Hello, how's everybody doing? I think we're fun and live.
Hey, Balkan here. Uh, loud and clear. Is that Fred? And that's it. I can go to you. All right. He's a good pleasure as well. To join us. Yeah, we'll chill for a little bit. I think we got a few more people joining in. Um,
with both Alagorant and Edge hosting as well. Excited to chat about this integration that's launched and as we talked about Briar too, hop me on the spaces, I want to make sure this is a community friendly space so definitely anyone who wants to chime
in chat, you know, come on stage, give your comments, have questions, feel free to do so. I'm all about, you know, making sure this is not just kind of like a, I know, way, just a two-way street, but a multi-way, you know, intersection of community and projects and companies and whatnot.
Fantastic, very much looking forward to this. Let's just give it another minute while we wait for Scott to join and then we get started. Cool, cool.
Hopefully he's not having any issues. What handle would Scott be joining on here? Keep an eye out for him.
Oh, right, Paul. Well, it's already three minutes fast and Scott just all right. He's going to be joining us in a quick second. So I guess we can get it. And then Scott's going to join us in a quick minute. That's fine. So that sounds absolutely great with you today. How's it going? It's doing great. It's doing great. Thanks a little much for helping for Nate and set this up.
I'm happy to talk about this, the integration, feel questions from the community, and also give them just an idea of, you know, for those in the space that may be new to Algrant, give them a bit more insight into Algrant and of itself, and those that who might be new to Edge, give them some insight about our product and company as well. Fantastic. I'm very much looking forward to that.
Why don't we start today by you introducing yourself to the algorithm fan to the algorithm community that's listening to us live right now? And of course everyone's going to be catching the recording afterwards Absolutely, so thanks for having my name my name is Paul Kway. I'm CEO and co-founder of Edge I've been involved professionally in the crypto space since
about early 2014, discovered Bitcoin in middle early 2013 and that bull market, the first one I think after the first having in Bitcoin, really found that a lot of the tools were much more difficult to use than I think they needed to be, especially around key management.
So we built a company and a product at that time. Actually it's a different name than adge. It was called air bits at the time. It was focused only on Bitcoin and it's focused more on payments. It was really focused on the utility of Bitcoin. At the time there really wasn't many other cryptos within Bitcoin. We realized though that payments wasn't really what the ecosystem was looking for.
and merchant directory, people loved it but didn't really use it because people don't want to spend their crypto. It's too valuable. It goes up in price. You know, number go up. So we pivoted in 2018 and rebuilt the app almost entirely from scratch and made it a multi asset in a way like a self-custody exchange, trade
platform with obviously multi-assets, ability to go to and from different cryptos and also on RAM and off RAM in many different jurisdictions. I think we have far more coverage for Fiat on an off RAM than most any platform product service that I'm aware of whether they be centralized or
We do believe strongly in privacy, or my privacy is common shirt here, or normal shirt. We're big fans of that, but we're fans of privacy, but much like security and privacy, we think it should be invisible to the user. Or users shouldn't have to go through additional effort to get that general benefit.
And so that's what we're building. You know, 2018's when we launched Edge, you know, we've grown nicely since, since launch, you know, obviously writing the wave of cryptocurrency, the ups and the downs. But we're happy to be here today, and especially integrating great protocols and projects such as Algrande, and I'll obviously hope, hope to get some feedback and insight from the community through the space.
that we're in. This is where self-custody, we're pure software. We're pretty much in every country that exists in the world. The main thing that limits our general support would be the fiat on and off ramps. With respect to fiat on and off ramps, I can't name all the places that we're supported. Obviously we're based in the US, so we don't have US support, Canada support.
a good portion of Europe and actually if you're in Europe, given our privacy initiative, we even support being able to buy, I think, Bitcoin and a couple other assets up to a thousand roughly dollars a day with no additional KYC other than what your bank's already done to you. So buy from a bank account directly into Edge,
without having to provide any additional personal information. We do that through our partner, Biddy. Other regions of the world of Australia, we have great support in Australia through a partner, thanks to many different payment methods, both for Fiat on and off ramp, UK as well, and certain parts of Asia. So it's a bit of a mix. I don't have all