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What Comes After Stablecoins? (ft. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire and Chris Dixon)
Episode 136
Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire joins a16z crypto founder and founding partner Chris Dixon for a conversation about stablecoins, Circle’s Ar…
11 hours ago
How Crypto Is Rebuilding Finance From First Principles
Episode 135
Guy Wuollet thinks crypto will have succeeded when we stop calling it crypto. Financial services will simply run on blockchains, much as other busine…
1 week, 3 days ago
The 'Useless' Theory Behind Modern SNARKs (ft. Gödel Prize Winner Noam Nisan)
Episode 131
More than 30 years ago, Gödel Prize Winner Noam Nisan helped develop a proof technique that he never expected anyone to use in the real world.
At th…
2 months ago
How Zero-Knowledge Proofs Were Invented (ft. Co-Inventor and Turing Award Winner Shafi Goldwasser)
Episode 129
How can you prove that something is true without revealing why it is true?
That question gave rise to zero-knowledge proofs, one of the most import…
2 months ago
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon: Why America Needs CLARITY
Episode 130
a16z Cofounder and General Partner Marc Andreessen and a16z crypto Founder and Managing Partner Chris Dixon on why the CLARITY ACT matters.
Congress …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How AI is Changing the Way We Build Companies (ft. Guy Wuollet and Noah Citron)
Episode 127
For the first time, companies can treat AI token spending almost like headcount: allocate more money, deploy more intelligence, and potentially get m…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Story Behind RSA: The Invention That Secured the Internet (ft. Turing Award Winner Ron Rivest)
Episode 126
Before the internet could become a place to bank or transact, it needed a way for strangers to know who they were talking to, and whether a message c…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Why auction design matters (ft. Nobel economist Paul Milgrom)
Episode 124
Long before onchain markets made mechanism design a daily engineering problem, Nobel Prize winner Paul Milgrom was asking how prices actually form — …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Why markets fail — and how to fix them (ft. Nobel economist Alvin Roth)
Episode 123
Long before crypto made coordination programmable, Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth was designing markets where coordination could save lives.
In this …
3 months ago
Leslie Lamport on the Science of Distributed Systems
Episode 122
Before blockchains could reach consensus, Leslie Lamport had to define what agreement even meant when computers fail, lie, or disappear.
In this epi…
3 months, 3 weeks ago