Jamie

And then Blend is now this really interesting passion project that kind of brought the compliance, the quantitative side and the front end stuff all together.

Yeah, fundamentally, nobody chooses where their passport originates from.

But we like to think that that shouldn't impact your ability to save for the long term.

If you happen to be in a currency that depreciates or appreciates, you should be able to actually access that with secure and mature financial infrastructure that just doesn't exist.

So our goal has always been our North Star is to be the global savings layer.

And DeFi is the perfect home for this.

And that's where we are.

Crypto is one of the few environments where you can deploy capital systems and vehicles that in a traditional setting would require deploying tens of millions of dollars.

Blend is basically taking high finance and financial engineering and giving it to everyone.

And I just like it has to be done.

Right.

And it can only be done in DeFi.

And if you don't do it, then you're just asking people to accept less than.

And I think the whole floor should be raised because, again, like at some point when I was working on code that was passing billions of dollars through it.

it needs to mean something at the end of the day.

We have to raise everyone up.

The floor has to elevate.

And without mature banking, that's honestly something that just is harder to do because you're saving, but you're not actually saving.

And without financial infrastructure, you're just running the wheel.

And so now we can actually work to improve people's experiences.