Mónica: Crypto research is making the internet a safer place
Diogo Mónica · Data Security and the Rise of Crypto · Jan 30, 2020 · at 0:49
Diogo Mónica, Co-Founder and President of digital asset platform Anchorage, speaks at the a16z Summit about how crypto innovations advance internet security.
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“Crypto is ushering a new era of research in distributed systems, in security, and in cryptography. And all of these technology advances are actually making its way towards the internet into a safer internet.”
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