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As Adison from the Crypto Coin Show and today on
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Blockchain interviews with Zach Williamson and Joe Andrews, co founders
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of ASTech Network, the Privacy first Layer two on Ethereum,
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here to discuss programmabile, privacy, zero knowledge proofs, AS Tech
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Network and the UNI swap CCA auction and token sale
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that's going on right now. Gentlemen, thanks for taking the time,
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and I appreciate you guys being here.
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Thanks for having us on it said, absolute pleasure.
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Yeah.
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Likewise, I've actually followed as tech Network for a few
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years and some of my friends that I've worked with
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over the years I have been working on the project
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and it's great to see it blowing up. And I
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think the privacy narrative overall in crypto right now and
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for Ethereum, it's a great time to be launching so
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and we can dive into all that, but I'd just
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sort of love to start out high level for those
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who aren't fully familiar with as Tech Network and the
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privacy part of it. What is the network, what does
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it do and why does it matter so much?
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Should I start with that one?
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So?
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AS is a privacy preserving layer to you built on
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top of ethereum. So what do we mean by that.
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We mean that we are recreating the smart contract style
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ecosystem of Ethereum, that world computer, but where private information
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is a first class part of that network, where we
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use an advancer and a lot of proofs to make
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that happen effectively a private world computer. And this is
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important because it opens up an entire universe of applications
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that benefit from distribute letters, benefit from decentralization, but require
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working with data that is sensitive that you cannot just
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throw on our transparent ledgers. So we're talking about things
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like people's identities or sensitive data, or just information that
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you don't want to be like sliped and viewed by
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bots
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by data miners. And the end goal really is
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to bring Web to style like functionality and user experiences
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into Web three products and services.
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Definitely, And do you believe that privacy is of becoming
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even more important now that larger enterprises and institutions are
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getting involved. Of course individual privacy is important as well.
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I got some views on this. I think it's kind
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of twofold. One is, you know, blockchains are reaching more
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into the real world, and as they do that we
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run into this you know, age of problem of like
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people need privacy. The world relies on information asymmetries, and
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that's missing from most blockchains. And so I think that's
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one reason why this is kind of top of mind
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at the moment is as we see all these new
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chains launch, these layer ones, these there twos, and like
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some of them do start to get adoption, they run
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headfirst into this war, which is we need privacy, and
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I think, yeah, the other side is obviously institutions are
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just noticing this industry growing and wanting to get part
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in it. When they try and replicate their flows on
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these public ledges, they run into the same problem, which is, hey,
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this is the thing that powers my business and web
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two the information that I hold can't be public, like
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that's how my business functions. And yeah, they run into
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the same problem of leading privacy. We kind of ran
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into this problem six seven years ago when we were
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trying to put corporate debt onto ethereum. So that's kind
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of how Aztec was created, like with this desire to
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build kind of a products on top of Ethereum and
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realizing we couldn't. But I think that's the main reason
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is that, yeah, there's increased adoption and just increased like
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eyes on crypto and blockchains in general, and they all
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see the same thing, which is it doesn't work without
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kind of strong privacy guarantees.
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Definitely, and with that corporate debt. That's interesting. Way back now,
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we're seeing a huge surge in real world assets actually
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being tokenized on Ethereum, different money market instruments and equities,
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and hopefully you know, the whole financial system and stock
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market will be on blockchain, if not on ethereum. And
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with as tech being a layer two on Ethereum versus
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a standalone chain and having that foresight like six seven
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years ago when you started developing it, can you talk
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about the positioning in where the industry's at right now
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with Ethereum and as tech as a layer too, and
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how that fits in?
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Yeah, I can, I can, I can, I can start
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with that. I mean, the foresight is really just I mean,
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for us, it was pretty basic. It's you know, we're
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trying to just think extremely challenging fully private privacy preserving
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small contracts. So we didn't want to build our own
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consensus network, didn't want to build our own execution clients
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the way that you have to deal if you're not
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building on Ethereum. So for us it was a it
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was a no brainer. Also, uh, you know, privacy is
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not useful if you don't have liquidity, and Ethereum is
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and I think will remain for some time, the canonical
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home of assets being issued. And so when it comes
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to your your question about like the what was it? Sorry,
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sorry for forgetting like was it? You're asking about the
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positioning of Ethereum today, and like whereas stands in the
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general blockchain space. I think that Ethereum is a very
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unique value proposition that is very differentiated because it is
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a fully decentralized stitbuted network where governance is very pluralistic,
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it's very security conscious, and that does affect it, like
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the speed of Ethereum when it makes to make decisions
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strategic shifts. However, despite all that, it's delivered some of
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the most technically ambitious updates ever seen from any blockchain.
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You know what's happening, particularly with the versacer
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Operate effectively sharding realized, something people have been talking about
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for years, is incredible. And so you just have this
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profound concentration talent on Ethereum because it is genuinely decentralized
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and composable and permissioners. You don't need to ask permission
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to build in it. You know that there's not going
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to be like privileged stakeholders that are going to kind
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of under undermine you or rug you. It's it's very unique,
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and I see it being you know, it won't be
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the fastest blockchain ever, but it will always be I
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think the most secure one that people are comfortable building on,
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and the one where for for meaningful assets, assets with
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like substantial value behind them, it's kind of the natural
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place to create and distribute them.
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Yeah, in terms of of for Aztec, I mean we
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get to inherit that security as a z roll up
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of liberty roll up on Ethereum, and so as Zach
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was saying, kind of that not having to rethink consensus
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and kind of focus on, you know, building out the
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privacy side of things and menting Ethereum with privacy has
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kind of been kind of key to our strategy. Unlike
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most layer twos, like we're not just taking Ethereum and
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putting it on a lower layer to make it cheaper
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or faster. We actually have different block space and so
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we're kind of value additive to all of the Ethereum
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chains like lair one and all of the layer twos,
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Like you can easily bridge from az tech to any
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of these chains, and you can bridge not just value
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but information, and that's very powerful because it means you can,
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you know, plug into existing DeFi but add user privacy.
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So if I'm a user and I want to swap
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funds on Arbitrum, I can do that from by routing
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my transaction through as tech And as a result, kind
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of as tech is kind of you know, value additive
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to to most EVM chains, and that ecosystem is just growing.
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It's like it's about network effects really, and I think
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that's what's going to keep Ethereum on top for a
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long time and why we're happy to kind of plug
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into that ecosystem and contribute privacy when we can.
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Definitely. Yeah, I know, it's really exciting, and especially the
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growth and interest in Ethereum as a treasury asset this
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year and the market cap going up so rapidly and
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volatility in both directions. But it's been an exciting year
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for adoption overall. And you know, the network effect is
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it's it's hard to compare. Maybe there's one other chain
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that we could compare potentially, but I think etherorem has
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quite the lead. And you know, talking about developing on ethereum,
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say there was a for example, there's adapt or that
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wanted to maybe it was already on ethereum. Maybe there's
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developers that want to build something that's privacy centric. How
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do they go about starting with aztec and integrating that
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privacy like from the beginning.
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Yeah, maybe I can take a stop. So it's kind
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of I think of as like type one applications and
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then type type two is just as a mental model.
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And so for type one, these are like applications that
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exist not on as tech. There are applications designed for
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the EVM, their public applications, they were designed without privacy
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as a core primitive and in those in those kind
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of applications, you know the capital and the app stays
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on its destination chain, so it's on if they remain there,
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it's on arbitrum, it's on base. In that flow, all
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developer needs to do is build a simple interface that
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lets a user route their transaction through as tech. And
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so you need to build an application that attracts a user,
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but you don't need to rebuild UNI swap, and when
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you do that, you get privacy because you can you
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can bridge. When you bridge out of as tech, you
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can't see who sent the transaction. You
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to augment those with kind of like additional logic, so
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you can say, okay, this transaction came from as tech,
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and I also get to guarantee that the person who
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center has a UKIT passport, so you can start to
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do kind of like conditional confidential logic as like a
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gateway into building on as tech. But this is really
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still kind of like in the camp of Type one applications.
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we kind of know it love. For Type two applications,
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these are like as tech native applications, and here you
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get to really leverage the power of having kind of
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privacy as a first class primitive or private state is
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a first class primitive. In that model, you have to
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deploy a smart contract onto as tech. You use our
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programming language NOIR, which is a RUSS kind of rust
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like DSL, and you can then leverage kind of much
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more feature rich applications that you can't exist in a
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public execution environment. The best example to maybe illustrate the
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difference that that I like to share is around uni
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stop is obviously a public dex it's the ratio of
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two public variables to create a price. An ODC desk
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is an inherently private application or or a dark pool,
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on ethereum on as tech you can because you know,
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it's it's hiding who the buyer is, who the seller is,
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how much they're buying or selling, or the price, and
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you can kind of compose that in any way you
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net new applications that are kind of type two on
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as tech that we're we're excited about. Both will obviously
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drive transaction through put on as tech. I think it's
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very easy to just bring privacy to existing applications, but
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this like net new type of application is you know,
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the next kind of like one to five years.
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the OTC networks. I was actually just going to ask
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about sort of early use cases because OTC, especially with
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more money coming in sometimes they don't, especially if you
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have a lot of money. You don't want to just
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go on a decks and make a huge market buy
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because it can really move of the market depending on
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how much you're spending. But at the same time, you
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don't want to just either trust a third party or
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give away all your information that you might be spending
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a billion on coin and you want that privacy aspect,
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cases like for example, the OTC desk or other things,
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where is that actually at with is it possible to
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be that it's already built or it can be built today?
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of concept which is live and our testa I believe,
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this stuff out for production settings ideally when we launched,
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if not shortly shortly afterwards like when transactions go life.
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you know, like the privacy primitives are built out where
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you can you can do these sports privately, and we're
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also building out the layers of the identity stack, so
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that's even regulated identities can can perform some of this.
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of technology for this is ZK Passport, again an ecosystem
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project where I think with our with our token sale,
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with the first first users of this product on chain,
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where we're using these zero knowloge passport proofs to validate
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that users aren't on an effect list, and also that
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the unique users because in Aztec, because we want to
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air a fair token sale, we're capping how much individuals
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can bid and then using ZK passport a civil protection
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which is not something that's been possible before on blockchain.
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the identity stack is starting to be integrated into a
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public blockchain, and we're going to see a lot more
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of that over the next few years.
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Definitely. Yeah, I'm I'm looking forward to seeing how Ethereum
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itself evolves with privacy. And you know, I didn't You
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guys probably are following close closer than me, but I
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didn't see the exact details, but it seemed like in
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the most recent them DEVCN plus the new Ethereum updates
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that just happened this week, there's more of a privacy
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aligning with privacy does it seem like the vision of
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Ethereum on the privacy aspect and Aztec are sort of
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like merging into one.
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I absolutely think so. I think to be a little
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bit arrogant. I think the E theory community is starting
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to see what we saw several years ago, which is
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that if you don't have privacy, this is just Savena's technology,
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you know, and the scope of the applications that you
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can build on a blockchain are very restricted because you
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have to be cumfled with everything in public. And we've
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reached a point, we've reached a threshold where a this
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is now a very critical barrier to growth, and B
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the actual technology privacy I anology is now advanced enough
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that people can start to actually think about a future
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that incorporates it. Whereas before when I was talking about
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privacy music, it was much more hypothetical because we had
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to do a lot of like us and the rest of Computa,
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you had to do at original research to get the
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technology to the point where you can actually build useful
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systems with it.
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know it's worth mentioning. You mentioned there that without privacy
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it's a surveillance technology and part of
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sector and niche of the crypto industry that are very
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privacy focused. Uh or at least the inceptions of the
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crypto industry back in the day and the silk in
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the silk and dark markets and stuff that privacy was
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like what you know, it's it's a balance, like is
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it you want privacy because there's all listed activity or
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you just want privacy because privacy is a human right
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and you want to protect your personal information. And from
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what I understand with Aztec, you know it's private but compliant, right,
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privacy but compliance merged together.
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That's well. I mean, there's as you just mentioned as
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a spec from here and what we think is most important.
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how I want it to be used, I'm giving a
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very biased opinion about what I think is important, what's valuable.
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to be brought into life, it's very important that the
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actual network layer itself is completely neutral and doesn't care
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about any of this. As in this is a debate
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that other people should have, and I think that, like
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as sex, responsibility is to make sure that that there's
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a completely neutral network where it's permissioners, it's private, there's
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no kind of central custodian in the network. They can
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see what's going on. And I want to make sure
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that on our network we can provide the tools and
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the technologies to an app developers to build compliant apps
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they need to, they want to. I want to make
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sure that there is there's tools and technology so that
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application developers can ensure their users know that they're not
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helping bad actors, because I think that's important. But I
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do want to just prefer it, like to to kind
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of separate that from what the actual network is doing
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into laboring, because yet that neutrality it's extremely important for us.
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That's why we're deploying like day one fully decentralized.
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Yeah, I can get a bit further. I mean, like
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you can view it as a bit of a spectrum.
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Like so Ethereum has this same neutrality, and you can
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build privacy apps on Ethereum. It's just very difficult. They're
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not composable and you have to have a team like
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Aztec to be able to do it. And so like
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az Tek is a privacy app on Ethereum to think
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of it in another way, and we chose e theorem
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because it's neutral, it can't be stopped, and it's a
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great home for those those types of applications. The only
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difference between like US and US and ethereum and in
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that case is that we've made it easier for developers
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to build those applications by you know, building tools that
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are specific for the job. So we have noire, We
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have loads of primitives, loads of libraries, loads are great
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dev tools that you mean that you don't have to
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be a cryptographer anymore to write an Apple cation. You
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can just write a function and put private above it
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and it becomes a private function. And this is very
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powerful because you know, it gives developers these tools and
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they can decide for their use case how they need
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to follow the rule book. If you're a game that's
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training trading kind of meaningless assets or like a social network,
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you're kind of you don't need to have compliance over
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the assets because you're you're just you just had information.
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If you have USDC and you have like a you know,
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a federally regulated like asset, you're gonna have a very
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different level of kind of compliance you have to you
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have to kind of adhere to, and yeah, the goal
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of the network is to give developers the tools to
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make that choice, and there's a there's a huge spectrum
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of things they can implement to do that. So I
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think another way of thinking about it as well is
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this question of kind of like how do you deal
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with compliance or listed activity comes up a lot, and
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I think the reason it comes up is because the
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early days of kind of privacy on blockchains were very primitive,
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and what you could really do was in crypto balance.
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Like we live through this. We had earlier versions of
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aztec and you couldn't build a fully functioning programmable smart contract.
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privacy basically where you could only do a limited amount
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of compute. Now you have like drue and complete smart contracts,
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you can do what Zach was saying earlier. You can
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tie your identity to your cryptocurrency account with tools like
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ck passport, and that actually really helps kind of boost
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the compliance. You can add to an app if your
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if your app needs it. And I think it's a
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bit it's a bit strange to think about because sometimes
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you're like, wait, if I put my identity on a
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blockchain that's going to be public. I don't want to
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do that, but you kind of have to make that
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step sometimes to actually get more privacy, which is a
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little bit of a jump people have to go through.
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Well yeah encrypted, Yeah, yeah.
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I was going to say, I feel like, you know, yeah,
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it's about there's definitely a balance, but at some point
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if you, you know, if you want to transact a
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large amount of money. I think it's unreasonable that everyone
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thinks that they could just be completely anonymous. And now
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now X has even implemented you know which country you're from,
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even if you have an anonymous account, although I bet
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that could probably be improved with ZK proofs somehow.
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Oh immenseally. I mean, the the current X thing, in
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my opinion, is going to create more problems in the
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solves long term because it's very easy to buy pass
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with the VPNs. So if you're actually like a bad actor,
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so let's say you'll get you're in I don't know,
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you're somebody in Sri Lanka, that's like just like spreading
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American fake news and rage bait because it gets engagement
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and money. Right, Like, well, you're going to use a VPN,
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you're going to make it pretend like you're an America
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pretty easily. So I think this will just catch out
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like the people who aren't creating problems, and we're already
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started to see an x right like it's credit this dynamic.
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People are like, oh, look, this person's a foreigner, he's
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not one of us. So I mean, with with Zako technology,
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you can actually, like you could if you want to
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go down that road, you can make it much more
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robust so that you know you can't get around to
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the VPNs. You could use things like passports saying okay,
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you've got to you got to show me your citizenship
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to to get like a flag next to your profile.
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But yeah, I think jury is still out on whether
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that's actually going to be a good thing or not.
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M definitely.
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I want to jump back to the network a few points.
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You mentioned that the OTC app could be running on
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the test net right now, and then I know, you know,
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the huge news of the show, which we should talk
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about more, is the live uh c C a clearing
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option with uniswap. We did mention unit swap and then
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the token launch and the and the main launch.
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Of the whole network.
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Can you talk about this because this is very unique.
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I haven't seen this before uniswap continuous clearing auction versus
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in traditional token sale.
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Yeah, maybe I can take a start and starting with
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the network and then getting into the auctions. So we
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you know, as we said earlier, we wanted to make
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sure that Aztec was credibly neutral and this privacy wasn't
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controlled by by anyone, And as a result, we strongly
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kind of believe in decentralizing the network. That doesn't mean
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just decentralizing kind of who's running
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It also means decentralizing governance and economic ownership with the network.
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And so when we kind of when it came time
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to launch a network, we were looking at different mechanisms
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on how to do this, and you know, there's obviously
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air drops, there's traditional token sales, and they all didn't
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really fit the bill because they either, you know, in
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an air drop, you like you kind of give away
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tokens for free, and that doesn't really work in a
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proof of stake network where people need to have skin
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in the game, and traditional token sales like usually have
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a multitude of problems around bots taking all the times sniping,
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gas wars, whales. They're actually quite bad for distributing tokens.
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That they're good for raising money if you create the
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right dynamic, but they're bad for distributing tokens to a
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broad base of people. And we ended up speaking to
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unisword because they were building this new auction type called
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a continuous clearing auction, and so after over the last
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three months, we've kind of helped them launch it as
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a core contributor and that the goals of the auction
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are to have an auction that lasts multiple days and
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over the course of that auction, determine a fair price
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for the token. As a result, you kind of you
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remove all of these kind of gas wars or wear
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attacks or sniping that come about from traditional auctions, just
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based on the auction mechanic. And it's a really new
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novel mechanism, but I think in the next kind of
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one to two years it will become a default for
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token launchers. Is just an exciting thing to see it
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live with the first project to go through it as
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as a as a kind of live live token launch.
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Yeah, yeah, no, it's really interesting and I think the
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auction methods can be more fair for sure. I think
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there's been a lot of attempts over the past seven
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eight years
on different mechanisms, and I have seen some
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auctions in different ways, not with this CCA style, but
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they seem like they're successful. And then after that, you know,
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it's just a matter of after you're live, that's the
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whole next step. And you guys have been running this.
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You know it's only open for a few more days.
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What's the what is that next step? Like after it's
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closed and like you know.
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Where the real real work begins. Yeah, so I mean
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I can start, maybe you can continue. So we the
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next step is we're currently going through our internal audits
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of the network. So Ignition is currently like on Ethereum
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main network, the asset network is producing blocks, but the
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block gas limit is zero because we're still finishing our audits.
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We're balating everything is secure, and then ideally when that happens,
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sequences on the network will vote to increase the gas
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limit on Aztec straight mono limits, and then the network
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will be live. You know, we already have I think
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it's like eighteen twenty people building because it's a partner's
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building applications on Aztec and our goal over the next
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eighteen months is to basically just increase the developer experience
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of astec, increase the downstream user experience, scale the network,
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reduce the block times, improve it security. There's an enormous
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amount of work that is going to be ongoing, just
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like Ethereum today is nothing like it was in twenty sixteen.
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You know, we're going to constantly be pushing this state
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of the art here because, as you said, like the
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hard work is only just beginning, and we want to
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make sure that the asset network is easily build on
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top of as Ethereum Orcelana. We want to make sure
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that it's completely scalable. We want to we're building an
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application specific al thro lot stack on top of it,
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called the S six stack, so that you can do
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extraordinarily fast applications for things like
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intent payment settlement stuff. Yeah, and so yeah, like the
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it's it's it's a it's a it's a it's a
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big it's a big world out there, and we just
483
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want to take we want to want to be fundamentally
484
00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:32.960
it's take a lot of economic activity that's not happening
485
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on chain right now, and to make it into aztec
486
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as opposed to the currently model of L two's alt
487
00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:40.720
el ones, where you're trying to like kind of almost
488
00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:43.799
like parasitically steal other people's liquidity on chain. We're not
489
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interested in that. We want to do completely new stuff.
490
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Yeah, I agree.
491
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The token side, So you had to sell lasts for
492
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two and a bit more days, I mean maybe two
493
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days now. Actually, by the time this goes out, and yeah,
494
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by the end the auction will it will find a
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fair market price. Then there's a Uni s wort View
496
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four pool that's created at that price, and then eventually
497
00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:13.200
the token is not transferable in that pool for a
498
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few a few kind of months, and then early next year,
499
00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:21.079
coinciding with network launch, tg will happen and you can
500
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then use the token for the fees on the network,
501
00:27:24.559 --> 00:27:26.920
and before then you can stake it on the ignition
502
00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:30.240
chain to make sure that everything's working as intended on
503
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on main net, gearing up to the enablement of transactions. So, yeah,
504
00:27:34.039 --> 00:27:35.680
it's going to be a busy kind of Christmas period
505
00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:39.599
as all of this wraps up and we finish our audits,
506
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but it's good to have something else to do over
507
00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:46.119
the holidays. Other than just eat turkey and drink drink
508
00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:49.599
too much eggnog or other things like that. So I'm
509
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excited for it.
510
00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:53.720
Yeah, definitely, that's exciting. And I feel the same way.
511
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I think, you know, the regular nine to five people,
512
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they're like they can't wait for a break, and we're like,
513
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we just want to keep going, Like it's nice to
514
00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:02.559
have other things to do, but like, we just love
515
00:28:02.599 --> 00:28:04.599
this technology so much, and I know there's so much
516
00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:08.759
more to be built with you know, if we're gonna
517
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change and evolve the financial system and the world with
518
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this tech, that there's lots to be done. So I'm
519
00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:18.519
glad to see you guys, you know, at this stage
520
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and all to your future success.
521
00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.160
Thank you so much. Yeah, it's been a pleasure to
522
00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:27.599
be on and I agree completely with you. You know,
523
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we need to bring the worlds, like all of the
524
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Bold's financing activities onto bookshet, you know, getting out of
525
00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:39.839
the hands of these centralized data cuse stadiums and third
526
00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:40.799
parties we can't trust.
527
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Definitely. And one last thing about the auction as well.
528
00:28:46.319 --> 00:28:49.880
You know you mentioned earlier about the ZK passports. We
529
00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:52.519
were talking about it. From what I understand, you actually
530
00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:55.599
introduced that into the you know, it's like you're using
531
00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:58.279
the technology with the auction, do you actually get to
532
00:28:58.359 --> 00:28:59.519
use the ZK passports.
533
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:03.000
Yeah, so there's there's kind of I think it's the
534
00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:06.119
first time you can prove you're not on a sanctions list,
535
00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:09.319
you're not a terrorist by taking a ZK passport proof
536
00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:12.079
and make that proof locally on your phone and you
537
00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:16.680
send it to an Ethereum smart contract to verify before
538
00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:19.000
you can participate at the auction. If you don't have
539
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:21.440
a passport that works with EKE passport, an ID card,
540
00:29:21.480 --> 00:29:25.279
you can always use you know, traditional Web two credentials
541
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to get through. But it's it's really exciting to see
542
00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:33.480
this kind of new way of actually doing these checks
543
00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:35.559
and doing it in a way where you know your
544
00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:38.559
data can't be like lost in a data breach. Like
545
00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:41.119
so every time you know, you send you a photo
546
00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:44.000
of your passport to a server and it you know,
547
00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:47.279
it could just get hacked in two years and as
548
00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:52.079
a result, it's just like a really poor end user experience.
549
00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:55.319
And so I'm just excited to see this this new
550
00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:58.279
way of doing things. It's the same
technology that lets
551
00:29:58.319 --> 00:30:00.599
you go into countries and so like you know, we
552
00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.599
have these signatures in our passports and these NFC chips
553
00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:06.000
that we go through eGates with, and now you can
554
00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:07.880
kind of view ethereum a bit like an e gate
555
00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:11.559
and we can validate these these proofs there. And so
556
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I think it's going to be very commonplace in the
557
00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:17.720
next year that this will be just a norm. And
558
00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:21.440
that's another another thing that's on the exciting list for
559
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twenty twenty six.
560
00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:26.079
That's super exciting. Yeah, I'd love to eGate into every
561
00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:29.839
potential one hundred x Unicorn investment, make it as easy
562
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:32.799
as possible and use ZK technology at the same time.
563
00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:35.880
That's super cool, gentlemen. Thank you. And what's the best
564
00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:39.319
way for people to follow along with these updates of
565
00:30:39.400 --> 00:30:42.440
like the entire network as well as just the token sale.
566
00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:46.279
For well lasts, Yeah, so x is probably the best
567
00:30:46.319 --> 00:30:49.680
for just general updates with as tech network on on
568
00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:52.599
x and then for the token sales specifically, it's sale
569
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:55.160
dot as tech dot network and you can kind of,
570
00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:57.599
you know, see the auction in real time.
571
00:30:57.680 --> 00:30:57.880
There.
572
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You can see the tokens clearing contains, which is kind
573
00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:04.119
of the whole point of CCA, and even if you're
574
00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:06.799
not bidding, it's a fun thing to watch. It's fairly
575
00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:08.359
addicting watching the Token Street.
576
00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:11.640
Very cool. Thank you guys so much. I will leave
577
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those links in the description box below. I would love
578
00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:17.079
to follow up, uh, you know, post launch, closer to
579
00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:19.640
the TCE and the and the main launch and see
580
00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:23.640
what else, because I feel like the possibilities are almost endless.
581
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:25.599
There's so many things that need to be updated with
582
00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:29.839
more privacy. And I'm glad you guys have been you know,
583
00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:32.039
doing well so far, and all the best of you
584
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:34.279
guys over the holidays, and let's definitely follow up in
585
00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:34.839
the near future.
586
00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:37.400
Awesome, thanks so much for the time.
587
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Absolutely thanks a lot, It's been great.