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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Adlots podcast. I'm Joe Wyzenthal.

And I'm Tracy Alloway. We haven't talked about it in a few weeks, but crypto,

price aside, there's always volatility. It's clearly not slowing down at all.

I feel like we have been talking about crypto over the past few weeks, but I guess we haven't

on the podcast. We've written about it on the Adlots site. There's still a lot going on. I mean,

like every day it seems there's a new investment in the space. People are getting more and more

excited about DeFi. These random tokens keep taking off at the same time. Everyone's talking

about NFTs. The list goes on. Right. You know what I feel like with crypto, and it's funny,

like a joke, you know, it's kind of half true. We haven't been talking about it lately. I think I

guess the issue is, if you, I feel like if you go three weeks without having a crypto episode

of the podcast, or if I sort of tune out of crypto for a few weeks, because Sam interested in

supply chains or lumber or inflation or something, then when I try to tune back in, I'm like,

what the heck just happened? Because everything changed so fast. And the new story of the new

coin that people are into, it's changed so fast that I feel like I'm totally behind. So three weeks

of the crypto space feels like three months or a year. Yeah, it's sort of like a dog years type

phenomenon, right? Like crypto just seems to be moving faster than everyone else. Yeah. So anyway,

I want to just get right into it. I'm very excited. There's a long time by crypto standards VC

firm or investment firm called paradigm. If you say the name paradigm to people like in crypto

circles, it's like this like hushed tone because like there's such reverence for this firm.

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