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 so what the important thing to do with good regulation, I think the Clarity Act does this, is you very clearly define the regulatory perimeter, like who's subject to this and who isn't.

And if you're not subject to it, you can't do business in the U.S.

So like if you're in the U.S.

and doing business, you have to be subject to it.

You give clear definitions and then you have clear rules.

And so as an example, in the Clarity Act, if you're a financial intermediary, if you're a –

you know, somebody like a Coinbase or like a company that's holding customer funds, you're subject to all of the same regulatory, same rules that, you know, a fintech, a company like Stripe or PayPal or anyone else.

And it's simply, it's black and white in the bill.

So I don't know how to argue people that just simply are saying things that aren't factually untrue like that.

It's just, you know, and as I mentioned, you know, the endorsement of the various law enforcement agencies, a bunch of very, you know, look, it's not just, there's a lot of Republican senators who are very strong on national security sanctions, North Korea, who support the bill, and a number of Democrats who we think will end up supporting it who similarly are.

So I don't think it's, it's neither true nor is it shown by the kind of the range of support for the bill.

It's actually a non-trivial kind of research problem that's going on today, research and product development, to build blockchains that do have privacy because they are so public.

In fact, one of the funny things that happened was, you know, we think that's important, just not for nefarious reasons, because if you want to, like, pay...

you know whatever i want to pay you for some service maybe it's a private you know maybe it's a medical thing or a financial thing you don't want everyone to know about it just like we do in the regular financial system you'd want to have some privacy and that send someone a digital dollar you want some privacy right it seems like a natural thing it's funny because you know uh for for a long time everyone said well why would you want to build privacy it's only for criminals

Since Genius has passed and now dollar-dominated stablecoins have gotten more popular, we've actually heard in D.C.

now, people are saying, well, what about privacy?

You need to have privacy.

I guess we agree.

We agree.

It's not always – it actually is very reminiscent of the early Internet, you know, when Mark, when you guys added – it wasn't Netscape.

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