Chris Dixon
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first heard Feb 2025
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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon: What’s at Stake in Crypto Regulation · 1 Aug 2026
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You know, all our entrepreneurs are happy to hire lawyers and pay a lot of money to be compliant.
They just need to know, you know, what they're aiming for.
And so as a result of that bill, we've seen a takeoff, particularly around stablecoins.
And then kind of the close cousin of stablecoins is, like, once you put a dollar on a blockchain, you can put a stock, you can put a treasury bill.
And so that's also...
There's been a lot of adoption there with people kind of relying on agency guidance and other non-legislative regulatory levers to give them guidance on how to do that.
But the big kind of hanging problem right now is that you've got sort of this other section of the market, including blockchains themselves, which stablecoins are built on, which don't have a comprehensive federal regulatory framework.
And that's why the Clarity Act, which is working its way through the Senate, is so important.
Because that's sort of the other 85% of the market.
So you can kind of imagine it's like as if we had a regulatory framework for cell phones, but not for cell towers or something.
Like half the technology is regulated.
The other half has this sort of uncertainty around it.
People are still building there.
People are trying to do their best to kind of understand technology.
what the rules are.
You know, there's this other lever of policymaking, which is the agencies such as the SEC and CFTC, they've provided some guidance and things.
But ultimately, you know, what industries are built on, as you alluded to in the beginning with the internet, is they're built on legislation.
Legislation is solid ground to build on.
It's immutable, you know, has the stamp of approval of the U.S.
Congress.
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