Robert Hackett

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The a16z Show · a16z's State of Crypto: The $4 Trillion Milestone and What's Next' · 9 Nov 2025 podcast

It used to be a very, you know, very stagnant, don't rock the boat kind of thing with Bitcoin, but now there seems to be more activity lately focusing on it.

I don't think it'll surprise anybody that Ethereum, that it's L2s like base, Solana, that these chains have attracted so much interest from builders and developers.

But it is kind of interesting that Bitcoin has now gotten into like the top five in terms of interest and and developer activity.

Because of the way that uh Bitcoin works, the way that it's sort of uh you know, public key cryptography works, it also is vulnerable to the eventual development of a quantum computer whenever that happens, maybe in a decade, maybe multiple decades, I don't know.

We've got a slide on this too, where there are actually at this point 6.7-ish million

Bitcoin at risk to this threat, to this quantum threat, which is like around $750 billion.

That's a lot.

And the people in that community are going to face a choice about whether to do something about this or to just sort of, you know, whoever gets the quantum computer gets the Bitcoin, or are they going to burn stuff or whatever?

I don't know.

Yeah.

All right.

Let's talk more about adoption.

Another big thing that's happened is we've had a new trend of these digital asset treasury companies that are these public companies going out and snatching up tokens and sort of building up a war chest, a horde.

They're kind of aligning themselves with one chain at a time.

You know, there's like Solana ones, there's ETH ones, there's Bitcoin ones.

What are the numbers around this?

What are the numbers around these digital asset treasury companies, these DATs, and also the uptick in ETPs, ETFs?

One thing that I think is extremely interesting to note is BlackRock's ETF, Bitcoin ETF, their ETP product for Bitcoin is the most successful launch of any ETP or ETF product ever, like period, ever in the history of these products.

Like that is kind of insane.

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