“Any technology I've been aware of has definite pros and cons. The societal benefits I see with crypto vastly outweigh the downsides — but you must have the conversation about them.”
Why Katie is the canonical The Lawyer
A former federal prosecutor who ran the DOJ's first cross-agency crypto task force, Haun became a leading crypto investor (a16z, then founder of Haun Ventures). Her prosecutorial background made her the definitive lawyer-figure translating between regulators and builders — assessing which laws apply and where new ones must be shaped.
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