Valeria Nikolaenko

Valeria (Lera) Nikolaenko is a cryptographer known for her work on threshold signatures, proof-of-stake security, data availability, and post-quantum cryptography. She earned her PhD in computer science from Stanford University advised by Dan Boneh, then spent four years as a research scientist at Meta working on the Diem (formerly Libra) blockchain before becoming a founding research partner at a16z crypto in 2022. Her published work includes the FrodoKEM post-quantum key exchange, defenses against long-range attacks on proof-of-stake systems, and a distinguished paper on fair data exchange via blockchain.

8 talks by Valeria Nikolaenko

• ZK and cryptography with Justin Thaler, Valeria Nikolaenko and Joseph Bonneau
• ep 11 – Proof-of-Stake Blockchains: Designs, Consensus, Attacks
• ep 24 – Of Data Availability & Danksharding
• Distributed Data Storage, DAS, and Danksharding with Valeria Nikolaenko | a16z crypto research
• DAS, Protodanksharding, and Danksharding with Valeria Nikolaenko | a16z crypto
• Post-quantum blockchains | Valeria Nikolaenko
• Long-range Attacks on Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Blockchains w/ Valeria Nikolaenko | a16z crypto research
• A Survey of Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Blockchain Designs with Valeria Nikolaenko | a16z crypto research