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Joseph Bonneau

Joseph Bonneau
Joseph Bonneau is a Research Partner on the a16z Crypto team and an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Courant Institute, New York University. Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, he received a PhD from Cambridge and postdocs at Princeton and Stanford and was an advisor to the Zcash, Algorand, Mina and Chia projects. He is a co-author of the textbook "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies". His research focuses on applied cryptography and computer security and is known for pioneering work on Verifiable Delay Functions.

Latest Posts

A few of the things we’re excited about in crypto

by Michael Blau, Joseph Bonneau, Noah Citron, Valeria Nikolaenko, Carra Wu, Guy Wuollet, and Michael Zhu
  • crypto & web3

Asiacrypt ’22: Field Notes

by Joseph Bonneau
  • crypto & web3

Leader Election from Randomness Beacons and Other Strategies

by Miranda Christ, Valeria Nikolaenko, and Joseph Bonneau
  • crypto & web3
  • a16z crypto

Public Randomness and Randomness Beacons

by Joseph Bonneau and Valeria Nikolaenko
  • crypto & web3
  • a16z crypto
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