Sam Kamani

What do you guys do uniquely or what sets you guys apart from them?

Very cool.

Yeah.

How did you get involved with CMT Digital and everything that you do in this space?

Yeah, absolutely.

I've been quite involved in this whole space for the last 10 years, and I invested in some developer tool startups.

And like even three years ago, we used to talk about that.

Hey, why don't we have that many apps, but then the

What I heard from other builders as well is that we need the infrastructure first to go and build something on this because it's so fundamentally different to how everything was built previously in a very centralized way that we need the nodes, the infra and everything to build things on.

And as well as the other trend that I've also seen is that

the institutional adoption happening as well as on the payment side it is becoming nearly mainstream or in the back end side at least um with stable coins and everything how money is moved so i am very optimistic about the industry even though not everyone might be at this stage it's just maybe the what things are going on um but yeah let's talk about like

So there's three parts to CMT Digital on trading, private equity and the venture capital side.

Where is your involvement like mostly on those three?

Would you say venture side, VC side would be?

Well, that's fantastic.

In fact, quite a few of your portfolio startups I recognize because some of them have been guest speakers here on the podcast.

Founder of FalconX, Raghu has been a regular here.

He's been a longtime listener and a follower of the show because a lot of builders mainly follow this show.

And so a lot of my questions today are around like, you know, what builders should look out.

But before we go into that, is there any particular...