Balaji Srinivasan — the Network State - a16z Podcast  ## Metadata - Author: **a16z Podcast** - Full Title: Balaji Srinivasan — the Network State - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/c80fb7a2-480b-45b1-ad6b-9d65034c69a9 ## Highlights - What's a network state? Summary: The highest level of network state is something that has a collective action, capacity and the content. And then the last step is it gets big enough and strong enough and morally alight enough,. That a city or state or country recognizes it and does a deal with it. So like Wyoming has its Dow law. It's literally built an interface effectively to the Etherum network. Or you can do your own version by going on Twitter @Etheruemiratesurvivor . You will be able to post tweets in real-time as they are sent out from this channel. The first one goes live at 10:30am ET tomorrow morning (GMT) so stay tuned for more Transcript: Speaker 1 So it's the highest level of network state is something that has a collective action, capacity and the content, which aligns people, has the physical footprint and has like the square meters of physical space. And then the last step is it gets big enough and strong enough and morally alight enough, it can do the dance, right? That a city or state or country recognizes it and does a deal with it. Okay. And what are the precedence for this? So like Wyoming has its Dow law. It's literally built an interface effectively to the Ethereum network, right? ([Time 1:20:09](https://share.snipd.com/snip/7096930a-a190-4951-bdca-e61183cb1b54))