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

And you have, you know, big institutions and, you know, trillions of dollars moving around on these things, which, you know, of course brings us to our topic, which is you need, you know, when you have that going on, you need regulatory clarity.

You need a framework around that.

Well, so yeah, so good question.

So for a variety of reasons, kind of for political and policy reasons, the regulation around crypto was broken into two components, stablecoins and the rest of the market.

So stablecoins are roughly 15%, let's call it, of the market.

85% is the rest.

And that's by market cap.

That's by market cap.

Last year, a bill passed Congress, signed by the president, called the Genius Act, which provides a comprehensive regulatory framework for stablecoins.

And it's not a coincidence that stablecoins are also the area that's taken off the most in the last year, because once you have regulatory clarity, that means that builders have certainty, consumers can know.

If you're an American consumer and you use USDC or another genius-compliant stablecoin, you know that if you have a dollar of that stablecoin, there is a dollar sitting in the bank, because that's the genius regulation, that that bank is audited and that's sitting in short-term treasuries, which is basically the safest thing the financial system can offer.

And so you know that dollar.

You can be assured that dollar's there.

It's not an FTX.

It's not a Luna Terra situation where it will disappear tomorrow.

That gives you, as a consumer, confidence and protection.

If you're an institution, if you're a bank, if you're Stripe, if you're PayPal,

and you want to go and enter this market, you want to know there are predictable rules, that there's a framework around it, there's not going to be an FTX, that what you build will be compliant not just next year, but next 10 years.

Then if you're an entrepreneur, of course, it's similar logic.

You want to know their certainty, you want to know their rules.

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