All right. So joining us now, we have Josh Frank, who is the founder of the tie. Josh, how are you doing today?

Yeah, not too bad. Not too bad at all. Love to hear it. So for many of our listeners have heard of the tie before and how, you know, we have our partnership together with Oakland Alert and everything. But for those that haven't heard of the tie,

can you give us a high level overview of what the tie is and what you guys are doing?

Yeah. So at its core, we solve one major problem for hedge funds, market makers, OTC des, asset managers, banks, really anyone in the institutional space, which is if you go to a large

institution and you ask them, how are you staying on top of crypto from an information perspective?

What they'll do is they'll show you, you know, their browser, and they have 40 or 50 different tabs open in their window.

What we really do for our institutional clients is consolidate the entire market into a single screen.

So we bring together news, on chain data, sentiment data, market data, derivatives data, research,

NFT, governance, developer data, you name it. And we exclusively service the world's most sophisticated

institutional investors. So our average client, you know, could be a $1 trillion asset manager,

a tier one bank, a $40 billion hedge fund, as well as some of the larger crypto-native institutions.

But really, you can think of us as their kind of platform of choice for looking at the

market to identify opportunities and better manage risk within the space.

So going back to you or coming to you personally, how did you get involved in the Web3 space and the crypto industry in general?

And why the focus here rather than anywhere else?

Yeah.

I mean, I was, you know, the transparent answer is I was working at a very boring job.

I was working in post trade settlement technology and was just really bored.

And so I started day trading crypto. And I was actually building quantitative models on equities

to try to figure out, you know, why equities are moving? And looking at crypto, I was like,

why is this market moving? I mean, this was 2016, 17. This is when John McAfee was pushing out

a tweet and the price of an asset was going

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