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 podcasting crypto. Let's kick this thing off.

Juan Hernandez is the founder and CEO of Open Finance Network. In this conversation, we discussed the current state of digital securities, the quality of assets being tokenized today, and the challenge is facing the industry moving forward.

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

Anthony Pompliano is a partner at Morgan Creek Digital.

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only. Bang, bang. What's going on, guys? Got Juan here, a nice early morning on a Friday rainy

in New York City. Thank you very much for coming. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me.

How are things going?

Good, good.

You know, a lot of what we're seeing on the marketplace is just this level of growing excitement

for digitized securities.

The ability to take these existing alternative assets or New York's alternative assets, be able to

tokenize them, expose them to a broader universe of participants and investors, both in the US and

worldwide. And so a lot of that momentum is just slowly building up and picking up steam across the board.

Cool. Before we get into kind of a state of the digital security ecosystem, maybe let's go through your background.

Sure. Because you obviously weren't in crypto early on and kind of backed into this in a very unique way.

So just kind of where you start your career and then we can get into how you actually discovered all this.

Yeah, so a quick background on me. So I have a computer science degree from Northwestern University, did software consulting for a while, went back to business

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