Ryan Hanley

It was down 10% year over year.

You know, a lot of questions around the crypto space.

My personal belief is that this, the technology outside of the tokens and the value of the tokens, the technology is absolutely game-changing, revolutionary, and ultimately where I see a lot of businesses going over time.

But that seems to be, you know, I look at like the, I'll give you an example.

I look at the insurance industry and the insurance contract in particular and

And if insurance contracts were put onto a blockchain and that was ubiquitous across the industry, how much faster, how much more transparency, how much more pricing stability I think could be built into the market.

But no one has even stepped their toes in that.

I mean, it's literally just conversations at association meetings, et cetera.

So.

Where do you see kind of crypto in general?

And are there any businesses or spaces that you see taking the application of a blockchain or crypto technology in general and actually being applied outside of just the tokenization of this technology?

I'm with you on this.

The stable coins to me are so obvious.

I mean, just I know a lot of founders, a lot of a lot of just business owners in general that I that I talk to the ones that are that are leaning towards the future a little bit are paying, say, either expats or virtual assistants or overseas.

They're paying them in USDC or USD.

because it's, it wanted transacts immediately.

So they have the money instantaneously, essentially the fees, you know, there's, there's no essential fee for the transaction to the, for the most part, uh, or at least relative to what it would cost to, you know, pay them internationally through a standard, you know, uh, service.

Um, and just, just taking that, that expense out of the business, especially if you have a large international team, uh,

can get you more bodies.

I mean, I literally know people who have been able to put more bodies on their team simply by paying in stable coin versus paying just because of the fees you pay to transfer internationally.