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Arjun, thanks for joining us. Really looking forward to the conversation.

I want to just kind of dive right in.

I know a lot of people watching and listening are going to be interested in sort of what your experience was at Cracken on Black Friday.

I think we spoke about this when we met New York a couple months ago.

I spent a year working

a cracking on the marketing team and I was there during Black Thursday during the pandemic when

Bitcoin crashed below $4,000. And I remember all of us just frantically trying to buy Bitcoin

and have nothing else to go down with the ship. Actually, I ran into some issues with Coinbase trying

to do that. But anyway, yeah, what was your experience like?

I mean, just seeing these mass liquidations and as well, well-documented issues with

finance and some ADLs across PURP-Dexes, et cetera.

Sure.

I think, I mean, so one thing to sort of note about this is that, I mean, sometimes these events are pretty intense, right?

But I don't necessarily think they're unfamiliar.

You have different types of bursts in the market that can happen that are, you know,

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