Podcast Index

Podcasts

Browse podcasts by category, open recent episodes, and download audio to listen offline.

a16z crypto show

Technology

a16z crypto show

a16z crypto, Robert Hackett, Sonal Chokshi

Leslie Lamport on the Science of Distributed Systems

June 25, 2026 1:27pm 36 min

Before blockchains could reach consensus, Leslie Lamport had to define what agreement even meant when computers fail, lie, or disappear.  In this episode of First Principles: The Scientific Roots of Blockchain Technology...

Before Blockchains, There Was State Machine Replication (ft. Barbara Liskov and Tim Roughgarden)

June 22, 2026 12:28pm 35 min

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 money at all.  In this episode of First Principles, a16z crypto Head of ...

How Bitcoin Rewired a Classic Computer Science Problem (ft. Tim Roughgarden and Ittai Abraham)

June 22, 2026 12:20pm 20 min

Bitcoin often gets credited with inventing trustless consensus. It didn’t.  The problem was named decades earlier — in the world of distributed computing — and researchers spent years studying how machines could reach ag...

How Stablecoins Are Reconfiguring the Financial System | ft. Eddy Lazzarin and Sonal Chokshi

June 12, 2026 11:53am 1:20

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 crypto's newest General Partner, to break down why crypto is entering a co...

The Real Reason Behind Most DeFi Hacks

May 13, 2026 4:25pm 35 min

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 engineer Matt Gleason join host Robert Hackett to take a closer look. ...

We Raised $2.2B. Here’s Why.

May 05, 2026 9:07am 1:00

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 GPs sat down to talk through where crypto is right now, what's changed...

The end of ads? AI agents are about to change how we buy

April 27, 2026 11:51am 57 min

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 (founder and CEO of Merit Systems, a startup building infrastructure for the a...

Why AI is so centralized: How it's built, who controls it, and what comes next

April 22, 2026 10:51am 17 min

A few big companies control most of the infrastructure behind AI. Most people experience AI through a wide range of different apps that actually depend on a deeply centralized stack of data and compute. In this conversat...

How Bots, Deepfakes and AI Agents Are Forcing a New Internet Identity Layer

April 17, 2026 1:38pm 42 min

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 Humanity. World is building the largest real human network, a proof-of-huma...

How DeFi lending actually works (with Paul Frambot, cofounder and CEO of Morpho Labs)

April 08, 2026 11:37am 18 min

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 infrastructure without banks, and why DeFi’s real breakthrough isn’t “risk-free”...

Why Solana keeps getting faster — and what's next (ft. Jito Labs CEO Lucas Bruder)

April 03, 2026 2:02pm 18 min

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 down why he thinks all of finance is moving onchain, and what his small te...

Vitalik Buterin vs Beff Jezos: AI Acceleration Debate (E/acc vs D/acc)

March 25, 2026 5:59pm 1:37

Should we push AI forward as fast as possible, or be more careful about how it develops?  Two competing views are emerging:  e/acc (effective accelerationism): go faster, progress is the only path forward d/acc (defen...

AI Is Changing the Internet. What Does It Mean for Creators? (with Justin and Michael Blau)

March 17, 2026 9:41am 37 min

What does the future of the creator economy actually look like? The economics of content creation are changing, what happens to copyright in a world of abundant generated content, and why human taste, curation, and conne...

The Emmy Built on ETH: Emily Yang aka pplpleasr on the Future of Storytelling

March 13, 2026 11:06am 11 min

Four years ago, artist Emily Yang aka pplpleasr began a creative journey that would help break new ground at the intersection of art, technology, and community.  In this episode, we sit down with Emily — founder of Shibu...

AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now What?

March 05, 2026 2:37pm 1:05

A hot paper — "Some Simple Economics of AGI" — has been making the rounds, so we sat down with the author, covering:  Automation vs. verification: the key economic split  Why AI agents now feel like coworkers - What's...

Why Tokenize? Fidelity on Onchain Assets and the Next Phase of Adoption

March 04, 2026 5:03pm 16 min

What does it actually mean to bring assets onchain — and why should investors care?  In this episode, Cynthia Lo Bessette, Head of Digital Asset Management at Fidelity Investments, breaks down Fidelity’s roadmap for digi...

When Bots Have Bank Accounts: The Rise of the Agent Economy (With Sean Neville, Catena Labs)

March 03, 2026 1:30pm 20 min

What happens when AI becomes the primary economic actor?  In this conversation, Sean Neville (cofounder of Circle, architect of USDC, and now cofounder of Catena Labs) shares his vision for the next phase of the internet...

From Eater to Blackbird: Ben Leventhal on Restaurants, Loyalty, and Rebuilding Payments

February 11, 2026 6:00am 15 min

Restaurants generated more than a trillion dollars in sales last year — but they don’t control the payment rails those dollars flow through.In this episode, Ben Leventhal (founder of Eater, Resy, and now Blackbird) joins...

Bridge CEO Zach Abrams: Stablecoins Are The Next Platform for Money

February 02, 2026 2:50pm 19 min

with @zcabrams @rhackettWhat happens when money moves 10x — or 100x — faster than it does today?In this episode, Zach Abrams, cofounder and CEO of Bridge (now part of Stripe), lays out a bold vision for the future of mon...

Why Privacy Will Be the Biggest Moat in Crypto

January 30, 2026 11:21am 36 min

with @alive_eth @rhacketta16z crypto General Partner Ali Yahya explains why privacy — not performance — will determine the long-term winners in crypto, and how it creates powerful network effects. In conversation with a1...

Submit Your Favorite Station

Fill in the form below. Make sure to select both Country and Genres.

Name
Category
Hold Ctrl (Cmd on Mac) to select multiple.
Streaming URL
Logo (JPG, JPEG or PNG)

Contact us

Send us a message below. We will get back to you within 24 hours.

Subject
Your name
Email address
Station or page URL
Message
What is 19 plus 18?
We also attach your country, browser, current page, and device details to help us investigate issues.