Chris Dixon on Why We Will Finally See New App Innovation in Crypto - Ep. 773

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Chris Dixon, founder and managing partner of a16z crypto, joins Unchained to share why he believes crypto innovation is about to explode. From Ethereum’s potential to new crypto legislation, Chris delves into why the industry is poised for a major break out. He also discusses why the Biden administration’s “lawfare campaign” led to the memecoin craze, how AI and crypto together could transform technology, and why bad tech policy stifled the industry for years. Plus, he shares his take on the executive order signed by President Donald Trump and its significance for the industry. Show highlights: 2:51 Why Chris feels like the Biden administration was trying to destroy crypto 7:16 Chris’s take on the Trump announcements and executive orders 14:18 What Chris would like to see in upcoming crypto legislation 21:37 How he compares the intertwining of AI and crypto with mobile, cloud and social 26:24 Whether an investing AI agent like ai16z could ever compete with A16z 32:05 How technologies usually evolve exponentially and how the AI x crypto craze will evolve 39:21 Why Chris doesn’t think the debate about whether Ethereum L2s are ‘parasitic’ is important 47:24 Chris’s opinion on whether Vitalik should be doing more marketing for ETH 51:29 Why Chris thinks native rollups on Ethereum could be valuable and promising 55:43 What he believes is important to pitch blockchain to Wall Street 59:39 Chris’s vision for a future multichain world 1:04:20 How the Biden administration’s “lawfare campaign” enabled the memecoin craze in 2024 1:08:08 Why Chris says that Coinbase has been very innovative 1:14:11 Whether ICOs are a recipe for fraud and scams 1:17:39 What apps and innovations Chris is excited about Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com Thank you to our sponsors! Polkadot Somnia Network Guest: Chris Dixon, Founder and Managing Partner of a16z crypto Previous appearances on Unchained: A16z Crypto’s Chris Dixon on How Blockchains Can Save the Internet Chris Dixon on How Trust Is the Best Lego Links Unchained: President Trump Declares Crypto a National Priority in Executive Order 2024 Was Solana's Best Year Yet. Can It Sustain the Momentum in 2025? Chris’ tweet on the executive order Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So we have probably, I'm just, these aren't exact numbers, but I would say 30 to 40, probably app layer companies that have basically been blocked from building and launching what they want to build.
0:13.8	And the ones that have launched, I think it's they really, what you see is half of what they wanted to build and not the full thing.
0:19.1	And so what I think that what I'm actually
0:20.9	working on like on a day-to-day basis, like literally having phone calls and talking about it with
0:24.3	these folks is like how do we now in this new policy environment build the products we want to
0:28.3	build and run the real experiment, right? And get stuff out there. So that's to me the theme. That's
0:33.6	what I'll spend my time on this year. I mean, obviously, there's a lot more work to do on the policy side. That's sort of two things are that.
0:38.5	And then now that we have that, let's get the app player stuff really working because
0:41.9	the infrastructure is good.
0:47.0	Hi, everyone.
0:48.0	Welcome to Unchained.
0:49.0	You're no hype resource for all things crypto.
0:51.0	I'm your host, Laura Shin.
0:52.8	We are now featuring quotes from listeners on the show.
0:55.5	Today we have one from Thomas Y3W on YouTube, who commented on the episode with Vivek Ramon of
1:02.2	Ethereum. Thomas said, quote, every transactional habit security rooted on Ethereum has been my refrain
1:08.5	for years. I've had the same thesis around the road to adoption
1:11.9	for Ethereum since well before the merge also. ETH is machine money, it's inevitable. There is
1:17.6	literally no second best. Other platforms are just dodgy apps. Ethereum is building the rails for global
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1:30.7	This is the January 28th, 2025 episode of Unchained.
1:34.9	Pocodot is the original and leading Layer Zero blockchain with over 2,000 plus developers.
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