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@a16zcrypto
Jun 19
A handful of ideas hold up the entire digital world, but most of us never learn where they came from. So we went to the source: the people who solved these problems, and won Turing Awards and Nobel Prizes for it. First Principles, hosted by @Tim_Roughgarden. First episode out
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Some books we’re reading this summer 2026
Here are a few of the books the a16z crypto team is reading and recommending this summer, from mountaineering memoirs and market histories to sci-fi, children’s books, and epistolary novels. Our picks...
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Paul Cafiero
@PaulCaf
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If you yell about everything, you're heard about nothing
Startup comms runs at a permanent fever pitch. Every launch is momentous. Every setback is the end of the industry. Every rival is a fraud, every partnership is historic, and every week is the most...
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Tim Roughgarden
@Tim_Roughgarden
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New episode of First Principles, with Leslie Lamport and co-hosted by @ittaia! Tons of great nuggets, but my favorite bit starts at 26:39
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Replying to @a16zcrypto @Tim_Roughgarden and @ittaia
First Principles Ep. 3 with Leslie Lamport Before blockchains could reach consensus, Leslie Lamport had to define what agreement even meant when computers fail, lie, or disappear. Hosted by @Tim_Roughgarden with @ittaia. 00:00 The problem every blockchain is built to solve
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sungmo
@sungmo_apac16z
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Inside Asia's Institutional Blockchain Race: The South Korea Edition
South Korea has long played a very specific role in the global crypto ecosystem. In the 2017 and 2021 cycles, the country became one of crypto’s most important retail markets. Korean exchanges could...
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Jun 20
Replying to @a16zcrypto @Tim_Roughgarden and @ittaia
First Principles Ep. 2 w/ Barbara Liskov Every blockchain alive today leans on replication ideas worked out in the 1980s, by a Turing Award winner who wasn’t thinking about how it might apply to money at all. Hosted by @Tim_Roughgarden with @ittaia. 00:00 How do systems stay
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@a16zcrypto
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First Principles Ep. 3 with Leslie Lamport Before blockchains could reach consensus, Leslie Lamport had to define what agreement even meant when computers fail, lie, or disappear. Hosted by @Tim_Roughgarden with @ittaia. 00:00 The problem every blockchain is built to solve
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@a16zcrypto
Jun 25
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Charts: Prediction markets just posted their third straight record-setting week
@rhackett Weekly prediction market volume hit $14.4 billion for the first time last week — up from roughly $5-6B at the start of the year. The previous all-time high, roughly $10B, was set only a...
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a16z crypto
@a16zcrypto
Jun 24
"Every other capital-intensive commodity — oil, real estate, energy — has developed the tools needed to price, hedge, finance, and trade risk… Compute has almost none of this."
Ali Yahya
@alive_
Jun 24
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Investing in Ornn: A Market for Compute
by @alive_ and @liz_harkavy We are in the middle of what may be the largest capital formation event of our lifetime. The buildout of GPUs, data centers, and power will soon likely rank among the...
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Kush Bavaria
@bavaria_kush
Jun 24
Today, we're announcing our Series Seed funding of $33M led by @a16zcrypto
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Ali Yahya
@alive_
Jun 24
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Investing in Ornn: A Market for Compute
by @alive_ and @liz_harkavy We are in the middle of what may be the largest capital formation event of our lifetime. The buildout of GPUs, data centers, and power will soon likely rank among the...
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Avalanche🔺
@avax
Jun 23
Over the past several months, we’ve focused on one thing: showing what’s possible when blockchain technology is put to work. Today, we’re bringing that story together. Our new brand reflects a simple belief: the future of blockchain will be defined by businesses using the
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a16z crypto
@a16zcrypto
Jun 23
"A compelling story alone will no longer move the needle. We need proof." — @PaulCaf
Paul Cafiero
@PaulCaf
Jun 17
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Welcome to the ‘Show Me’ era
For several decades now, the tech industry has been able to get public recognition and external credit for the interesting ideas coming out of it. So much so that the startup concept of a “minimum...
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a16z crypto
@a16zcrypto
Jun 22
"The magic of tokens that's not really viable for stocks is that you could keep minting on the other side... totally decoupled from the fees coming in." @eddylazzarin on the buy-and-burn vs. mint-and-spend, and the lever token networks have that equity doesn't: "The idea of the
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Jun 12
Crypto has been walled off from the real economy for years. That's changing. @eddylazzarin joins @smc90 and @rhackett to break down why crypto is entering a completely different phase, and what gets built once the rules finally catch up to the technology. 00:00 Intro 01:25
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