Cryptocurrency exchange

And here's an example of that.

Standard Chartered, which is one of the big banks in the world, brings spot crypto trading to Dubai FX platform.

So banks are launching crypto trading custody, they're tokenizing, they're integrating stable coins, they're launching their own stable coins, right? Yesterday we talked about the 21 major banks who are launching their own global stable coin and that is scheduled for 2027.

So the bank is now offering institutional crypto spot trading in the region, bringing Bitcoin and ether onto the same EFX rails that institutions use to trade dollars and euros.

Wow, we've crossed the chasm, folks, of crypto adoption.

It will just be the market because it will all be running on blockchain rails.

So you have crypto companies that are launching tokenized stocks.

You have traditional finance companies that are launching crypto trading and custody.

not only about the tools, but also about the culture.

When you work with a platform like Crypto Exchange, the volumes are pretty high.

You cannot afford like maybe a millisecond downtime or lag because they are the real users.

Most of the engineers treat containerization, stateful crypto node as an operational nightmare.

Would you like to share any scariest state sync or consensus related failure you faced and how did you engineer around them so that there is no human error?

Right.

So basically, when you work with a platform like Crypto Exchange, the volumes are pretty high, right? I mean, I remember we were doing sites somewhere around like millions of volumes in a single day.

And you cannot afford like maybe a millisecond downtime or lack, right? Because there are the real users who always come to the platform and there are the high stakes involved, right? And I think one of the biggest challenges was not kind of an outage because we have less auto scaling, kind of a high availability, things already mapped, right? But we kind of operated multiple full nodes for Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB with the latency behind load balancers.

He did some work with OKEx, which are actually very big now.

Crypto Exchange did some work with Nasdaq, which we've all heard of.

And of course, all these consulting clients turned around and said, oh, why don't we run an event so we can tell people what we're doing? And then that became a huge business in and of itself, running this events platform.

And it was literally a year ago, Hemel called me up and said, Paul, you know, this event side of the business is really exploding.