James Gleick on The Telephone: A New History
On the messy business of inventing an inevitable technology
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Building networks for agents
Agents will make it possible to build networks around a much wider range of goods and services
Prediction markets’ biggest month yet, in 3 charts
Prediction markets just had their biggest month ever. Notional trading volume hit $123.6B. That’s 1.5x all of 2024 and 2025 combined ($82B). Even if you use a much more conservative measure and look at the cash that buyers paid for contracts (counting parlays at the cents paid…
Reusable networks
While software is becoming abundant, networks are not. The software is no longer the moat: the network is. And you can’t vibe code USDC.
The rise of generative networks
On a generative network, every output also becomes an input for someone else.
a16z Frontier
Today we’re announcing that we’re expanding the scope of our new fund beyond crypto startups to the broader category of frontier startups: companies building new technologies and creating markets that may take years to develop. To reflect this, we’re renaming a16z Crypto to…
Fast post-quantum signature aggregation with lattice SNARKs
Today we're releasing Aerie, which aggregates lattice-based signatures using lattice-based SNARKs
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