What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to Off the Chain, simply the best podcast in crypto. Let's kick this thing off.

James Slazis is the founder of Dharma Capital. In this conversation, we discuss his decision to use quant strategies in crypto, how important

institutional infrastructure is, what he is doing with the Open Law Initiative, and how

crypto is related to the 2008 financial crisis.

I really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you do as well.

Anthony Pompliano is a partner at Morgan Creek

Digital. All opinions expressed by Pomp or his guests on this podcast are solely their opinions

and do not reflect the opinions of Morgan Creek Digital or Morgan Creek Capital Management.

You should not treat any opinion expressed by Pomp as a specific inducement to make a particular

investment or follow a

particular strategy, but only as an expression of his opinion. This podcast is for informational

purposes only. All right, guys, bang, bang. I am here with James. We got a ton to get through. So

thank you so much for uh for coming and doing this

hey pop um that's the that's the that's the most happy anyone's ever greeted me on this uh on this

podcast just hey pomp um all right man uh you've done a whole bunch of stuff uh i'm not even going

to try to summarize it so just what's your background how did you get here in this seat how did i get

here in this seat um other than I get here in this seat?

Other than I told you to come.

Exactly.

So, well, since I'm one of the old characters in the blockchain space.

So I have been in the derivative market since the mid-80s.

I grew up on the Merck and in the Paris futures exchanges, ran a derivative

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