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Ittai Abraham
MENTIONS 1LAST SEEN JULY 13, 2026
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Ittai Abraham is a researcher specializing in algorithms and distributed computing, currently affiliated with a16z crypto. He previously served as a founding member of the VMware Research Group and the VMware Blockchain Project, and was a researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley. He is best known for his work on Byzantine fault tolerance consensus protocols, including HotStuff and SBFT, and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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mention·The a16z Show·JULY 13, 2026
“Sometimes, good systems work that have benchmarks that show good actual practical results, they change people's mind. They say, oh, this technology can actually be used.”
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