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All right, everyone. Thanks again for tuning in. Those who are just joining still giving it a few minutes for everyone to get started and looks like we have a few of our judges here up on the stage. So Jeff, Tina, how's it going today?
Awesome awesome. Yeah, and looks like a Sean looks like we also have you on stage as well. How's it going? Sean GM Jordan feeling well getting a little better from GDC last week, but happy to be here Awesome very cool. Well, well
Yeah, hope you're all having an excellent day and looking forward to hearing some great pitches. Today we have six companies, some in DeFi, NFTs, wallets, gaming, and more, really some really great stuff. But first, I want to start with a huge shout out to our judges.
our partners for today's Quick Pitch Competition. We have Tina Die, Investment Partner at Varian. We have Jeff Haselman, AWS Global Head of Web 3. We have Ashaan Goyal from Orange Down, and then we have Kevin DeGods, CEO of Dust Labs.
So yeah, while we're waiting for people to join, there's just been so much going on. And Jeff, maybe I'll start with you. I know that there's a lot going on with AWS right now and with Web3. I think I recently saw an avalanche partnership. So pretty excited about that.
Maybe you could tell us a more. Sure, yeah. Looking forward to today. It will be an absolute blast. Looking forward to meeting these six companies. As far as AWS One thing, I'll make very clear, we're agnostic when it comes to blockchains. So we did make an announcement with other labs and other lunch. So that did take place back in January. So there's a number of ways to
How do we help bring developers to build on Avalanche? And another of the other things that are tied into that partnership. So it's one of many that will come, but again, just for us, how do we contribute back to the community and give tools to all you builders out there? >> I really love that. Yeah, Jeff, it's bringing us back when we
We did club houses back in the day. This is a lot of fun. Great to be on stage with you again. How's it going today? Doing well, doing well. We migrated youth to Polygon yesterday. And so it's been exciting to see everybody moving their youth over across the chain. So yeah, a lot of hard work with a bunch
to get that going. AWS being one of them, quick node being another, so can it be on the stage with y'all, which is pretty sweet. But yeah, it's pretty smooth so far and folks seem to be enjoying the experience and nothing insurmountable in terms of issues to debug, which is always good in Web 3 where things are more permanent.
That's amazing. Yeah, I've been following that on Twitter and elsewhere and I think that migration kind of kicked off yesterday. So, you know, round of applause to you and your team on that. I know that that was no easy feat. So yeah, I mean, kind of diving into that a little bit more. I'm sure there's a lot of people tuned in.
in right now that are curious about the migration and how that all went. How do you kind of see that playing out, you know, over the next few days and how did it kind of match up to, you know, your plan and expectations? I mean, we knew it would be tricky. I think like there's always just complexities and you sort of have that nervous energy.
when you start to push the buttons that it's semi irreversible. But like I said, we didn't run into anything that was so far a blocker, which is good. And I think the expectations have been good. I think the first day is really just seeing people move over and 50-60% of the people
to live moved over and it's not even been live for 12 hours, which is a pretty good kind of engagement metric that we sort of wanted to see in terms of we were hoping for 20 or 30% and we saw much bigger than that already, which is awesome. You know, volumes already, you know, we're top project on on polygon after
a few hours, which is pretty cool. But I think for us it's just the beginning, right? I think the whole, when this journey started back in the winter or sort of December of last year, Christmas, we actually announced it, it was really just the beginning of like we didn't really know how it would work out. And obviously this is the
first step, which is getting on to Polygon, and then I think a bunch of cool stuff that we're working on with announcements and partners, and just the opportunity to be on a chain where, at least historically, Polygon had a lot of enterprise and sort of larger sort of brands connecting with them already, and it just gives us, you know, one step