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

There's a whole suite of things that are in the act that would empower federal regulators to do their job.

And if you're not compliant with these things, you couldn't operate in the US, is how it works, right?

So it would have prevented that.

Other big catastrophes, Terra Luna was a big one.

It was a stable coin that wasn't stable.

It didn't have dollars or any other kind of stable currency behind it.

It was essentially this kind of, you know, self-referential thing where the token has value by the token and would, you know, should never have been presented as a stable coin and would be illegal.

It is illegal under, you know, the genius framework.

A lot of things work well when things are going up and then don't work otherwise.

So, yeah.

Yeah, these are not... I mean, it's not... Look, the details are hard, which is why it's been seven years or so that some of us have been working on the Clarity Act, and it's now been a year, I think, over a year since the House passed its version of it, and a year the Senate's been working on it.

There's a lot of hard details

It takes a lot of kind of working across the aisles.

This has been a very bipartisan effort.

So I'm not to say the details, but, you know, this has been done before, right?

Financial industries have been regulated and the principles that are used in other industries are applied here.

And it's a very robust, what's in the Clarity Act now, the text that was released, you know, it's frustrating to read some of the news coverage, which apparently just doesn't

You know, they don't read the bill, as far as I can tell, because they say things like there aren't, you know, sort of safeguards, for example, AML and, you know, sanctions regimes and all.

That's just simply not true.

There's a very—it has strict definitions of who is subject to, you know, these requirements.

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