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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Ethereum comes up on the a16z Podcast, Top Founders, Capital Allocators, My First Million, 20VC
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 1:09:03 Jerry Murdock While Solana and, and, and, and Ethereum, they're, they're looking like they have a long-term potential.
More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:20 John Coogan ETH wallet keys, user credentials, et cetera, hanging out on the open internet in paste bins, githubs, et cetera.
We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital
- ▶ 23:15 Gaurav Jain You know, how they were building a layer one protocol to compete with Ethereum, but this was gonna be a lot faster, and transaction speed's gonna matter, and so on and so forth.
Brian Armstrong: Bitcoin, Banks & The New Rules Of Money | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 0:33 Nikhil Kamath Everything from Bitcoins, blockchain, Solana, Ethereum.
- ▶ 47:23 Brian Armstrong And, um, you know, Ethereum and other blockchains use a new system called proof of stake, which is actually 99.9% more energy efficient.
- ▶ 52:22 Nikhil Kamath Say I stake 35 ETH or whatever to stake while I confirm the particular transaction. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:14 Brian Armstrong So, um, yeah, I'd say that, you know, there, there was a, for a while there, there was actually like dozens of these chains that were coming out and, um, it's really kind of consolidated down where now the, I'd say for store value, it's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:52:39 Brian Armstrong Well, for anybody who doesn't know, BASE is a layer two blockchain that we built on top of Ethereum, and it's gotten a lot of traction. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:10:25 Brian Armstrong We talked about how a lot of activities move to stablecoins on Ethereum and Solana and Base.
How We Got Fred Wilson, Benchmark and Index to Invest $94M | Why Robinhood's Strategy is Wrong · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:41 Paul Erlang Right now it's mostly on-chain assets, meaning like on-chain native assets, Bitcoin, Ethereum, attention-based assets, et cetera.
Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:16 John Coogan Ethereum is a good example. 3 times in the scene
Binance’s CZ: We’ll Never Know Satoshi, and That’s Good
- ▶ 10:00 Changpeng Zhao (CZ) For example, if you look at Ethereum, Metallic's there.
How AI Agents Will Transform the Financial System with Circle Co-Founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire
Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
- ▶ 54:19 Balaji Srinivasan Because zero knowledge proofs, which basically mean anybody can prove anything without revealing anything else, were developed, and then they were commercialized in the form of Zcash, scaled with zero knowledge proofs for scaling, um,… 2 times in the scene
AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Crypto’s Quantum Clock, Axios Hack| Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:47 John Coogan That does not mean Bitcoin and Ethereum are suddenly exposed, but the researchers in the white paper dated Monday said the clearest defense is a shift towards post quantum cryptography or PQC.
Ryan Lovell – Chainlink: The Infrastructure Pipes for Multi-Chain Finance (EP.491)
- ▶ 9:36 Ryan Lovell Most people have heard of Ethereum.
- ▶ 13:54 Ryan Lovell There's the world of Ethereum, which has their version of the computer, the Ethereum virtual machine.
They're Opening the Stock Market to Everyone. Here's What That Actually Means
- ▶ 51:32 Michael Selig An input for a network like Ethereum or Solana or anything else where you're using it for a function within the network, but the capital raise is something separate
Who's Actually Funding the AI Buildout?
- ▶ 1:57 Neil Tiwari Um, you know, we met, uh, CoreWeave back in, uh, twenty-twenty-one, and that was when they were actually transitioning from, uh, mining Ethereum into, uh, high-performance compute.
SpaceX-xAI merger reactions, Paypal plummets, Disney names next CEO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:40 unnamed speaker Ted says gold is dumping, silver is dumping, Bitcoin is dumping, Ethereum is dumping, DXY is dumping, stocks are dumping if everything is going down.
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 1:06:26 Marc Andreessen You know, with Ethereum right behind it, um, you know, which wasn't quite one person, but, you know, a very small team, you know, you had, you know, kind of Instagram and WhatsApp that had very big outcomes with very small teams.
The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
- ▶ 11:43 Shaan Puri Oh, Ethereum, you like that?
Coreweave: AI Bubble Poster Child Or The Next Tech Giant? — With Michael Intrator and Brian Venturo
- ▶ 5:37 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, was it like Ethereum mining or something like that?
- ▶ 17:02 Brian Venturo You mentioned earlier that we came out of, you know, Ethereum mining. 2 times in the scene
Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
- ▶ 17:53 David Sacks A donation by Vitalik Buterin from Ethereum.
Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 15:48 Mark Bhargava Seeing kind of their progress was really what inspired me then at General Catalyst to say, I still want to invest in crypto, which is obviously growing really well in terms of Bitcoin and stable coin adoption and things being built on…
From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC
- ▶ 6:05 Aditya Agarwal So, you know, in the early days, someone like, uh, you know, like a Vitalik Buterin who was just building the ether network, who obviously became Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
Ideas That Sound Illegal (But Print Money Anyway)
- ▶ 54:44 Shaan Puri It was like a very small thing, but his team passed him a note and he goes, Oh, before we hang up here, I just would like to say web three crypto blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum.
Ilya Sutskever on Dwarkesh Patel Reaction, NVIDIA vs Google, Trump Unveils Genesis | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:51 unnamed speaker Apparently, uh, according to X, I don't know if this is true, but the robbery that took place yesterday, in which an armed thief posed as a delivery driver and robbed somebody for a 1,000,011 million dollars of Ethereum and Bitcoin, um,…
A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love
- ▶ 8:08 Rachel Lockett It's the largest Ethereum L-II in the world, and it's a community of creators and developers, and he's having a great time.
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- ▶ 28:08 Alessio Fanelli In your mind, is it kind of like, you know, people in crypto are always about the flippening of like Ethereum and Bitcoin.
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 1:10:18 Kevin Rose And, you know, if you see this stuff, like while I was on the Tim Ferriss show talking about when, you know, um, when, when NVIDIA was hitting their kind of one trillion dollar mark, and I'm like, this is gonna run, because we're at the…
Multicoin Capital’s Kyle Samani on Internet Capital Markets
- ▶ 4:01 Kyle Samani No one in this room is going to wait two minutes to send the transaction and pay 20 dollars in gas fees on Ethereum.
Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
- ▶ 2:56 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, a technical and architectural vision that you had versus maybe a set of trade-offs that you were trying to solve that ETH didn't fill or Bitcoin didn't fill, and you said, I'm just going to try and do this. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:47 Chamath Palihapitiya There, there's been an enormous, um, reanimation in the ETH market recently. 3 times in the scene
Inside the $750B+ Thiel Fellowship · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:09 Danielle Strachman There's Vitalik with Ethereum.
- ▶ 1:20 Molly O'Shea I would say a lot of that is weighted to Ethereum. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:07 Danielle Strachman He launched, uh, the first sale of ether during the fellowship. 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
- ▶ 6:33 Jordi Hays Well, they just saw the Ethereum treasuries.
Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- ▶ 1:17:19 Balaji Srinivasan Bitcoin increases that because it actually says once you can get consensus on who owns what BTC, you can also get consensus on who owns what stocks, what bonds, what Ethereum, smart contracts.
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 34:24 unnamed speaker This was a few months ago on Ethereum. 3 times in the scene
Crypto Experts Explain Stablecoins & the Future Financial System w/ Ali Yahya & Arianna Simpson
- ▶ 11:30 Ali Yahya Like for example, the infrastructure is likely to capture a lot of the value because a lot of the activity, a lot of these sort of transactions, stablecoin transactions that are happening, happen on blockchains like Solana, Ethereum, Zui,…
- ▶ 33:42 Ali Yahya And the fact that, like, this misconception is that, like, Ethereum is like Bitcoin, and Ethereum is actually the silver to Bitcoin's gold, and that all that crypto really is, is just another kind of attempt to doing what Bitcoin did. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:15 Erik Torenberg And then my understanding is that Ethereum has tried to sort of optimize across multiple dimensions, both trying to be money, but also 5 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 57:21 Katie Haun So to my mind, the court system is the reason we have ETFs in this country today for Bitcoin, um, and for ETH, and I think of this as a bit, a similar thing.
- ▶ 1:12:24 Katie Haun And that would have been a mistake because then a couple of years later on the scene, we have ETH and a few years later we have Solana.
Read Write Own - A16Z Partner Chris Dixon on TBPN
- ▶ 1:28 Chris Dixon Um, and so, you know, quite a lot of volume and that, a lot of that's due to the fact that the infrastructure, so Solana, Ethereum and so forth has gotten really good.
- ▶ 10:32 Chris Dixon So like, why, why would one build on a blockchain like Ethereum or Solana as opposed to a traditional,
- ▶ 15:27 Chris Dixon Um, you know, they're, so, so for example, um, you know, think of the Ethereum Foundation, I know the relationship between Ethereum Foundation and Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- ▶ 27:12 Chris Dixon Um, you know, like Ethereum, Solana, you know, Uniswap, whatever.
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 21:11 Balaji Srinivasan That went to Ethereum and Solana and whatnot.
- ▶ 30:41 Balaji Srinivasan The DeFi matrix starts with the observation that fiat fiat can be swapped like Forex, but fiat crypto can also be swapped like USD BTC and crypto crypto can be swapped like BTC ETH.
- ▶ 37:10 Chris Dixon Um, and so, you know, quite a lot of volume and that, a lot of that's due to the fact that the infrastructure, so Solana, Ethereum and so forth has gotten really good.
- ▶ 48:48 Chris Dixon So like, why, why would one build on a blockchain like Ethereum or Solana as opposed to a traditional,
- ▶ 58:38 Chris Dixon I don't know if you guys know the relationship between Ethereum foundation and Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:54 Dan Romero So you can use Ethereum, you can use base, you can use Solana.
How Revolut trains world-class PMs: The “Local CEO” model, raw intellect & building wow products
- ▶ 52:05 Dmitry Zlokazov Just buy a coffee with, with Ethereum.
The Most Valuable Skill For Any Founder
- ▶ 16:59 Shaan Puri And then, you know, Ethereum comes out of that, and Figma comes out of that, and a bunch of, like, you know, kind of multi-billion dollar industry-changing companies come out of it.
Ben Forman – Unlocking Blockchain's Potential (EP.441)
- ▶ 22:12 Ben Forman If I'm sending that stable coin transaction on Ethereum, I'm attaching some sort of fee to that transaction denominated in ETH, which is the digital asset of the Ethereum blockchain, that's getting burned. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:05 Ben Forman There's a whole range of different things you can do with stable coins on chain, and these really started in earnest in, like, twenty-twenty, in the early days of Ethereum, where we realized with these smart contracts, you could basically… 2 times in the scene
The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- ▶ 1:27:19 Alessio Fanelli Yeah, that's what ENS on Ethereum.
Jake Adler on Raising $3M to "Make Soldiers Heal Faster and Think Smarter".
- ▶ 17:46 unnamed speaker I don't know if you saw this, but a couple weeks ago, someone burned something close to like a couple million dollars of Ethereum to encode a message in the blockchain that alleged that China had developed brain-computer interface…
5 Conversations that broke our frames this week
- ▶ 39:44 Shaan Puri and he was like, not paying attention because he was buying into the Ethereum ICO at like, you know, 17 cents or something like that. 2 times in the scene
Alexis Ohanian reflects on Reddit, the changing internet, and the future of Digg.
- ▶ 15:34 Alexis Ohanian Um, but I do think there's something really interesting about, you know, we're at this point where, and look, I've been a day one seeded Coinbase in 2012, like ETH presale, like I, I have,
Nic Carter talks crypto, meme coins, and the regulatory environment.
- ▶ 3:28 Nic Carter Uh, and I had met these guys because we were mutual haters of Ethereum. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:24 Nic Carter Okay, we want to do a basket of Bitcoin, Cartano, ETH, Solana, Ripple.
Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO
- ▶ 4:48 Jason Calacanis Included Ethereum and Bitcoin, some decentralized coins. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:44:19 David Sacks ETH, which is Ethereum. 3 times in the scene
Packy McCormick Breaks Down Ramp's New $13B Valuation and Where He's Investing Right Now.
- ▶ 26:36 Packy McCormick And I think it's like some point in five years, a lot of finance is going to run on Solana on ETH, uh, maybe on sweet or, you know, like a lot of, I think it's inevitable that, that more and more.
The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private
- ▶ 7:23 John Collison If you look at, you know, something on an Ethereum L two or Solana or something like that.
The Trump Family is PRINTING MONEY (Here's How)
- ▶ 16:38 unnamed speaker Uh, does it get into any of the, uh, they, they had a, the, I think Don Jr has been very involved with some, and Eric Trump had been involved with some, uh, Ethereum related 3 times in the scene
Elon’s New Blockchain (Project DOGE)
- ▶ 13:50 unnamed speaker Uh, Solana, Luna, which was like the Terra Luna thing, and then Avax, which is Avalanche, and, uh, it was like this big movement of like, let's move past Ethereum and get onto like these higher performance, uh, high-speed, uh, crypto…
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 2:05:54 John Coogan Or Ethereum, like the Ethereum ICO guys are just like all fantastically wealthy.
Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz’s $688M Thesis on Go-To-Market Disruption · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 31:27 Tomasz Tunguz In Web three is, it's an incredible, I think it's, I mean, very, very few people appreciate like the scale of Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
- ▶ 46:17 Jordi Hays Imagine being in 94, you're just like registering, and people were doing this a little bit with ETH addresses, right?
Five $10M+ Ideas (from a guy who's done it 3 times)
- ▶ 59:29 Shaan Puri And is it, is it just Bitcoin or do you also believe in ETH and Solana and other things? 2 times in the scene
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:21 Mike Maples So when I think about the way venture capital has thought about crypto, most of the really smartest people I know have been focused on Ethereum and Solana.
He Made $10M with 3 iPhone Apps
- ▶ 3:39 Blake Anderson Like I built an Ethereum mining machine back in 2016 or 20 17.
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 52:42 John Coogan He says, this is how Vitalik built Ethereum, and it's a screenshot of a kid in a very awkward pose saying, look at this kid, and everyone was laughing out loud at this.
Eric Peters - Paradigm Shifts and Solutions at One River (EP.422)
- ▶ 27:38 Eric Peters We started building a platform which is going to be infrastructure for tokenizing essentially all traditional assets as opposed to tokens like Bitcoin or Ethereum.
- ▶ 30:37 Eric Peters So Ethereum financial markets and infrastructure will be built on Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 1:40:22 Jordi Hays I, I know a, you know, multi-billion dollar AUM digital asset fund who has three X their, their twenty-twenty-one fund just on Ethereum alone.
He grew to $90M ARR, was about to exit for $1.5B—and then, it all fell apart. | Yanni Giannaros, ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 36:36 Yanni Giannaros He saw like what the, he knew a lot about Ethereum, was like an early investor in Ethereum, knew how like dApps were going to develop. 2 times in the scene
$100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
- ▶ 45:45 Shaan Puri I remember we were at work and you were buying the Ethereum pre-sale, uh, the ICO or whatever the pre-sale. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:52 Shaan Puri I remember when, uh, early on, 2013, 14, something like that, um, we meet, I buy Bitcoin, because, I don't know, you're into crypto, some, some people in the office, you know, maybe I was dumb about the Ethereum idea.
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 3:58 unnamed speaker Uh, and they launch as a decentralized prediction market platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. 3 times in the scene
3 Stories Of People Making Millions In Weird Ways
- ▶ 47:20 Shaan Puri Vitalik, who's the creator of Ethereum, wrote a great blog post. 6 times in the scene
Fact-Checking The Information (ep10)
- ▶ 1:40:37 Jordi Hays It's happening on Ethereum. 3 times in the scene
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 1:43:25 Jordi Hays Credit cards to buy Ethereum and Bitcoin, and it absolutely paid off.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 2:11:59 John Coogan The, the, uh, the Ethereum ETF as well.
Crypto is Back Baby (ep5)
- ▶ 15:13 John Coogan You have pumped out fun, tons of meme coins, also just speculation on Bitcoin and ETH as like underlying assets.
- ▶ 35:05 John Coogan In the back end, um, but they're a very crypto native company, so they're able to implement that, and Zach's been in, or, um, uh, Shane's been in crypto for years in the Ethereum community, but for so many other companies, using stable…
Truth Terminal - The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire
- ▶ 20:12 Ben Horowitz So, um, for example, ETH, um, you can use ETH to, uh, basically run program that gets validated on the Ethereum network, um, you know, in the form of kind of a gas fee, which, you know, the, the currency of that is ETH. 2 times in the scene
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:26 David Frankel 2015, Ethereum. 2 times in the scene
Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
- ▶ 1:20:02 Mark Cuban If FTX wants to loan out all their Ethereum, you have to do what they did in Japan.
The Quest for Community-Trained Open Source AI Models
- ▶ 4:23 Jeff Schmidt Um, I was, uh, I was working on my master's research on Zcash, which is a, a cryptocurrency, but it was kind of like static, and I eventually found Ethereum, which is this, like, programmable blockchain.
David Salem - Investment Wisdom from the Owner's Box (EP.409)
- ▶ 54:35 David Salem On digital assets, I first got intrigued by it because I watched something with Vitalik about Ethereum, and I thought, wait a minute, this is going to be a relatively painless way to exchange and transfer value of anything that's… 4 times in the scene
Nikhil Kamath x Nandan Nilekani | People by WTF | Ep #3 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 57:19 Nandan Nilekani So that capability of immutability of creating chains was used to create Bitcoin and ether and all these things.
10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- ▶ 1:16:26 Shaan Puri Um, I remember I made a Ethereum and Ethereum is probably one of the best investments I ever made. 2 times in the scene
Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions
- ▶ 18:13 Shaan Puri And it was one ETH, which at the time was like maybe two or three grand.
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