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.

Talal Tabah is the co-founder of Chabrill Networks. In this conversation, we discuss how he convinced a Saudi prince to buy crypto, what the regulatory and startup environment is in the Middle East, and how tokenized debt will likely become more popular moving forward.

This conversation was a lot of fun, and I hope you enjoy it nearly as much as I did.

Anthony Pompliano is a partner at Morgan Creek Digital.

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All right, guys.

I am super excited to have Talal here.

We've got a ton to cover.

Tala and I met actually in the Middle East last year at a conference.

So thank you very much for coming on there,

buddy. Thanks, thanks, man. Pleasure to see you again. Yeah, we met at a conference in Kuwait,

actually. It was one of my first visits to Kuwait. It was a pretty good conference. You don't

get too many of those.

I think the conference scene got a bit saturated over the past year.

But yeah, I got to meet you and I'm very happy to be on the show.

For sure.

All right, so maybe let's go through your background and how you got into crypto for those

that don't know before we get started.

Great. So I actually used to live in the US. I studied in Purdue University. I did engineering there and that's how I got into crypto.

There was a, let's say, community at Purdue that was getting into, there was no crypto at the time, it was Bitcoin.

Then I started working for PWC, so I kind of ditched the engineering thing and got more into

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