a16z Announces the Formation of Crypto Research Lab a16z crypto research

a16z announces the formation of a16z crypto research, a crypto research lab, to advance Web3 development. Its members include Stanford and Columbia researchers and computer science professors Tim Roughgarden, director of a16z research; Dan Boneh, professor of computer science at Stanford University and developer of verifiable latency functions; Joseph Bonneau, lecturer in cryptocurrency courses at Princeton and other universities; Benedikt Bünz, chief of research at Espresso Systems; and Benedikt Bünz, chief scientist at Harvard University. Scientist Benedikt Bünz, Scott Duke Kominers, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University, and Valeria Nikolaenko, Research Scientist and Cryptographer at Diem Blockchain. The lab will work with a16z portfolio crypto companies to solve puzzles and write production-grade code to ensure that project concepts and implementations meet specifications.