Is Blended Execution the Missing Link for dApps? | Dino & Stephy

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Speaker 1: Hi, Ron. Welcome back to Empire. We have 2 very special guests. You know, we have Steffi and Dino, from Fluent. Dino is cofounder, CEO.

Stephie is a COO. And I think this would be a great episode. We're gonna talk about, they just rolled out something really interesting called blended execution environment. But, when I first thought about bringing these guys on the pod, first of all, I'm an investor, so full disclosure. Obviously, biased, but I I think, you know, there's been a lot of chatter, you know, over the last couple of years around these different execution environments, different VMs.

We've had multiple people on the pod talking about different trade offs. And when I think of someone who's at a very interesting vantage point that can talk about all the different trade offs and is is really Dino. And when I first had a conversation with him last year, I found him to be extremely knowledgeable about just historically what has happened in crypto, someone that has paid a lot of attention, you know, at the, you know, first in Ethereum and then start to pay attention in other ecosystems as well. And so I think this episode would be really great to talk about the different executi

Speaker 2: Yeah. Thank you. Nice to be here.

Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.