Robert Hackett
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665 appearances
4 recordings
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 1 Aug
Robert Hackett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The a16z Show · a16z's State of Crypto: The $4 Trillion Milestone and What's Next' · 9 Nov 2025
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So we've been talking a little bit about stable coins, but let's talk a little bit more specifically about what's going on there.
Over the past year, there's been forty six trillion dollars in stablecoin transaction volume.
Like I can't even wrap my head around that number.
It's so gigantic.
Like, are those numbers real?
Where where is all this activity coming from?
And to your point about this growing, stablecoin transaction volume continues to increase even when we account for the adjusted numbers.
Um and that is decoupling from spot crypto trading volume.
Which would kind of indicate that people are actually using these things for reasons beyond trading or beyond speculation.
volume.
Tether and circles still dominate, but we're seeing growth of other stable coins as well.
I wonder what you think of that trend, uh how that'll continue to pan out in the future.
Speaking of expanding and growing, one slide I I've gotta talk about is this one about the U.S.
national debt, which is also expanding and growing at an alarming rate.
And probably that has contributed to the passage of genius.
It's kind of crazy.
It's like you're
You've got like the government sort of scrounging for spare pocket change underneath like the couch cushions, and then all of a sudden you discover like these gold bars there, which just happen to be stable coins, this incredible source of demand for U.S.
debt.
And you can see in the data that stable coins now account for there are now a top 20 holder of US treasuries.
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