Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. And everybody's interested in FinTech these days. And the real world asset innovator himself is here to share with us how we can get Liquid in the space, the founder and CEO at getliquid.io, the incredible executive, entrepreneur, innovator, Michael Batante.

Welcome to the playbook.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate you having me, David.

Well, you know, there's a lot of discussions about RWA, this real world asset tokenization

of the world.

But there really hasn't been any institutional grade compliance to the measure. And so it's created

in securities, fluctuation, volatility. And you've looked at this space in a little bit different

way, in a utilitarian way. You looked at it with the capability that it had, not with the

promotion and hype that most people did. How did you look at

this institutional-grade compliance matter and make it real and allow RWA truly to benefit everyone?

Yeah, that's a great question, and I appreciate you asking. To be honest, I had no choice but to look at it from every single angle.

You know, we were building in the middle of an election period where we didn't know which way it was going to go.

So we had to break this thing down, foolproof, taking two complete opposite strategies for both compliance models.

And I like to think that that played in our favor.

I'm a big believer in slow down to speed up.

So I wasn't really in a rush.

Yes, you know, these bigger institutions have more capital

and they can turn things on immediately.

But it kind of seemed like even now,

there's a window where nobody has really figured it out and launched it. And so we took a look at it

from every single angle. And where I settled was, you know, we need to operate like traditional

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