Archive - a16z crypto

How to prove software ran correctly — on a phone or GPU, in a post-quantum world

Introducing a fast, post-quantum Jolt

Sep 10 • Markos Georghiades, Justin Thaler, Andrew Tretyakov, and Michael Zhu

When throughput is not enough: What financial markets need from blockchains

Throughput was only the first test.

Sep 3 • a16z crypto

August 2026

In Argentina, buying crypto means buying dollars

Stablecoins solved an urgent problem in Argentina. Then people kept using them.

Aug 30 • Alejandro Flores

Beyond slop, taste, and AI moral panic: What social science tells us

Disentangling the messy, imprecise concept of taste

Aug 26 • Tim Sullivan

The habits of AI writing, and what to do about them

Stop asking if it was written by AI. Start asking whether it’s doing its job.

Aug 22 • Steph Zinn

Before Bitcoin: The ideas that made blockchains possible

Interviews with pioneers of computing technologies

Aug 15 • a16z crypto

Crypto cards hit $759 million a month

Stablecoin spending by card swipe is up 2.5x in a year — and it's happening overwhelmingly in digital dollars, almost entirely on Visa

Aug 8 • Robert Hackett

Marc Andreessen & Chris Dixon: Why America needs CLARITY

And why no rules is the riskiest rule of all

Aug 1 • a16z crypto

July 2026

From corporation to crowd: How organizations evolved through time and technology

The corporation solved the coordination problems of the industrial age. The DUNA — a new legal entity — does the same for decentralized networks.

Jul 30 • Tim Sullivan and Robert Hackett

3 (more) charts on the tokenized stocks boom

Tokenized stocks grew more than 5x in a year as new issuance, broader listings, and institutional adoption accelerated

Jul 25 • Robert Hackett

It’s time to pass the CLARITY Act

The GENIUS Act brought stablecoins to the mainstream. Now the networks they run on deserve the same clarity.

Jul 22

The time for Clarity is here: The next-generation Telecoms Act

Congress has a chance to pass the most important technology law since the Telecoms Act.

Jul 18 • a16z crypto

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