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Blockchains for TradFi: What banks, asset managers, and fintechs should know
Blockchains are a new settlement and ownership layer, one that’s programmable, open, and global by default, unlocking new forms of entrepreneurship, creativity, and infrastructure. Growth in monthly active crypto addresses is generally tracking the
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Scott Duke Kominers, Sam Broner, Jay Drain, Guy Wuollet, Elizabeth Harkavy, Carra Wu, and Matt Gleason
AI x crypto crossovers
The economics of the internet are already changing. As the open web collapses into a prompt bar, we have to wonder: Will AI lead to an open internet or a maze of new paywalls? And who will control it — big centralized companies or broad communities
Andrew Hall
Research Advisor
Andy Hall is a Research Advisor to the a16z crypto team. He is the Davies Family Professor of Political Economy at Stanford GSB and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Hall uses large-scale datasets to study the governance of online and offline systems, with a particular focus on crypto and AI governance, as well as the intersection of business, technology, and politics. He currently serves as an advisor to the Wearables Business Group at Meta Platforms, Inc.
Representative works include:
- A Democracy in the Sky: Experiments to Govern the Online World (forthcoming book)Measuring Perceived Slant in Large Language Models Through User Evaluations.
- What Happens When Anyone Can Be Your Representative? Studying the Use of Liquid Democracy for High-Stakes Decisions in Online Platforms.
- What Kinds of Incentives Encourage Participation in Democracy? Evidence from a Massive Online Governance Experiment.
- How Did Absentee Voting Affect the 2020 U.S. Election?
- Do Shark Attacks Influence Presidential Elections? Reassessing a Prominent Finding on Voter Competence.
- What Happens When Extremists Win Primaries?
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All about airdrops
We cover everything you need to know about one of the most familiar — and most misunderstood — mechanics in crypto: token airdrops.
Government… by lottery?
We explore the ancient practice of "sortition," which is undergoing a revival among tech and AI companies like Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Liquid democracy in the wild
Andrew Hall crunches the data about how blockchain startups use digital voting to make high-stakes collective decisions.