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not specifically but I think you’ll find the conversation highly fruitful nonetheless

luckily my duolingo gems are completely unaffected by the stock market

The Biden SEC's attack on crypto created perverse incentives that were detrimental to Americans. 

For example, it led to them being excluded from airdrops, depriving them of ownership of the internet. 

Today, we published a quick explainer of our airdrop safe harbor proposal👇
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/airdrops-safe-legal-frequent/

Airdrops are more than token giveaways, they redistribute ownership of internet protocols and services

Over 4 years at @a16zcrypto, I've found writing to be the best tool for exploring crypto’s complexity—from advising founders to constructing policy.

It’s a discovery engine that demands clarity, consistency and transparency.

Here are 10 posts I learned the most from writing:

@a16zcrypto • Harvard/HBS • 🧩 • QED

(paɪəˈnɪərɪŋ ˈspɪrɪt) a willingness to endure hardship in order to explore new places or try out new the new
|| PioneeringSpirit.xyz || bit.ly/patwater

great q. crypto is filled with interesting economic mechanism design and congestion pricing is one good example. the most obvious place you'll see it onchain is gas pricing.

we talk more about the crypto connections with @skominers around the ~39:00 timestamp

Dropped a little shout to the Warpcast rewards program ~14:30 min

In this episode, we talk about one of the most familiar — and most misunderstood — mechanics in crypto: the airdrop.

We explore the history of airdrops in and outside crypto, the challenges of incentive design, and learnings from airdrops to date.

We also answer questions like how do you avoid Sybil attacks and professional airdrop farming? Should your drop be big or small, one-time or ongoing? And what happens when AI agents enter the mix?

To break it all down, we’re joined by @eddy, @darenmatsuoka, @andyhall, & @hackr 

Whether you’re planning a token launch, looking for token rewards, or just curious why airdrops have become such a powerful mechanism in crypto — this episode is for you.

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/podcast/all-about-airdrops/

Everything you ever wanted to know about AIRDROPS, packaged just for you...

Thanks @eddy @darenmatsuoka @andyhall for coming on the show.

CTO @a16zcrypto, lover of https://github.com/a16z/awesome-farcaster

I study decentralized governance

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Reminder that the Old English for a forester was wuduweard, or ‘forest-guardian’. Today the word survives as the last name Woodward. https://t.co/JrtCKKjPuI

Wylfċen

Squidward, guardian of squids https://x.com/wylfcen/status/1909110538950365658

In this episode, we’re talking about congestion pricing — an area of mechanism design that’s aimed at alleviating something everyone hates: traffic.

In the first part of today’s episode, we’ll trace the history of the economic ideas that got us here. In the middle, we’ll dig deeper into the details of putting congestion pricing into practice, plus technological alternatives. And in the final part, we’ll explore parallels to — and implications for — crypto networks.

Our guest is Michael Ostrovsky, a Stanford Economics Professor who specializes in this area and who has done research on congestion pricing in New York. We’re also joined by a16z crypto Research Partner @skominers, who is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches market design and entrepreneurship.

With our host @hackr 🎙️

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/podcast/congestion-pricing-economics-new-york/

i spoke to two economists about congestion pricing — from city blocks to blockchains

great conversation with @skominers + Mike Ostrovsky (who has been researching the implementation in NYC)

1/ I’m excited to announce the cohort for our fourth Crypto Startup Accelerator program (CSX 04), starting this week in San Francisco.   

CSX helps early-stage startups building on blockchain technologies to accelerate development and product-market fit. It is an intensive program that provides the expertise, mentorship, and support that startups need to build ambitious products across industries. 

Over the next two months, the founders of these companies will get firsthand guidance and support from a16z crypto’s investing and operating teams. We connect founders with capital, industry experts across the a16z network, and a cohort of leading web3 teams. a16z CSX also invests a minimum of $500,000 in each company that’s accepted. 

The founders in CSX 04 are coming to San Francisco from countries around the world: Canada, France, Germany, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, and across the US.

crypto

credible commitments are reshaping the fabric of our society — great chat ft. @sreeramkannan & @alive @a16zcrypto 

a truth that many people aren’t paying enough attention to — simply because it’s such an inherent part of our lives — everything around us is made of commitments.

loving the “civilization as a system of commitments” — crypto is redefining what it truly means to commit to something.

Today’s episode of web3 with a16z features a conversation between Eigen Labs Founder @sreeramkannan, formerly an associate professor at the University of Washington, where he led its Blockchain Lab, and a16z crypto General Partner @alive_eth. 

We dig into big ideas, like what https://t.co/Im9QV8auTO

Excited to share this fireside chat with @alive_eth at @a16zcrypto. 

It has been a privilege to work with Ali at a16z on building Eigen labs and Eigenlayer. 

We dive into 
“cultivating unconstrained thinking”, “breaking out of local optimization”, 
“compounding leverage and

Sreeram Kannan

We back bold entrepreneurs building the next internet. 
a16zcrypto.com/

GP @a16zcrypto. Previously Google Brain, GoogleX, Stanford Computer Science.

credible commitments are reshaping the fabric of our society — great chat ft. @sreeramkannan & @alive @a16zcrypto 

a truth that many people aren’t paying enough attention to — simply because it’s such an inherent part of our lives — everything around us is made of commitments.

loving the “civilization as a system of commitments” — crypto is redefining what it truly means to commit to something.

https://x.com/sreeramkannan/status/1904641100167733434

lightclients

We've added @linea support to Helios!

This makes Linea our second supported L2 with more to come soon.

Huge shoutout to the @mendifinance team for building the implementation!

Head over to our GitHub to get started using Helios on Ethereum, Linea, or the Optimism Superchain!

Building the most secure zkEVM ecosystem. Committed to Ethereum. Bootstrapped by @Consensys. 

Linea is where dapps thrive.

Unified Lending without Limits.

Break free: http://malda.xyz

We've added @linea support to Helios!

This makes Linea our second supported L2 with more to come soon.

Huge shoutout to the @mendifinance team for building the implementation!

Head over to our GitHub to get started using Helios on Ethereum, Linea, or the Optimism Superchain!

https://github.com/a16z/helios

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