How to Launch a Token (Legally) Featuring Miles Jennings & Eddy Lazzarin Of a16z Crytrpo
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And so we're working with a lot of founders to try and form those perfect use cases that really show that these paths are now available, how to hit control based decentralization, how to turn value accrual on, right, how to use these entity structures in a more, you know, in a more transparent way that doesn't kind of increase opacity. So I think those are all of the things that we're working on, and I think that, you know, this year is gonna be very exciting because there's gonna be some launches that are are really gonna knock that out of the park.
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Great to be here.
Thanks for having us.
Yeah. Excited to have you guys. Okay. Little context before I jump in with the questions. So after most episodes, I usually get a few DMS or people drop questions in the empire telegram channel. And usually it's from founders. They say something along the lines of, Hey, I heard you and Santiago mentioned this. Can I do this? And then I say something along the lines of, may, maybe I don't really know. Probably you could do it, but probably not. And you should really talk to someone smarter than me. And then this kind of came to a head, earlier this year when I started posting about companies la
not a lawyer.
Not a lawyer, but probably sat with Miles long enough to understand how to actually implement this side, this stuff into into companies. So there are really a couple of big topics on my mind for this episode. One is, you guys posted this, blog post saying, the the end of the foundation era in crypto. So I wanna talk about foundations and how to really structure and build companies. Second is token design and classification. The third is just general crypto policy and what's happening in DC. And the fourth is really just founder mistakes that you see people making. Maybe that thing things that
Yeah, I mean, will say it's been a whirlwind of a year, right? I think if you were looking at where we were a year ago, the sentiment was incredibly negative and now we're at the complete opposite end of the spectrum. I think on the legislative front, we have a ton of progress has been made in Congress. We've gotten multiple bills passed. The Genius Act has actually become law and so that's provided clarity for how stablecoins are going be regulated. Market structure legislation, which handles the regulation of intermediaries like the exchanges like Coinbase, Kraken and those, as well as token
Nice. There are a few big buckets of things happening in DC. There's obviously Paul. I mean, Paul Atkins is piece if for anyone who hasn't read it yet, I'd highly recommend going and reading it. I mean, he basically says capital markets are coming on chain. It's a pretty, it's a pretty amazing piece. There's also clarity act. So, and then there's a bunch of other, like, I'd say smaller things happening like liquid staking. There's some great statements on liquid staking that came out this week. Let's let's talk about, Paul Atkins's piece and just the, the siege, the, I mean, it's pretty
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