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Hey, guys. Welcome back to another episode of Xerox Research. Today, I am joined by Carlos and Dan Smith from BlockWorks Data. It's gonna be a great up today. How are you guys doing? How are you feeling? Doing
great. Feeling great. Starting a new week. We're recording this on May 5, Cinco de Mayo. Got some tequila lined up for the episode. No. I'm kidding. No. That'd be good. It'd be fun. Yeah.
Doing great. Excited to dive into it. Alright.
We'll we'll we'll save the shots for after the end of the episode. We can do those maybe off cam. Before we get into anything, as always, we have to shill the upcoming exciting BlockWorks event permissionless coming up June, June '20 fourth through the twenty sixth. I believe everyone here on this pod is gonna be there. So get your tickets. It's zero x 10 for 10% off. You can come out, see the folks from the research team, see the folks from around the industry. There'll be some great talks, some great events. And I'm hearing rumors again that the zero x research little event area at the confe
We also Westy's getting a a lot of love in the Xerox Telegram, Xerox Research Telegram chat right now. So he'll be on stage giving a talk as well. So there you go. Come come join. Awesome.
Come see us there if you can make it out, and, we'll be excited to have you. So, let's jump into it today. I guess before we go into the main topic, main dish, I guess I just wanna probe you guys. We do this on every app. How are we feeling about the markets at large about crypto? I think there's a lot of pessimism on the timeline. I'm seeing MIPO trying to be very, like, anti pessimism. You know, I think some of the, like, crime season thinking has really, like, invaded, the psychology of a lot of people in the space right now, and, you know, maybe they're feeling a little bit lost. How are y
Feeling good. Yeah. I I definitely agree with Mipo's, point that everybody is just, like, super mad. I tweeted something similar. It's just like, the acknowledgment. I can't oh, it was actually right right at the very beginning stages of the Zora stuff. Everybody was just, like, viscerally upset about someone tweeting something about a social application. I don't know. It was just like that made me love Zuora, to be honest. But, the the prevailing attitude is just certainly pessimism. I don't know. Like, sometimes it was like, is this because we're all chronically online all the time, or is it
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