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Alrighty. Welcome back to another episode of Xerox Research livestream. Today, joined by not my cohost, Boccaccio, but Mark Arjun instead. Boccaccio couldn't make it today. He's feeling a little down. And it's we're having a bit of a base day today, kicking things off here with Alex at Drumos Labs or core contributor to Airdrome as some of you may know, and we'll be following that up with a couple other base teams later on today. But how are you guys doing today? Glad to have you on, Alex.
Oh, boy. Gotta get myself off mute. Good morning. Thanks for having me.
Yeah. All good. It's Monday, and I'm ready to start the week.
Heck yeah. Before we kick it into anything, I just wanna do a quick run through Blockworks. We are still hiring research data research data analysts. We're looking for folks that love to dig into on chain data, build dashboards, understand SQL building and deciphering on chain data. So if that's you, someone you know, let them know. Apply today. Find find the link in the show notes or on blockworks.co website to apply. We're always looking for great talent. We've hired few people across, you know, the research team, data team, advisory team over the past several months, and, I think we're stil
Yeah. So, yeah, it's great to be here. Great to, I guess, meet meet some of your folks in in real life. I mainly know you as PFPs on online. So yeah, on myself, know, I think like a lot of people in crypto, very wild, twisty turny career journey that got me here. Worked in politics, worked in tech, worked in consulting. Got the DeFi bug, know, DeFi summer twenty twenty one. Was having so much fun doing that while locked in my apartment, just decided to quit my job. Had no real idea to do what, but all I knew is I wanted to spend all my time in this space learning it. Had the good fortune right
Awesome. Thanks for the the background there. Maybe to kick things off since you talked a bit about sort of the foundations with, like, solidly in the sort of v three three model. I guess this is this is something, you know, we've had, you know, like, the Pendle founder on before, talking about his, you know, misgivings maybe with that tokenomics design. I guess I'd be curious from your perspective, you know, whether with Aerodrome, Velodrome, the various projects there, whether this particular tokenomics model has, like, worked out for you. If you were to redo things again from, you know, zer
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