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There's a lot of people that came in early and did really well. I'm fairly new, but the fact that that vision of capital markets moving on chain started 10 years ago and I think the time is now means I think we're very early for that. And and bringing it all back, I think all of it flows through Ethereum. I think Ethereum's gonna have this massive renaissance from both l one and l two scaling and a wave of institutional adoption, and it's gonna do very well. And I'm just excited to do my part for the ecosystem.
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Today's guest is Vivek Raman, founder and CEO of Etherealize. Welcome, Vivek.
Hi, Laura. Thanks for having me today. Ethereum
has been in somewhat of a drawn out crisis this past year. It kind of lost out on multiple fronts to Solana, which was the center of the biggest trend in crypto for this past year, which was meme coins. And, also, for the first time, it attracted fewer new devs in crypto than Solana did. And then, of course, there's the price, which did increase by quite a a large amount compared to traditional assets, but by a lot less than Bitcoin and Solana. And all of this caused quite a bit of consternation in the Ethereum community created I saw a crisis of confidence in the Ethereum Foundation, somethin
So I appreciate there's been a lot going on and in the Ethereum ecosystem. I've always been a pretty straightforward person. I came from 10 years of Wall Street, and then I found Ethereum and fell in love with Ethereum as a potential platform for Wall Street to tokenize and trade the trade its assets. And that was that was I'm newer to Ethereum, not one of the OG's, which I actually think is very refreshing because I think Ethereum's awesome. I think it is already winning on a lot of fronts. I think it's already really far ahead, and I love the institutional adoption. I love the regulatory, se
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