a16z crypto show
készítő: a16z crypto, Robert Hackett, Sonal Chokshi
What Comes After Stablecoins? (ft. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire and…
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The a16z crypto show explores how decentralized networks are reshaping money, ownership, and the architecture of the internet. We go beyond the hype to look at what’s actually working, what isn’t, and what comes next as crypto continues to go mainstream and blockchains become core infrastructure.
Each episode features conversations with founders, engineers, economists, policymakers, and researchers building at the frontier of finance, payments, AI, and distributed systems. We cover stablecoins and global payments, the tokenization of "real-world" assets, decentralized physical infrastructure, network design and governance, and the practical tradeoffs behind decentralization — along with lessons from past technology shifts.
Produced and hosted by the a16z crypto team, the show combines reporting, analysis, and first-principles thinking to explain how crypto intersects with the economy and society — and why it matters now.
Learn more at a16zcrypto.com.
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Epizódok
A legújabb 20 a(z) 130 epizódból
- What Comes After Stablecoins? (ft. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire and Chris Dixon) · 49 perc · 136. epizódCircle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire joins a16z crypto founder and founding partner Chris Dixon for a conversation about stablecoins, Circle’s Arc blockchain, and what…
- How Crypto Is Rebuilding Finance From First Principles · 53 perc · 135. epizóda16z crypto GP Guy Wuollet joins Robert Hackett to discuss stablecoins, new markets, founder motivation, and the next phase of crypto.
- The 'Useless' Theory Behind Modern SNARKs (ft. Gödel Prize Winner Noam Nisan) · 1 óra 15 perc · 131. epizódMore than 30 years ago, Gödel Prize Winner Noam Nisan helped develop a proof technique that he never expected anyone to use in the real world. At the center of that breakthrough…
- How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Were Invented (ft. Co-Inventor and Turing Award Winner Shafi Goldwasser) · 57 perc · 129. epizódHow can you prove that something is true without revealing why it is true? What began as an attempt to solve a seemingly playful problem — playing poker securely over the…
- Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon: Why America Needs CLARITY · 58 perc · 130. epizóda16z Cofounder and General Partner Marc Andreessen and a16z crypto Founder and Managing Partner Chris Dixon on why the CLARITY Act matters. Congress is debating…
- How AI is Changing the Way We Build Companies (ft. Guy Wuollet and Noah Citron) · 58 perc · 127. epizódFor the first time, companies can treat AI token spending almost like headcount: allocate more money, deploy more intelligence, and potentially get more work done. That shift…
- The Story Behind RSA: The Invention That Secured the Internet (ft. Turing Award Winner Ron Rivest) · 55 perc · 126. epizódBefore the internet could become a place to bank or transact, it needed a way for strangers to know who they were talking to, and whether a message could be trusted. Turing…
- Why auction design matters (ft. Nobel economist Paul Milgrom) · 1 óra 18 perc · 124. epizódLong before onchain markets made mechanism design a daily engineering problem, Nobel Prize winner Paul Milgrom was asking how prices actually form — and how better auction rules…
- Why markets fail — and how to fix them (ft. Nobel economist Alvin Roth) · 1 óra 25 perc · 123. epizódLong before crypto made coordination programmable, Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth was designing markets where coordination could save lives. In this episode of First Principles…
- Leslie Lamport on the Science of Distributed Systems · 36 perc · 122. epizódBefore blockchains could reach consensus, Leslie Lamport had to define what agreement even meant when computers fail, lie, or disappear. In this episode of First Principles: The…
- Before Blockchains, There Was State Machine Replication (ft. Barbara Liskov and Tim Roughgarden) · 36 perc · 121. epizódEvery blockchain today leans on replication ideas worked out in the 1980s, by a Turing Award winner who wasn’t thinking about how it might apply to money at all. In this episode…
- How Bitcoin Rewired a Classic Computer Science Problem (ft. Tim Roughgarden and Ittai Abraham) · 20 perc · 120. epizódBitcoin often gets credited with inventing trustless consensus. It didn’t. The problem was named decades earlier — in the world of distributed computing — and researchers spent…
- How Stablecoins Are Reconfiguring the Financial System | ft. Eddy Lazzarin and Sonal Chokshi · 1 óra 20 perc · 119. epizódCrypto has been walled off from the real economy for years — that's changing. Sonal Chokshi and Robert Hackett sit down with Eddy Lazzarin, a16z crypto's newest General Partner…
- The Real Reason Behind Most DeFi Hacks · 35 perc · 116. epizódFollowing major DeFi exploits, a16z crypto GP Eddy Lazzarin and security engineer Matt Gleason break down the recent surge in crypto hacks. Their argument: AI isn't creating new…
- We Raised $2.2B. Here’s Why. · 1 óra 0 perc · 115. epizóda16z crypto is announcing Fund 5: $2.2B to back the founders building the next era of crypto. All four GPs — Chris Dixon, Ali Yahya, Guy Wuollet, and Eddy Lazzarin — join Robert…
- The end of ads? AI agents are about to change how we buy · 57 perc · 114. epizódAgents can now browse, decide, and buy on your behalf. So what happens to the internet's business model? Sam Ragsdale (founder & CEO of Merit Systems) joins a16z crypto's Eddy…
- Why AI is so centralized: How it's built, who controls it, and what comes next · 17 perc · 113. epizódGensyn cofounders Ben Fielding and Harry Grieve join us to discuss why AI’s infrastructure problem runs deeper than most people think. They explain how today’s AI ecosystem…
- How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer · 42 perc · 112. epizódBen Horowitz and Erik Torenberg speak with Alex Blania of Tools for Humanity about World and the growing need for proof of human verification online. They discuss the challenge…
- How DeFi lending actually works (with Paul Frambot, cofounder and CEO of Morpho Labs) · 18 perc · 111. epizódMorpho cofounder and CEO Paul Frambot joins us to discuss how onchain lending could change the future of finance. He explains what Morpho does, the biggest misconception in DeFi…
- Why Solana keeps getting faster — and what's next (ft. Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder) · 18 perc · 110. epizódLucas Bruder, CEO of Jito, joins us to talk about why he believes the future of finance is moving onchain — and how his team is helping make that possible on Solana. He explains…







