"Crypto can help decentralize the power structures that are emerging in AI. Chris always talks about like do you want to be the indie band or do you want to play like the Super Bowl or the the mega sta..."

"Ali Ariana, welcome to the podcast. Thank you. Great to be here. So, I'm excited to do a deep dive with you on where we're at right now today in in the space. So, crypto is a space where people have l..."

"Yeah. Uh and this is now manifesting with uh stable coins. So one of the well some of the big issues that Bitcoin had that made it impossible for Bitcoin to become that peer-to-peer uh electronic paym..."

"uh and there are many traditional financial institutions that are beginning to use stable coins to rip out a lot of the kind of the back end of uh of their financial systems and these are like fintech..."

"it's kind of ridiculous to think about the way that the financial system works today where even a normal uh sort of local like domestic financial transaction where you go to like a coffee shop and you..."

"the use cases that stable coins are currently enabling. Is it is it mostly on an institutional level? Is it is it on a consumer level or what are sort of the the common interactions people are having ..."

"give a brief overview or help us understand better sort of the stablecoin landscape around like what big companies or types of companies have emerged or will emerge as a result of it or or what it mea..."

"we'll have decentralized social networks, decentralized marketplace or kind of where are we on that vision and what are the bottlenecks to that vision being being realized sort of you know networks at..."

"on sort of AI and and the intersection between AI and crypto. What's what's working there or where are you most excited? Uh, Peter Teal actually had the this tongue-in-cheek line back in 2018. uh whic..."

"are some of the biggest misconceptions people you think people have about the space right now? Maybe maybe Arena starting with you. Well, I mean, I think for the last few years, it's been really chall..."

"Maybe Ali, can you give a bit of an update on kind of the smart contract platform wars as a as an outsider or someone who's paid attention, you know at certain times and not at certain times. What I'v..."

"click on your point about the misconception in terms of how the regime policy regime has changed. If you look at the Novi Libra, you know, it had seven different names, so whichever one you want to us..."