Beyond the Prompt · Jun 2026
Anything AI can measure can be automated
Anything AI can measure, it will automate — the dividing line for every job and firm.
Podcasts & media
Conversations
Talks, podcasts, and coverage — each with the one idea worth taking away. Click any card to play it right here; nothing loads from third parties until you do.
§ 01 Watch
Talks & video
Luohan Academy · Jun 2026
Some Simple Economics of AGI
A talk on Some Simple Economics of AGI: the measurability gap and the verification bottleneck.
Eigen Labs · Jun 2026
Verification Is the Bottleneck of the AI Economy - Christian Catalini | PostAGI Podcast
Verification is the bottleneck of the AI economy.
Beyond the Prompt · Jun 2026
The Unexpected Economics of AGI - with Christian Catalini, Tech Founder and Co-Creator of Libra
The unexpected economics of AGI, for operators deploying AI inside companies.
Stablecon · May 2026
Agentic Payments Are the Wild West
Agentic payments are the Wild West: what it takes to make machine commerce trustworthy.
Bankless · Mar 2026
Your Job Will Be Automated. Here's the Only Skill That Survives
Your job will be automated — verification is the skill that survives.
a16z crypto · Mar 2026
AI just gave you superpowers. Now what?
AI just gave you superpowers: how individuals compound them before the market catches up.
Lightspark · Oct 2025
Lightspark Sync 2025: Open Networks
Open networks keynote at Lightspark Sync 2025.
Fftech Lab @ UCSB · Jun 2025
[FBC Summit 2025] Christian Catalini (Lightspark)
On payments, stablecoins, and open rails at the FBC Summit 2025.
Slow Ventures · May 2025
Forget Bitcoin: Stablecoins Are the Real Revolution | Christian Catalini, Clay Robbins, and Sam L
Forget Bitcoin — stablecoins are the real revolution in payments.
HBS Digital Initiative · Nov 2019
Libra crypotocurrency and blockchain | Christian Catalini
Libra, cryptocurrency, and blockchain — the design and the regulatory reckoning.
MIT Sloan School of Management · Nov 2019
MIT Sloan Experts Series – Christian Catalini: Breaking Down the Libra Cryptocurrency
Breaking down Libra: the economics behind the design.
MIT Sloan Alumni · Jun 2018
Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain
Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain: verification costs and networking costs.
MIT Sloan Alumni · Sep 2016
The MIT Digital Currency Experiment
The MIT Digital Currency Experiment: giving every MIT undergraduate access to Bitcoin in 2014.
§ 02 Listen
Podcasts
CoinDesk Podcast Network · 19 min
From Libra to Open Standard’s OUSD: What Facebook's Failed Stablecoin Teaches Us
Jul 2026 — What Libra’s arc teaches about Open Standard’s OUSD and collectively governed stablecoin rails.
Beyond The Prompt - How to use AI in your company · 54 min
The Unexpected Economics of AGI - with Christian Catalini, Tech Founder and Co-Creator of Libra
Jun 2026 — The unexpected economics of AGI: why measurability decides what gets automated, and trust decides what gets deployed.
PostAGI Podcast · 66 min
Verification Is the Bottleneck of the AI Economy - Christian Catalini | PostAGI Ep. 02
Jun 2026 — Verification — not intelligence — is the bottleneck of the AI economy.
Bitcoin, Fiat & Rock'n'Roll · 47 min
From Libra to AGI: Christian Catalini on the Future of Money
Jun 2026 — From Libra to the economics of AGI: how digital money and machine intelligence converge.
Bankless · 88 min
The Economics of AGI: Why Verification Is the New Scarcity w/ Christian Catalini
Mar 2026 — The measurability gap, and why verification becomes the new scarcity as execution gets cheap.
The a16z Show · 66 min
AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now What?
Mar 2026 — What individuals should do as AI collapses the cost of execution — rebuild expertise faster than the market rate.
Are We Cooked?
Some Simple Economics of AGI — a conversation
Mar 2026 — A Q&A on the economics of AGI: why verification, not intelligence, becomes the binding constraint as the cost of execution collapses.
a16z crypto show · 17 min
Nobody's Gonna Trust Your Corp Chain
Jan 2026 — Why closed corporate blockchains lose to open networks: cooperate on the platform, compete on products.
§ 03 In the news
Press & coverage
A curated archive back to 2013 — NYT, WSJ, FT, The Economist, WIRED, Nature — plus new mentions picked up automatically at each build.