Acacia

What it effectively is, is basically DMT infused into a sort of leaf substrate.

So you imagine you've got a DMT extract, it's inside the solvent, so that inside the solvent, which means the DMT is inside the whatever you've used to extract it from, be Acacia.

I'm actually wearing my Acaciaville [chuckles]

Ooh

... uh, T-shirt that I got from Rebel Herbal Gathering in, in, uh, New- uh, Northern New South Wales several years ago.

It's not that I'm in the DMT space for a half hour, an hour.

No, that's usually only, you know, f-a few minutes, but the tail is so long that there feels like there's this opportunity to really interact with something there.

In my experiences, I, I've, I have felt though, you know, with the doses that I've experienced in the past, the ones that I've, I've played with, it feels as though I have an opportunity to be in a, in a living relationship with the intelligence of the Acacia tree.

So look at 37 verse 1.

Bezalel made the Ark of Acacia wood, two cubits and a half was its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.

And so again, instinctively, we bypass information like this, especially when it becomes redundant.

But the Holy Spirit doesn't want us to look over this.

Welcome to Love, Sex, and Tarot.

I am your host, Acacia, and confidence is sexy.

And we have to remember that.

And we have to invest and fertilize our own self-confidence.

The actual Indian name.

So, anyway, like, it had a bunch of tags all over it.

And on one of the pieces of plywood said, in bold, Acacia.

Which I don't know.

I'm your host, Paul Fahey, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Northern Trust.

Today, we're exploring a significant digital asset initiative underway in Australia, Project Acacia, a joint research initiative led by the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre.

As interest in tokenization continues to grow, financial institutions are increasingly focused on how tokenized assets can be integrated into existing market infrastructure while maintaining the governance, controls and investor protections that underpin today's financial markets.

Project Acacia set out to explore exactly that through real world industry collaboration and testing.

Joining us today are two guests who are directly involved in that effort.

Justin Chapman is Group Head of Strategic Partnerships, Digital Assets and Financial Markets at Northern Trust, where he helps lead the firm's digital asset strategy and industry engagement efforts globally.

We're also joined by Paul Abraham, Chief of Investment Services at Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation, one of Australia's largest institutional investors and a participant in Northern Trust's Project Acacia use case.

Justin and Paul, welcome to the podcast.

So my name

is Mike Gilmore and I'm president of the Queensland Wattle Association in Queensland here.

Wattle is our national floral emblem.

It is the green and gold.

It's emblazoned on our coat of arms.

And we are right on the Dogwood Creek.

Our property has the Dogwood Creek as our boundary.

I think I must have seen an ad or maybe Mike Gilmore came out to Myall Park when he told me about he was in charge of the Wattle Association.

Hello, Sabrina.

Ding! Happy National Wattle Day.

Well, do you know, I had no idea that it was Wattle Day, which is, I mean, it's silly because the whole country is Gilbert season and all of WA is just in floriferous yellow.

Yeah.

It is a plant worth celebrating.

No, we're not.

We definitely are not.

But throughout the program, people have been sending through photos of Wattle in their garden.

and I'm doing my botanical gardens loop and stuff like that and I'm riding home.

I read a poem on here once we're celebrating Wattle Day.

It's a lovely poem written in the 1860s called The Wattle Fiends.

They had to stop people cutting down wattles for the blooms because they need the trees for the tanning industry.

So I'm riding home and there's two people in front of me, the baskets to the back, all festooned with wattles.

I was going to talk about the wattles too, riding home down the Yarra.

That's all right.

But mentioning the wattle fiends because there was a big thing in the 1890s when people started cycling in Melbourne and as they got further out, they started going out when the wattle came into flower and bringing – bringing back huge parts of trees and the same thing it caused this consternation about are we destroying um the wattle trees and there won't be any left and so a lot of the cycling clubs were working on like trying to behavior change trying to get the cyclists to behave and not cut down all the wattle um but it was interesting then um As motorcars, and because bikes could go further than people walking, the sphere of the Wattle Fiend had extended, and then motorcars came, and suddenly it was cars going even further and bringing back reams of Wattle.

And the thing I like about it is not just because they're sharp and spiky and that sort of jazz.

No, no, no. Wattle belongs to one of those species, acacias, that are like super hardcore.

Because generally speaking, bushfires, you would agree, aren't great for the environment, yes.

I mean, I'm not an ecologist or anything like that.

... uh, apple skin fiber powder.

Acacia gum fiber, yeah.

Acacia.

So they all need to be...

Yeah.