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Eddy Lazzarin

Eddy Lazzarin

Eddy Lazzarin is the chief technology officer for a16z crypto. He oversees the engineering, research, and security teams, which support the investing process and collaborate with portfolio companies to build the future of the internet.

Before a16z crypto, Eddy was a software engineer at Netflix working on data ingestion systems, and a data engineer at Facebook working on growth analytics and modeling for Messenger.

Eddy has a B.A. in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and an M.S. in Computer Science (concentrating in Statistical Computing) from Washington University in St. Louis, where he researched behavioral economics and game theory with Leonard Green.

Latest Posts

Investing in CCP Games

by Jonathan Lai, Eddy Lazzarin, and Carra Wu
  • crypto & web3
  • gaming, social, and new media

Token design: Mental models, capabilities, and emerging design spaces

by Eddy Lazzarin
  • crypto & web3
  • a16z crypto
  • slide decks
  • videos

Zero Knowledge Canon

by Elena Burger, Bryan Chiang, Sonal Chokshi, Eddy Lazzarin, Justin Thaler, and Ali Yahya
  • crypto & web3
  • The Canons
  • what we're reading
  • zero knowledge proofs

Introducing the 2022 State of Crypto Report

by Daren Matsuoka, Chris Dixon, Eddy Lazzarin, and Robert Hackett
  • crypto & web3
  • gaming, social, and new media
  • online communities
  • open source
  • the creator economy
  • a16z crypto
  • state of crypto

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a16z crypto@a16zcrypto

Our latest podcast episode is out! 🎙 This discussion between @ariannasimpson @eddylazzarin & @smc90 provides an overview of web3 gaming & on-chain games. The team covers play-to-earn, metaverse, autonomous worlds, and other worldbuilding, as well as https://t.co/UU82zBJBch… https://t.co/0euimMQhnz

Eddy Lazzarin ☀️🔭@eddylazzarin

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Elena@VirtualElena

AI and ZK are the emergent political systems of the internet, and natural checks and balances on each other. one expands the frontier of possibility, the other restrains power and champions individual sovereignty. you can't have one without the other. https://t.co/XU8YJHjM4c

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