Adam Liposky

Yeah.

You know, I don't have a straight line story, honestly.

A lot of my background is kind of just figuring out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, I think.

The way I tell the story is my father really instilled an interest in science and technology in us in the early days.

We always had a computer at home.

We had MS-DOS and Windows and all the other iterations.

And frankly, I think what sparked my interest, I didn't know it was something in crypto at the time, but I grew up playing video games and having economic systems within those video games that

I think directly translates to what we do today is sort of like the seed of an idea for like what drew me into the space.

I think if you fast forward in my career, I got degrees in finance and entrepreneurship.

I always knew I wanted to sort of be at the intersection of these kind of core pieces of technology.

and industry.

And it took me a while to figure out like exactly what that permutation was for me.

But the story goes, I was at a VC in 2016 and 2017.

And I got a bunch of ICO pitch decks rolling across my desk.

and uh me and the rest of the partners there we had some young guys at the fund too we all like were fascinated by what was going on with ethereum what was going on with all of these different icos and so we would look at like traditional sass deals during the day and then on the side at night and in our private kind of water cooler conversations we were talking about icos and what's going on in crypto and falling down the rabbit hole and you know like

spinning up our own wallets and buying hardware wallets and figuring out how the whole system worked.

What's the point?

I went down the rabbit hole about a year or two later.

In 2018, I started working on my first project.

2019, I was working at Pocket Network.