A16z Crypto Urges UK to Avoid US-Style Crypto Regulation
A16z Crypto has written a letter to the UK Treasury, warning against adopting a “one-size-fits-all” approach to crypto regulation based on the Howey Test. A16z Crypto: The United Kingdom Must Take a Nuanced Approach to Crypto Policy The United States needs to catch up in digital asset policy. Industry players hope the United Kingdom will […]
A16z leads $100 million raise for web3 privacy firm Aztec Network
The privacy-focused web3 firm Aztec Network raised $100 million in Series B funding led by the web3 investment firm a16z. A16z Crypto, a venture capital firm, announced a $100 million Series B investment round for the exclusive layer-2 chain Aztec Network on December 15. A Capital, King River, Variant, SV Angel, Hash Key, Fenbushu, and […]
A16z develops licenses for NFTs, based on Creative Commons model
Venture Capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has developed six(6) licensing templates that give creators the power to set variables for their work’s future use. A16z, a venture capital firm, revealed on Wednesday that it had developed a set of six licenses specifically for nonfungible tokens (NFTs) based on the Creative Commons model. Similar to Creative […]
Columbia Uni professor leads Andreessen Horowitz’s new crypto research unit
Tim Roughgarden, a theoretical computer scientist, and professor at Columbia University has been named the leader of Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) new crypto research team. Roughgarden’s career includes a 14-year stay at Stanford and more than three years as a professor of computer science at Columbia University in New York. Since February of last year, he […]
Sequoia Capital, FTX, A16z lead $135 Million Series A funding for LayerZero
LayerZero, an omnichain interoperability standard, has raised $135 million in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital, FTX Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz (A16z). This brings the cross-chain protocol’s valuation to $1 billion. According to Forbes, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and FTX Ventures led the investment round . Coinbase Ventures, PayPal Ventures, Tiger Global, […]