Can you hear me all right still?
Yeah, I mean, we can wait a minute.
We can just BS while people filter in or whatever.
I'm doing this call out, I'm doing this call out on the candy trail with my two-year-old
who's already eating her candy.
So, yeah, I'm excited to be here.
Um, I love everything that's going on over at Mike Cointainer, earn network.
So, I'm really hyped to sort of get this out into the community so they know how much cool
It's going to be pretty cool.
I got to use it myself and I'm, you know, good product for sure.
You guys are doing it that early.
We, we start, um, I think we're on the same time zone.
I start six o'clock, six to eight.
So, it was like perfect time.
Um, I got the big candy bars waiting to hand out.
I don't know if I have enough.
So, I'm kind of having a little bit of anxiety about that.
I might run to the store and grab some more.
But, we don't get, we don't get too many kids.
But, you know, sometimes these kids, they'll spread the word.
Hey, this guy gives out the big candy bars.
And then we get way more than I should, you know, think about.
So, because I live like on top of a mountain.
And it's like not many people come up there.
But I try to reward the ones that are gritty, you know, that are willing to walk up a freaking
big ass hill to come up to Hoss's house.
I haven't quite figured out what's going on with the Halloween costume trend in New York
Trick or treating in New York is in general, I think, pretty weird because it's, it's such
a densely populated place.
But then it's also feels like really spread out.
To like go and walk around the different neighborhoods.
But, you know, the costume trend that I'm seeing a lot of is like the teenage boys are all wearing
like football jerseys and they're all covered in white paint.
And I can't figure out what that is.
Oh, it's shaving cream, my wife said.
I don't know what this is about.
It's a very interesting dynamic.
But, yeah, let's, let's go.
We got our, we got our guests up here already.
So, let's, let's get rocking, man.
The recordings are always good anyway.
Do you say, do you pronounce the name Bartos?
Just a little quick intro.
So, I always like to ask my new guests that I really haven't had conversations with about,
you know, their journey in crypto.
Like, when did you get in about and why are you doing what you're doing now, basically?
Maybe a little bit about your background pre-crypto as well.
I mean, I mean, I mean, before I jump into the crypto stuff, I mean, I started generally
So, two of my areas of interest always were design and finance.
So, yeah, I was kind of, you know, investing in stocks in 2005, 2006.
So, this was very, very, you know, a long time ago.
And then I got into the design as well.
So, I moved to London, working for Barclays Deutsche Bank, a lot of UX design agencies and
And then I came back to Poland, kind of managed many teams, UX production, was general manager
So, and then, yeah, then the crypto that happened.
So, that was around 2016, 17.
Yeah, I saw a transition in the protocol that was supporting many blockchains, right?
So, you know, many coins were releasing.
I mean, all of the coins were releasing their products based on proof-of-work consensus and
then proof-of-stake consensus happened, right?
So, this was like a great opportunity that I saw.
I thought, well, this is amazing because, you know, people don't have to, like, buy heavy
machines in order to participate into the protocol to earn rewards.
And, yeah, this was the main idea behind my container.
So, yeah, my container started in 2018.
It was a self-funded business.
It was actually one of the first staking platforms globally.
And it was first regulated in Europe.
So, it's been a great journey.
So, in 2021, we got a first round of financing from some of the VCs that you may know, like
Spartan Group, Shima Capital, and many others.
But, yeah, those three years were generally pretty tough, obviously, when we were self-funded
because, you know, we were supporting all operations from the revenue and, obviously,
And, yeah, and we are progressing with my container.
I can share more in a bit, obviously, with your questions.
And then, yeah, we also launched, very recently, an on-chain solution called our network that
I will also probably share more details a little bit later.
But, yeah, that's how I essentially got to crypto.
And maybe just last sentence, like, why did they get into the crypto?
And I saw what this was, like, just to maybe elaborate on this so that everybody knows,
I think, like, essentially earning yield from crypto was super hard.
Like, 2018, like, right now, we have a lot of staking protocols, platforms, and so on, so on.
But 2018, when we started, everything was crashing.
The blockchains got resynced.
So, yeah, that's how custodial platform, my container, happened because, you know,
I always try to combine my experience of the design, user experience, and the finance
to actually help people to earn money from those proof-of-stake protocols
because it was super, super, super difficult in 2018.
So, yeah, that's the main rationale.
Yeah, so I'm going to do a really fast intro because I bet a bunch of people already know me.
But I'm just going to do a quick rundown.
My name is Tyree Robinson.
I am the head of ecosystem over at AraiChain.
I've been with the company since early 2021, shortly after the launch of our mainnet,
and have been with us ever since, and will probably be here forever.
When I first, you know, found out about my container, I realized that you guys,
number one, I was surprised that I hadn't heard about you.
And then when I saw the full sort of suite of options that you had available,
I was, like, really blown away because, you know,
obviously having the licensure to do sort of centralized or, you know,
custodial staking, I should say, is really amazing and difficult for a lot of people to navigate.
So that's a very impressive, you know, feat there.
But, you know, you also operate this node-as-a-service platform, you know,
and these solutions that are really user-friendly to allow anybody to be able to spin up nodes.
So I'm sort of, you know, interested in hearing, you know, where that came out of
and providing that node-as-a-service infrastructure for POS chains.
But then also, as we sort of, you know, go through this conversation,
I want to hear a little bit about the pivot from, you know,
the custodial staking option to earn network, which is the non-custodial option.
So, you know, take it away.
I want to sort of pass it to you for a few minutes here.
That's an amazing question, obviously.
So maybe let's start with a node-deployment solution that you have mentioned.
So, yeah, just for everyone that is here, you know, maybe, and is listening.
So, in short, as I mentioned earlier, so MyContainer initially started as a platform for,
you know, normal users to stake very easily coins.
So you can imagine that in order to provide those yields for our customers,
we had to develop some sort of infrastructure on which our nodes were running, right?
So we realized after a while, you know, through many conversations with people,
we have many projects that some of them were not keen to collaborate with us
because we were custodial.
And that's obviously fair enough.
I think that's obviously we are all here to kind of support the decentralization.
So what we've done, we really utilized our infrastructure
and kind of built the interface on top of it such that anybody can now kind of come in
and deploy the nodes that we are supporting.
So I'll maybe share the link a little bit later under this conversation
where you can actually go to the solutions.mycontainer.com
and then you're able to deploy your node on our iChain
and I think maybe 20, 30 more there.
So this was the main idea such that we support decentralization
and also we can obviously give this abilities to the people and many projects.
And I think many projects actually, including you guys obviously,
look at this very, I would say, you know, very nicely
because, you know, it kind of helps you to scale the infrastructure
and so it's very easy to use.
Again, I will go back to this maybe, what I mentioned earlier, you know,
building the nodes or deploying your own nodes.
Maybe even a couple of years ago, you know, it was really, really hard.
You had to like do, you know, some crazy Linux stuff, you know, commands
and so on and so on in the console and you had to buy the servers
But now you can just go to solutions.mycontainer.com
and you can just click, click, click and then deploy things.
We have also useful guides.
So yeah, so now this is the rationale behind it and what we do.
So regarding our network, and this is again a great question.
So look, I think, again, when we look at, you know,
all of the products and everybody that is here also,
like generally speaking, I think the long-term objective
for everyone should be to build decentralized products
where everybody holds their own keys
and it's in charge of their own funds at all times, right?
So that's really where I think everything is headed essentially.
But there is a bit of a nuance here, obviously.
My container is primarily focused for the newcomers, right?
So newcomers, people that are yet not used to utilize maybe Metamask,
maybe Capital Wallet and so on and so on.
So they generally would come into my container.
They would generally, you know, deposit as assets
and they generally don't care, you know, about anything else.
They just want to have a peace of mind
and they want to, like, just see their rewards coming, right?
And, you know, hopefully we obviously support this with many guides
and over time we do also hope that they will kind of transition
into, you know, platforms like their network
where you can come in and you can use your own wallet
and you can, for example, delegate funds to our validator
directly from their wallet, right?
So then, you know, you would use their network.
Their network is primarily now focused on, you know,
people that are much more advanced in terms of using
And, yeah, so those are two different audiences.
They are obviously, you know, both very useful for, you know,
And that's how we see this.
So we want to cover not only what you've mentioned earlier,
we do actually cover quite a lot of spectrum of products,
which you've mentioned, but I think at some point
it's a lot to handle, but we also support the whole spectrum
of users from beginners to very, very advanced users.
So that's essentially the idea, which I think it's very kind of helpful
also for the projects and, you know, the community hopefully,
you know, such that we support, you know, somebody who's new
and somebody who is also advanced user.
Yeah, that's super awesome.
I just was going to say, like, from a user perspective,
like what you guys are doing is great because, you know,
like it's starting to get better in general in crypto,
So if you're someone that's like, all right, I'm a, you know,
crypto maxi, I'm going to stake all these different assets throughout.
And then I know there's better things out there now
for like portfolio management, but there really is this lack
of data and knowledge for someone that wants to spin up
their own node throughout, you know, throughout crypto.
And you guys offer like a wide range of networks, you know,
not even just solely in Cosmos, which there's quite a few,
And it's just nice, you know, a couple of years ago
when I started messing around with nodes, like you said,
you had to know command line, like CLI for anyone.
It's a command line interface and it's not really user friendly
and all the different chains have their own little nuances to it.
And so, so it's nice being able to like,
just kind of like plug and chug.
And if you're someone that's kind of like a well
or someone that has decent money and you're like, look,
I want to do this and not have to pay a commission fee
to a validator, like you can do it.
You know, even if you don't have a lot of financial
wherewithal, you can do it.
Like, I think I want to say there's monthly packages
around like $65 or so to run like a node and a validator.
So you can have your own validator really on chains, you know,
Yeah, I completely agree.
I mean, apart from that, what you've mentioned,
I mean, sometimes even though you had to use,
I mean, I will maybe say some things from the, you know,
history of this because, you know, I like the,
it's still a lot has changed as you mentioned,
but very, very often also if you followed the guides
that were provided to you with the command and CLI
and so on and so on, even they were failing, right?
So even the official guides sometimes were failing
So they were not even precise.
And yeah, for normal users,
it was really difficult to follow essentially.
So do you want to like kind of touch about like our network?
When, you know, why and all that type of stuff?
So I can maybe share a few more words about our network.
And so, yeah, so essentially like, you know,
and again, I will maybe share you a little bit more info
and maybe a bit of experience what we saw
or what we actually still see with my container.
Like essentially one of the,
and this is also kind of the foundation
of why we are building our network.
So when we look at various yield kind of earning opportunities
or NFT staking or, you know, yield earning pools
essentially from 2018 or 17,
every single year you can see a few new things
coming in into crypto, right?
So, and it's getting harder and harder
or yield earning opportunities
to be integrated directly into centralized platforms.
It's getting really, really hard, I would say,
because there are many nuances on chain,
people's interactions and so on and so on.
And I think that's where our network
will come in very, very handy.
So, you know, like one of the things
that we have started right now with,
with, for example, NFT staking,
I can maybe mention that,
it's that, you know, a lot of projects,
you know, that we collaborate with,
they do want to share some value with users,
like NFT, they stake NFT, they get extra NFT
or maybe they stake their token,
they get extra NFT and so on and so on.
They would love to do that.
But now here is the one thing
that is generally stopping them.
but one of the most important one
is the cost of developing it, right?
Yes, there are out there,
like some basic templates of, you know,
staking contracts and so on and so on.
But what is the most important is that
you, if you want to do something
a little bit more advanced,
you have to obviously build the interface,
you have to hire developers,
you have to audit the smart contract,
you have to obviously have the audience
That's obviously going to cost you some money, right?
generally, if you are, you know,
gaming project or maybe, you know,
you would probably prefer to spend your money
on your core roadmap where, you know,
you will build your value.
So we've developed those,
what we call no-code smart contracts,
you don't see that if you go on their network
because we'll be launching that
probably maybe in one month
Right now we are helping.
It's kind of like in a closed beta.
So projects are doing this
kind of, you know, with us,
So that's really what's coming in.
If you want to do such solution,
and you look at various, you know,
normally if you were to do it on your own,
I would say, at least a month
and it would cost you maybe,
something around that, right?
So what we are trying to do
is to bring those solutions
to many different projects
maybe in under one hour, right?
So they save a lot of money,
they can provide various yield earning
opportunities for their community
That's essentially how we look
at one of the first categories
which we have developed so far,
what we are doing right now,
we actually haven't made announcement yet,
so I think this is a special
information for you guys.
Obviously, if you go to their network,
the risk-taking category, right?
So this is very tightly connected
with the Cosmos ecosystem
So risk-taking was published,
actually moved to the production,
I think a couple of days ago.
so right now we are supporting
which you can delegate directly
select when to claim the fees.
by each individual person.
regarding the DeFi staking
to a lot of the decisions
will be community-driven, right?
many categories in the future
spill so much information
it's amazing to talk about
is really what you deliver,
I think one of the biggest
integrated into my container.
and you want to distribute
to my container community,
obviously in your product
So let me take a step back.
like if someone's running,
they're using your service
they'll have the opportunity
that are delegating to them
of something very similar
probably the highest yield.
But you can go even further,
and this is what you've mentioned,
probably the good example
because of the validators.
but generally there is no,
scale up the entire industry
creating their own contracts,
they also had a lot of people
technically your customer
but like in the long term