Ryan Sean Adams

And that seems to be where Brian is taking the base app, which is you have all of the functions in Coinbase, all of the money verbs in a custodial way.

You have the ability to buy, you have the ability to stake, you have the ability to sell, you have the ability to do loans, borrow and lend against loans.

Well, the base app is now taking all of that functionality and doing it DeFi mullet style in a self-custodial version.

I think that's kind of what people want.

Yeah, I suppose.

Yeah, I do think you can at least reach parity with the custodial version, don't you think?

Yeah, maybe there's other reasons to go self-custody as well.

I hope it wasn't amicable.

I think it was.

I thought we'd get two years out of Tamash.

And so I was a little surprised that we only got one.

He did two years in one, dude.

Really?

Is that the story?

When I saw it, I was like, okay, is the EF autoimmune system just kind of spitting him out?

It doesn't seem like that.

Yeah, a lot of people are talking, like I've never heard of him, but a lot of people are saying he was kind of a best kept secret in the EF.

You know, Danny Ryan thinks very highly of him.

Vitalik obviously is speaking well of him.

Many have spoken well of him as kind of an inside force, but he hasn't had a loud external presence as of yet.