Tag: crypto & web3

Building Partnerships with NFT Projects and Communities

BlockchainOctober 13, 2022

As the NFT market has grown, with a number of larger projects reaching billions of dollars in sales volume within the last year, and...

Virtual Society, Blockchains, and The Metaverse

BlockchainOctober 9, 2022

In 1986, the early internet provider Quantum Link and the entertainment company Lucasfilm Games released what might be considered the first ever MMO: a...

On Paper to On-Chain: How Auction Theory Informs Smart Contract Implementations

BlockchainOctober 7, 2022

Auctions are ubiquitous in crypto. From Maker collateral auctions, to Flashbots’ sealed-bid blockspace auctions and NFT auctions on OpenSea, auctions are suitable for a...

Regulate web3 apps, not protocols

BlockchainSeptember 29, 2022

Many early proponents of the internet advocated for it to remain free and open in perpetuity, a borderless and regulation-free tool for all of...

A Call to the SEC: Treat Crypto Assets as if Clients Matter

BlockchainSeptember 21, 2022

This op-ed originally appeared as “A Call to the SEC: Treat Crypto Assets as if Clients Matter” on Coindesk’s website on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. Last...

LVR: Quantifying the Cost of Providing Liquidity to Automated Market Makers

BlockchainSeptember 19, 2022

There are two types of participants in an automated market maker (AMM): traders, who exchange one of the AMM’s tokens for another (as a...

Zero Knowledge Canon

BlockchainSeptember 16, 2022

Editor’s note: a16z crypto has had a long series of the “canons”, from our DAO Canon last year to our NFT Canon earlier (and...

What The Merge Means

BlockchainSeptember 15, 2022

The Merge – the major Ethereum upgrade that happened early Thursday morning – will go down as one of the most important moments in...

‘Proof-of-Merge’ NFT to Commemorate Ethereum

BlockchainSeptember 14, 2022

“The Merge” – a major planned Ethereum upgrade – is set to take place imminently. The update will switch Ethereum over from “proof-of-work,” a...

SNARK Security and Performance

BlockchainSeptember 13, 2022

A SNARK (Succinct Non-interactive Argument of Knowledge) is a cryptographic tool that opens up exciting new possibilities in system design, especially in decentralized settings....