Lily Liu

President, Solana Foundation · 1 appearance on the record.

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Lily Liu is an entrepreneur and crypto executive serving as President of the Solana Foundation and co-founder of Anagram. She previously co-founded Earn.com, which was acquired by Coinbase.

9statements → 5claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.78/5average certainty → 2.44/5average debate potential →

2 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 4 assertions · 3 opinions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Lily argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Liu: Binance became the top crypto exchange in under one year

“Binance is, you know, arguably, you know, largest, largest exchange in the world right now. And they launched their own token, pay all of their people in BNB and maybe some other cryptocurrencies. It's unclear where their headquarters are. It's unclear where t…”

Lily Liu Jul 15, 2018 ▶ 8:45 An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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50% certainty 3

100% certainty 4

none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

266 words/min while actually speaking · 74 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Lily Liu: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,634 words across 2 episodes of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

What they said9 Episodes1

Everything Lily Liu said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Liu: The crypto industry is meritocratic and supportive of women

“I think one of the misconceptions there have been a couple of articles recently is that somehow it's an unfriendly place for women. That's never been my personal experience. In fact, I've always felt that it's been one of the most fun, meritocratic fast moving…”

Lily Liu Jul 15, 2018 ▶ 0:57 An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code

Insight

Liu: Frame crypto as consumer empowerment, not censorship resistance

“I think generally it's true that, you know, you can motivate a small, very passionate minority by, you know, being anti something. But if we take those same principles and reframe it as instead of being censorship resistance, but rather, you know, empowering c…”

Lily Liu Jul 15, 2018 ▶ 3:57 An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code

Opinion

Liu: Quasi-religious devotion was necessary to keep crypto alive

“There are a number of, I mean, it's almost religious how people kind of feel about their particular protocol or their sort of, or their project which in a way has been necessary in order to breathe life into the space and to keep it going from in 2008 until wh…”

Lily Liu Jul 15, 2018 ▶ 3:30 An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Liu: Ethereum Foundation employs 5 to 10 people despite $70B market cap

“Ethereum, for example, has, depending on the day, you know, above a 50, 60, seventy million seventy billion market cap, right? So if you think about the corollary of a similarly sized company here, here in the Bay Area, Uber might be an apt analogy. Uber has t…”

Lily Liu Jul 15, 2018 ▶ 7:44 An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code

Assertion Supported

Liu: Binance became the top crypto exchange in under one year

Lily Liu Jul 15, 2018 ▶ 8:45 An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code

Opinion

Liu: US crypto disputes end in court, not with death

“Given, you know, personally, given the choice, I still think that the U S is a relatively good place to be doing business and be in crypto because in the U S you know, if you disagree, you can go to court in other jurisdictions. If you disagree, you go to jail…”

Lily Liu Jul 15, 2018 ▶ 13:29 An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Liu: Speculation was the first use case for cryptocurrency

“Speculation is really the first use case of cryptocurrency.”

Lily Liu Jul 15, 2018 ▶ 10:50 An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code

Prediction Partly held up

Liu: Consumer platforms will integrate crypto into loyalty programs within a year

“And so I think over the next year, we're going to see a number of those things to be proven out. And what we've already at least heard is that what was, I think Starbucks talked about maybe integrating blockchain to the loyalty program. Rakuten, which is, you …”

Lily Liu Jul 15, 2018 ▶ 23:53 An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code

Assertion Supported

Liu: Coinbase lists only four assets out of a thousand available

“You know, we've got, there's four assets on Coinbase. There's probably a thousand assets out there that could be on Coinbase.”

Lily Liu Jul 15, 2018 ▶ 21:12 An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
An Intro to Crypto: Building Companies, from People to Code	Jul 15, 2018	8m

Lily Liu

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