Crypto Is Rebuilding The Financial System — And Opportunities Abound
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Yeah, Brian. I mean, it's like the it's it's just crazy, though. The world the world the world has changed so much since we first since we first got into crypto, and so has Layer Zero.
The difference between, like, our early days of BD, and doing BD with SushiSwap to now spending, you know, a 100% of my time with Fidelity, with BlackRock, with NICEE, with all these different groups. It's just night night and day different. Totally different world. It has been really fun and enjoyable, but, yeah, it's it's been a big it's been a great transition.
I mean, it's a sign that we've made it.
For sure.
Guys, welcome back to a very special episode of a thousand x. We have the founder and head of LayerZero, Brian, on the pod today. Thank you for joining. Of course.
Thank you so much for having me.
I mean, look, there's been so much discussion recently about the tokenization of assets, about the new frontier of crypto. We're sort of entering into this era where things are actually happening. And I followed you for quite some time, Brian. I know that you've been a builder in this space and you're pushing forward on Layer Zero. But my first question for you is, to the audience that doesn't know, what is LayerZero and how did it even start? Like, tell us where you came from, how you found crypto, and then how you decided to build LayerZero.
Sure. Yeah. Where I came from is always it was a bit of an interesting like, I I grew up in a town of 900 people, rural New Hampshire, like, you know, as as remote as you can get. Grandmother had a 100 acre farm. Fortunate enough, got a computer when I was young, so I was just like a nerd with a computer for most of my life. Went to school for computer science and ended up dropping out to play poker professionally, which was like a very unpopular decision in my household, but worked out pretty well. I did that full time for eight years. I did 80 countries, traveled the world, did all that. But
And what sorry. What do those what do those models actually do exactly?
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