Over the past few years, our research & engineering teams have released a number of open source tools to help advance the crypto ecosystem. 

Today we are announcing two new technologies, Lasso and Jolt, designed to improve performance, accessibility, and developer experience for important blockchain technologies. ↓

a16z crypto research partner (and associate professor at Georgetown) Justin Thaler has co-written two papers explaining Lasso and Jolt, tools that we anticipate will dramatically speed up building in web3. 

Learn more below:

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Papers linked in the above post, but we’re also releasing an open source implementation of Lasso, and welcome contributors interested in SNARK design – both for applications in blockchains and beyond.

Papers linked in the above post, but we’re also releasing an open source implementation of Lasso, and welcome contributors interested in SNARK design – both for applications in blockchains and beyond.
https://github.com/a16z/Lasso

a16z crypto research partner (and associate professor at Georgetown) Justin Thaler has co-written two papers explaining Lasso and Jolt, tools that we anticipate will dramatically speed up building in web3. 

Learn more below: 
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/introducing-lasso-and-jolt/