Alpin Yukseloglu

So we're currently open to trying to source collaborators for future versions of EVM Bench.

And we're obviously working on next steps for it ourselves.

And I think that this direction of like, we finally have a foot in the door

into the model labs for getting crypto capabilities into the frontier models.

And I think that we should leverage that as an industry and we should try to get these models as good at crypto as we possibly can.

I've personally never had hard lines around industries in my mind.

I think we talk about like, I work in X because to make what we're doing legible to other people.

But I don't think that's the right way to relate to it.

I've spent all of this time in crypto because it's been, one, it's been extremely intellectually interesting.

And two, it has this, it's just, as I mentioned, it's remained extremely contrarian among my smartest friends in ways where I can put my finger on exactly what they're missing.

I think that's kind of the best that one can ask for.

I think that, you know, we talked about how

Crypto is positively levered to the security developments in AI.

But, you know, you can make the case that it's positively levered to most of the developments in the world right now.

Like, for example, as the creation of new goods and intelligence, et cetera, becomes commoditized, scarce assets become more valuable.

As geopolitical instability ensues, systems that are extra sovereign, right, outside of any jurisdiction that are kind of the equivalent of end-to-end encryption for finance, those have more space to thrive.

I think that, you know, I grew up in Turkey.

Most of my family is still there.

I think that people who grew up in America do not have, and in general, in sort of a stable world, do not have the sense for what can happen as the world destabilizes.

And I think that, you know, as many people in the country that I grew up in are starting to onboard to crypto rails and sort of using that as a lifeboat, I think it's increasingly clear to me