All Episodes
a16z crypto show — 124 episodes
The Story Behind RSA: The Invention That Secured the Internet (ft. Turing Award Winner Ron Rivest)
Why auction design matters (ft. Nobel economist Paul Milgrom)
Why markets fail — and how to fix them (ft. Nobel economist Alvin Roth)
Leslie Lamport on the Science of Distributed Systems
Before Blockchains, There Was State Machine Replication (ft. Barbara Liskov and Tim Roughgarden)
How Bitcoin Rewired a Classic Computer Science Problem (ft. Tim Roughgarden and Ittai Abraham)
How Stablecoins Are Reconfiguring the Financial System | ft. Eddy Lazzarin and Sonal Chokshi
The Real Reason Behind Most DeFi Hacks
We Raised $2.2B. Here’s Why.
The end of ads? AI agents are about to change how we buy
Why AI is so centralized: How it's built, who controls it, and what comes next
How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer
How DeFi lending actually works (with Paul Frambot, cofounder and CEO of Morpho Labs)
Why Solana keeps getting faster — and what's next (ft. Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder)
Vitalik Buterin vs Beff Jezos: AI Acceleration Debate (E/acc vs D/acc)
AI Is Changing the Internet. What Does It Mean for Creators? (with Justin and Michael Blau)
The Emmy Built on ETH: Emily Yang aka pplpleasr on the Future of Storytelling
AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now What?
Why Tokenize? Fidelity on Onchain Assets and the Next Phase of Adoption
When Bots Have Bank Accounts: The Rise of the Agent Economy (With Sean Neville, Catena Labs)
From Eater to Blackbird: Ben Leventhal on Restaurants, Loyalty, and Rebuilding Payments
Bridge CEO Zach Abrams: Stablecoins Are The Next Platform for Money
Why Privacy Will Be the Biggest Moat in Crypto
From Oculus to Anduril: Palmer Luckey on Power, Technology, and the Future
Nobody's Gonna Trust Your Corp Chain
The Obsession That Destroys Startups (with LayerZero CEO)
How Elite Athletes Perform Under Extreme Pressure
What, How & Why We're Reading
From Wallets to Super Apps: The Internet's New Interface (with Phantom CEO)
Crypto's Killer App?
TradFi’s Tipping Point: Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson on Stablecoins, Bitcoin, and Innovation Bets
AI, Networks, and What Makes Consumer Products Win
Pricing the Future (with Kalshi CEO)
Trump's Tech Czar on Crypto, AI, and American Innovation
The Data Behind Crypto's Breakout Year
State of Crypto 2025: The Latest Data, Trends, and Themes Revealed
Prediction Markets -- Everything You Need to Know
Surviving Market Cycles & Startup Lessons for Founders
After the Foundation Era: Tokens, Policy, and Startup Structures
The antimemetics (and memetics) of making ideas happen -- in crypto and beyond
GENIUS Becomes Law: What It Took to Pass the First Rules for Stablecoins in the U.S.
11 Ideas for AI x Crypto
What We're Reading & Technology Changing Reading
5 Charts That Explain Crypto Right Now
Wait — The Bank Froze Your Life Savings?
Inside the Solana Story: Near-Death Brushes and a Need for Speed (with Solana)
With AI, Anyone Can Be a Coder (with Github CEO)
AI vs. ID: Proof of human in a world of agents, bots, deep fakes, more
Marketing 101 for Startups: Token Launches, Memes, Reaching Devs & More
Everything Stablecoins: Big Picture, Deep Dive
All the Stablecoin News: Stripe, Visa, Coinbase, Circle, More
Quantum Computing: What, When, Where, How
Your Guide to Tokens: Types, Design, Uses, More
AI and the End of Apps (with NEAR)
All About Airdrops
Congestion Pricing? Economics, Theory, Reality
You Better Have a 30-Year Goal (with Eigen Labs)
Blockchain Performance, Demystified
Inside the Biggest Heist
Creativity Across Industries, with Uniswap & KidSuper
Where AI x Crypto Converge
Why blockchains need privacy
How This Foodie Founder Is Revamping Restaurants
Social Media Secrets: How to Build Your Presence
Designing Beloved Brands
Trends for 2025 (part 2): AI x Crypto - From Agents in Games & DePIN to Proof of Personhood and More
Trends for 2025 (part 1): Stablecoins, App Stores, UX, and More
Prediction Markets and Beyond
Government... By Lottery?
AI Bots & Memecoins
State of Crypto 2024: Builder Energy, U.S. Election, Stablecoins, AI, More
Bridges: Out of the Mess, Into the Meshnet (with LayerZero)
Games as Reality (with EVE Online)
How Blockchain Tech Advances Benefit Other Industries
Governance Attack!?
Token Do's and Don'ts
Where Innovation Happens
What, How, and Why We're Reading
On Finding Product Market Fit — and Meaning
Governing democracy, the internet, and boardrooms
Pricing Strategy
Open Sourcing the Superchain (with Optimism)
Layer 2, Rollups, and Building Onchain (with Base)
Theory to Code: Building the Breakthrough zkVM Jolt
Let's Get Digi-Physical: From 'Tap' Chips to Taylor Swift
The Art of Technology, The Technology of Art
Leading through uncertainty (with Coinbase CEO)
Snowboards, software, and scaling (with Shopify CEO)
Money, power, politics, and the internet's next battleground
The story of the internet, emergent networks, and their effects
Read Write Own: A new era
On the decentralized web, truth, and human rights: 'Hacking authenticity'
Communicating in Crypto, and Beyond
Chain Choices: Or, How to Decide What Blockchain to Build On
Debating Blockchain Architectures (with Solana)
Financial Freedom, Company Building, More
AI & Crypto
Strategy & Operations for web3 (with Uniswap COO)
Network Effects, Moats, & the Business of web3
Of Data Availability & Danksharding
State of Crypto: Trends, Data, More
Marketing web3: Audience, Community, More
Web3 Gaming & On-chain Games
Crypto Policy & Regulation: What's Going On?
Programming Languages & Crypto
Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger
Building and Overcoming the Hard Things
Mental Models for Navigating Crypto Markets & Cycles
Mainstreaming NFTs: Use Cases, Art, More
The Metaverse, Crypto, Virtual Society
Age of Wonders: NFTs, Art, AI, Cycles of Computing
Ethereum, Merge and Beyond
PoS Blockchains - Designs, Consensus, Attacks
Crypto Regulations, Illicit Finance, Privacy and Beyond
Bridge Hack, Wallet Hack
Top Tech Topics, Explained
Policy Principles
Securing and Evolving NFTs
Puzzles (& Crypto)
Decentralized Creativity & Collaboration
Auction Design for web3
Blockchains / Crypto / web3
Methods to the Madness
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