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Before Blockchains, There Was State Machine Replication (ft. Barbara Liskov and Tim Roughgarden)
Episode 121
Every blockchain today leans on replication ideas worked out in the 1980s, by a Turing Award winner who wasn’t thinking about how it might apply to m…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
How Bitcoin Rewired a Classic Computer Science Problem (ft. Tim Roughgarden and Ittai Abraham)
Episode 120
Bitcoin often gets credited with inventing trustless consensus. It didn’t.
The problem was named decades earlier — in the world of distributed compu…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
How Stablecoins Are Reconfiguring the Financial System | ft. Eddy Lazzarin and Sonal Chokshi
Episode 119
Crypto has been walled off from the real economy for years — that's changing.
Sonal Chokshi and Robert Hackett sit down with Eddy Lazzarin, a16z cry…
4 months ago
The Real Reason Behind Most DeFi Hacks
Episode 116
Following a string of major DeFi exploits, we unpack what’s driving the recent rise in hacks across crypto.
a16z crypto GP Eddy Lazzarin and security…
5 months ago
We Raised $2.2B. Here’s Why.
Episode 115
We're announcing a16z crypto's Fund 5: $2.2B in committed capital to back the startups and founders who are building the next era of crypto. All four…
5 months, 1 week ago
The end of ads? AI agents are about to change how we buy
Episode 114
Agents can now do almost anything a human can do with a computer. So what happens when they start spending money on your behalf?
Sam Ragsdale (founde…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why AI is so centralized: How it's built, who controls it, and what comes next
Episode 113
A few big companies control most of the infrastructure behind AI.
Most people experience AI through a wide range of different apps that actually depe…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer
Episode 112
The internet already has a bot problem — and it's just getting worse.
a16z's Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg speak with Alex Blania of Tools for Huma…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
How DeFi lending actually works (with Paul Frambot, cofounder and CEO of Morpho Labs)
Episode 111
What if the future of lending doesn’t need banks at all?
Paul Frambot, cofounder and CEO of Morpho, explains what it means to build lending infrastru…
6 months, 1 week ago
Why Solana keeps getting faster — and what's next (ft. Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder)
Episode 110
What if opening a trading account was as easy as downloading an app?
Lucas Bruder, CEO of Jito — a Solana-based liquid staking protocol — breaks dow…
6 months, 1 week ago