Before starting River, I was working at a fund called

Polychain Capital.

They were one of the biggest, first big crypto funds to kind of realize that this is a sort of an institutional investment opportunity.

And I was doing a lot of Bitcoin stuff there and playing around with some ideas.

I prototyped some early discrete log contract stuff and things like this.

And then I left Polychain in 2019 to start River.

They actually led the seed rounds for River and also had a number of really great angel investors who've really believed in our vision.

How do you manage your Bitcoin treasury versus holding on to cash balances for day-to-day expenses? And what's, I guess, the strategic vision for River Alex?

Not asking you to necessarily castrate them, but just maybe contrast that.

Totally.

Yeah.

So basically, long story short, at River, we make it easy to buy Bitcoin, keep it safe.

That's like if you had to sum up our business in one sentence, it's that.

But really, there's a lot of nuance there.

And the trajectory that our company is on is to be somebody's primary bank account.

Why do you think this is a very big deal for an exchange?