All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast.

I'm your host, Bryce.

And I'm joined today by an awesome guest, a co-founder in the space, a serial co-founder. It sounds like of the OMA protocol,

of across network, or across protocol as well as outcome finance. And so Hart Lamber,

welcome to the podcast and I hope you're having a good day so far. How are things? Thanks,

bruce. Things are going well, man. Thank you for having me. Yeah, things are probably crazy in your world.

I know you just launched a token on the across protocol in the depths of a bear market.

So that's a ballsy move.

I haven't had many people on the podcast in the last, like, call it six months that have

launched a token.

So tell us about the thought process behind

that. Yeah, I guess we'll jump right into it. Just like what does it mean? Yeah, what does it

mean to launch a token in the in the depth of a bear market? I mean, so we've done this now twice.

The Uma token, we didn't launch in the depths of a bear exactly. We launched at the end of a bear. This is in

April of 2020. We were actually the UMA token to go back for a second was the first token that was

ever listed solely and exclusively on a decentralized exchange. So we were the first token ever

list on Uniswap. And one of the experiences

we had from that is it's really cool to be able to grow your network from the bottom,

like actually have a community that's earning ownership in a network from the low prices, let's say, from the start.

And I actually think there are some serious advantages to launching a network.

So across the token for the across bridge, and we'll go into what across it is and how that all works.

Launching that right at the depths of a bare market, it has a real advantage of like the people

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