I’m hiring an intern to work with me this summer
@a16z
crypto
Biased toward technical exp (ongoing CS degree is fine), 1+ internship exp @ tech co/startup, deep philosophical alignment w/ crypto. US-based remote is ok
Pls send resume & why you like web3 to crypto-jobs
@a16z
.com
Hit me up if you're currently in a full-time investment role (analyst to partner, 1+ years experience) at a venture fund and want to join a web3 fund...
3/3 If you identify as…
⭐️A founder building in crypto at pre-seed & beyond
🔜An aspiring founder
🧙A web2 operator looking to break into web3
👽An anon building in stealth
🤝A DAO
…We’d love to meet you!
Reach out at via DM or jlippencott at 🙂
Looking for founders building web3 chat apps!📱
- peer-to-peer or peer-to-group chat
- token-gated access to channels or groups
- search & discovery layer via on-chain social graph
- clear path to decentralized/censorship-resistant infrastructure
I'm going to Mexico City next week to cowork and collab with an incredible squad of 14 crypto investors, founders, and operators!
Who should we meet and what should we do?
Celebrating 1 year at
@a16z
! And what a year it's been 🥹
Honored to work with this team and all of our amazing founders who are building the future of the internet.
2/3
@alive_eth
@AriannaSimpson
@cdixon
@katie_haun
are the most thoughtful and hardworking investors in the crypto space and lead an exceptional team w/ a diverse set of superpowers. I'm excited to join forces to continue doing what I love - supporting founders building in web3.
At
@a16z
crypto, we're constantly asking ourselves how we can better serve our portfolio companies and the web3 space more broadly.
To that end, we're launching a16z crypto research with
@Tim_Roughgarden
,
@alive_eth
&
@danboneh
at the helm 🙏
Today, we're announcing the creation of
@a16z
crypto research 💥
Research labs like DeepMind and OpenAI have elevated the field of AI to new heights.
We are setting out to do the same for crypto and web3 👇
(RIP my DMs)
There's a great TG group strictly for people who live in SF full time and work in web3. It's a solid community resource.
We're ~300 strong so far, but I know we're missing a lot of people.
If you meet the criteria & would like to be added, shoot me a message🌉
One of our ✨exceptionally high growth✨ startups
@a16z
crypto is hiring backend engineers:
- Write robust APIs
- Work with message queues & caching
- Develop real-time blockchain data pipelines
- Champion code quality & developer experience
Hit my DMs if you're interested!
I've spent the better part of the last 2 months in LA supporting our first accelerator
@a16zcrypto
CSS
One more month to go and I'd love to use some of the remaining time to meet more pre-seed and seed stage crypto companies
DM me if you're building in LA!
The
@WGMInterfaces
decision to pause development highlights the impact of the significant pressure on NFT artists today to provide ongoing support & utility beyond artwork.
I think individual holders want to support artists building NFT communities but lack the tools to do so👇
We're hiring an Associate Partner to support our portfolio companies with go-to-market and business development strategy alongside the amazing
@meigga
at
@a16z
Crypto.
Details and application here:
I'm heading to Tokyo in a few weeks to judge the
@ETHGlobal
ETH Tokyo hackathon alongside
@TheRealKartik
@joanofdao
@_MinTeo
!
I'd love to meet crypto founders and VCs while I'm there. Please DM me if you'll be around and want to grab a 🍵
Hello from day two of
#Crypto
Finance Conference in St. Moritz, Switzerland!
Huge thank you to the
@CFCstmoritz
team & board for making this incredible event a reality ❄️
Seems like as good a time as any to re-emphasize...
We're hiring for a few roles on the
@a16z
crypto investment team! Email crypto-jobs
@a16z
.com with your resume + why web3 + why you'd like to work with us💡
The ideal mobile browser for crypto would feature:
- DA options so users can take their content to other clients. attestations against content can be shared with advertisers, for a fee, to improve targeting
- built in wallet featuring many accounts with varied security
I’ve learned so much from
@guyoseary
and the
@yugalabs
team over the past few months — and they’ve only just started laying the foundation for community-owned media.
Stoked to play a supporting role alongside such a visionary team 🐒
I am beyond excited to announce that
@a16z
crypto is leading the financing of
@yugalabs
and I'm joining the board. We look forward to helping the team continue to usher the next wave of creators and builders into web3 to define the future of culture and innovation. LFG!
🦍🦍🦍
With the exciting announcements from
@IDEOVC
and
@variantfund
today, one thing should be clear to crypto founders:
There have *never* been more high-quality funds actively investing in early-stage crypto startups. ✨
🎵The new
@soundxyz_
mobile app has officially been relegated to the place of honor in my dock where
@SpotifyUSA
used to be
Who are your favorite artists on
@soundxyz_
?
Check out the app 👇🏽
Introducing the Sound Mobile App - your new home for discovering new music on Sound.
↳ Discover new artists & songs.
↳ Browse playlists – or create your own.
↳ Build your library & play your collection.
↳ View collectors throughout the app.
Founders building crypto-enabled apps today are often bound by blockchain compute costs.
zkVMs like Jolt allow developers to reveal “truths” to their users without publishing state onchain.
Things like reputation/leaderboard rankings, a certification that a smart contract is
1/ We're excited to share the initial release of Jolt, a new approach to zkVM design. Early benchmarks indicate it outperforms RISC Zero by ~6x and SP1 by up to 2x. Major optimizations are still in the pipeline.
First drop of CSS'23 content this morning! Learn about...
🌱web3 & how we got here
@cdixon
⚙️protocol design: why and how
@eddylazzarin
🛒pricing 101
@meigga
👩💻cryptography for blockchains
@danboneh
🤝leadership in web3
@Mclader
1/ We relaunched Crypto Startup School 2023, with the goal of helping builders get started on new crypto projects.
And now we’re sharing the curriculum for everyone to follow along.
Here are 5 new talks – with lots more to come. ↓
I think of this like a filter advertisers have to engage with before being able to send internet users an offer.
Based on the likelihood of interest (price point inclusive), the offer will be sorted into one of various
@xmtp_
inboxes (apps and/or the user can decide how this
fresh inspiration from
@fredwilson
today on a belief I've held for a long time:
NFTs become the "port of entry" for ALL internet media:
today: mint for status, identity, patronage
soon: mint for personalization
if you own your personalization agent (meaning you can take it
First drop of CSS'23 content this morning! Learn about...
🌱web3 & how we got here
@cdixon
⚙️protocol design: why and how
@eddylazzarin
🛒pricing 101
@meigga
👩💻cryptography for blockchains
@danboneh
🤝leadership in web3
@Mclader
We announced Sound's $20m Series A today! 🎧
By unlocking web3-native revenue opportunities, Sound empowers artists to bypass trad intermediaries & retain a majority of their earnings - without sacrificing distribution.
Read more about our thesis ->
It’s time.
We’re now open to all artists!
Sound was built to create a new model for music and help artists make a living.
Today it’s open to all, and we’ve raised a $20m Series A to turn this into a reality.
Artists, here’s how to get started 👇
1/ Over the past 6 months,
@David_M_Kerr
and I have been researching several legal issues facing many DAOs (liability, taxes, contracting, etc.) that are beginning to emerge and that threaten their viability. Today, we published a potential solution.👇
The
@farcaster_xyz
Frames launch today is the first step in opening up a massive design space for developers looking to engage users of Farcaster apps without building an entire client.
The fact that you'll be able to have a user interact with your product via a deep embedding
in the next few years, designers will be able to:
- upload design components (layers like fabric, print, fit, movement) on-chain w/ royalties for web3 native collab with other designers
- sell virtual goods (nfts) direct to buyers (often offering redemption for a physical item)
One of our CSS'23 companies
@kikiworld_
is building a community-centric beauty brand💅💋
Some of the more active online communities coalesce around beauty product reviews, making this an obvious category for web3 enabled customer governance.
Vote on the color of KIKI's first
Continuing my excitement about crypto use cases this year - We announced an investment in
@sceneinfra
just now.
It's been a blast working with
@JoseRMejia
. Check out what they're building in
@carrawu
's thread.
Intermittent changes of scenery = improved productivity 🚀
So thankful for
#remotework
. Can't even imagine going into an office 9-5 every day. Thanks
#crypto
!!!
Anne is sharp, thoughtful, curious - and left everyone she met on our team with a strong sense of excitement about what the next generation will contribute to web3!
Can't wait to see all that she brings to the
@a16z
crypto team this summer✨🙂
Thrilled to start my internship
@a16z
crypto today under
@janehk
! I’m excited to be working on ZKPs and other privacy solutions, stables, and scalability research alongside some of the brightest minds in crypto
@guywuolletjr
@alive_eth
Today
@stelolabs
launched Stelo Explore, a safer way to interact w/ smart contracts✨
2 features that stand out:
1. Smart input validation makes sure you can never enter invalid data
2. You can simulate transactions ahead of execution
Much needed support for onchain actions :)
Hey
@ChiaraFerragni
, long time follower on insta 👋
I saw you're considering doing an IPO...
Have you thought about launching a social token?
Quick thread:
More impressed by the
@useteller
team every day👏
Credit risk assessment 🤝 DeFi
Join the waitlist and farmers 🧑🌾 reach out directly to learn more about their liquidity programme!
What a year for
@soundxyz_
🎶 $3.4 million of earnings distributed to 165 artists!
With Sound Protocol, any artist can freely deploy their own permissionless Sound song contracts, using web3 to go direct to fan communities 🤩
Today,
@soundxyz_
is launching the Sound Protocol 👀
It's an upgraded and permissionless base layer for Sound that allows any artist to freely upload their music and own their smart contracts
This a huge moment for both Sound and artists on the platform
1/ A few years ago, I interned under a badass 👩💻 investor at a fintech venture fund in Asia.
I was 3 years down the
#crypto
🐰 hole, & no less relentlessly optimistic about the space than I am now. I ran internal education sessions including launching a testnet ERC-20 & DApp.
(RIP my DMs)
There's a great TG group strictly for people who live in SF full time and work in web3. It's a solid community resource.
We're ~300 strong so far, but I know we're missing a lot of people.
If you meet the criteria & would like to be added, shoot me a message🌉
this thread was sparked by some exciting news this AM... I'm joining
@thefabricant
's season 1 where I'll be designing and minting some fashion nfts of my own👜
3/ Business - Edge & Node
Work with
@theklineventure
@IrisNi18
@rodventures
to drive comms, operations & tech partnerships. Now that the network is live, the goal is growing adoption!
🔸 Marketing & Communications Manager
🔸 General Counsel & Operations
🔸 Solutions Engineer