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

They have all the kinds of things you expect from securities laws.

Over time, when you hit certain thresholds of decentralization and start to look more like a Bitcoin of today or an Ethereum of today, where there is no central actor that controls it, has inside information and so forth, the Clarity Act designates that the CFTC oversees that token, so it's regulated as a commodity and not a security.

Because at that point, you still need regulation to make sure that people aren't dumping on the market or cornering the market and all the other things that commodities laws regulate.

But it's a different regulatory regime depending on sort of the nature of the asset.

That's right.

Yes.

It's like Bitcoin and even the last administration who was anti-crypto,

they said at some point that Bitcoin and Ethereum were sufficiently decentralized to be regulated as commodities, right?

So this has been implicit in court cases and in agency decisions from both parties for the last 10 years.

All Clarity does is enshrine it in law and make the definitions really specific so that people know exactly where they are, so you don't have to go to court to figure it out, right?

So it's really just kind of taking what's been consensus across the courts and the regulators

and making it sort of hard coding it and making it specific.

But at every moment, so first of all, all existing assets by putting on the blockchain, they still are securities, number one.

And number two, all assets, digital assets, have a federal regulator, right?

and have a framework.

And today, if I create a token, and this is the biggest issue you have with a lot of these things, is there's no rules for disclosure.

There's no rules for insider trading lockups.

If the Clarity Act passes, our investments, our effective lockup period, meaning the period in which we can sell,

increase significantly because a product will invest in someone, they'll launch a product, it'll have a token, and until these criteria are met for sort of hitting sufficient decentralization, there are lockups on venture capitalists and founders and so forth, right?

Which is how it should be.

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