Lorien Gabel (Figment) Latest Developments in the Staking Market (EP.579)
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Today on the podcast, I sat down with Lorien Gabell, the founder of Figment. A lot has changed in the staking market since the last time Lorien was on the show, and I was excited to chat with him about the institutional market landscape for staking, the regulatory shift in the United States recently, and the Bitcoin L 2 Ecosystem. I think you'll enjoy this one. So without further ado, here's my conversation with Lorien from Figment. Matt
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Lauren, welcome back on the podcast. It's been a long time since you were on, over a year, I think. So love recording with you on an all time high day in a world where the regulatory picture is getting better.
That's right. Well, thank you for doing that. So I think we had a fairly sedate conversation last time, so maybe we'll be able to more exciting on this one. So
for those that didn't listen to the first episode, maybe just tee up what is Figment. What do you guys do?
Great. Thanks, and it's good to be here again. It's good to see you. So Figment, I believe we're the largest institutional staking provider, which basically means we make a lot of blocks on the most proof of stake protocols that matter on behalf of our clients. So if you're a large token holder, whether it's an ETP or an asset manager or someone like Castle Island and you wanna stake those tokens of the number of things you'd be doing, then you would be a potential customer of ours. You know, we've been around for a long time, at least in in crypto years. So I think we're coming up on our 7th
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