Hi everyone, welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal. Today's episode is all about the regulatory

landscape in crypto. It's based on a conversation recorded at our inaugural intro to crypto event,

co-hosted with hashtag Angels in April 2018. You can also find other sessions from this event as

podcasts, as well as on our YouTube channel, where there's also an intro to crypto basics deck presented

by Linda Shea. The experts in this episode, however, are Robin Wiseman, who's a lawyer by training.

Her early work on Bitcoin policy issues help found Coin Center, which is a nonprofit policy

research and advocacy group for cryptocurrencies. She's a lobbyist of the group and so spends most of her time

talking to policymakers at both the federal and state level. And she's also formerly director of

government relations at NASDAQ. And then we have Katie Hahn, also a former lawyer who teaches

crypto at Stanford Business School and is on the boards of Coinbase and Hacker 1. She's a former

federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of

Justice, where she led their first digital currency task force and prosecuted a number of cases in the

space. And she was recently announced as our newest general partner. The discussion that follows

covers everything from a pulse check on what's going on regulation-wise in crypto to how people who

want to join a company or build something new in this space should think about it. We also briefly

cover who the regulatory players are, and you can see this slide we reference, even though you

don't have to, in the notes for this episode on our website. Thanks again, everyone, for coming.

I'm so excited by the energy in this room. So far, just to kind of recap where we're at, we started our morning with building blocks for what we're looking at, the big picture for crypto. We then talked about building companies with people and with code. And now we're talking about the regulatory landscape and building, I guess, with like, legal code.

I mean, the regulatory aspect of it.

But one context note, the story of the internet, and we've referenced the internet as an analogy here a lot, has been a story about permissionless innovation.

Government invented it and universities and labs built it in the early days.

They then opened it up for everyone to build on top of it, which

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