at the [----] Crypto Startup School covers Dans principles for building the importance of testing and talking with users the reasons for not prematurely optimizing cultivating community and more. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments. More from: -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GG9p6yn9jq4) 2023-05-19T16:37Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "An Evolution of Models for Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Sarah Meiklejohn a16z crypto research talks A review of zero-knowledge proofs where Sarah Meiklejohn (University College London Google) looks at the applications that are driving their development the different models that have emerged to capture these new interactions the constructions that we can achieve and the work left to do. About the speaker Sarah is a Professor in Cryptography and Security at University College London (UCL) and a Staff Research Scientist at Google. She is also an Associate Director of the Initiative for" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HO97kVMI3SE) 2022-08-06T13:04Z 18.9K followers, [----] engagements "web3 Go-to-Market Frameworks & Dealmaking Join a16z crypto go-to-market experts Maggie Hsu and Pyrs Carvolth as they dive into the key differences between web3 and web2 go-to-market strategies. Discover insights on navigating complex deal negotiations establishing your market presence and unlocking opportunities in the rapidly evolving world of web3. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HkbG60EX0Ww) 2025-01-28T22:00Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements "Automated Market Making and Arbitrage Profits in the Presence of Fees Ciamac Moallemi a16z crypto Trading fees and discrete block generation affect the maximal extracted value (MEV) generated by arbitrageurs trading against an automated marker marker (AMM) or equivalently on the adverse selection incurred by liquidity providers (LPs) due to DEX-CEX arbitrage. Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia) starts by reintroducing the idea of loss-versus-rebalancing (LVR) which quantifies the loss to arbitrageurs in an idealized continuous-time setting with no trading fees. Trading fees and discrete blocks however" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hth4P4tMVnY) 2023-09-21T15:23Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements "What are stablecoins used for Because stablecoins are programmable developers can use them as substrate to build on they have a lot of uses from settling crypto transactions to remittances to *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IQAngnUwMKc) 2025-11-13T17:30Z 19.3K followers, [----] engagements "Crafting virtual worlds with Hilmar Ptursson Hilmar Ptursson has been leading CCP Games for over [--] decades. Under Hilmars management CCPs critically acclaimed science-fiction game EVE Online celebrated an unprecedented ten consecutive years of subscriber growth. Join us for this talk moderated by a16z crypto CTO Eddy Lazzarin to hear about why CCP Games is embracing crypto Hilmar's thoughts about different gaming economies the science/formula to making friends and more As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=J-4e3ziF4rI) 2024-07-26T16:57Z 19.3K followers, [---] engagements "Go-to-market in web3 Maggie Hsu & Pyrs Carvolth An overview of go-to-market strategies for web3 startups from building a plan to cultivating great partnerships and reaching new audiences. In this talk Maggie Hsu and Pyrs Carvolth (a16z crypto go-to-market team) cover defining a target market setting a price crafting messaging and using go-to-market tactics to not only launch your products but also improve them.They also cover how what changes when moving from web2 to web3. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K-dVAnY7qW4) 2023-07-21T19:55Z 19K followers, [----] engagements "Journey to jumpstart: from Meerkat to Houseparty to a crypto-native social network with Ben Rubin Ben Rubin the CEO and cofounder of Here Not There Labs (HNT) is a serial entrepreneur working to reshape communication tools and social trends. This conversation moderated by Jason Rosenthal head of CSX at a16z crypto covers Bens journey of building Meerkat Houseparty and now HNT as well as his unique perspective on creating company culture and the path to finding product-market fit. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LZzV1R0kZJQ) 2024-05-10T13:06Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements "Lasso in a Nutshell with Justin Thaler a16z crypto A quick overview of Lasso -- a fundamentally new approach to SNARK design based. Together with Jolt a new SNARK frontend Jolt improves on other widely deployed tool chains by an order of magnitude or more and promises further performance improvements in the future. About the speaker Justin is Research Partner at a16z and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University. His research interests include verifiable computing complexity theory and algorithms for massive data sets. In [----] he produced the first" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=M6zj96dD2Zc) 2023-08-10T14:59Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "How the U.S. Got Its First Real Crypto Rules (GENIUS Act for Stablecoins) Today we're talking about the passage of the GENIUS Act that's the "Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act" which provides clear rules of the road for stablecoins in the U.S. We cover the law's implications the recent high-stakes vote in the House of Representatives and the bipartisan efforts to pass this groundbreaking bill. We also touch on the CLARITY Act a major new market structure bill that would establish a clear regulatory framework for digital asset markets which the House also" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MBmnrNUqlP4) 2025-07-22T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "Brian Brooks: Token Securities Framework and Launching a Network The final week of a16zs Crypto Startup School kicks off with former Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Brian Brooks discussing Token Securities Frameworks and Launching a Network. Brooks starts off calling crypto the most perfect intersection of tech and finance but he cautions that crypto builders must navigate traditional financial-services regulatory structures. This takes on special importance because tokens the native assets of crypto networks can be deemed securities by regulators making them illegal to list on exchanges and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MSOFrra-LxQ) 2023-03-01T17:33Z 19K followers, [---] engagements "Does your blockchain need multidimensional fees with Noam Nisan a16z crypto research talks The design of a transaction fee mechanism for a Blockchain starts with the question of specifying exactly the resources that the transactions compete over and need to pay for. While having a single gas' measure that aggregates all resources into a single dimension is simple and convenient its worth considering different resources separately leading to so-called multidimensional fees. Noam Nisan (Hebrew University) begins by making the distinction between easy dimensions of fees that do not represent" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MdNBbRpEiFw) 2024-10-11T15:06Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "Sharing the triumphs trials and invaluable lessons of being a founder with Shane Mac Join Shane Mac cofounder of XMTP Labs as he shares his journey in building the DM layer of the internet. Shane is also the cofounder of Squared Away an initiative to employ military spouses as executive assistants. Previously Shane was the CEO & cofounder of Assist where he spent nine years developing a business messaging & AI platform with partners like Amazon Google Facebook Apple and Twitter. In this talk moderated by a16z crypto go-to-market partner Pyrs Carvolth Shane discusses his experiences as a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=N-uEbtPUGoM) 2024-06-21T21:21Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "DAG Meets BFT: The Next Generation of BFT Consensus with Alexander Spiegelman a16z crypto research An overview of recent developments in the theory and practice of directed acyclic graph (DAG) based Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus. Alexander Spiegelman (Aptos) discusses how the Narwhal protocol decouples data from meta to build a highly efficient DAG. Sasha then explains how the protocol can locally (with zero communication overhead) totally order the nodes of the DAG by using DAG-Rider/Tusk/Bullshark. About the speaker Alexander (Sasha) obtained his PhD from the Technion in 2018" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NGOXVSFzYdI) 2022-10-14T16:25Z 19.4K followers, [----] engagements "Shoal: Improving DAG-BFT Latency and Robustness with Alexander Spiegelman a16z crypto research The Narwhal system is a state-of-the-art Byzantine fault-tolerant scalable architecture that involves constructing a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of messages among a set of validators in a Blockchain network. Bullshark is a zero-overhead consensus protocol on top of the Narwhal's DAG that can order over [------] transactions per second. Unfortunately the high throughput of Bullshark comes with a latency price because of the DAG construction increasing the latency compared to the state-of-the-art" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ne0opDqzn6Y) 2023-10-17T17:30Z 19.8K followers, [---] engagements "Proving as Fast as Computing - Part [--] with Ron Rothblum a16z crypto research Succinct arguments allow a prover to convince a verifier that a given statement is true using an extremely short proof. A major bottleneck and hence a major area of research has been the overhead incurred by the prover to prove correctness of the computation. In this talk Ron Rothblum (Technion) focuses on the setting of Boolean circuits and describes methods that allow one to prove correctness with nearly optimal asymptotic overhead. Based on joint works with Noga Ron-Zewi and Justin Holmgren. About the speaker Ron" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NmLjq4waNtw) 2023-08-29T20:59Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "LVR in a minute with Tim Roughgarden a16z crypto research In this explainer Tim Roughgarden head of research at a16z crypto presents a new way to think about the cost side of providing liquidity in an AMM which centers around a quantity called LVR (loss versus rebalancing pronounced lever). There are two types of participants in an automated market maker (AMM): traders who exchange one of the AMMs tokens for another (say ETH and USDC) and liquidity providers (LPs) who provide tokens to the AMM in the first place generally in exchange for a share of the trading fees. But to date it's been" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O7WoMeC0zow) 2024-03-15T15:22Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "The Explore-Exploit Dilemma: When to Try Something New vs. Stick With What Works From restaurant orders to building companies: why does the safest choice often lead to the worst outcomes Science journalist and former physicist Alex Hutchinson breaks down one of the most fundamental decisions we face every day: should we explore new options or exploit what we already know works Drawing from his book "The Explorer's Gene" Hutchinson explains the mathematics and psychology behind this dilemma and why being optimistic in the face of uncertainty leads to better outcomes and less regret. He covers:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OZfH9cLryD8) 2026-01-16T22:30Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "The Value of Decentralization Using the Blockchain with Marco Reuter a16z crypto research talks Although blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity no consensus has emerged about the value they bring if any to economic interactions. In this presentation Marco Reuter (economics Mannheim) argues that a fundamental value the blockchain provides is commitment. He develops a game theoretic model of an entrepreneur who can create a network for users. The entrepreneur can decide to retain control of the network with centralized implementation through a regular company or" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OaZSCmjW_GE) 2023-01-13T14:21Z 19K followers, [----] engagements "Launching and marketing your project Amanda Cassatt How is web2 marketing different from web3 Amanda Cassatt the founder and CEO of Serotonin a web3 marketing agency and product studio shares lessons and frameworks learned from bringing dozens of web3 products to market. Her talk covers opportunities pitfalls and recurring themes from traditional marketing strategies to building incentive-aligned communities. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=P3PdJY9KZS4) 2023-08-03T00:11Z 18.6K followers, 10.9K engagements "Scaling Avalanche with Subnets and Specialized VMs with Patrick OGrady a16z crypto research talks Patrick O'Grady (Ava Labs) presents Avalanche Subnets the Avalanche Network's technique for horizontally scaling its throughput with connected sovereign subnetworks. Patrick begins with an overview of Avalanche Consensus and explains how it enables the creation of a large number of subnetworks on a single network. He then discusses how Avalanche Subnets work and compares them to other blockchain scaling techniques. Patrick concludes the presentation with a preview of how Subnets may evolve. About" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PB2AjTx1BdY) 2023-02-03T15:30Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "How to solve the internets ID problem in a world of agents bots & deepfakes Generative AI is making it harder to tell real from fake from deepfakes to armies of bots shaping online discourse. As pretending to be human becomes cheap how do we keep the online world trustworthy safe and useful for people Enter "proof of humanity." This episode of web3 with a16z crypto explores how new cryptographic tools privacy-first networks and even hardware (like the Tools for Humanity Orb) aim to flip the economics back in favor of real humans. The result: raising the cost for bots while making human" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PWGZ9i9jqq4) 2025-08-18T20:10Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "Digital Signatures for web3 with Foteini Baldimtsi a16z crypto research talks A tutorial on the popular types of digital signatures used by blockchain systems including ECDSA Schnorr and BLS. Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University) discusses the security definitions and differences between different types of signatures such as multi-signatures threshold group ring and blind signatures as well as signature-related operations such as aggregation and pre-signing. About the speaker Foteini is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at George Mason University (GMU). Her" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PX7z1m3_F5g) 2022-08-26T15:07Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "Building Brands for Startups with Steven Ebert Ready to take your brand to the next level Join brand strategist Steven Ebert as he reveals the secrets to crafting a powerful brand narrative tailored for early-stage founders In this must-watch talk Steven breaks down: - How to create a brand story that captivates and inspires - Game-changing frameworks to elevate your brand - The essential questions every brand must answer Whether youre a founder or operator this session is packed with actionable insights to help you build a brand that stands out and connects with your audience. As a reminder" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7Q-w_6k-g) 2025-01-27T15:23Z 16.7K followers, [---] engagements "Interchain Timestamping for Interchain Security with David Tse a16z crypto research talks An overview of the optimal security a Proof-of-Stake chain can obtain from an existing blockchain using only succinct commitments. David Tse (Stanford) provides a complete solution based on the concept of interchain timestamping and applies it on two settings: First when the security producer is Bitcoin in which case its security is used to protect the Proof-of-Stake consumer chain from long-range attacks and transaction censorship; and second when the security producer is another Proof-of-Stake chain in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=R8SOyXLvxiA) 2023-04-07T15:58Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "Principles for web3 product design Ben Scharfstein (Co-founder & CEO Stelo) Web3 has introduced an entirely new set of user experience challenges from education and on-ramps to seed phrases and security that pose challenges to mass adoption. In this talk Ben Scharfstein (Co-founder & CEO Stelo) shares practical principles to help founders build simpler more powerful web3 products many of which he learned while designing tools that aim to protect people from critical security pitfalls in the web3 user experience. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RzBewZv2vOo) 2023-05-15T18:44Z 19.4K followers, [----] engagements "Inside Solana: Near-Death Brushes and a Need for Speed (with Solana) Solana Cofounder Anatoly Yakovenko joins a16z crypto General Partner Ali Yahya for a chat about the origin struggles and evolution of his ambitious blockchain project recorded live at our CSX Crypto Startup Accelerator earlier this year. From the technical revelations that powered Solanas breakthrough performance to the early days of grinding through [----] investor meetings Anatoly shares lessons from his journey as both an engineer and founder. You'll hear how quitting his job moving to SF and discovering "proof of history"" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=T8hT1CjlTqI) 2025-06-12T19:46Z 20.2K followers, [---] engagements "Local fee markets with Abdou Ndiaye a16z crypto research talks This talk studies transaction execution mechanisms (TEMs) for blockchains as the efficient resource allocation across multiple parallel execution queues or "local fee markets." Abdou Ndiaye (NYU) present a model considering capacity constraints user valuations and delay costs in a multi-queue system with an aggregate capacity constraint due to global consensus. He shows that revenue maximization tends to allocate capacity to the highest-paying queue while welfare maximization generally serves all queues. Optimal relative pricing" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UD_7Crtxy-k) 2024-10-25T22:25Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "Limits on Revocable Proof Systems with Miranda Christ a16z crypto research In traditional blockchains parties that validate transactions must store a large amount of information for Bitcoin for example this includes all unspent coins and requires several GB. For a cryptocurrency with enough throughput to support truly everyday transactions this storage cost would become prohibitive necessitating expensive hardware and limiting the number of validators posing a risk to decentralization. The more recently proposed stateless blockchain framework lessens the storage burden on validators by having" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UGcfTkZbjAw) 2023-08-24T14:54Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "Beyond ZK: Next Steps for Compliance and Constrained Encryption on Blockchains with Matthew D. Green Since Nakamoto introduced the original Bitcoin protocol a number of research works have sought to extend blockchains using advanced cryptographic technology. Much of this research has dealt with the use of (succinct) zero-knowledge to achieve privacy and scalability in blockchain protocols. Unfortunately ZK techniques have limits: they do not allow for the implementation of arbitrary computation functionalities where many parties have secret data. In this talk we introduce several novel" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UZDFhdYshcU) 2023-08-22T14:25Z 19K followers, [---] engagements "What's your biggest productivity hack Startup founders share their tricks for staying productive. These are a few snippets from a new series of founder interviews subscribe to follow along: - X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7pMZvsNXEnb0CYcPiDQywE - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/web3-with-a16z-crypto/id1622312549 - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@a16zcrypto *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VEi9QCZr3G0) 2026-01-06T20:22Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "Introduction to Validating Bridges and Layer-2 Protocols with Patrick McCorry a16z crypto research The evolution of L2 bridges which allow users to bridge assets from one blockchain network to another off-chain system. Patrick McCorry (Infura / Consensys) discusses the application of bridges as a scaling solution for Ethereum but also how they apply to operational security concerns of centralized and custodial exchanges on and off chain. Patrick covers the trust assumptions in the bridges bridge hacks trustless bridges and goes deep into validating bridges (rollups) - their properties" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VLWPl7PsPDQ) 2022-09-16T16:49Z 19.2K followers, [----] engagements "Introduction to Selfish Mining with Matt Weinberg a16z crypto research talks A tutorial on selfish mining a cryptocurrency mining strategy where one miner creates a new valid block and withholds it from the public blockchain creating a fork. Matt Weinberg (Princeton) introduces a formal game to capture the rewards that miners get by participating in Bitcoin. He also presents the seminal "Selfish Mining" attack which achieves strictly greater rewards in this game than following the Bitcoin protocol for sufficiently large miners. About the speaker Matt is an assistant professor in Computer" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VnxFJaMegYE) 2022-11-04T15:41Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "Marketing [---] for Startups: Token Launches Memes Reaching Devs & More A candid look at what works and what doesnt when it comes to building reputation and community attracting developers hiring teams launching tokens raising founder profiles and more on this episode of web3 with a16z crypto featuring marketing leaders from Aztec Optimism and a16z crypto. Our experts are: . Amanda Tyler who was most recently Head of Marketing at the Optimism Foundation (and was formerly at Polygon Coinbase and Google); . Claire Kart Chief Marketing Officer at Aztec (who previously was at Risc Zero and SoFi); ." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VqOpU2_ZPp0) 2025-05-29T18:56Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "Interactive Storytelling A Creator's Journey: 'Pleased [--] Meet U' with pplpleasr Multidisciplinary artist Emily Yang aka pplpleasr went from visual effects (her credits include feature films like Batman v Superman Wonder Woman Star Trek Beyond as well as commercials and game cinematics) to defining the look of the DeFi movement and creating Fortune magazines first NFT cover as well as other work and experiments along the way. Now the co-founder of decentralized content studio and creator platform Shibuya https://www.shibuya.xyz/ Yang recently shared her journey as a creator -- and the various" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WDFMZ9GYjDk) 2023-01-14T01:39Z 19.1K followers, [----] engagements "Protocol design: Why and how Eddy Lazzarin How can web3 builders design economically sustainable protocols that resist centralization a16z crypto CTO Eddy Lazzarin shares mental models best practices and guidelines for designing decentralized protocols that last. There are many different kinds of protocols out there. But we can unite them all from traffic diagrams to email and SMTP under one definition: They are all formal systems for interaction that facilitate complex group behaviors. When we introduce software to facilitate these interactions internet protocols end up being one of the most" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WGfS6pPJ5jo) 2023-05-05T14:58Z 19.2K followers, [----] engagements "Conversation on incentives with Tim Roughgarden Scott Kominers and Pranav Garimidi In this talk Tim Roughgarden(head of research at a16z crypto) Scott Kominers(research partner) and Pranav Garimidi(research analyst) discuss incentives market design and mechanism design within the infrastructure and application layers. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wa2LAD7YEiM) 2024-07-12T01:09Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms with Scott Duke Kominers a16z crypto research talks How marketplace designers can think about the tradeoffs between efficiency and equity. Many scarce public resources are allocated at below-market-clearing prices and sometimes for free. These ""non-market"" mechanisms sacrifice some surplus yet they can potentially improve equity. In this talk Scott Kominers (a16z crypto research Harvard Business School) presents a model of mechanism design with redistributive concerns with many applications. About the speaker Scott is the MBA Class of [----] Associate" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=X9Y12Pri_dI) 2022-07-30T17:00Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements "Foundations of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design with Elaine Shi a16z crypto research talks Cryptocurrencies today use auctions to decide which transactions get confirmed in the block yet classical auctions fail in such a decentralized environment because even the auctioneer can be a strategic player. Even the second-price auction a golden standard in classical mechanism design fails in the blockchain environment. In this talk Elaine Shi (Carnegie Mellon University) introduces a new foundation for mechanism design in a decentralized environment. She proves an impossibility result that rules" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XGf4-RNNoa0) 2023-01-06T18:12Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) for Blockchain Applications with Ari Juels a16z crypto Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are a powerful security tool and their functionality in principle subsumes that of a gamut of cryptographic primitives. Ari Juels (Cornell) discusses the use of TEEs in blockchain infrastructure focusing on block-building one of the first specific applications where hardware-based TEEs are taking hold. He presents Protected Order-Flow (PROF) a means of enforcing fair ordering of user transactions. PROF leverages TEEs and economic incentives to achieve an overlay" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xq7oWtiwWII) 2023-09-21T15:23Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "Scaling to stack with Jing Wang and Karl Floersch Jing Wang and Karl Floersch are the cofounders of Optimism a blockchain-based protocol that enables developers to build and deploy decentralized applications on Ethereum. Jing is the CEO and executive director at the Optimism Foundation and Karl is the CEO of OP Labs. This conversation moderated by Jason Rosenthal head of CSX at a16z crypto covers the origin story of Optimism path to scaling and unique ways of working together through challenges. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice;" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y1ExzmpQYjA) 2024-05-17T18:07Z 19.3K followers, [----] engagements "Do people care about privacy Is privacy unimportant or do we just take it for granted Privacy is returning to the foreground and could be a prerequisite for wider crypto adoption. Indicators of growing interest: - Google searches related to crypto privacy surged in [----] - Zcashs shielded pool supply grew to nearly [--] million ZEC - Railguns transaction flows surpassed $200 million monthly More signs of momentum: - The Ethereum Foundation formed a new privacy team - Paxos partnered with Aleo on a private compliant stablecoin (USAD) - The Office of Foreign Assets Control lifted sanctions on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YD1hJMerOGY) 2025-10-30T16:57Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "Twilight: A Differentially Private Payment Channel Network with Saar Tochner a16z crypto research Payment channel networks (PCNs) provide a faster and cheaper alternative to transactions recorded on the blockchain. Clients can trustlessly establish payment channels with relays by locking coins and then send signed payments that shift coin balances over the networks channels. Anyone can track a clients payment by monitoring changes in coin balances over the networks channels. Saar Tochner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents Twilight the first PCN that provides a rigorous differential" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YiPio_tYq9g) 2022-12-16T21:53Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "Let's Get Digi-Physical: From 'Tap' Chips to Taylor Swift Today's episode explores the merging of the physical and digital worlds as well as what that means for the future of our interactions and identities. Our guests today are Chris Lee cofounder of IYK a startup that's bringing the physical closer together to the digital through NFC chips and joining us is Michael Blau a deal partner at a16z crypto who creates generative art in his spare time. In the conversation ahead we cover new consumer experiences in everything from concert-going to commerce the intersection of high tech and high" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z-63lMx5_9w) 2024-05-22T21:07Z 18.9K followers, [---] engagements "SNARK Design Part III with Justin Thaler a16z crypto research talks An even deeper dive into SNARKs (Succinct Non-interactive Argument of Knowledge) by Justin Thaler (Georgetown University). Justin recaps his earlier talks and provides a detailed example of a polynomial IOP and of a polynomial commitment. These examples provide an idea of how SNARKs work in general and how these particular protocols combine to give a SNARK with novel efficiency. About the speaker Justin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University and will join a16z crypto as a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZEjuh1UBg6A) 2022-11-18T16:56Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "A brief history of open networks Why do open networks always win After working on one of the most ambitious corporate-backed digital currency projects at Facebook Christian Catalini (also cofounder and chief strategy officer of the global payments startup Lightspark) has strong views on how money should move. This episode is part of a special series of interviews we recorded live at our Founders Summit in October. Follow a16z crypto for more. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7pMZvsNXEnb0CYcPiDQywE" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_IuCeqa3MXc) 2026-01-15T21:05Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "What is a zero-knowledge proof #shorts A helpful example from Justin Thaler (a16z crypto research partner and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University)" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_YBcQC3bgHY) 2023-06-22T17:08Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "Intro to intellectual property for web3 Scott Kominers A talk on the basics of intellectual property for web3 projects from Harvard Business School professor and a16z research partner Scott Kominers. Community-created novel IP from NFTs to software protocols has been a surprisingly impactful application of web3. This presentation covers the purpose of IP rights emerging trends in shared IP and the basic parameters of IP design. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=a65MD9Ka7Sc) 2023-07-14T20:03Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "The big companies making crypto moves a16z Head of Data and Fund Strategy Daren Matsuoka explains why major public companies and financial institutions are adopting crypto. Just five days after stating that stablecoins had found product-market fit in last years State of Crypto report Stripe announced its intent to acquire stablecoin infrastructure platform Bridge. The race was on: Traditional finance companies were ready to make public stablecoin moves too. For more data and trends see our [----] State of Crypto report: https://a16zcrypto.com/stateofcrypto *** As always none of the following" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aui9jv3yCKA) 2025-10-28T17:07Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements "From Suitemates to Web3 Innovators: The Journey Behind Uniswap and Optimism Join us for a conversation with Karl Floersch the cofounder of Optimism and CEO of OP Labs and Hayden Adams founder of Uniswap. This talk moderated by Head of CSX Jason Rosenthal covers the interwoven history between building Optimism and Uniswap (Karl and Hayden first met in college) plus the lessons they learned as entrepreneurs and advice for founders building in web3. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=b7iRLApXgv4) 2025-01-13T15:00Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "What are Real-World Assets Real-world assets (RWAs) traditional assets such as U.S. Treasuries money-market funds private credit and real estate that are represented onchain (tokenized) bridge crypto and traditional finance. The total market for tokenized RWAs sits at $30 billion up nearly 4x in the last two years. For more data trends and insights: https://a16zcrypto.com/stateofcrypto/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=b_wC8Dmj_zc) 2025-11-03T20:58Z 19K followers, [---] engagements "All About That Gas with Abdou Ndiaye a16z crypto research talks Building on his overview of how to design incentive structures when the network of validators incurs a social cost Abdou Ndiaye (NYU) examines relative pricing of blockchain resources and highlights the role of various elasticities. Abdou discusses needed adjustments to Ethereum's EIP-1559 transaction fee mechanism. He also presents new ideas on the economics of storage on blockchains and execution mechanisms to limit congestion. For background see Abdou's first presentation from summer '22 here: https://youtu.be/4GKMqG_QmOc" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=barxKtDF5i0) 2023-09-26T17:30Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements "Credible Auctions: A Trilemma with Mohammad Akbarpour a16z crypto research talks A discussion of the so-called auction trilemma in a blockchain environment. An auction can have any two of the three following properties: static strategy proof or credible. Which two the designer chooses also characterizes the kind of auction (first price second price and ascending). Here Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford Graduate School of Business) focuses on the incentive compatibility for the auctioneer ensuring that auctioneers do not find it profitable to cheat (where cheating is defined as behavior that can be" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bxrvcDtGzxs) 2023-03-03T13:43Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements "Permissionless Consensus with Andrew Lewis-Pye a16z crypto research talks Blockchain protocols typically aspire to run in the permissionless setting in which nodes are owned and operated by a potentially large number of diverse and unknown entities with each node free to use multiple identifiers and to start or stop running the protocol at any time. This setting is more challenging than the traditional permissioned setting in which the set of nodes that will be running the protocol is fixed and known at the time of protocol deployment. Andrew Lewis-Pye (LSE) discusses work that is aimed at" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dFYVckUzrIg) 2023-10-17T17:30Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "How to build a social presence in web3 and beyond Ish Verduzco A quickstart guide for building your social media following as a web3 founder or marketer. a16z crypto social media lead Ish Verduzco steps through tips tricks and strategies for building a following. From defining your voice to being choosy about platforms and building a sustainable content strategy this talk covers key best practices for anyone growing their audience. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ejI_ViT1MHI) 2023-08-03T00:10Z 19.4K followers, [----] engagements "Accessing Data Privately from Theory to Practice with Elaine Shi a16z crypto Research Series Many high-value applications require privately accessing a large global database. For example in private contact discovery users want to fetch their friends' records without disclosing who their friends are. Large Language Models (LLMs) often need to retrieve relevant locations from a large knowledge base depending on the users' queries and the access patterns must be protected if the queries are privacy-sensitive. In this talk Elaine Shi (Carnegie Mellon University Oblivious Labs) describes several" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=enAohl_yEL0) 2025-11-03T16:47Z 20.2K followers, [---] engagements "Strategic Behavior in Cryptocurrency Protocols with Matt Weinberg a16z crypto research talks An overview of how miner behavior can vary under different reward schemes. Matt Weinberg (Princeton) presents several different ways strategic players can deviate from intended cryptocurrency protocols. Some examples relate to "selfish mining" while others relate to "fee sniping." About the speaker Matt is an assistant professor in Computer Science at Princeton University. His primary research interest is algorithmic mechanism design: algorithm design in settings where users have their own incentives." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fWb8raXRDyc) 2022-11-04T15:42Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "Toward succinct proofs of solvency with Jeremy Clark a16z research A firm that holds a large amount of crypto-assets on behalf of customers such as a centralized exchange can provide some level of assurance to their users by issuing frequent zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) of solvency (or reserves). These protocols have been studied for years open problems remain. Crypto-assets like BTC or ETH are governed by public key cryptography in a particular setting (secp256k1) that lacks a key feature (bilinear pairings) necessary for many modern succinct ZKPs. Related work often considers only" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=fivBwx6HLRg) 2024-09-27T13:00Z 19.5K followers, [---] engagements "CFMMs and Equivalence to Prediction Markets with Bo Waggoner a16z crypto research talks Constant-function market makers (CFMMs) are automated exchanges offering trades among a set of assets. Bo Waggoner (Colorado) presents research on their technical relationship to cost-function prediction markets. He introduces axioms for market makers and shows that CFMMs with concave potential functions characterize "good" market makers according to these axioms. He then shows that every such CFMM on n assets is equivalent to a cost-function prediction market for events with n outcomes. Our construction" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=g1CLEobChtE) 2023-05-15T18:44Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "How to engage with U.S. policymakers Collin McCune Ever introduced yourself to your congressperson or senator Many Americans don't think to reach out to their representatives but for web3 founders it's especially important to engage not only to understand crypto's political landscape but also to inform critical issues and debates in the space. Head of government affairsCollin McCune shares a decade of experience on Capitol Hill. His talk explores how founders can navigate the current landscape engage their representatives and make a unique impact not only on crypto but on any other issue" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gGcMLZw_mb4) 2023-06-12T16:59Z 19K followers, [---] engagements "AI Can Fake You. Can You Prove You're Real AI can now mimic you almost perfectly your voice your writing your behavior. So what happens when one person pretends to be thousands From web3 with a16z crypto podcast. Don't miss it. Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHq3W46BiAYjKUYZq2qm-Q #AI #identity #deepfake #bots #privacy #shorts *** As always none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i-nftZ3O7Zg) 2025-08-12T00:19Z 20.2K followers, [---] engagements "Visualizing Lasso: A fast new lookup argument for SNARKs 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. - See the map: https://github.com/a16z/Lasso/blob/master/imgs/memory-checking.png - Read more: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/tags/lasso-jolt - Watch the playlist:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iDcXj9Vx3zY) 2023-10-03T18:47Z 19.5K followers, [----] engagements "Starting an L1 from scratch with Mo Shaikh Mo Shaikh is the CEO and cofounder of Aptos a blockchain designed for the next billion users. In this conversation moderated by Jason Rosenthal head of CSX at a16z crypto Mo shares his learnings of being a 3x founder his expertise in going from 0-1 and scaling products and how being a first-generation immigrant led him to founding Aptos. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iInQwQvEEPM) 2024-05-17T13:03Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements "Cryptoeconomic Security for Data Availability Committees w/ Ertem Nusret Tas a16z crypto research Data Availability Committees (DACs) increase the throughput of Layer [--] systems but at the cost of obtaining an L2 architecture whose security relies solely on the L1 chain. Ertem Nusret Tas (Stanford) introduces DACs and their shortcomings and then proposes a DAC protocol that provides financial incentives to deter the DAC nodes from adversarial behavior (such as withholding data upon request). He then analyzes the interaction of rational DAC nodes and clients as a dynamic game with a Byzantine" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iJ7kpBTQrBg) 2023-02-10T16:31Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "How to build an engaged web3 community Shannon Snow World of Women How can web3 projects attract their first [----] true fans Shannon Snow shares lessons learned as COO of World of Women a best-selling PFP project. Building a project in public comes with opportunities and challenges how can founders navigate volatility under increased expectations of transparency This talk covers building a community that builds with you. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iJDGe2-k-yw) 2023-08-03T00:11Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements "Ignore this advice Bryan Pellegrino (LayerZero) shares the advice he avoids and why conviction matters more than anyone else's input. These are a few snippets from a new series of founder interviews subscribe to follow along: - X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@a16zcrypto *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=icbuIcikEZE) 2026-01-13T23:14Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Evolution of Decentralized Governance with Andrew Hall a16z crypto research talks An introduction to the challenges of decentralized governance generally and their applicability to web3. Andrew Hall (Stanford Graduate School of Business) discusses what political economy research says about well-known challenges from the history of governance - from creating an informed electorate to increasing participation rates to preventing vote buying and corruption - and how those solutions could apply to DAOs and web3 platforms. Andy also presents some initial data on DAO governance from a project" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=igyYHRf0-aw) 2022-09-02T16:43Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements "Proving as Fast as Computing - Part [--] with Ron Rothblum a16z crypto research Succinct arguments allow a prover to convince a verifier that a given statement is true using an extremely short proof. A major bottleneck and hence a major area of research has been the overhead incurred by the prover to prove correctness of the computation. In this talk Ron Rothblum (Technion) focuses on the setting of Boolean circuits and describes methods that allow one to prove correctness with nearly optimal asymptotic overhead. Based on joint works with Noga Ron-Zewi and Justin Holmgren. About the speaker Ron" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=j6NaOhzNmKI) 2023-08-29T20:59Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "Crypto just went mainstream What's the state of the crypo industry In [----] crypto grew up: - Some of the world's largest companies made crypt moves - Blockchains now process over [----] transactions per second (100x+ growth in the last five years) - Stablecoins power $46 trillion ($9 trillion adjusted) in annual transactions rivaling Visa and PayPal - Over $175 billion sits in Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded products. Our latest State of Crypto report looks at institutional adoption and the rise of stablecoins to crypto x AI. check out the full report: a16zcrypto.com/stateofcrypto *** As" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kKuUUxI2va4) 2025-10-24T00:11Z 18.9K followers, [---] engagements "Anonymous Credentials and Decentralizing ID Systems with Foteini Baldimtsi a16z crypto research An introduction to digital identities and how to use them for privacy-preserving authentication. Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University) covers different types of anonymous credentials systems proposed in academic research and deployed in some systems. She then discusses how digital identities are being decentralized and the challenges of efficient revocation of such credentials. About the speaker Foteini is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at George Mason University" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kgNcxQH-hMQ) 2022-08-26T15:07Z 19.2K followers, [----] engagements "Manipulating Leader Selection in BFT Protocols with Matt Weinberg a16z crypto research talks Cryptographic Self-Selection is a subroutine used to select a leader for modern proof-of-stake consensus protocols such as Algorand. Such protocols leave open the possibility of a selfish-mining style attack: a user who owns multiple accounts that each produce low-scoring credentials in a round can selectively choose which ones to broadcast to influence the seed for the next round. The user can pre-compute their credentials for the next round for each potential seed and broadcast only the credential" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mIAPQ0DHKak) 2023-10-24T14:28Z 19K followers, [---] engagements "The state of stablecoins The real story behind the rise of stablecoins as told by Sean Neville (cofounder of Circle and co-creator of USDC now CEO of Catena) and Zach Abrams (cofounder of Bridge now part of Stripe). 📩 Subscribe for more industry reports trend updates news analysis builder guides and other resources: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subscribe/ 🎙 Like subscribe comment share the show: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/podcast/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mmMm_UVdCmM) 2025-12-17T04:48Z 19.8K followers, [---] engagements "Sam Williams: Mechanism Design [---] Sam Williams founder and CEO of decentralized storage system Arweave gives an overview of Mechanism Design a field of study that has become newly relevant with the development of Bitcoin and subsequent blockchains that require carefully designed incentives for network participants. Williams uses examples to show that economic incentives when designed properly can persuade self-interested people to exhibit useful behaviors at fair market value with minimal central planning. This provides a new tool to bootstrap decentralized networks. He cautions however that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nUYUJ0r5Y2M) 2023-03-01T17:32Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements "Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Dynamic Participation with Ling Ren a16z crypto research talks One key innovation of Bitcoin's longest-chain consensus protocol over class Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocols is its support for dynamic participation. The Bitcoin protocol has operated for over a decade during which it has witnessed a billionfold increase as well as large and sudden drops in the participation level (represented by the total hashing rate). But to support this level of robustness longest-chain protocols suffer from long. Classic BFT protocols on the other hand can achieve" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=o95u-ksOtIo) 2022-12-16T19:48Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "How Brian Armstrong built Coinbase A chat between Coinbase founder and CEO Brian Armstrong and a16z crypto general partner Sriram Krishnan. Their conversation hosted for founders at the [----] Crypto Startup School covers the journey from coder to manager the importance of building a community of power users for your product frameworks for choosing big product bets and more. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments. More from: - Crypto" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pn55Y7xXP6Q) 2023-05-12T14:45Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements "Workshop on Rollup Sequencer Economics: Open Questions organized by Ben Fisch a16z crypto Rollups are horizontally scaling the application layer of Ethereum. But as computation is sharded across different rollups the interoperability of applications running on these rollups becomes fragmented significantly impacting user utility. Moreover today rollups are operated by centralized servers that decide on which transactions to include and in what order. Fragmented interoperability and sequencing centralization are some of the biggest challenges facing rollups today as they undermine the core" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=q3Q2LZqbGKM) 2023-09-12T19:58Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements "Secrets and how to prove them: A magician's guide to zero-knowledge proofs What are zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) Deal partner Michael Blau combines his background in crypto and magic to explore a new analogy for a tough-to-explain concept: Think of ZKPs like a great magic trick. For an overview of the defining properties (scalability and privacy) of ZKPs and how all of this plays out using magic read the full explanation: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/articles/a-magicians-guide-to-zero-knowledge-proofs And for more on zero knowledge:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qcpikb4aMvs) 2023-09-08T15:51Z 19.3K followers, [----] engagements "Introduction to Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) with Joseph Bonneau a16z crypto research talks An overview of Verifiable Delay Functions a new cryptographic tool developed since [----]. Joseph Bonneau (a16z crypto research) covers applications basic constructions and open questions. About the speaker Joseph's research and publications focus on social networking privacy cryptographic protocols side-channel attacks software obfuscation and reverse engineering. He has taught cryptocurrency courses at the University of Melbourne NYU Stanford and Princeton and received a PhD in computer science" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qf1CN5n8aHM) 2022-07-30T17:00Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "The Coming Collision of AI & Crypto: What Happens Next Today's episode is a round table on some of the most compelling ideas at the intersection of AI and crypto sourced from members of the a16z crypto team. You'll hear from builders researchers and deal makers who are all wrestling with the big question: How will these two powerful technologies collide and what happens when they do First Investment Partner Sam Broner makes the case for giving AI agents universal identities. Then Research Partner Scott Kominers presents how crypto can provide AI with levels and layers of rich context. You'll" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sR1B-ldXb6k) 2025-07-16T19:08Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "De-Anonymization in Bitcoin with Sarah Meiklejohn a16z crypto research talks There are many heuristics that are used in practice to de-anonymize Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies but it is often hard to assess their effectiveness given a lack of ground-truth data. In this talk Sarah Meiklejohn (UCL) provides an overview of these heuristics as well as new research to both improve them and increase our confidence in their results. About the speaker Sarah is a Professor in Cryptography and Security at University College London (UCL) and a Staff Research Scientist at Google. She is also an" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=slZgOwXt2jM) 2022-11-18T16:56Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "How Do You Really Know Someone Online Can you actually prove whos real online Scams deepfakes and fake profiles make it harder than ever. This clip breaks down [--] ways to verify identity and how new tech can keep you safe without giving up your privacy. From web3 with a16z crypto podcast. Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHq3W46BiAYjKUYZq2qm-Qsub_confirmation=1 #OnlineIdentity #Privacy #AI #Shorts *** As always none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=snDCDEVrCEY) 2025-08-25T20:00Z 20K followers, [---] engagements "Hiring and retaining talent in web3 with Craig Naylor Mehdi Hasan and Madan Nagaldinne Talent is the backbone of any organization making the process of building the right team vital for early stage founders. Once you've built your team ensuring workplace satisfaction is key for retaining and scaling your business. In this talk Craig Naylor Head of Talent at a16z crypto Mehdi Hasan Head of Executive Talent at a16z crypto and People Practices Partner Madan Nagaldinne share strategies for hiring and retaining strong teams for web3 startups. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tzNQ4fue2Nc) 2024-08-22T16:29Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG) Based Consensus Protocols: An Introduction a16z crypto research talks A tutorial on direct acyclic graph (DAG) based consensus protocols. Andrew Lewis-Pye (London School of Economics) introduces DAGs which allow blocks to have multiple parents or children thus resolving the problem of forks in blockchains. The resulting structure is a Directed Acyclic Graph (rather than a chain). Andy introduces how to think about such structures and then focuses on state-of-the-art protocols such as Cordial Miners DAG-Rider and Bullshark. About the speaker Andy is a Professor at" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=v7h2rXNtrV0) 2022-10-14T16:25Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements "The Politics of Negotiating as a Group with Peter Buisseret a16z crypto Research Series Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) regularly negotiate with external counterparties vendors regulators protocol developers. DAOs aggregate the preferences of their individual stakeholders to negotiate collectively as a group. To study these and related negotiation contexts Peter Buisseret (Harvard University) analyzes a dynamic bargaining game in which a heterogeneous group negotiates jointly with a single external agent such as a regulator or an employer. Group members have different valuations" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=w8occCy5y9o) 2025-11-30T19:26Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements "Preparing for the Pitch with Arianna Simpson How can founders show why their vision matters and why they're the right team to bring it to market A primer on pitching a web3 startup from a16z crypto general partner Arianna Simpson. In this talk Arianna shares learnings and frameworks from her experience raising money for her own funds along with years hearing thousands of pitches. She covers pitching from start to finish from crafting a narrative for your product and team to following up to help make an often daunting process as easy as possible. As a reminder none of the content should be" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wVKcgn2W1uw) 2024-08-31T16:10Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements "Ali Yahya: Crypto Business Models Andreessen Horowitz crypto partner Ali Yahya discusses Crypto Business Models. Yahya explains that the consensus mechanisms of blockchains create trust among independent participants in decentralized networks. At first glance this may seem at odds with the idea of capturing value since none of the factors that allow companies to build moats in traditional industries trade secrets intellectual property or control of a scarce resource apply in crypto. This leads to the value-capture paradox how can easy-to-replicate open-source code be defensible in a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xrS_H1xTbcI) 2023-03-01T17:33Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "Why memecoins don't attract developers Without regulatory clarity memecoins flourished. Over [--] million memecoins launched in the last year so why aren't they bringing in more developers This trend appears to be cooling down in recent months there were 56% fewer launches in September than in January. For more data on memecoins and more check out our [----] State of Crypto report: https://a16zcrypto.com/stateofcrypto *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=y68sR-F9_6g) 2025-10-24T20:53Z 19.5K followers, [----] engagements "The Blocklace: A Partially-Ordered Generalization of the Blockchain a16z crypto research talks Introducing the blocklace a partially ordered generalization of the totally ordered blockchain. In this presentation Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann Institute of Science) shows how the blocklace can realize all algorithmic tasks required for ordering consensus: dissemination equivocation-exclusion and ordering. These capabilities are integrated in Cordial Miners - a family of efficient Byzantine Atomic Broadcast (permissioned blockchain consensus) protocols with optimal instances for the models of asynchrony" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yp9O2DnBhXs) 2022-10-21T13:51Z 20K followers, [----] engagements "What are stablecoins Before the Fed banks issued notes backed by assets. Fiat-reserve stablecoins follow the same model. Their value comes from redeemability and broad trust in issuers. More resources: Find Sam on X: https://x.com/SamBroner Follow a16z crypto across. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: / posts Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7pMZvsN. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast. Youtube: / @a16zcrypto *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ysdJUqIvqD8) 2025-12-09T23:22Z 19.6K followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"From Eater to Blackbird: Ben Leventhal on Restaurants Loyalty and Rebuilding Payments Restaurants generated more than a trillion dollars in sales last year but they dont control the payment rails those dollars flow through. In this episode Ben Leventhal (founder of Eater Resy and now Blackbird) joins show host Robert Hackett to explain why thats a problem how loyalty and payments have failed independent restaurants and where crypto fits into fixing it. Ben breaks down: - Why most restaurant tech misses the point - How Blackbird uses crypto without making restaurants think about crypto - What"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T11:00Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"From Oculus to Anduril: Palmer Luckey on Power Technology and the Future In this special 100th episode Chris Dixon sits down with Palmer Luckey founder of Anduril founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of technology geopolitics and building. Recorded live at our Founders Summit the discussion explores what it really takes to build hardware at scale where todays biggest technological bottlenecks lie and why optimism about the future is still warranted despite geopolitical turmoil regulatory constraints and other barriers to"
YouTube Link 2026-01-23T17:14Z 20.8K followers, 39.8K engagements
"Crypto x restaurants Eater Resy and Blackbird founder on getting restaurants onchain Why 3x founder Ben Leventhal (founder of Eater Resy and now Blackbird) wants to get restaurants onchain. Follow a16z crypto for more. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7pMZvsNXEnb0CYcPiDQywE Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/web3-with-a16z-crypto/id1622312549 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@a16zcrypto 📩 Subscribe for more industry reports trend updates news analysis builder guides and other"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T17:24Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Cryptos Killer App Why Everyones Really Into Stablecoins Right Now What if payments worked like email instant global and free In this episode of web3 with a16z crypto a16z crypto Founder Chris Dixon and Deal Partner Sam Broner dive deep into into the sudden rise of stablecoins with host Robert Hackett. They unpack: - Why stablecoins are exploding in volume outpacing even Visa - How traditional payment systems extract hidden fees from consumers and businesses - Why stablecoins could be the email protocol for money - What regulation needs to unlock mainstream adoption - The overlooked"
YouTube Link 2025-05-23T17:29Z 20.8K followers, 10.6K engagements
"What not to call stablecoins Stablecoin use cases and what not to call them with Sean Neville (cofounder of Circle and co-creator of USDC now CEO of Catena) and Zach Abrams (cofounder of Bridge now part of Stripe). 📩 Subscribe for more industry reports trend updates news analysis builder guides and other resources: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subscribe/ 🎙 Like subscribe comment share the show: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/podcast/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information"
YouTube Link 2025-12-17T23:14Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Why Open Networks Winwith Christian Catalini After working on one of the most ambitious corporate-backed digital currency projects at Facebook Christian Catalini has strong views on how money should move. Christian is the cofounder and chief strategy officer of the global payments startup Lightspark and a former architect of Metas shuttered Libra project one of the most ambitious attempts to create a corporate-backed digital currency. In this episode we explore Bitcoin as infrastructure lessons from building blockchains at a tech giant and the case for open financial networks. - why Bitcoin"
YouTube Link 2026-01-14T19:27Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson on Stablecoins Bitcoin and Innovation Bets Every traditional financial institution faces the same dilemma: evolve or fall behind build or buy. But when safety predictability and trust is paramount how do traditional finance companies innovate How do they place their innovation bets and decide what to explore and not to explore Fidelity Chairman and CEO Abigail P. Johnson shares an inside look into Fidelitys decade of crypto experimentation -- from early Bitcoin mining to building foundational custody infrastructure to stablecoins and much more. Johnson shares how"
YouTube Link 2025-12-04T22:45Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"From Wallets to Super Apps: The Internet's New Interface (with Phantom CEO) Crypto wallets are no longer just wallets. Theyre the front door to a decentralized internet. In this episode Phantom CEO Brandon Millman joins a16z crypto Investment Partner Jay Drain and host Robert Hackett to unpack how crypto wallets are evolving into full-blown consumer finance platforms and why they may be the most credible candidates to become the internet's next super apps. We explore Phantoms journey from a Solana-first wallet to a multi-chain platform why wallets are uniquely positioned to win trust around"
YouTube Link 2025-12-19T20:13Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"How the dollar went bottom-up (with LayerZero's Bryan Pellegrino) Bryan Pellegrino cofounder and CEO of LayerZero on the structural shift happening in money right now Follow a16z crypto for more. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ Substack: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subscribe/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T20:42Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"How Stablecoins Will Eat Payments Stablecoins are transforming how money moves. In this talk a16z crypto's Sam Broner breaks down why stablecoins matter how they work and why they could unlock billions in value for both small businesses and Fortune [---] retailers. Sam explains the three major types of stablecoins why fiat-reserve stablecoins dominate today and how programmable low-cost payments open entirely new business models. He also walks through real examplesfrom coffee shops to Kroger Walmart Chipotle and global B2B supply chains. Whether you're building fintech infrastructure AI agents"
YouTube Link 2025-12-09T18:50Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Building PROOF: A conversation with Kevin Rose and Chris Dixon a16z crypto founding partner Chris Dixon sits down with Kevin Rose long-time entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of PROOF the web3 collective behind NFT project Moonbirds. The conversation covers Kevins path to building in crypto growing and involving a passionate community and navigating downturns. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments. More from: - Crypto Startup"
YouTube Link 2023-08-03T00:11Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Books That Defined Our Year with @smc90 @rhackett @stephbzinn @Tim_Org In a now-annual tradition the a16z crypto editorial team discuss themes (and picks) from a16z crypto'slatest reading lists as well as books we keep re-reading childhood favorites classics adaptations on adaptations in book and movie form and much more. We cover: What genres are we reading now how and why How is technology from AI and ChatGPT to the internet and audio changing reading Why are certain themes in the zeitgeist right now Is all non-fiction just fiction now (and should we lean into this for education) Are"
YouTube Link 2025-12-23T19:37Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"The Obsession That Destroys Startups (with LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino) In this episode we talk about one of the most destructive mental traps founders can fall into and how to avoid it. Host Robert Hackett sits down with Bryan Pellegrino cofounder and CEO of LayerZero one of the core infrastructure projects that enables blockchains to talk to one another. We cover why crypto went multichain how its competing with legacy financial systems and a firsthand lesson from Elon Musk. Highlights 0:00 Introduction 0:47 The need for interoperability 1:04 How crypto went multichain 2:51 The"
YouTube Link 2026-01-07T23:14Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"A Constitution in the Sky with Andrew Hall a16z crypto Research Series As new technology platforms and artificial intelligence reshape how billions of people all over the globe interact learn and make decisions an ancient question takes on new urgency: How can humanity stay in control of its own destiny The tools we created to enable collective decision-making and check concentrated power property rights courts legislatures elections were built for a physical world. Now as our lives move increasingly online some of the most consequential choices affecting society are made not by politicians"
YouTube Link 2025-12-13T16:17Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"How Stablecoins Won: Bridge Co-Founder & USDC Co-Creator Share the Story Behind Crypto's Killer App The real story behind the rise of stablecoins as told by Sean Neville (cofounder of Circle and co-creator of USDC now CEO of Catena) and Zach Abrams (co-founder of Bridge now part of Stripe). They share lessons on finding product-market fit surviving early chaos and building financial infrastructure that can scale. They also explore the earliest days of USDC when stablecoins were far from obvious and regulatory frameworks didnt exist. Sean shares how his conviction in money running at internet"
YouTube Link 2025-12-10T22:03Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Granular Synchrony: A New Network Timing Model for Distributed Computing with Ling Ren Today's mainstream network timing models for distributed computing are synchrony partial synchrony and asynchrony. These models are coarse grained and often make either too strong or too weak assumptions about the network. In this talk Ling Ren (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) introduces a new network timing model called granular synchrony that models the network as a mixture of synchronous partially synchronous and asynchronous communication links. The new model is not only theoretically"
YouTube Link 2025-10-29T20:10Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Investing in DePIN: From Protocols to Power Plants a16z crypto general partner Guy Wuollet explores the next major shift in infrastructure from centralized monopoly-run systems to user-owned decentralized physical networks. Drawing on real-world examples across telecom energy transportation AI compute and data Guy explains why traditional models are failing and how new network designs are reshaping the physical world. He also covers: - Why centralized infrastructure struggles with scale incentives and innovation - How decentralized networks unlock unused physical resources - The rise of"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T21:36Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Quantum attacks: When and how When should blockchains start working about quantum attacks a16z crypto general partner Ali Yahya explains the timelines for quantum computing and what they mean for startup founders. Follow a16z crypto for more. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ Substack: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subscribe/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T00:19Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"How good does VR have to be for everyone to use it Palmer Luckey founder of Anduril founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift on the future of VR. Follow a16z crypto for more: X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@a16zcrypto Subscribe for industry reports trend analysis builder guides and more: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subscribe/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information"
YouTube Link 2026-01-24T22:01Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Stablecoins: The future of money Zach Abrams cofounder and CEO of Bridge (now part of Stripe) on stablecoins as the next evolution of fintech much like credit cards were decades ago and why were still in the early innings. Follow a16z crypto for more. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7pMZvsNXEnb0CYcPiDQywE Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/web3-with-a16z-crypto/id1622312549 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@a16zcrypto 📩 Subscribe for more industry reports trend updates news"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T19:29Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"How DePIN Turns Protocols Into Power Plants What if our most important services basic Internet connectivity electricity and access to water were owned by users not companies In this talk a16z crypto general partner Guy Wuollet explains decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) and why they may be one of the most important use cases for crypto. Resources: Find Guy on X: https://x.com/guywuolletjr Why DePIN matters and how to make it work: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/listicles/why-depin-matters/ Follow a16z crypto across. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: / posts Youtube: /"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T19:04Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Building EigenLayer with Sreeram Kannan In this conversation moderated by a16z general partner Ali Yahya EigenLayer founder Sreeram Kannan breaks down how decentralized trust networks modular security and permissionless innovation are reshaping the crypto landscape. From Ethereums evolution to the role of actively validated services (AVSs) this deep dive covers the next frontier of blockchain scalability and coordination. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link"
YouTube Link 2025-03-25T19:00Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"What are prediction markets Kalshi CEO explains 🔮 Kalshi Cofounder and CEO Tarek Mansour explains prediction markets and what this means for the future of finance and forecasting. Follow a16z crypto on. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7pMZvsN. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast. 📩 Subscribe for more industry reports trend updates news analysis builder guides and other resources: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subsc. 🎙 Like subscribe comment share the show: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/podcast/ *** As always none of the following should"
YouTube Link 2025-11-19T17:50Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"State of Crypto 2025: The Latest Data Trends and Themes Revealed Each year the State of Crypto report from a16z crypto cuts through the noise and tracks cryptos evolution across markets technology policy and culture. Now in its fourth edition the [----] State of Crypto report reveals how crypto has gone mainstream: from stablecoins and tokenized assets to institutional adoption by major financial players. In this episode we break down the key findings and trends from the report with: - Daren Matsuoka a16z cryptos Head of Data & Fund Strategy (lead author) - Eddy Lazzarin a16z cryptos CTO"
YouTube Link 2025-10-22T16:24Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Proofs of Useful Work from Arbitrary Matrix Multiplication with Omri Weinstein Omri Weinstein (Hebrew University) revisits the longstanding open problem of implementing Nakamotos proof-of-work (PoW) consensus using a real-world computational task T(x) (as opposed to artificial random hashing) in a truly permissionless setting where the miner itself chooses the input x. The core challenge in designing such a Proof-of-Useful-Work (PoUW) protocol is to use the native computation of T(x) to produce a PoW certificate with negligible overhead over T(x) ensuring malicious miners cannot game the"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T17:44Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Bridge CEO Zach Abrams: Stablecoins Are The Next Platform for Money What happens when money moves 10x or 100x faster than it does today In this episode Zach Abrams cofounder and CEO of Bridge (now part of Stripe) lays out a bold vision for the future of money: a world where stablecoins become the dominant payment rail most transactions happen between non-human agents and entirely new financial infrastructure is required to keep up. Zach explains why stablecoins are the next evolution of fintech much like credit cards were decades ago and why were still in the early innings. We dig into"
YouTube Link 2026-02-02T20:27Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The future of oats is the future of everything Why is Palmer Luckey optimistic about the future In short: The present of oats is the future of everything. In this special 100th episode Chris Dixon sits down with Palmer Luckey founder of Anduril founder of Oculus VR and designer of the Oculus Rift for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of technology geopolitics and building. Follow a16z crypto for more: X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@a16zcrypto Subscribe for industry reports trend analysis"
YouTube Link 2026-01-23T18:11Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"What is Jolt The simplest and most extensible zkVM explained. The simplest and most extensible zkVM explained by research partner and Jolt co-creator Justin Thaler. Jolt is a RISC-V zkVM uniquely designed around sumcheck and lookup arguments (Just One Lookup Table). Jolt is fast (state-of-the-art performance on CPU) and relatively simple (thanks to its lookup-centric architecture). Papers: Jolt: SNARKs for Virtual Machines via Lookups Arasu Arun Srinath Setty Justin Thaler https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1217 Twist and Shout: Faster memory checking arguments via one-hot addressing and increments"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T21:37Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"What is DePIN The Case for Decentralizing the Real World with Guy Wuollet What if our most important services basic Internet connectivity electricity and access to water were owned by users not companies In this talk a16z crypto general partner Guy Wuollet explains decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) and why they may be one of the most important use cases for crypto. Most people understand how blockchains decentralize digital services. But energy grids telecom networks transportation and other physical systems are controlled by centralized incumbents. DePIN flips that model"
YouTube Link 2026-01-09T19:36Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Prediction Markets and Pricing the Future (with Kalshi CEO) In this episode of web3 with a16z crypto host Robert Hackett talks with Kalshi Cofounder and CEO Tarek Mansour about how prediction markets are enabling people to trade directly on real-world events from elections to inflation and what this means for the future of finance and forecasting. Tarek explains why prediction markets arent gambling how regulation has been central to Kalshis success and why the company is embracing crypto and stablecoins as key components of its international strategy. He also discusses lessons learned about"
YouTube Link 2025-11-19T09:01Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"How to Prove False Statements: Practical Attacks on Fiat-Shamir The Fiat-Shamir (FS) transform is a prolific and powerful technique for compiling public-coin interactive protocols into non-interactive ones. Roughly speaking the idea is to replace the random coins of the verifier with the evaluations of a complex hash function. The FS transform is known to be sound in the random oracle model (i.e. when the hash function is modeled as a totally random function). However when instantiating the random oracle using a concrete hash function there are examples of protocols in which the"
YouTube Link 2026-02-02T03:40Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Why Privacy Will Be the Biggest Moat in Crypto Most blockchains are starting to look the same. So what actually creates defensibility in crypto a16z crypto General Partner Ali Yahya explains why privacy not performance will determine the long-term winners in crypto and how it creates powerful network effects. In conversation with a16z crypto show host Robert Hackett Ali lays out how privacy creates lock-in and winner-take-most dynamics without sacrificing decentralization. They also dive into the technologies making privacy possible today from zero-knowledge proofs to trusted execution"
YouTube Link 2026-01-30T11:01Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Blind Signatures with Georg Fuchsbauer a16z crypto Research Series Blind signatures first conceived for e-cash allow a user to obtain a signature on a message that is hidden from the signer. In this talk Georg Fuchsbauer (TU Wien) overviews central blind signature schemes and discusses potential applications in blockchain systems. About the presenter Georg is an associate professor at TU Wien the university of technology in Vienna Austria. He did his PhD supervised by David Pointcheval at ENS Paris to which he returned as an Inria researcher after postdocs at Bristol University UK and ISTA"
YouTube Link 2025-11-17T16:53Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Radical idea: How about a boring bank Palmer Luckey (founder of Anduril Industries and Oculus VR) talks about building a bank for companies that want to know their money will be there when they need it not a crypto bank" but a modern bank that supports stablecoin deposits and is designed to operate through uncertainty. *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments"
YouTube Link 2026-01-30T20:51Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"An Economic Model of the L1-L2 Interaction with Fahad Saleh a16z crypto Research Series Fahad Saleh (University of Florida) provides an economic model of the interaction between a Layer-1 (L1) blockchain and an associated Layer-2 (L2) showing that even when the L1 hosts value-generating decentralized applications (dApps) its onchain investment and cryptoasset market value can both converge to zero. These results arise because when transaction activity migrates to L2 onchain L1 investment (e.g. liquidity provision) endogenously follows the transaction activity to L2. A decline in L1 onchain"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T17:44Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"The Problem with "Don't Be Evil" There are a lot of debates around ads access open vs. closed happening right now. But the question is who controls these networks. That's where decentralization comes in. Cant be evil beats dont be evil every time. a16z crypto general partner Ali Yahya defines decentralization: it's about moving unilateral control even when intentions are good. *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments"
YouTube Link 2026-02-05T18:01Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Rethinking Crypto Attacker Models with Mahimna Kelkar a16z crypto Research Series Blockchains operate in a radically new highly adversarial environment where subtle protocol flaws can be immediately monetized by anonymous actors. This fundamentally intertwines an assortment of fields cryptography distributed systems and mechanism design among many others. As a consequence blockchain security can no longer be thought of from a single lens. In this talk Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell University) shows how attackers can erode security through the very same tools typically used to build secure"
YouTube Link 2026-02-02T03:40Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Building Secure Distributed Computing Systems for Blockchains Over Blockchains with Aniket Kate Traditionally secure distributed computing (SDC) systems have been developed in standalone communication settings such as synchronous partially synchronous and asynchronous point-to-point networks. In this talk Aniket Kate (Purdue University) explores some key SDC primitives tailored for blockchain environments from both theoretical and systems perspectives. He highlights how the blockchains built-in consensus (aka state machine replication) can be harnessed to enhance SDC protocols. Specifically"
YouTube Link 2025-12-07T17:27Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Alpenglow: Solana's New Consensus with Roger Wattenhofer a16z crypto Research Series What should a modern blockchain protocol look like In this talk Roger Wattenhofer (Anza and ETH Zurich) discusses Alpenglow Solanas new consensus protocol. Alpenglow features some interesting innovations such as its voting protocol resulting in a fast finalization latency. Alpenglow achieves a low latency by finalizing blocks in a single round of voting if 80% of the stake is participating and in two rounds if only 60% of the stake is responsive. Alpenglow's 20+20 resilience allows the protocol to operate"
YouTube Link 2025-11-03T16:47Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"What's stopping crypto a16z crypto General Partner Ali Yahya on why crypto needs privacy to reach more people starting with why users tolerate surveillance in social media but not in finance. Follow a16z crypto for more. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ 📩 Subscribe for more industry reports trend updates news analysis builder guides and other resources: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subscribe/ 🎙 Like subscribe comment share the show: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/podcast/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as"
YouTube Link 2026-02-02T18:06Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"The Transaction Supply Chain for High Performance L1s with Pranav Garimidi In this talk we discuss the transaction supply chain in detail for high performance chains. We use Solana and Aptos as case studies to consider the unique challenges that come with scale and discuss the different space of solutions that have been used along with the outstanding problems. Pranav Garimidi is a research analyst at a16z crypto. He does research on problems in mechanism design and algorithmic game theory as it relates to blockchain systems. He is especially focused on how incentives interact across the"
YouTube Link 2025-12-07T17:27Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"From Creative Process to Outcomes Uniswap founder Hayden Adams and multimedia artist KidSuper come together for a dynamic conversation on creativity branding and the intersection of crypto and culture. From Uniswaps iconic airdrops to groundbreaking fashion moments at Paris Fashion Week they explore how experimentation risk-taking and storytelling drive innovation. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments"
YouTube Link 2025-02-15T17:52Z 16.8K followers, [---] engagements
"ep [--] Financial Freedom Company Building More This wide-ranging conversation covers company building big to small -- including what cadence and when is the right "time" to ship; the relationship between centralization decentralization platforms and financial freedom; moving from web2 to web3 in both crypto AND payments. as well as why bitcoin views on remote work and much much more. Our guest is David Marcus CEO and co-founder of Lightspark; Marcus was also a co-creator of Diem (aka Libra and Novi the cryptocurrency project initiated by Facebook). Before that he was vice president of"
YouTube Link 2023-09-10T17:54Z 18.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Post-Quantum Single Secret Leader Election with Dan Boneh a16z crypto research In a Single Secret Leader Election (SSLE) a group of participants aims to randomly choose one leader from the group with the restriction that the identity of the leader will be known only to the chosen leader. At a later time the elected leader should be able to publicly reveal their identity and prove that they have won the election. The election process itself should work properly even if many registered users are passive. Among the many applications of SSLEs they have the potential to enable more efficient"
YouTube Link 2023-08-29T20:59Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"Why Uniswap chose unicorns What's in a name CEO Hayden Adams shares the backstory of the unicorn art in Uniswaps branding. For more on the power of creativity brand industry jargon and making technology not just more broadly available but more culturally and socially understood check out the full discussion on @a16zcrypto between Hayden Adams founder and CEO of Uniswap Labs (and inventor of the Uniswap Protocol) and Colm Dillane the multimedia artist behind fashion darling KidSuper in conversation with Sonal Chokshi *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business"
YouTube Link 2025-11-15T00:10Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Year Crypto Grew Up: A Data Scientist's Take on Crypto Trends This is the year the world came onchain. Head of Data and Fund Strategy at a16z Daren Matsuoka shares the data driving the crypto industry. 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 less reliable. In the last three years crypto builders weathered a major market drawdown and political uncertainty but continued to make significant infrastructure improvements and other"
YouTube Link 2025-10-27T21:52Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"Bringing Decentralized Governance to Tech Platforms with Andrew Hall a16z crypto research talks An overview of tech platforms and how a lack of social legitimacy can erode growth. Andrew Hall (Stanford Graduate School of Business) addresses how platforms can create governance systems in ways that people believe are fair and legitimate while getting more and better output and content from developers creators sellers and other platform producers. Andy offers a political economy perspective on the governance failures inherent in web2 platform structures proposes some ideas for how these"
YouTube Link 2022-09-02T16:43Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Tackling Pain-Points with Optimistic Rollups with Jeremy Clark a16z crypto research Optimistic rollups like Arbitrum and Optimism are in wide use today as an opt-in scalability overlay (L2s) for blockchains like Ethereum. Two practical pain-points exist for users of optimistic rollups: [--]. withdrawing ETH takes [--] days (a "withdrawal window") to allow disputes before finalizing and [--]. withdrawing ETH to L1 requires the user to first have ETH on L1 to pay gas fees. Here Jeremy Clark (Concordia) proposes methods for sidestepping those pain-points. His solution involves making withdrawals"
YouTube Link 2023-09-12T19:58Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"No idea works on the first try #shorts Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on the misconception that successful companies are overnight successes. Behind the scenes are years of hard work and a few moments where a reasonable person might have given up"
YouTube Link 2023-05-20T16:06Z 19.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The Economics of Cryptocurrency Mining with Aviv Zohar a16z crypto research talks Mining which stands at the center of cryptocurrency protocols is understood well from a security standpoint but stands on less firm ground from the perspective of economic incentives. Aviv Zohar (Hebrew University) discusses several recent results on the economics of mining protocols including some recently discovered manipulations that miners can perform as well as recent attempts at formalizing the behavior of miners from a financial perspective. He presents work here on proof-of-work mining as option pricing;"
YouTube Link 2022-12-02T19:18Z 18.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Building Dapper Labs Roham Gharegozlou We sat down with Roham Gharegozlou the CEO of Dapper Labs the web3 company behind CryptoKitties NBA Top Shot the Flow blockchain and more to distill years of experience within crypto and beyond. The conversation covers building the right brand partnerships sorting signal from noise when finding product-market fit and opportunities in web3 user and developer experience. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of"
YouTube Link 2023-07-14T17:05Z 18.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Arbitrage Extractable Value with Anthony Lee Zhang a16z crypto research talks Liquidity Providers (LPs) for Automated Market Makers (AMMs) suffer from impermanent loss - yet no definition of impermanent loss exists that allows it to be quantified precisely. In this presentation Anthony Lee Zhang (University of Chicago) proposes to define the loss from AMM liquidity provision as Arbitrage Extractable Value (AEV). AEV is equal to the slippage incurred by AMM LPs from trading at prices worse than centralized exchange prices. AEV is equal to the profits arbitrageurs make from AMM-CEX arbitrage."
YouTube Link 2022-10-28T14:01Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"Founder talk with Dan Romero Co-founder & CEO of Farcaster A chat between Farcaster co-founder and CEO Dan Romero and a16z crypto CTO Eddy Lazzarin. Their conversation hosted for founders at the [----] Crypto Startup School covers Dans principles for building the importance of testing and talking with users the reasons for not prematurely optimizing cultivating community and more. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments. More from: -"
YouTube Link 2023-05-19T16:37Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"An Evolution of Models for Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Sarah Meiklejohn a16z crypto research talks A review of zero-knowledge proofs where Sarah Meiklejohn (University College London Google) looks at the applications that are driving their development the different models that have emerged to capture these new interactions the constructions that we can achieve and the work left to do. About the speaker Sarah is a Professor in Cryptography and Security at University College London (UCL) and a Staff Research Scientist at Google. She is also an Associate Director of the Initiative for"
YouTube Link 2022-08-06T13:04Z 18.9K followers, [----] engagements
"web3 Go-to-Market Frameworks & Dealmaking Join a16z crypto go-to-market experts Maggie Hsu and Pyrs Carvolth as they dive into the key differences between web3 and web2 go-to-market strategies. Discover insights on navigating complex deal negotiations establishing your market presence and unlocking opportunities in the rapidly evolving world of web3. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments"
YouTube Link 2025-01-28T22:00Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Automated Market Making and Arbitrage Profits in the Presence of Fees Ciamac Moallemi a16z crypto Trading fees and discrete block generation affect the maximal extracted value (MEV) generated by arbitrageurs trading against an automated marker marker (AMM) or equivalently on the adverse selection incurred by liquidity providers (LPs) due to DEX-CEX arbitrage. Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia) starts by reintroducing the idea of loss-versus-rebalancing (LVR) which quantifies the loss to arbitrageurs in an idealized continuous-time setting with no trading fees. Trading fees and discrete blocks however"
YouTube Link 2023-09-21T15:23Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements
"What are stablecoins used for Because stablecoins are programmable developers can use them as substrate to build on they have a lot of uses from settling crypto transactions to remittances to *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments"
YouTube Link 2025-11-13T17:30Z 19.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Crafting virtual worlds with Hilmar Ptursson Hilmar Ptursson has been leading CCP Games for over [--] decades. Under Hilmars management CCPs critically acclaimed science-fiction game EVE Online celebrated an unprecedented ten consecutive years of subscriber growth. Join us for this talk moderated by a16z crypto CTO Eddy Lazzarin to hear about why CCP Games is embracing crypto Hilmar's thoughts about different gaming economies the science/formula to making friends and more As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures"
YouTube Link 2024-07-26T16:57Z 19.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Go-to-market in web3 Maggie Hsu & Pyrs Carvolth An overview of go-to-market strategies for web3 startups from building a plan to cultivating great partnerships and reaching new audiences. In this talk Maggie Hsu and Pyrs Carvolth (a16z crypto go-to-market team) cover defining a target market setting a price crafting messaging and using go-to-market tactics to not only launch your products but also improve them.They also cover how what changes when moving from web2 to web3. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see"
YouTube Link 2023-07-21T19:55Z 19K followers, [----] engagements
"Journey to jumpstart: from Meerkat to Houseparty to a crypto-native social network with Ben Rubin Ben Rubin the CEO and cofounder of Here Not There Labs (HNT) is a serial entrepreneur working to reshape communication tools and social trends. This conversation moderated by Jason Rosenthal head of CSX at a16z crypto covers Bens journey of building Meerkat Houseparty and now HNT as well as his unique perspective on creating company culture and the path to finding product-market fit. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see"
YouTube Link 2024-05-10T13:06Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Lasso in a Nutshell with Justin Thaler a16z crypto A quick overview of Lasso -- a fundamentally new approach to SNARK design based. Together with Jolt a new SNARK frontend Jolt improves on other widely deployed tool chains by an order of magnitude or more and promises further performance improvements in the future. About the speaker Justin is Research Partner at a16z and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University. His research interests include verifiable computing complexity theory and algorithms for massive data sets. In [----] he produced the first"
YouTube Link 2023-08-10T14:59Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"How the U.S. Got Its First Real Crypto Rules (GENIUS Act for Stablecoins) Today we're talking about the passage of the GENIUS Act that's the "Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act" which provides clear rules of the road for stablecoins in the U.S. We cover the law's implications the recent high-stakes vote in the House of Representatives and the bipartisan efforts to pass this groundbreaking bill. We also touch on the CLARITY Act a major new market structure bill that would establish a clear regulatory framework for digital asset markets which the House also"
YouTube Link 2025-07-22T17:56Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Brian Brooks: Token Securities Framework and Launching a Network The final week of a16zs Crypto Startup School kicks off with former Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Brian Brooks discussing Token Securities Frameworks and Launching a Network. Brooks starts off calling crypto the most perfect intersection of tech and finance but he cautions that crypto builders must navigate traditional financial-services regulatory structures. This takes on special importance because tokens the native assets of crypto networks can be deemed securities by regulators making them illegal to list on exchanges and"
YouTube Link 2023-03-01T17:33Z 19K followers, [---] engagements
"Does your blockchain need multidimensional fees with Noam Nisan a16z crypto research talks The design of a transaction fee mechanism for a Blockchain starts with the question of specifying exactly the resources that the transactions compete over and need to pay for. While having a single gas' measure that aggregates all resources into a single dimension is simple and convenient its worth considering different resources separately leading to so-called multidimensional fees. Noam Nisan (Hebrew University) begins by making the distinction between easy dimensions of fees that do not represent"
YouTube Link 2024-10-11T15:06Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"Sharing the triumphs trials and invaluable lessons of being a founder with Shane Mac Join Shane Mac cofounder of XMTP Labs as he shares his journey in building the DM layer of the internet. Shane is also the cofounder of Squared Away an initiative to employ military spouses as executive assistants. Previously Shane was the CEO & cofounder of Assist where he spent nine years developing a business messaging & AI platform with partners like Amazon Google Facebook Apple and Twitter. In this talk moderated by a16z crypto go-to-market partner Pyrs Carvolth Shane discusses his experiences as a"
YouTube Link 2024-06-21T21:21Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"DAG Meets BFT: The Next Generation of BFT Consensus with Alexander Spiegelman a16z crypto research An overview of recent developments in the theory and practice of directed acyclic graph (DAG) based Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus. Alexander Spiegelman (Aptos) discusses how the Narwhal protocol decouples data from meta to build a highly efficient DAG. Sasha then explains how the protocol can locally (with zero communication overhead) totally order the nodes of the DAG by using DAG-Rider/Tusk/Bullshark. About the speaker Alexander (Sasha) obtained his PhD from the Technion in 2018"
YouTube Link 2022-10-14T16:25Z 19.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Shoal: Improving DAG-BFT Latency and Robustness with Alexander Spiegelman a16z crypto research The Narwhal system is a state-of-the-art Byzantine fault-tolerant scalable architecture that involves constructing a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of messages among a set of validators in a Blockchain network. Bullshark is a zero-overhead consensus protocol on top of the Narwhal's DAG that can order over [------] transactions per second. Unfortunately the high throughput of Bullshark comes with a latency price because of the DAG construction increasing the latency compared to the state-of-the-art"
YouTube Link 2023-10-17T17:30Z 19.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Proving as Fast as Computing - Part [--] with Ron Rothblum a16z crypto research Succinct arguments allow a prover to convince a verifier that a given statement is true using an extremely short proof. A major bottleneck and hence a major area of research has been the overhead incurred by the prover to prove correctness of the computation. In this talk Ron Rothblum (Technion) focuses on the setting of Boolean circuits and describes methods that allow one to prove correctness with nearly optimal asymptotic overhead. Based on joint works with Noga Ron-Zewi and Justin Holmgren. About the speaker Ron"
YouTube Link 2023-08-29T20:59Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"LVR in a minute with Tim Roughgarden a16z crypto research In this explainer Tim Roughgarden head of research at a16z crypto presents a new way to think about the cost side of providing liquidity in an AMM which centers around a quantity called LVR (loss versus rebalancing pronounced lever). There are two types of participants in an automated market maker (AMM): traders who exchange one of the AMMs tokens for another (say ETH and USDC) and liquidity providers (LPs) who provide tokens to the AMM in the first place generally in exchange for a share of the trading fees. But to date it's been"
YouTube Link 2024-03-15T15:22Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"The Explore-Exploit Dilemma: When to Try Something New vs. Stick With What Works From restaurant orders to building companies: why does the safest choice often lead to the worst outcomes Science journalist and former physicist Alex Hutchinson breaks down one of the most fundamental decisions we face every day: should we explore new options or exploit what we already know works Drawing from his book "The Explorer's Gene" Hutchinson explains the mathematics and psychology behind this dilemma and why being optimistic in the face of uncertainty leads to better outcomes and less regret. He covers:"
YouTube Link 2026-01-16T22:30Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"The Value of Decentralization Using the Blockchain with Marco Reuter a16z crypto research talks Although blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity no consensus has emerged about the value they bring if any to economic interactions. In this presentation Marco Reuter (economics Mannheim) argues that a fundamental value the blockchain provides is commitment. He develops a game theoretic model of an entrepreneur who can create a network for users. The entrepreneur can decide to retain control of the network with centralized implementation through a regular company or"
YouTube Link 2023-01-13T14:21Z 19K followers, [----] engagements
"Launching and marketing your project Amanda Cassatt How is web2 marketing different from web3 Amanda Cassatt the founder and CEO of Serotonin a web3 marketing agency and product studio shares lessons and frameworks learned from bringing dozens of web3 products to market. Her talk covers opportunities pitfalls and recurring themes from traditional marketing strategies to building incentive-aligned communities. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of"
YouTube Link 2023-08-03T00:11Z 18.6K followers, 10.9K engagements
"Scaling Avalanche with Subnets and Specialized VMs with Patrick OGrady a16z crypto research talks Patrick O'Grady (Ava Labs) presents Avalanche Subnets the Avalanche Network's technique for horizontally scaling its throughput with connected sovereign subnetworks. Patrick begins with an overview of Avalanche Consensus and explains how it enables the creation of a large number of subnetworks on a single network. He then discusses how Avalanche Subnets work and compares them to other blockchain scaling techniques. Patrick concludes the presentation with a preview of how Subnets may evolve. About"
YouTube Link 2023-02-03T15:30Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"How to solve the internets ID problem in a world of agents bots & deepfakes Generative AI is making it harder to tell real from fake from deepfakes to armies of bots shaping online discourse. As pretending to be human becomes cheap how do we keep the online world trustworthy safe and useful for people Enter "proof of humanity." This episode of web3 with a16z crypto explores how new cryptographic tools privacy-first networks and even hardware (like the Tools for Humanity Orb) aim to flip the economics back in favor of real humans. The result: raising the cost for bots while making human"
YouTube Link 2025-08-18T20:10Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"Digital Signatures for web3 with Foteini Baldimtsi a16z crypto research talks A tutorial on the popular types of digital signatures used by blockchain systems including ECDSA Schnorr and BLS. Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University) discusses the security definitions and differences between different types of signatures such as multi-signatures threshold group ring and blind signatures as well as signature-related operations such as aggregation and pre-signing. About the speaker Foteini is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at George Mason University (GMU). Her"
YouTube Link 2022-08-26T15:07Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"Building Brands for Startups with Steven Ebert Ready to take your brand to the next level Join brand strategist Steven Ebert as he reveals the secrets to crafting a powerful brand narrative tailored for early-stage founders In this must-watch talk Steven breaks down: - How to create a brand story that captivates and inspires - Game-changing frameworks to elevate your brand - The essential questions every brand must answer Whether youre a founder or operator this session is packed with actionable insights to help you build a brand that stands out and connects with your audience. As a reminder"
YouTube Link 2025-01-27T15:23Z 16.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Interchain Timestamping for Interchain Security with David Tse a16z crypto research talks An overview of the optimal security a Proof-of-Stake chain can obtain from an existing blockchain using only succinct commitments. David Tse (Stanford) provides a complete solution based on the concept of interchain timestamping and applies it on two settings: First when the security producer is Bitcoin in which case its security is used to protect the Proof-of-Stake consumer chain from long-range attacks and transaction censorship; and second when the security producer is another Proof-of-Stake chain in"
YouTube Link 2023-04-07T15:58Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Principles for web3 product design Ben Scharfstein (Co-founder & CEO Stelo) Web3 has introduced an entirely new set of user experience challenges from education and on-ramps to seed phrases and security that pose challenges to mass adoption. In this talk Ben Scharfstein (Co-founder & CEO Stelo) shares practical principles to help founders build simpler more powerful web3 products many of which he learned while designing tools that aim to protect people from critical security pitfalls in the web3 user experience. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or"
YouTube Link 2023-05-15T18:44Z 19.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Inside Solana: Near-Death Brushes and a Need for Speed (with Solana) Solana Cofounder Anatoly Yakovenko joins a16z crypto General Partner Ali Yahya for a chat about the origin struggles and evolution of his ambitious blockchain project recorded live at our CSX Crypto Startup Accelerator earlier this year. From the technical revelations that powered Solanas breakthrough performance to the early days of grinding through [----] investor meetings Anatoly shares lessons from his journey as both an engineer and founder. You'll hear how quitting his job moving to SF and discovering "proof of history""
YouTube Link 2025-06-12T19:46Z 20.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Local fee markets with Abdou Ndiaye a16z crypto research talks This talk studies transaction execution mechanisms (TEMs) for blockchains as the efficient resource allocation across multiple parallel execution queues or "local fee markets." Abdou Ndiaye (NYU) present a model considering capacity constraints user valuations and delay costs in a multi-queue system with an aggregate capacity constraint due to global consensus. He shows that revenue maximization tends to allocate capacity to the highest-paying queue while welfare maximization generally serves all queues. Optimal relative pricing"
YouTube Link 2024-10-25T22:25Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"Limits on Revocable Proof Systems with Miranda Christ a16z crypto research In traditional blockchains parties that validate transactions must store a large amount of information for Bitcoin for example this includes all unspent coins and requires several GB. For a cryptocurrency with enough throughput to support truly everyday transactions this storage cost would become prohibitive necessitating expensive hardware and limiting the number of validators posing a risk to decentralization. The more recently proposed stateless blockchain framework lessens the storage burden on validators by having"
YouTube Link 2023-08-24T14:54Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"Beyond ZK: Next Steps for Compliance and Constrained Encryption on Blockchains with Matthew D. Green Since Nakamoto introduced the original Bitcoin protocol a number of research works have sought to extend blockchains using advanced cryptographic technology. Much of this research has dealt with the use of (succinct) zero-knowledge to achieve privacy and scalability in blockchain protocols. Unfortunately ZK techniques have limits: they do not allow for the implementation of arbitrary computation functionalities where many parties have secret data. In this talk we introduce several novel"
YouTube Link 2023-08-22T14:25Z 19K followers, [---] engagements
"What's your biggest productivity hack Startup founders share their tricks for staying productive. These are a few snippets from a new series of founder interviews subscribe to follow along: - X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7pMZvsNXEnb0CYcPiDQywE - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/web3-with-a16z-crypto/id1622312549 - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@a16zcrypto *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see"
YouTube Link 2026-01-06T20:22Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Introduction to Validating Bridges and Layer-2 Protocols with Patrick McCorry a16z crypto research The evolution of L2 bridges which allow users to bridge assets from one blockchain network to another off-chain system. Patrick McCorry (Infura / Consensys) discusses the application of bridges as a scaling solution for Ethereum but also how they apply to operational security concerns of centralized and custodial exchanges on and off chain. Patrick covers the trust assumptions in the bridges bridge hacks trustless bridges and goes deep into validating bridges (rollups) - their properties"
YouTube Link 2022-09-16T16:49Z 19.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Introduction to Selfish Mining with Matt Weinberg a16z crypto research talks A tutorial on selfish mining a cryptocurrency mining strategy where one miner creates a new valid block and withholds it from the public blockchain creating a fork. Matt Weinberg (Princeton) introduces a formal game to capture the rewards that miners get by participating in Bitcoin. He also presents the seminal "Selfish Mining" attack which achieves strictly greater rewards in this game than following the Bitcoin protocol for sufficiently large miners. About the speaker Matt is an assistant professor in Computer"
YouTube Link 2022-11-04T15:41Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Marketing [---] for Startups: Token Launches Memes Reaching Devs & More A candid look at what works and what doesnt when it comes to building reputation and community attracting developers hiring teams launching tokens raising founder profiles and more on this episode of web3 with a16z crypto featuring marketing leaders from Aztec Optimism and a16z crypto. Our experts are: . Amanda Tyler who was most recently Head of Marketing at the Optimism Foundation (and was formerly at Polygon Coinbase and Google); . Claire Kart Chief Marketing Officer at Aztec (who previously was at Risc Zero and SoFi); ."
YouTube Link 2025-05-29T18:56Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"Interactive Storytelling A Creator's Journey: 'Pleased [--] Meet U' with pplpleasr Multidisciplinary artist Emily Yang aka pplpleasr went from visual effects (her credits include feature films like Batman v Superman Wonder Woman Star Trek Beyond as well as commercials and game cinematics) to defining the look of the DeFi movement and creating Fortune magazines first NFT cover as well as other work and experiments along the way. Now the co-founder of decentralized content studio and creator platform Shibuya https://www.shibuya.xyz/ Yang recently shared her journey as a creator -- and the various"
YouTube Link 2023-01-14T01:39Z 19.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Protocol design: Why and how Eddy Lazzarin How can web3 builders design economically sustainable protocols that resist centralization a16z crypto CTO Eddy Lazzarin shares mental models best practices and guidelines for designing decentralized protocols that last. There are many different kinds of protocols out there. But we can unite them all from traffic diagrams to email and SMTP under one definition: They are all formal systems for interaction that facilitate complex group behaviors. When we introduce software to facilitate these interactions internet protocols end up being one of the most"
YouTube Link 2023-05-05T14:58Z 19.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Conversation on incentives with Tim Roughgarden Scott Kominers and Pranav Garimidi In this talk Tim Roughgarden(head of research at a16z crypto) Scott Kominers(research partner) and Pranav Garimidi(research analyst) discuss incentives market design and mechanism design within the infrastructure and application layers. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments"
YouTube Link 2024-07-12T01:09Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms with Scott Duke Kominers a16z crypto research talks How marketplace designers can think about the tradeoffs between efficiency and equity. Many scarce public resources are allocated at below-market-clearing prices and sometimes for free. These ""non-market"" mechanisms sacrifice some surplus yet they can potentially improve equity. In this talk Scott Kominers (a16z crypto research Harvard Business School) presents a model of mechanism design with redistributive concerns with many applications. About the speaker Scott is the MBA Class of [----] Associate"
YouTube Link 2022-07-30T17:00Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Foundations of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design with Elaine Shi a16z crypto research talks Cryptocurrencies today use auctions to decide which transactions get confirmed in the block yet classical auctions fail in such a decentralized environment because even the auctioneer can be a strategic player. Even the second-price auction a golden standard in classical mechanism design fails in the blockchain environment. In this talk Elaine Shi (Carnegie Mellon University) introduces a new foundation for mechanism design in a decentralized environment. She proves an impossibility result that rules"
YouTube Link 2023-01-06T18:12Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) for Blockchain Applications with Ari Juels a16z crypto Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are a powerful security tool and their functionality in principle subsumes that of a gamut of cryptographic primitives. Ari Juels (Cornell) discusses the use of TEEs in blockchain infrastructure focusing on block-building one of the first specific applications where hardware-based TEEs are taking hold. He presents Protected Order-Flow (PROF) a means of enforcing fair ordering of user transactions. PROF leverages TEEs and economic incentives to achieve an overlay"
YouTube Link 2023-09-21T15:23Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"Scaling to stack with Jing Wang and Karl Floersch Jing Wang and Karl Floersch are the cofounders of Optimism a blockchain-based protocol that enables developers to build and deploy decentralized applications on Ethereum. Jing is the CEO and executive director at the Optimism Foundation and Karl is the CEO of OP Labs. This conversation moderated by Jason Rosenthal head of CSX at a16z crypto covers the origin story of Optimism path to scaling and unique ways of working together through challenges. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice;"
YouTube Link 2024-05-17T18:07Z 19.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Do people care about privacy Is privacy unimportant or do we just take it for granted Privacy is returning to the foreground and could be a prerequisite for wider crypto adoption. Indicators of growing interest: - Google searches related to crypto privacy surged in [----] - Zcashs shielded pool supply grew to nearly [--] million ZEC - Railguns transaction flows surpassed $200 million monthly More signs of momentum: - The Ethereum Foundation formed a new privacy team - Paxos partnered with Aleo on a private compliant stablecoin (USAD) - The Office of Foreign Assets Control lifted sanctions on"
YouTube Link 2025-10-30T16:57Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"Twilight: A Differentially Private Payment Channel Network with Saar Tochner a16z crypto research Payment channel networks (PCNs) provide a faster and cheaper alternative to transactions recorded on the blockchain. Clients can trustlessly establish payment channels with relays by locking coins and then send signed payments that shift coin balances over the networks channels. Anyone can track a clients payment by monitoring changes in coin balances over the networks channels. Saar Tochner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents Twilight the first PCN that provides a rigorous differential"
YouTube Link 2022-12-16T21:53Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"Let's Get Digi-Physical: From 'Tap' Chips to Taylor Swift Today's episode explores the merging of the physical and digital worlds as well as what that means for the future of our interactions and identities. Our guests today are Chris Lee cofounder of IYK a startup that's bringing the physical closer together to the digital through NFC chips and joining us is Michael Blau a deal partner at a16z crypto who creates generative art in his spare time. In the conversation ahead we cover new consumer experiences in everything from concert-going to commerce the intersection of high tech and high"
YouTube Link 2024-05-22T21:07Z 18.9K followers, [---] engagements
"SNARK Design Part III with Justin Thaler a16z crypto research talks An even deeper dive into SNARKs (Succinct Non-interactive Argument of Knowledge) by Justin Thaler (Georgetown University). Justin recaps his earlier talks and provides a detailed example of a polynomial IOP and of a polynomial commitment. These examples provide an idea of how SNARKs work in general and how these particular protocols combine to give a SNARK with novel efficiency. About the speaker Justin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University and will join a16z crypto as a"
YouTube Link 2022-11-18T16:56Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"A brief history of open networks Why do open networks always win After working on one of the most ambitious corporate-backed digital currency projects at Facebook Christian Catalini (also cofounder and chief strategy officer of the global payments startup Lightspark) has strong views on how money should move. This episode is part of a special series of interviews we recorded live at our Founders Summit in October. Follow a16z crypto for more. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7pMZvsNXEnb0CYcPiDQywE"
YouTube Link 2026-01-15T21:05Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"What is a zero-knowledge proof #shorts A helpful example from Justin Thaler (a16z crypto research partner and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University)"
YouTube Link 2023-06-22T17:08Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"Intro to intellectual property for web3 Scott Kominers A talk on the basics of intellectual property for web3 projects from Harvard Business School professor and a16z research partner Scott Kominers. Community-created novel IP from NFTs to software protocols has been a surprisingly impactful application of web3. This presentation covers the purpose of IP rights emerging trends in shared IP and the basic parameters of IP design. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including"
YouTube Link 2023-07-14T20:03Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"The big companies making crypto moves a16z Head of Data and Fund Strategy Daren Matsuoka explains why major public companies and financial institutions are adopting crypto. Just five days after stating that stablecoins had found product-market fit in last years State of Crypto report Stripe announced its intent to acquire stablecoin infrastructure platform Bridge. The race was on: Traditional finance companies were ready to make public stablecoin moves too. For more data and trends see our [----] State of Crypto report: https://a16zcrypto.com/stateofcrypto *** As always none of the following"
YouTube Link 2025-10-28T17:07Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements
"From Suitemates to Web3 Innovators: The Journey Behind Uniswap and Optimism Join us for a conversation with Karl Floersch the cofounder of Optimism and CEO of OP Labs and Hayden Adams founder of Uniswap. This talk moderated by Head of CSX Jason Rosenthal covers the interwoven history between building Optimism and Uniswap (Karl and Hayden first met in college) plus the lessons they learned as entrepreneurs and advice for founders building in web3. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important"
YouTube Link 2025-01-13T15:00Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"What are Real-World Assets Real-world assets (RWAs) traditional assets such as U.S. Treasuries money-market funds private credit and real estate that are represented onchain (tokenized) bridge crypto and traditional finance. The total market for tokenized RWAs sits at $30 billion up nearly 4x in the last two years. For more data trends and insights: https://a16zcrypto.com/stateofcrypto/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments"
YouTube Link 2025-11-03T20:58Z 19K followers, [---] engagements
"All About That Gas with Abdou Ndiaye a16z crypto research talks Building on his overview of how to design incentive structures when the network of validators incurs a social cost Abdou Ndiaye (NYU) examines relative pricing of blockchain resources and highlights the role of various elasticities. Abdou discusses needed adjustments to Ethereum's EIP-1559 transaction fee mechanism. He also presents new ideas on the economics of storage on blockchains and execution mechanisms to limit congestion. For background see Abdou's first presentation from summer '22 here: https://youtu.be/4GKMqG_QmOc"
YouTube Link 2023-09-26T17:30Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Credible Auctions: A Trilemma with Mohammad Akbarpour a16z crypto research talks A discussion of the so-called auction trilemma in a blockchain environment. An auction can have any two of the three following properties: static strategy proof or credible. Which two the designer chooses also characterizes the kind of auction (first price second price and ascending). Here Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford Graduate School of Business) focuses on the incentive compatibility for the auctioneer ensuring that auctioneers do not find it profitable to cheat (where cheating is defined as behavior that can be"
YouTube Link 2023-03-03T13:43Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Permissionless Consensus with Andrew Lewis-Pye a16z crypto research talks Blockchain protocols typically aspire to run in the permissionless setting in which nodes are owned and operated by a potentially large number of diverse and unknown entities with each node free to use multiple identifiers and to start or stop running the protocol at any time. This setting is more challenging than the traditional permissioned setting in which the set of nodes that will be running the protocol is fixed and known at the time of protocol deployment. Andrew Lewis-Pye (LSE) discusses work that is aimed at"
YouTube Link 2023-10-17T17:30Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"How to build a social presence in web3 and beyond Ish Verduzco A quickstart guide for building your social media following as a web3 founder or marketer. a16z crypto social media lead Ish Verduzco steps through tips tricks and strategies for building a following. From defining your voice to being choosy about platforms and building a sustainable content strategy this talk covers key best practices for anyone growing their audience. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information"
YouTube Link 2023-08-03T00:10Z 19.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Accessing Data Privately from Theory to Practice with Elaine Shi a16z crypto Research Series Many high-value applications require privately accessing a large global database. For example in private contact discovery users want to fetch their friends' records without disclosing who their friends are. Large Language Models (LLMs) often need to retrieve relevant locations from a large knowledge base depending on the users' queries and the access patterns must be protected if the queries are privacy-sensitive. In this talk Elaine Shi (Carnegie Mellon University Oblivious Labs) describes several"
YouTube Link 2025-11-03T16:47Z 20.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Strategic Behavior in Cryptocurrency Protocols with Matt Weinberg a16z crypto research talks An overview of how miner behavior can vary under different reward schemes. Matt Weinberg (Princeton) presents several different ways strategic players can deviate from intended cryptocurrency protocols. Some examples relate to "selfish mining" while others relate to "fee sniping." About the speaker Matt is an assistant professor in Computer Science at Princeton University. His primary research interest is algorithmic mechanism design: algorithm design in settings where users have their own incentives."
YouTube Link 2022-11-04T15:42Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"Toward succinct proofs of solvency with Jeremy Clark a16z research A firm that holds a large amount of crypto-assets on behalf of customers such as a centralized exchange can provide some level of assurance to their users by issuing frequent zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) of solvency (or reserves). These protocols have been studied for years open problems remain. Crypto-assets like BTC or ETH are governed by public key cryptography in a particular setting (secp256k1) that lacks a key feature (bilinear pairings) necessary for many modern succinct ZKPs. Related work often considers only"
YouTube Link 2024-09-27T13:00Z 19.5K followers, [---] engagements
"CFMMs and Equivalence to Prediction Markets with Bo Waggoner a16z crypto research talks Constant-function market makers (CFMMs) are automated exchanges offering trades among a set of assets. Bo Waggoner (Colorado) presents research on their technical relationship to cost-function prediction markets. He introduces axioms for market makers and shows that CFMMs with concave potential functions characterize "good" market makers according to these axioms. He then shows that every such CFMM on n assets is equivalent to a cost-function prediction market for events with n outcomes. Our construction"
YouTube Link 2023-05-15T18:44Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"How to engage with U.S. policymakers Collin McCune Ever introduced yourself to your congressperson or senator Many Americans don't think to reach out to their representatives but for web3 founders it's especially important to engage not only to understand crypto's political landscape but also to inform critical issues and debates in the space. Head of government affairsCollin McCune shares a decade of experience on Capitol Hill. His talk explores how founders can navigate the current landscape engage their representatives and make a unique impact not only on crypto but on any other issue"
YouTube Link 2023-06-12T16:59Z 19K followers, [---] engagements
"AI Can Fake You. Can You Prove You're Real AI can now mimic you almost perfectly your voice your writing your behavior. So what happens when one person pretends to be thousands From web3 with a16z crypto podcast. Don't miss it. Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHq3W46BiAYjKUYZq2qm-Q #AI #identity #deepfake #bots #privacy #shorts *** As always none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments"
YouTube Link 2025-08-12T00:19Z 20.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Visualizing Lasso: A fast new lookup argument for SNARKs 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. - See the map: https://github.com/a16z/Lasso/blob/master/imgs/memory-checking.png - Read more: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/tags/lasso-jolt - Watch the playlist:"
YouTube Link 2023-10-03T18:47Z 19.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Starting an L1 from scratch with Mo Shaikh Mo Shaikh is the CEO and cofounder of Aptos a blockchain designed for the next billion users. In this conversation moderated by Jason Rosenthal head of CSX at a16z crypto Mo shares his learnings of being a 3x founder his expertise in going from 0-1 and scaling products and how being a first-generation immigrant led him to founding Aptos. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments"
YouTube Link 2024-05-17T13:03Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Cryptoeconomic Security for Data Availability Committees w/ Ertem Nusret Tas a16z crypto research Data Availability Committees (DACs) increase the throughput of Layer [--] systems but at the cost of obtaining an L2 architecture whose security relies solely on the L1 chain. Ertem Nusret Tas (Stanford) introduces DACs and their shortcomings and then proposes a DAC protocol that provides financial incentives to deter the DAC nodes from adversarial behavior (such as withholding data upon request). He then analyzes the interaction of rational DAC nodes and clients as a dynamic game with a Byzantine"
YouTube Link 2023-02-10T16:31Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"How to build an engaged web3 community Shannon Snow World of Women How can web3 projects attract their first [----] true fans Shannon Snow shares lessons learned as COO of World of Women a best-selling PFP project. Building a project in public comes with opportunities and challenges how can founders navigate volatility under increased expectations of transparency This talk covers building a community that builds with you. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link"
YouTube Link 2023-08-03T00:11Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Ignore this advice Bryan Pellegrino (LayerZero) shares the advice he avoids and why conviction matters more than anyone else's input. These are a few snippets from a new series of founder interviews subscribe to follow along: - X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/a16zcrypto/posts/ - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@a16zcrypto *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T23:14Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Evolution of Decentralized Governance with Andrew Hall a16z crypto research talks An introduction to the challenges of decentralized governance generally and their applicability to web3. Andrew Hall (Stanford Graduate School of Business) discusses what political economy research says about well-known challenges from the history of governance - from creating an informed electorate to increasing participation rates to preventing vote buying and corruption - and how those solutions could apply to DAOs and web3 platforms. Andy also presents some initial data on DAO governance from a project"
YouTube Link 2022-09-02T16:43Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Proving as Fast as Computing - Part [--] with Ron Rothblum a16z crypto research Succinct arguments allow a prover to convince a verifier that a given statement is true using an extremely short proof. A major bottleneck and hence a major area of research has been the overhead incurred by the prover to prove correctness of the computation. In this talk Ron Rothblum (Technion) focuses on the setting of Boolean circuits and describes methods that allow one to prove correctness with nearly optimal asymptotic overhead. Based on joint works with Noga Ron-Zewi and Justin Holmgren. About the speaker Ron"
YouTube Link 2023-08-29T20:59Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"Crypto just went mainstream What's the state of the crypo industry In [----] crypto grew up: - Some of the world's largest companies made crypt moves - Blockchains now process over [----] transactions per second (100x+ growth in the last five years) - Stablecoins power $46 trillion ($9 trillion adjusted) in annual transactions rivaling Visa and PayPal - Over $175 billion sits in Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded products. Our latest State of Crypto report looks at institutional adoption and the rise of stablecoins to crypto x AI. check out the full report: a16zcrypto.com/stateofcrypto *** As"
YouTube Link 2025-10-24T00:11Z 18.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Anonymous Credentials and Decentralizing ID Systems with Foteini Baldimtsi a16z crypto research An introduction to digital identities and how to use them for privacy-preserving authentication. Foteini Baldimtsi (George Mason University) covers different types of anonymous credentials systems proposed in academic research and deployed in some systems. She then discusses how digital identities are being decentralized and the challenges of efficient revocation of such credentials. About the speaker Foteini is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at George Mason University"
YouTube Link 2022-08-26T15:07Z 19.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Manipulating Leader Selection in BFT Protocols with Matt Weinberg a16z crypto research talks Cryptographic Self-Selection is a subroutine used to select a leader for modern proof-of-stake consensus protocols such as Algorand. Such protocols leave open the possibility of a selfish-mining style attack: a user who owns multiple accounts that each produce low-scoring credentials in a round can selectively choose which ones to broadcast to influence the seed for the next round. The user can pre-compute their credentials for the next round for each potential seed and broadcast only the credential"
YouTube Link 2023-10-24T14:28Z 19K followers, [---] engagements
"The state of stablecoins The real story behind the rise of stablecoins as told by Sean Neville (cofounder of Circle and co-creator of USDC now CEO of Catena) and Zach Abrams (cofounder of Bridge now part of Stripe). 📩 Subscribe for more industry reports trend updates news analysis builder guides and other resources: https://a16zcrypto.substack.com/subscribe/ 🎙 Like subscribe comment share the show: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/podcast/ *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important"
YouTube Link 2025-12-17T04:48Z 19.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Sam Williams: Mechanism Design [---] Sam Williams founder and CEO of decentralized storage system Arweave gives an overview of Mechanism Design a field of study that has become newly relevant with the development of Bitcoin and subsequent blockchains that require carefully designed incentives for network participants. Williams uses examples to show that economic incentives when designed properly can persuade self-interested people to exhibit useful behaviors at fair market value with minimal central planning. This provides a new tool to bootstrap decentralized networks. He cautions however that"
YouTube Link 2023-03-01T17:32Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Dynamic Participation with Ling Ren a16z crypto research talks One key innovation of Bitcoin's longest-chain consensus protocol over class Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocols is its support for dynamic participation. The Bitcoin protocol has operated for over a decade during which it has witnessed a billionfold increase as well as large and sudden drops in the participation level (represented by the total hashing rate). But to support this level of robustness longest-chain protocols suffer from long. Classic BFT protocols on the other hand can achieve"
YouTube Link 2022-12-16T19:48Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"How Brian Armstrong built Coinbase A chat between Coinbase founder and CEO Brian Armstrong and a16z crypto general partner Sriram Krishnan. Their conversation hosted for founders at the [----] Crypto Startup School covers the journey from coder to manager the importance of building a community of power users for your product frameworks for choosing big product bets and more. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice; please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of our investments. More from: - Crypto"
YouTube Link 2023-05-12T14:45Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Workshop on Rollup Sequencer Economics: Open Questions organized by Ben Fisch a16z crypto Rollups are horizontally scaling the application layer of Ethereum. But as computation is sharded across different rollups the interoperability of applications running on these rollups becomes fragmented significantly impacting user utility. Moreover today rollups are operated by centralized servers that decide on which transactions to include and in what order. Fragmented interoperability and sequencing centralization are some of the biggest challenges facing rollups today as they undermine the core"
YouTube Link 2023-09-12T19:58Z 18.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Secrets and how to prove them: A magician's guide to zero-knowledge proofs What are zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) Deal partner Michael Blau combines his background in crypto and magic to explore a new analogy for a tough-to-explain concept: Think of ZKPs like a great magic trick. For an overview of the defining properties (scalability and privacy) of ZKPs and how all of this plays out using magic read the full explanation: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/articles/a-magicians-guide-to-zero-knowledge-proofs And for more on zero knowledge:"
YouTube Link 2023-09-08T15:51Z 19.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Introduction to Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) with Joseph Bonneau a16z crypto research talks An overview of Verifiable Delay Functions a new cryptographic tool developed since [----]. Joseph Bonneau (a16z crypto research) covers applications basic constructions and open questions. About the speaker Joseph's research and publications focus on social networking privacy cryptographic protocols side-channel attacks software obfuscation and reverse engineering. He has taught cryptocurrency courses at the University of Melbourne NYU Stanford and Princeton and received a PhD in computer science"
YouTube Link 2022-07-30T17:00Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"The Coming Collision of AI & Crypto: What Happens Next Today's episode is a round table on some of the most compelling ideas at the intersection of AI and crypto sourced from members of the a16z crypto team. You'll hear from builders researchers and deal makers who are all wrestling with the big question: How will these two powerful technologies collide and what happens when they do First Investment Partner Sam Broner makes the case for giving AI agents universal identities. Then Research Partner Scott Kominers presents how crypto can provide AI with levels and layers of rich context. You'll"
YouTube Link 2025-07-16T19:08Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"De-Anonymization in Bitcoin with Sarah Meiklejohn a16z crypto research talks There are many heuristics that are used in practice to de-anonymize Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies but it is often hard to assess their effectiveness given a lack of ground-truth data. In this talk Sarah Meiklejohn (UCL) provides an overview of these heuristics as well as new research to both improve them and increase our confidence in their results. About the speaker Sarah is a Professor in Cryptography and Security at University College London (UCL) and a Staff Research Scientist at Google. She is also an"
YouTube Link 2022-11-18T16:56Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"How Do You Really Know Someone Online Can you actually prove whos real online Scams deepfakes and fake profiles make it harder than ever. This clip breaks down [--] ways to verify identity and how new tech can keep you safe without giving up your privacy. From web3 with a16z crypto podcast. Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHq3W46BiAYjKUYZq2qm-Qsub_confirmation=1 #OnlineIdentity #Privacy #AI #Shorts *** As always none of the content should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a list of"
YouTube Link 2025-08-25T20:00Z 20K followers, [---] engagements
"Hiring and retaining talent in web3 with Craig Naylor Mehdi Hasan and Madan Nagaldinne Talent is the backbone of any organization making the process of building the right team vital for early stage founders. Once you've built your team ensuring workplace satisfaction is key for retaining and scaling your business. In this talk Craig Naylor Head of Talent at a16z crypto Mehdi Hasan Head of Executive Talent at a16z crypto and People Practices Partner Madan Nagaldinne share strategies for hiring and retaining strong teams for web3 startups. As a reminder none of the content should be taken as"
YouTube Link 2024-08-22T16:29Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG) Based Consensus Protocols: An Introduction a16z crypto research talks A tutorial on direct acyclic graph (DAG) based consensus protocols. Andrew Lewis-Pye (London School of Economics) introduces DAGs which allow blocks to have multiple parents or children thus resolving the problem of forks in blockchains. The resulting structure is a Directed Acyclic Graph (rather than a chain). Andy introduces how to think about such structures and then focuses on state-of-the-art protocols such as Cordial Miners DAG-Rider and Bullshark. About the speaker Andy is a Professor at"
YouTube Link 2022-10-14T16:25Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements
"The Politics of Negotiating as a Group with Peter Buisseret a16z crypto Research Series Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) regularly negotiate with external counterparties vendors regulators protocol developers. DAOs aggregate the preferences of their individual stakeholders to negotiate collectively as a group. To study these and related negotiation contexts Peter Buisseret (Harvard University) analyzes a dynamic bargaining game in which a heterogeneous group negotiates jointly with a single external agent such as a regulator or an employer. Group members have different valuations"
YouTube Link 2025-11-30T19:26Z 20.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Preparing for the Pitch with Arianna Simpson How can founders show why their vision matters and why they're the right team to bring it to market A primer on pitching a web3 startup from a16z crypto general partner Arianna Simpson. In this talk Arianna shares learnings and frameworks from her experience raising money for her own funds along with years hearing thousands of pitches. She covers pitching from start to finish from crafting a narrative for your product and team to following up to help make an often daunting process as easy as possible. As a reminder none of the content should be"
YouTube Link 2024-08-31T16:10Z 20.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Ali Yahya: Crypto Business Models Andreessen Horowitz crypto partner Ali Yahya discusses Crypto Business Models. Yahya explains that the consensus mechanisms of blockchains create trust among independent participants in decentralized networks. At first glance this may seem at odds with the idea of capturing value since none of the factors that allow companies to build moats in traditional industries trade secrets intellectual property or control of a scarce resource apply in crypto. This leads to the value-capture paradox how can easy-to-replicate open-source code be defensible in a"
YouTube Link 2023-03-01T17:33Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"Why memecoins don't attract developers Without regulatory clarity memecoins flourished. Over [--] million memecoins launched in the last year so why aren't they bringing in more developers This trend appears to be cooling down in recent months there were 56% fewer launches in September than in January. For more data on memecoins and more check out our [----] State of Crypto report: https://a16zcrypto.com/stateofcrypto *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information including a link to a"
YouTube Link 2025-10-24T20:53Z 19.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The Blocklace: A Partially-Ordered Generalization of the Blockchain a16z crypto research talks Introducing the blocklace a partially ordered generalization of the totally ordered blockchain. In this presentation Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann Institute of Science) shows how the blocklace can realize all algorithmic tasks required for ordering consensus: dissemination equivocation-exclusion and ordering. These capabilities are integrated in Cordial Miners - a family of efficient Byzantine Atomic Broadcast (permissioned blockchain consensus) protocols with optimal instances for the models of asynchrony"
YouTube Link 2022-10-21T13:51Z 20K followers, [----] engagements
"What are stablecoins Before the Fed banks issued notes backed by assets. Fiat-reserve stablecoins follow the same model. Their value comes from redeemability and broad trust in issuers. More resources: Find Sam on X: https://x.com/SamBroner Follow a16z crypto across. X: https://x.com/a16zcrypto LinkedIn: / posts Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7pMZvsN. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast. Youtube: / @a16zcrypto *** As always none of the following should be taken as investment business legal or tax advice. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more important information"
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