This episode of Gen C is sponsored by Chainalysis, PayPal, and Wine Chain.

Welcome to Gen C. Gen C is Generation Crypto. These are the people who were raised on a different

philosophy on how they look at money, how they look at identity, how they look at privacy,

and how they reimagine their relationships with the communities and companies they interact with.

We focus on how Web2 and Web3 brands are building for these audiences.

I'm Sam Ewan from Coindesk, and our co-host is Avery Achenini from Vayner 3.

Welcome to Gen C. I'm very excited about this episode. Avery is not with us today. She is probably

on a yacht in Cannes with Gary Vaynerchuk, Traking Rose and hobnobbing, probably with some stars.

And we are here in the office not having that opportunity. But in lieu of Avery, we do have the fabulous

Cam Thompson, one of our best Web3 writers at CoinDesk. We're going to talk about what's going on in

the Web3 space. And then we're going to dive into two stories that I just thought were too good

not to talk to Cam about as we kind of do a little bit of a deep dive into what's

happening in the state of Web 3. But Cam, I know you were just on vacation. I follow you on

Instagram. First of all, where were you? What did you do? And why did you come back to work?

So great questions. First of all, thank you so much for having me. Can't wait to kick off this

Sam and Cam show, as we've been talking about for many months now. So I just came back from Barbados.

I was there for a week. It was absolutely wonderful, just laying out in the sun. I felt like this

vacation, I was very unplugged, so I barely

checked Twitter, barely checked any NFT collection prices. Sorry, guys, I was not being a good D-Gen,

but I needed a break. And now I feel very well-rested and recharged and happy to be back.

And yeah, so here I am. I'm excited to kick this off, you know. This is a great start to the week.

Were there any conversations over drinks with umbrellas about crypto in Barbados?

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