Chris Dixon

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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon: What’s at Stake in Crypto Regulation · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

We're way past the kind of, the way enterprises kind of use new technology, sometimes they kind of,

dip their toe in and do experimental stuff.

We're way past that now.

We speak to a lot of these organizations on a regular basis.

They have real significant deployments that are going to go live.

Some of them are live, some of them are going to go live with greater regulatory clarity.

I think they see significant opportunity.

You have to remember the banking system is, for a bunch of reasons, not necessarily their fault.

These systems are very complex and very intertwined with each other, but a lot of the technology is very antiquated.

It's sort of a joke in Silicon Valley that they still have COBOL programmers at banks, but it's actually true because a lot of them have very old code bases.

And in their defense, it's because it's a very hard, you know, they're so intertwined that you can't just sort of upgrade your software by yourself.

You have to do it all together.

And so one of the things that blockchains have done for the financial industry is it's sort of given them a unified framework where they can all kind of say, hey, together, let's

move into the 21st century.

It's solved not just a technology problem, but a coordination problem.

I think if you speak to them, as we have, they're all very excited about that.

You'll see, I think as a result, the other thing I'll say is just like the simple way to think about blockchains is they just remove layers of mediation.

They're disintermediation machines, they remove

You know, many of these things now, like Mark was saying, you send money through a wire.

We had a case where we funded a portfolio company.

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