a16z crypto
Sonal Chokshi and Robert Hackett host a16z crypto's interviews and essays on the science, technology, and policy of web3, produced by Andreessen Horowitz's crypto arm. Running since 2022, it includes the First Principles series featuring pioneering cryptography and computing researchers.
345 episodes
- What Comes After Stablecoins?
- Can AI Actually Break Cryptography? Experts Weigh In On the FUD
- How Crypto Is Rebuilding Finance From First Principles
- How Perpetual Futures Work and Why They Matter
- Chris Dixon on How the Future Gets Funded
- What If You Built a Bank Like a Blockchain?
- How Bitcoin Survives Quantum Computers (ft. Dan Boneh)
- The 'Useless' Theory Behind Modern SNARKs (ft. Gödel Prize Winner Noam Nisan)
- How Shafi Goldwasser Co-Invented Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon: Why America Needs Clarity
- The Clarity Act, Explained (ft. Miles Jennings)
- How AI is Changing the Way We Build Companies (ft. Guy Wuollet and Noah Citron)
- The Story Behind RSA: The Invention That Secured the Internet (ft. Turing Award Winner Ron Rivest)
- Why Auction Design Matters (ft. Nobel Economist Paul Milgrom)
- Why Markets Fail — and How to Fix Them (ft. Nobel Economist Alvin Roth)
- Leslie Lamport on the Science of Distributed Systems
- From Byzantine Agreement to Bitcoin (ft. Tim Roughgarden and Ittai Abraham)
- Before Blockchains, There Was State Machine Replication (ft. Barbara Liskov and Tim Roughgarden)
- How Stablecoins Are Reconfiguring the Financial System | ft. Eddy Lazzarin and Sonal Chokshi
- What Happens When Your AI Agent Gets a Wallet?
- Can Crypto Make AI More Trustworthy? Sreeram Kannan on Verifiable AI and EigenLayer
- AI And The Future Of Cybersecurity
- Privacy-Preserving Digital Identity with Abhi Shelat | a16z crypto Research Series
- Mental Models for Real-World Cryptography and Trusted Execution Environments