Solana's Crypto Native Next-Gen CEX | Armani Ferrante

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Armani, welcome to the show, man.

Speaker 1: Hey, guys. How's it going? Thanks for having me.

Speaker 0: Yeah. Good, man. Good. Good to have you here. So, Armani, I wanna start off.