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A $ 1. 4 trillion IPO is heading towards Solana today. We're
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going to break it down. We'll have a special guest
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for you diving into a lot of this Breakpoint news.
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And as you guys know, Breakpoint is happening and it's
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happening here in just a few days on the 15th
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through the 17th of November over in London. A lot
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is being released. We had some of the Solana team
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on this most recent week, and we'll be covering additional
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topics and issues. Today is going to be a good
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one because we'll have the Sunrise CEO joining us here
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So make sure and check it out. Tell them we
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sent you. I want to go to a clip real quick, though,
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that kind of sets up what's happening with the potential
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of Anthropic on Solana. Here we go.
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We were the first ones to provide access on-chain to
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SpaceX in a completely successful way. So we're going to
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replicate this with Anthropic, maybe the largest IPO of the
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year that we'll see. So if you're an investor in
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Southeast Asia, anywhere in the world, the day of IPO,
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you will be able to access Anthropic. So if it
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replicates anything that we've seen with SpaceX, I'd expect a
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lot of inflows on day of IPO towards that asset.
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All right, so there you have it. The key here
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is that we're going to see traders all around the
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world being able to do this. And I wanted to
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bring on Saeed Badrag, who is the CEO of Sunrise,
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to kind of talk about this, get into the dive
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of where this is heading. Saeed, welcome into the show.
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Great to be here.
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All right, so first thing, I'm looking at a couple
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of issues that are happening right now. One, of course,
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is what is going on with NVIDIA. And then you
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look at Anthropic or Claude. And look at the interest
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level of what is happening right here in terms of
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just regular Google trends. Obviously, Nvidia taking a little bit
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of the hot air that's hitting in the market. When
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you look at some sentiment versus liquidity right now, do
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you feel like this is maybe going to become a
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black hole for Anthropix IPO? Will it just suck up
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all of the attention coming into the market? What are
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your thoughts?
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I definitely think it's going to be a story that
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plays out over the next couple of weeks. You did see, obviously,
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a massive announcement today from Jensen Huang resigning. And so
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that is potentially going to put a lid on this
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story for a little bit. But I would expect over
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the coming weeks a lot of palace intrigue in terms
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of who's actually going to be replacing him. I know
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they've named the CFO as an interim president. CEO. I
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don't expect that to stay for too long. And so
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there might be a lot of past intrigue on who's
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actually going to be at the helm of arguably one
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of the most important companies in the world.
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Yeah, for sure. How much of an impact do you
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think that announcement and possibly more announcements coming out of
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this scandal could affect Anthropix IPO?
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Well, I would say that it depends on how investors
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are looking at the impact of this news. I would
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say at face value, you see trouble in the chip
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markets as a result of this. It really doesn't make sense.
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The chips are still being built. The company is still
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operating very well. I think that the blast radius around
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the resignation should be very concentrated on the Nvidia stock
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I would say the anthropic bulls, they have a really
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good argument that at least one that I've been following
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and I think is something that I kind of believe,
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which is if you're looking at a world in which
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the number one warrior against open source or for open
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source models and for the ability to sell chips to
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China is which was Jensen Huang. He was the most
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powerful and vocal voice in that world. Obviously, it's very
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good for NVIDIA to be able to sell into the
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Chinese market. But being able to sell into the Chinese
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market allows for companies like DeepSeek and the companies building
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Quen to be able to create these open source models.
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These open source models are actually taking over. anybody who
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is seriously running a major company that isn't trying to
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really be at the frontier, right? Like you're not trying
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to cure cancer or you're not trying to design a
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brand new missile system. You can get by far more
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cheaply with a lot more control by using one of
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these open source models. I think that's a very solid
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bull case for Anthropic, which is, hey, the number one
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proponent for supplying the raw material, if you will, for
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our competitors who are beating us on price and getting
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ever and ever closer in terms of quality is now gone.
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So we should expect that Anthropic and OpenAI are going
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to be able to have a duopoly when it comes
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to certainly the US market, but maybe far, far, far
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wider than that.
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Look, and of course, I think that's a good argument.
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Key here is how does that play out? Does it
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become reality? Most of these companies are very dependent on, obviously,
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NVIDIA from the sense of the advanced chips that have
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to kind of feed that industry as a whole. So
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there's always the supply chain argument. Granted, the competitive set
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may back off for a little bit. I don't know
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if China will become less important or if it will
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become even more important if something else drops in terms
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of secrets or things like that that might have been revealed.
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I want to talk about you guys' growth. I'm looking
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over on your website, Sunrise, and all the token lists
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that you've got going on here and the growth that
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you guys are experiencing. Can you elaborate more on that?
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Yeah, I mean, Sunrise has had an amazing year. In
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its first year, it was able to cross over 100
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assets on Solana. Uh, we did, uh, SpaceX. That was
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an amazing launch. Um, uh, I, I heard the clip
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at the beginning with Ondo. I think, uh, the Sunrise
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listed asset on Solana far surpassed Ondo. So I don't
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know what he's talking about. Maybe he's talking about other chains,
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but in terms of where the majority of spot volumes
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for tokenized assets are occurring, it's happening on Solana. And
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if it's happening on Solana, Sunrise is really, um, providing
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the lion's share of, of, uh, of that volume. And
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so I think for us, it's been a tremendous year.
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There's still so much to do. This is a $ 160
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trillion market. And we've got a couple hundred billion in
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tokenized equities across the entire industry. We've only got really,
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I would say, under a billion of actually usable tokenized equities.
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People are actually using it, trading it, programming those types
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of assets. And so there's just a long, long way
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to go. And the story is very much from over
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when it comes to tokenizing the financial world.
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For some of our audience, because there's a lot of
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people that are brand new into possibly
trading stocks on chain,
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explain where Sunrise sets, how it's correlated to Backpack, what
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this means for Solana in general.
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Yeah, Sunrise works directly with asset issuers. Backpack being our
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official partner, we work with other asset issuers. Backpack has
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really designed a great product. We co-designed it with them.
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We worked with them on the launch. And mainly because
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we looked at the tokenization space and we saw that
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all of the implementations really wasn't what we believe the
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final form for tokenized equities needs to look like, right?
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And much of the things that people kind of look
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at today are synthetics. When we went to market with SpaceX,
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we wanted to make sure that it was one-to-one backed.
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We wanted to make sure there was a roadmap for
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investor rights to be protected and for token holders that
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are holding those stocks on-chain can vote. All of those
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things are happening. And we just really like the product design.
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And I think that market really reacted very positively when
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you clearly told them, this is what this is. This
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is why we think it's better. And so, you know,
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we saw over 100 million in volume for SpaceX within
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the first 24, 48 hours, right? We saw holder counts
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jumping for every single subsequent tokenized equity listing. And remember,
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these tokenized stocks are not meant for the US customer.
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The US customer has a bunch of different avenues in
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order to procure US equities. They can get exposure through
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a myriad of apps and brokerages that they've used to
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They work decently well. But this is really talking about
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the global demand. Sure.
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Well, and I think that's the point you have to
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lead into is the global demand. They were talking about
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Asia markets. A good example, you were on stage over
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at Singapore Token 2049 talking about this same thing. And
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I thought this was interesting in terms of GDP. We'll
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show this on screen of the U.S. and East Asia markets.
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$ 29 trillion, $ 26 trillion. But then if you look at
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the stock market value, quite a bit different between 69
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trillion and 35 trillion. So this seems like it is
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just primed for a potential market here. Explain more.
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in Singapore was we kind of looked at what have
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the East Asian economies done? What has China, Japan done?
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Korea have done over the last 30 years. And they,
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a tremendous or a significant portion of their growth, if
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not all of it's all of their growth comes from
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them opening up their markets and being able to export
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their goods, right? Japan with TVs and cars, China with every,
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every type of manufactured good under the sun, Korea with
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phones and TVs and cars as well. This is the
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story of the last 30 years for the East Asian economies.
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If you look at the next 30 years, our thesis
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is that they're going to start exporting their capital markets.
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They've seen that stablecoins, the stablecoin wars, which currency will
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dominate in the stablecoin war, the US dollar won that
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mainly because, again, these are innovations that came from the West.
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I think they've seen that and they understand that that
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is such a powerful phenomenon that has happened over the
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last 10 years, where you see a private crypto company
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beating G7 and G20 countries in terms of US treasury buying. Literally,
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crypto is allowing the US government to borrow at the
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pace that it's borrowing and unlock all of this nascent
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or unknown global demand, non-US dollar demand. The same thing,
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the same thesis goes for tokenized equities and just capital
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markets in general. You really don't know how much demand
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there is for SpaceX if you don't use the modern
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technology that is available today to be able to say, hey,
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if you live in Lagos or in Korea or in Japan,
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I know that
you missed out on Facebook. I know
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that you missed out on Apple's IPO and Amazon's IPO
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and Google's IPO and these companies that really changed not
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only the world, but they also were unprecedented moments of
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wealth creation for individuals who were able to buy those things.
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And so when we look at a tokenized equity listings,
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it's really garnered for not the domestic market of the
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country in which that asset is listed, but the market
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outside and being able to untap that demand that nobody
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really understands. Anyone who tells you they understand how much
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demand there is for an asset, really has no idea
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until it's available. What do you think?
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Obviously, we're showing the disparity there between US and Southeast Asia,
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but what about globally, the demand globally? That was $ 30 trillion,
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just in that difference. What do you think it is globally?
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Even if you look at that chart, you're looking at
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a 50% cut. If you look at the companies that
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are actually building the future, TSMC, you know, Samsung, SK Hynix.
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You have some of the most valuable companies in the
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world who are part of this story. They're part of
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the future story. If we're saying that AI is going
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to be one of the biggest asset categories on earth,
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it's going to have a similar trajectory as the internet did.
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You have companies that are located in East Asia, in China,
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in Korea, in Japan. Like You have these companies there.
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They are fundamentally billion-dollar companies that are literally core to
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this thesis happening that we are seeing propping up the
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US market, propping up global markets in general, right? This
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AI trade. you know, it's fundamentally a nuts and bolts trade, right?
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The models haven't gone public yet, Anthropic will soon, but
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this is really just like all the hardware and the
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nuts and bolts of what's required to be able to
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produce some of the innovations that people are enjoying today
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when it comes to AI. Many of those companies are
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located in China and in Korea and in Japan. So
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does it make sense that they don't get the same
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kind of valuations as the US? No, it doesn't. And
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our thesis is that it's because of market access.
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Which could change everything now that we're seeing more of
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this become reality, especially if you look at the opportunities here.
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First of all, do you think Anthropic IPO's launch will
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be available on Solana day one?
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Absolutely. Absolutely. OK.
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And then I'm looking just to give people a comparison.
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This is Open World, which launched on Solana via Sunrise.
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This was issued by Backpack.
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This traded more volume on chain in its first 24
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than on NASDAQ. So that should give you some anticipation
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of what this might look like. Do you think that's
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a possibility that Anthropic could trade more? on-chain versus the
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activity on NASDAQ? Because this is a big IPO, obviously,
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but what do you think?
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I don't know if I would predict more than it
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would on NASDAQ, but I will definitely predict that it
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will surprise to the upside in terms of how much
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global demand, non-US demand is available for that asset, simply
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because so many people all over the world use their
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product every single day, right? It's just, you know, not
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many people use SpaceX and that one did amazing. There
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are a lot of people who believe in the products
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they use, especially ones that have had such a big
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impact on work and life as these model companies such
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as Atropic.
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So you're thinking volume, it's going to rival that of
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traditional markets?
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Yeah, I think it's going to surprise to the upside
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and it's going to keep the story going that this
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is the reason why Every government and every financial institution
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and financial capital is discussing tokenization and trying to understand
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what role and how do they make sure they stay
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ahead of it.
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Do you think Anthropic hits an all-time high in its
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first week? I mean, I'm looking right now, this is
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holding at a $ 1. 8 trillion valuation right now, polymarket. You
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look at the potential for participation right now, all through
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the traditional big boys. Do you think it hits all-time
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high first week?
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Honestly, I have no idea. From a fundamentals perspective, I
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would say no, but from a capture the imagination or
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has the ability to capture the imagination of the investing public,
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I think I would say 100%. It just depends on
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how you analyze your stocks. That's how I would answer
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that probably.
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How many traders do you think this would bring on board?
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You saw it with SpaceX.
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So you guys know or have probably a good idea
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of what the flow could look like in terms of traders.
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What do you think? I think at least it's going
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to be 10,000 holders minimum. I think I wouldn't be
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surprised to see it at 50 or 100,000 holders within
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the first few hours. Okay. That's unreal. Again, it's just
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such a big name. And we've been talking about this
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thing for three years. Yeah, yeah.
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Let's talk about pre-IPO perps and trading rewards for Ant.
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Is that coming? I'm looking over here at your Frontier
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Traders right here in terms of rewards. Is that something
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you feel like is heading into the game?
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Yeah, I think there's a lot of the different protocols
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on Solana. Frontier Traders is going to be probably one
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of the bigger players when it comes to this. They're
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going to run competitions. it might, it's, it's, it's going
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to happen right around breakpoint time. So I could see, yeah,
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I could, I could see, I could see this being
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very exciting for all of the different venues across.
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If anything, that would be the catalyst just because of
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timing around all this for sure.
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Absolutely. Absolutely.
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Speaking of other catalysts, you have the DTCC. This was,
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this is crazy. that is now expanding onto Solana, which
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was advancing their multi-chain strategy. They've talked about this for
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quite some time. The fact that they're doing this on
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Solana to me is just a little bit comical in
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the sense that there's been claims it's a meme coin chain, blah, blah, blah.
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And then here we go.
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You can't ignore Solana. Yeah, you can't ignore Solana.
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Wall Street has joined the crowd.
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Yeah, meme coins or otherwise, Solana is doing 97% of
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all tokenized spot volumes. And that's not a small feat
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for a chain.
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Exactly.
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You can count them on one hand, how many chains
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can even- Exactly.
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And I think it's so undervalued right now. I don't
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really think the regular market knows what this is yet.
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Yeah.
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In really understanding what on-chain trading is going to look
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like here, just maybe within a year, we could see
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massive uptake in this. Another thing that is happening right
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now is the GTA launch. This could also spur more
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activity into Take-Two traders, and you see it right there.
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Take-Two just crossed 100,000 holders, doubling in the past two weeks,
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everything leaning into GTA. Timing here, interesting.
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What do you think?
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You think this is going to continue to grow?
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Yeah, I actually do. I think people are excited about it.
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I mean, I think they've waited for this game for
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over a decade now, if I'm not mistaken. You've got
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multiple generations of gamers wanting to be a part of
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this moment, right? You've got the ones that have the
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nostalgia for playing this game for the last 20 years.
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You've got new gamers who've just heard it take over
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the internet so many times. The
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this game has gotten simply because it's taken so long.
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The memes, you know, The marketing budget to get that
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much virality sustained over such a long period of time,
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it just allows for more people to be interested to
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buy the product. And so when they come out with
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the numbers on first day or second day sales, I
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do think they're going to shock to the upside just
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because everyone I know is excited for the game.
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Excited, for sure. Well, and you get into the whole
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element of pulp. pop culture in general, and especially around
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trending stocks, you can kind of see it right here.
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NVIDIA led Solana's weekend stock trading. This was 33.1 million
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of NVIDIA traded on chain between a Friday close and
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a Monday open. That's a third of the weekend's 108 million.
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That's crazy. On Solana sitting there. Look at that, guys.
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You got SpaceX at 15 million that weekend, take two, obviously,
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and even DJT in there.
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Yep.
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Lots of opportunity here, I think, going forward. Definitely in
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the sense of where we're going to see the expansion
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of companies like Backpack. They've expanded now over to Japan.
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This is MOU with Bank Mina, which is Japan's largest
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regional banking group. Remember, they just did a deal with
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South Korea as well. So again, more Asian market, which
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seems like timing. And we've had the Backpack team on
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here They told us they were going to do this.
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I didn't think it would be this fast for these
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kinds of deals to be done. What do you think
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about this?
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What does this do for Backpack? First of all, I
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think the Backpack team is phenomenal. And, you know, we
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talk to them on a daily basis. And we knew
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when we launched SpaceX together that Asia was the next frontier.
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SpaceX was kind of like that was Sunrise moving into
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the new category, you know, adding U.S. equities. We knew
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that we needed to add Asian equities and that this
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was going to be absolutely important for the future. They
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have been working on Japan, Korea, many of these other jurisdictions,
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Europe as well for quite some time. So you're just
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seeing all that work finally pay off with some of
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these partnerships that they are announcing with various banks and otherwise.
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Yeah. Saeed, what do you think about this in terms
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of the open cloud? What do you think this announcement
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is here for Akash going on right now? We've got
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Akash coming in on Solana. Now in Solana, details tomorrow.
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What do you think is going to happen here?
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I mean, honestly, I know that they're on Solana and
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we've kind of announced it, but I really think this
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is a trend that you're going to see within the
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Solana ecosystem where If you have a successful product, Akash
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is a great product, right? It's within the AI space,
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it's renting GPUs, it's doing all these different things, right?
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If you have a great product and you want to
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actually access traders and users and actually be part of
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an economy and an ecosystem that's vibrant and growing, You're
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going to want to move to Solano. I actually don't
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think there is no second best, really. If you want
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to trade perps, maybe you can do that on Hyperliquid.
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But if you've got a product and you've got a
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company like Akash does, and you want your asset, your tokens,
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you want your users to discover you, you should be
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at the center of where all the activity is happening.
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I like it.
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Big announcement from Helios Mertz, just probably dancing in the
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streets right now. As they roll out their Solana privacy rings,
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that is now on main net. With that happening, because
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privacy has been a major part of Zcash's run up.
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And now you got Zcash coming off the kind of
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the top right there at about 1300, trading back down
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--> 00:23:48.200
to like 950. Do you think the issue of privacy
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has now been solved and Zcash, the collapse is all
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due to what Solana is doing? from a technological standpoint?
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I don't think so. Obviously I don't know, but, but
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I don't think so. I think that Zcash is following, um,
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just the kind of similar, yeah, similar price action that
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we've seen across crypto. Um, I mean, Bitcoin just crossed
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what under 72, 71 right now. Yeah. 71.5. Yeah. So
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we're just kind of seeing across the board, uh, risk
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off sentiment on, on, on crypto, uh, largely led by, um,
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you know, the midterms and still a lot of uncertainty
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around the, uh, the ongoing, uh, Iran war, uh, effort. Right.
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So more macro headwinds, you think?
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I definitely do think so. The real question is, is
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crypto leading or lagging, uh, the TradFi markets? Cause the
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TradFi markets have kind of puked one day, you know,
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pump the, uh, the next puke the next. So, um,
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we're just seeing a lot of like, uncertainty, I think,
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even in the price action on the TradFi market. So
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my question that I ask myself is like, which is
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leading and which is logging? Yeah.
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Well, you have the S & P reversing here just
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on the daily. I mean, this is another green candle
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in the works right now, up another slight amount. But
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even with the bad news on NVIDIA, which took a
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tumble and then has kind of rebounced.
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Let me look at that one. Yeah.
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So it took a tumble down and it's currently in
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the day trade trying to respond. where it's only down five,
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but I don't know. I'm still, I'm in agreement with you.
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I'd like to see how this really plays out because crypto,
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when you look at risk assets, its ability to withstand
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the macro pressure has been very hard. And I think
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it's continuing to show up here, especially like what we're
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seeing in the markets right now. Saeed, hey, it's been
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great having you on the show today. We're definitely going
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to be watching the launch of Anthropix IPO, seeing what
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the world is going to do around trading stocks on
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the blockchain. So thanks for coming in today. We appreciate it.
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Fantastic. Thanks, Paul. Thanks for having me.
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