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What are you up to now? I see you have a new startup called xTAO,
which is dedicated to a decentralized AI network

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and is slated to go public in Canada later this month.
Can you talk about this latest venture and your goal for the company?

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Sure. xTAO's goal is to create the MicroStrategy of Bittensor.
We talked about MicroStrategy a little bit earlier.

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I think Michael Saylor has done an incredible job
of bringing Bitcoin to investors who cannot access it.

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With an asset as important as Bitcoin,
that is a really important mission.

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After WonderFi, I explored what was next
and what I wanted to spend my time on.

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It is hard to ignore the growth of AI.
I became more excited the deeper I went down the rabbit hole,

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but I was also terrified of the centralization risk.
It may be the most powerful tool humanity ever creates,

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and two or three companies controlling how it is built
and who has access to it is really terrifying.

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I was introduced to Bittensor while exploring that problem
and saw many of the same philosophical roots as Bitcoin:

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Bitcoin combats centralized control of money,
and Bittensor combats centralized control of AI.

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Bittensor, for me, has emerged as a crypto asset
that I think will be a top-three asset in the next two to three years,

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as AI continues to grow and the need for a decentralized AI network
that is open and accessible becomes clearer to people.

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xTAO's goal is to become the MicroStrategy of Bittensor.
We will be the first public company solely dedicated to Bittensor,

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and we are excited for our public listing,
which is next week.