a16z crypto show Podcast Transcripts
a16z crypto, Robert Hackett, Sonal Chokshi · 130 episodes with transcripts
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.
Spoken has transcripts of 130 a16z crypto show episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 16, 2026.
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Latest a16z crypto show transcripts
What Comes After Stablecoins? (ft. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire and Chris Dixon)
October 16, 2026
Jeremy Allaire (0:00)
When we think about an economic operating system that runs on the internet, which goes way beyond payment, every kind of financial contract, an economic contract and governance decisions, if you want that to be something that's internet scale, it has to have geo-economic and geopolitical diversity.
Robert Hackett (0:15)
How are you thinking about your moat? On the one side, you've got AI now makes it so much easier to code up software. And then on the other hand, you have legacy financial institutions coming on board with new sorts of products of their own.
Jeremy Allaire (0:27)
The most widely used interoperability protocol in the world right now on all blockchain networks is Circle's Cross Chain Transfer Protocol, CCTP. We mint and redeem $150 billion a quarter of this and that liquidity that exists on a primary basis, on a secondary basis, in on-chain markets and on-chain protocols…
- What Comes After Stablecoins? (ft. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire and Chris Dixon)
- How Crypto Is Rebuilding Finance From First Principles
- The 'Useless' Theory Behind Modern SNARKs (ft. Gödel Prize Winner Noam Nisan)
- How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Were Invented (ft. Co-Inventor and Turing Award Winner Shafi Goldwasser)
- Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon: Why America Needs CLARITY
- How AI is Changing the Way We Build Companies (ft. Guy Wuollet and Noah Citron)
- The Story Behind RSA: The Invention That Secured the Internet (ft. Turing Award Winner Ron Rivest)
- Why auction design matters (ft. Nobel economist Paul Milgrom)
- Why markets fail — and how to fix them (ft. Nobel economist Alvin Roth)
- Leslie Lamport on the Science of Distributed Systems
- Before Blockchains, There Was State Machine Replication (ft. Barbara Liskov and Tim Roughgarden)
- How Bitcoin Rewired a Classic Computer Science Problem (ft. Tim Roughgarden and Ittai Abraham)
- How Stablecoins Are Reconfiguring the Financial System | ft. Eddy Lazzarin and Sonal Chokshi
- The end of ads? AI agents are about to change how we buy
- How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer
- Why Solana keeps getting faster — and what's next (ft. Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder)
- Vitalik Buterin vs Beff Jezos: AI Acceleration Debate (E/acc vs D/acc)
- AI Is Changing the Internet. What Does It Mean for Creators? (with Justin and Michael Blau)
- The Emmy Built on ETH: Emily Yang aka pplpleasr on the Future of Storytelling
- AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now What?
- Why Tokenize? Fidelity on Onchain Assets and the Next Phase of Adoption
- When Bots Have Bank Accounts: The Rise of the Agent Economy (With Sean Neville, Catena Labs)
- From Eater to Blackbird: Ben Leventhal on Restaurants, Loyalty, and Rebuilding Payments
- Bridge CEO Zach Abrams: Stablecoins Are The Next Platform for Money
- Why Privacy Will Be the Biggest Moat in Crypto
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