All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast. I am your host,

Bryce Paul. And today I'm joined by Brandon Milam from Phantom Wallet, who's the CEO and co-founder. Brandon, how are you doing today?

Hey, Bryce. I'm good. Thanks for having me on. How are you? I'm doing very good.

You know, we've got a little bit of a little cloud cover here in San Diego. Things have been

kind of wetter than normal. But, you know, it's a good day to be a crypto holder

in light of everything going on in the world. So, yeah, we're really excited to learn about

what you've been building at Phantom, a wallet that, you know, I've used for Solana. I've interacted

with a lot of daps through it. It's got a really clean interface.

You guys take security, you know, extremely seriously. And you've got a great communications team.

Whenever there is, you know, craziness that goes on in the Salana ecosystem, you guys are always out there giving, you know, great coverage.

And so, yeah, great actors in the ecosystem. And we're excited to hear the founding story and what drives you as builders.

So with that, yeah, I would love to just hear a little bit about your background and how you found yourself starting like a crypto wallet.

Like, how does somebody just come into that?

Yeah.

Awesome.

Well, first of all, thanks for all the kind words about Phantom and, yeah, everything that we do,

you know, beyond the walls of the application in areas like communication and whatnot.

Yeah, we've really, through the past couple of years,

sort of acted as almost the front end of the Salana network itself. That's literally how I think of

you guys. Yeah. You guys are the metamask. I mean, I don't know if that's a crude analogy,

but you're the metamask of Solana, basically. Yeah, I'd say that's don't know if that's a crude analogy, but you're the metamask of Solana, basically.

Yeah, I'd say that's, you know, that's a fair comparison. And, you know, with that responsibility or with that position comes a lot of responsibilities, including like acting as like first line of defense for any kind of issues or communicating problems going on. And so yeah, I think, you know, just thanks for the kind of words there.

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