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Consentis is so fun for me because we get to bring people together from different worlds

who are building totally different things in this space.

We are going to welcome Ryan Rug to the show.

She's the head of digital assets for Citibank.

She joins now.

Okay, we have Citibank and we have the Metaverse, right? I know a few years ago

we saw like some banks doing Metaverse activations. Citibank have any desires to get into

a Metaverse and try something out? You know, we've experimented. We did a simulation of our

lobby for clients to come in and use and like so they could touch and feel. I think from a client experience, it's still a little bit far away.

Like as we saw when you're in your Okony segment, it still has a little bit of bugs that, you know,

we move trillions of dollars a day.

We can't have those bugs just yet.

So, but our clients are interested for everything from client onboarding to experiences,

but I think it still has a little bit of way to go from a technology standpoint. How many people tried it out? Several. Clients were walking by and

loving it. It's always really amusing watching clients. It's almost like children because they're

like trying to feel in touch. So I definitely think it has a place, but not quite yet in financial

services. Justin, does it take big names like Citibank to have maybe IRL activations that introduce people to it to help achieve this mainstream adoption that you're thinking about?

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