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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. *** Posts should not be considered investment advice or an advertisement for investment services. Reposts of third-party content are not attributable to a16z; see disclosures for more information: https://a16z.com/disclosures/.a16z crypto / Andreessen Horowitz Economia Gestão e Liderança
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  • What Comes After Stablecoins? (ft. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire and Chris Dixon)

    What Comes After Stablecoins? (ft. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire and Chris Dixon)
    Oct 16 2026

    Circle 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 happens when programmable money meets increasingly capable machines.

    Drawing on decades of building and investing through changes in internet technology, Jeremy and Chris reflect on how far crypto has come, what still stands between it and mainstream adoption, and why its most compelling applications may look unfamiliar today.

    Highlights
    00:00 Intro
    01:00 Circle’s original vision for programmable money
    06:22 Why institutions started taking stablecoins seriously
    11:07 Building a global financial network
    14:05 What gives a stablecoin its moat?
    19:05 Is crypto still waiting for its iPhone moment?
    25:35 Crypto’s growing adoption beyond speculation
    27:18 From making existing things better to creating entirely new markets
    32:06 The weirdest experiments being built on Arc
    36:09 What happens when AI hires AI
    37:12 Why the next big thing starts out looking like a toy
    38:12 Can blockchains counter AI’s centralizing tendencies?
    39:47 How Arc balances openness and accountability
    43:32 What the machine economy could look like in five years

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    49 minutos
  • How Crypto Is Rebuilding Finance From First Principles

    How Crypto Is Rebuilding Finance From First Principles
    Oct 6 2026

    Guy Wuollet thinks crypto will have succeeded when we stop calling it crypto. Financial services will simply run on blockchains, much as other businesses now run on the internet. What will it take to get there?

    In this conversation with Robert Hackett, the a16z crypto general partner explains where he sees opportunities to build, from stablecoin payments and perpetual futures to new markets for energy and compute. They discuss what tokenization changes for Wall Street, why faster and cheaper blockchains make different businesses possible, and how crypto’s cypherpunk roots fit with its growing commercial adoption.

    Guy also shares his path from a16z intern to general partner, including a research project to build a decentralized internet service provider. Along the way, he explains how he evaluates founders, why early token liquidity doesn’t change his investment horizon, and what he looks for in people who want to spend decades building a company. Plus, oil painting and some strongly held opinions about how pants should fit.

    Highlights
    00:00 A preview of the conversation
    00:52 From a16z intern to crypto general partner
    11:51 Bitcoin and Guy’s cypherpunk roots
    14:34 From technological revolution to practical products
    19:28 Why timing matters for crypto adoption
    23:31 Token launches, liquidity, and going public
    28:20 Backing founders for the long term
    31:39 How Guy evaluates founders
    36:21 Where Guy sees opportunities in crypto
    38:42 New markets for energy and compute
    39:49 Stablecoins and finance’s digital transformation
    43:29 Why perpetual futures are gaining traction
    45:26 What tokenization changes for Wall Street
    49:04 Oil painting and the pleasure of making things
    51:02 Guy’s smallest hill to die on

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  • The 'Useless' Theory Behind Modern SNARKs (ft. Gödel Prize Winner Noam Nisan)

    The 'Useless' Theory Behind Modern SNARKs (ft. Gödel Prize Winner Noam Nisan)
    Aug 13 2026
    More 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 was the sum-check protocol — an elegant technique that emerged from Noam Nisan’s early work on interactive proofs. At the time, even Nisan assumed ideas like these were far too theoretical to become practical technology. Today, sum-check sits at the heart of some of the fastest modern SNARKs, proof systems that are increasingly important to blockchains and verifiable computation. In this episode of First Principles, a16z crypto Head of Research Tim Roughgarden and research partner Justin Thaler sit down with Noam Nisan to trace the unlikely journey from theory to infrastructure. They explore how interaction and randomness changed the very definition of a mathematical proof; the deceptively simple “two into one” insight behind sum-check; the rapid sequence of discoveries that culminated in IP = PSPACE; and why Justin believes sum-check may be close to the optimal tool for building practical SNARKs. But Nisan’s career also tells a broader story about how research responds to technological change. When the web arrived in the 1990s, he deliberately left a field in which he was already a leading researcher to understand a new problem: How do you get independent actors on the internet to cooperate when they have different incentives? That question helped give rise to algorithmic game theory — and, decades later, brought Nisan back to questions around blockchain fees, token economics, and protocol design. Highlights 0:00 — Intro 1:28 — Noam Nisan and the origins of verifiable computation 2:58 — Why Noam Nisan left complexity theory 7:52 — POPcorn, distributed computing, and early blockchain-like ideas 11:10 — The birth of algorithmic game theory 16:14 — Justin Thaler discovers the sum-check protocol 25:05 — From arithmetization to LFKN 27:06 — The story behind IP = PSPACE 30:40 — Why sum-check matters for modern SNARKs 31:15 — What is a SNARK? 38:52 — The key idea behind sum-check: turning two into one 44:03 — When SNARKs went from theory to practice 46:03 — Why blockchains were the breakthrough use case 50:36 — Noam Nisan’s move into blockchain economics 56:15 — EIP-1559, transaction fees, and efficient blockspace 1:02:07 — From theoretical computer science to real-world systems 1:08:49 — Boiling down the sum-check protocol: Two become one 1:10:58 — Is the sum-check protocol optimal? About First Principles First Principles is a series from a16z crypto exploring the foundational ideas behind modern computing, cryptography, and blockchains through conversations with the researchers who developed them — and the people extending those ideas today. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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