Crypto's Answer to Centralized AI Monopolies | Anand & Niraj

Speaker 0: Let's say that you wanted to take out 3 x levered exposure to Apple with Dias collateral. And then at at some price point, you should stop out and and close out the position to, you know, have some safety or something around it. Normally, to do that in DeFi, it would take, like, 10 different smart contracts and clicking a bunch of interfaces. But I said that to you in one sentence. And I I think the power is being able to take that one sentence and convert it into some sort of, you know, form of intent.

I mean, there's a bunch of companies building on the intent side, and then being able to now interact with blockchains in a way that's actually usable by regular people and not just people that are are very in it.

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We've got Anand, managing partner, canonical venture partner, Lightspeed Ventures. We also have Neeraj, who spent 5 or 6 years as a, Polychain, investing alongside Olaf and crew, and then, is now cofounder of Ritual. So, Neeraj, Anand, welcome to the show, guys.

Speaker 0: Thanks for having us.

Speaker 2: Thank you.