Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire joins a16z crypto founder and founding partner Chris Dixon for a conversation about stablecoins, Circle’s Arc blockchain, and what happens when programmable money meets increasingly capable machines.
Drawing on decades of building and investing through changes in internet technology, Jeremy and Chris reflect on how far crypto has come, what still stands between it and mainstream adoption, and why its most compelling applications may look unfamiliar today.
Highlights
00:00 Intro
01:58 Circle’s original vision for programmable money
07:19 Why institutions started taking stablecoins seriously
12:04 Learnings from building a global financial network
15:03 What gives a stablecoin its moat?
26:28 Crypto’s growing adoption in the shadow of AI
28:11 From making existing things better to creating entirely new markets
32:59 The weirdest experiments being built on Arc
37:02 What happens when AI hires AI
38:04 Why the next big thing starts out looking like a toy
39:05 Can blockchains counter AI’s centralizing tendencies?
44:01 What the machine economy could look like in five years
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