Guy Wuollet

Oct 31, 2023 | a16zcrypto.com | Eddy Lazzarin |Miles Jennings |Guy Wuollet |Brian Brooks

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Sep 28, 2023 | a16zcrypto.com | Guy Wuollet

Introducing the Nakamoto Challenge: Addressing the Toughest Problems in Crypto Guy Wuollet company building We’re fortunate to have a broad view across the crypto landscape and the opportunity to talk with the best builders, founders, and entrepreneurs. As a result, we hear about many interesting problems that the smartest people are working on. Some are problems that everyone has and are just too challenging to solve, and  some are poorly documented and exist only as tribal knowledge.

Jun 11, 2023 | a16zcrypto.com | Ali Yahya |Guy Wuollet

Investing in Gensyn Ali YahyaGuy Wuollet The recent advancements in AI are incredible and have the power to save the world. But building AI systems requires ever-larger deployments of computational power for the training and inference of today’s largest and most powerful models. This means big technology companies have an advantage over startups in the race to capture value from AI, thanks to privileged access to computing power and the economies of scale of large data centers.

Apr 21, 2023 | a16zcrypto.com | Guy Wuollet

7 Sanity Checks Before Designing a Token Guy Wuollet Tokens are a powerful new primitive that can be defined in many ways; I’ve argued why we ought to consider the study and design of tokens as much broader than just “tokenomics” here. Tokens clearly allow for a very rich design space. But we’re still in the early stages of exploring, let alone improving token design.

Apr 21, 2023 | a16zcrypto.com | Guy Wuollet

“Tokens” are a hot-button topic for those in crypto and web3. Even beyond web3, tokens are capturing mindshare from anyone interested in art, cryptography, design, economics, gaming, math, psychology, and more. Tokens have been described as everything from a “breakthrough in open network design” to a “new digital primitive” (analogous to the website). We can generally define tokens “as an internet-native unit of value”.