The US's rejection of crypto was, I would say, the biggest counterbalancing force against our industry.

So A, you have a counterbalancing force that disappears, and then it goes completely in the direction where it becomes a force that accelerates the industry and legitimizes it and makes it clear to institutions.

To your point about the announcements that they can do transactions now and implement blockchain-related infrastructure,

which is obviously great for ChainLink

because we've been working with these institutions for years,

and now we just have a huge amount of deals

that are just converting to, oh, time to go live.

ChainLink co-founder Sergey Nazarab. Welcome back.

Happy to be back. Thank you for having me.

All right. You were here yesterday. You heard Sam and I talk a little bit about our takeaway, and it really was this regulatory conversation.

We wouldn't be able to be sitting here today talking about

the announcements we're talking about without the progress that's been made in the United States.

Patrick Witt will be joining you on stage later today. Curious to hear what you want to talk

about with him, what you're hoping to draw out from that conversation.

So I just wanted to clarify the reasons why the White House and the Trump administration are into crypto.

And I think people should really understand that it is really a priority for them.

From the point of view of the technologies that are going to power the U.S.'s future,

AI is obviously a technology that's a priority.

Cryptocurrency and blockchains are a big priority.

So I think there's a real genuine commitment from the Trump administration,

and Patrick, who is the executive director of the White House's kind of task force on blockchain stuff.

So there's a real commitment and that commitment has now reverberated, there's been enough time for it to reverberate

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