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Over 4 years at @a16zcrypto, I've found writing to be the best tool for exploring crypto’s complexity—from advising founders to constructing policy.
It’s a discovery engine that demands clarity, consistency and transparency.
Here are 10 posts I learned the most from writing:
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Markets are moving onchain—but developers need clear protections.
Today @a16zcrypto & @fund-defi proposed a safe harbor to exempt crypto apps—DeFi frontends, NFT platforms, and more—from SEC broker rules.
This is critical for tokenized securities to trade onchain.
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1/ Progress on crypto policy continues! The White House just released an excellent report and the SEC launched “Project Crypto”.
The next critical step is feedback on the Senate’s market structure legislation.
We just submitted our recommendations👇
https://api.a16zcrypto.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/a16z-Response-to-Senate-Banking-Committee-Digital-Asset-Market-Structure-RFI.pdf
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🚨Big News🚨Wyoming just enacted a game-changing law for web3.
It creates a new entity for DAOs – the Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association (DUNA) – that’s been years in the making.
@cowriellc and I provide everything you need to know below: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/duna-for-daos/
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With the fight for crypto’s existence subsiding, it’s time to focus on crypto's purpose: decentralization.
Decentralization is at the heart of what makes crypto worthwhile. But if we don't properly incentivize and enshrine it in law, we'll lose it.
Read my op-ed @coindesk ⬇️
https://t.co/Bhk2AHEQ6g
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1/ Centralized control of networks has consequence — Big Tech, Big Banks, and Big AI control public discourse, financial access, and even information.
Decentralization eliminates control, but it needs to be incentivized. Here's how. 👇
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/why-decentralization-matters-incentivizing-decentralization-incentives/
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The critical takeaway here isn't about memecoins.
It's that the SEC's interpretation of Howey continues to be that an investment contract may exist based on the "economic reality" of an arrangement.
The SEC's recent optimistic approach to the industry and the dismissal of many of its cases has led a lot of people to believe that "everything is legal".
That's particularly true because most of the cases the SEC has been dropping/settling involved arguments by the defendants that, rather than "economic reality," Howey's investment contract analysis hinged on whether there was a formal contract.
So, if the dismissals were a sign that the SEC was accepting of this "predicate contract" argument (and abandoning the "economic reality" argument), nearly every token in existence would be legal.
This release confirms the SEC doesn't believe "everything is legal" and that's a good thing.
