Shanley

you have a whole sort of bunch of different versions of this.

So it's a very like extensible concept for them.

I think some other, you know, interesting properties of the network state is that it can become like a point of sort of negotiation with the, with the host country.

Like one of the points of network state is to open up a country to a

the cryptocurrency markets, to mining markets, to, you know, just the different biotech markets.

This is a way of them getting into a country like kind of on their own terms, which I think is a big, big function of it.

A lot of it has to do with crypto adoption because

if they're going to make cryptocurrency work, they need it to be adopted around the world.

And this is why Coinbase is making such extreme investments in the network state, because this is a way to also, you know, get crypto into all of these markets, start entering into trade with other nation states where the points of negotiation are around regulation or around taxation.

around access to land and minerals.

Yeah, absolutely.

And, you know, the network state is built using special economic zones.

So it's really not functionally different on a lot of different levels.

It's more about like who is using this special economic zone and what do they want to do with it?

And medical experimentation is actually a huge goal here because, you know, again, when we're talking about them getting into medical development, developing all of these biotech startups, they're facing existing monopolies in the U.S.

They're also facing the FDA.

The Network State book by Balaji Srinivasan, who's an Andreessen Horowitz, like, guy for life.

Like, he's Andreessen Horowitz.

One of the main motivations for the network state is getting to a place where you can't have any medical regulations.

And so in Honduras, they've been doing that.