politics

Today we’re contributing over $23m in additional funds to Fairshake and its affiliated PACs for the 2026 midterm election cycle.

No matter what happens on Election Day we are taking a long-term approach to our policy efforts.

Contributing to Fairshake is just one important component to achieving our ultimate goal of achieving clear laws to govern the crypto industry while protecting consumers and allowing entrepreneurs to build with confidence.

Many industries come to DC asking to roll back rules, and we have come to DC asking to establish them.

You can read my full thoughts here: https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/a-long-term-view-of-crypto-policy/

I recently spoke with Andy Greenberg from WIRED, who did a profile that dives into my journey over the past few years. It was a great experience to reflect on the evolution of my investigations.

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-zachxbt-243-million-crypto-theft/

Introducing zkstats.io - at Standard Crypto we've built a dashboard to track the volume and costs of ZK proofs submitted to Ethereum Mainnet. We hope this tool is helpful for monitoring the health and growth of individual projects and the ecosystem at-large.

Kevin on our team turned some of our internal analysis into a public dashboard to show the uptake and cost evolution of ZKPs. Hope it's interesting/helpful to others and pls give us feedback if you have any!

Whintney

@ladys777