Today we are excited to announce that Eddy Lazzarin is being promoted to General Partner at a16z crypto.
Eddy joined us in 2019 as a data scientist and investing partner, not long after we launched our first crypto fund. From the beginning, people sought him out for the hardest questions, partly because of his technical depth, but just as much because of how he approaches problems. Eddy has a rare ability to cut through complexity and make clear, well-reasoned calls even when the answers aren’t obvious.
In 2023, Eddy became CTO, taking on a broader role leading the engineering, data science, research, and security teams he helped build from the ground up. Together with these teams, he drove the development of Jolt, a groundbreaking open-source zkVM that represents an important breakthrough in advancing blockchains.
Eddy has also become one of the industry’s clearest thinkers on token design and classification. His work helped establish a standard framework for understanding how different tokens work, including where value accrues, how control gets exercised, and how incentives shape behavior. He has influenced many founders, investors, and policymakers in DC with his carefully considered models of how systems behave in reality and not just on paper.
