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<v Josh Han>Welcome back to the Content Suite in Singapore.

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<v Josh Han>Today, we have Enzo from GTE.

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<v Josh Han>Before we get started about GTE's new products, do you want to introduce yourself, Enzo?

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<v Josh Han>Sure.

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<v Josh Han>Happy to.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I'm Enzo, the founder of GTE, where we built the only trading platform that gets better with you.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It learns based off of you, your actions, and your behaviors.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>As you take trades with GTE, our shared AI co-pilot starts to suggest trades, set-ups, recommendations for you to the next trade that

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<v Enzo Coglitore>You have.

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<v Josh Han>Before we get into GTE and this expansion towards AI, maybe we can go into how you got into crypto and what led you into

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<v Josh Han>Building GTE.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Yeah, I'm happy to.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>My background to get into crypto is a bit atypical, but very typical for where I'm from.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I grew up in the Bay Area and I grew up in Palo Alto.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>My dad worked in tech for a long time.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>He was one of the original pioneers of the data center.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>He built a lot of the first data centers for Google, Amazon, eBay, PayPal,

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Yahoo, YouTube, Napster, you name it.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I took that company public when I was a kid and then worked at Facebook as the senior director of hardware engineering in 2007, 2008

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<v Enzo Coglitore>To 2015.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I grew up in this super nerdy household where the internet and everything was very native to me.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And I was very into video games, in particular this game Minecraft.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And I realized when I was about nine or 10 years old, like if you could inject

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<v Enzo Coglitore>JavaScript into like the Minecraft client itself, you could turn off certain blocks and you could see diamonds.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And I realized like if I played on online servers, I could monopolize resources.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And I became like a trillionaire by using a voice changer and like being a part of this faction in this clan in Minecraft.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And I would sell TNT for like in-game currencies.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And that's where I kind of got into the world of virtual marketplaces, digital marketplaces.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And I kept doing this.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I started expanding to World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, selling gold, buying gold, counter-strike, counter-strike global offensive.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Then you really start to understand middlemen, trust,

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Online marketplaces, everything else.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And that led me to after I graduated college, I ended up in Eastern Europe with the Ethereum Foundation where they were focused on scaling

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Ethereum.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>This is about the beginning of 2023.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So I was living with Vitalik in Montenegro for about a month.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And that's where I met my co-founder and the rest is kind of history for us.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Nice.

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<v Josh Han>When did you meet your co-founder and when did GTE start?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I met my co-founder in the middle of 2023 and GTE started right at the kind of end of 2023, going into 2024.

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<v Josh Han>And correct me if I'm wrong, but when GTE started, you wanted to work on the biggest marketplace in crypto, which I think is perps.

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<v Josh Han>Tell me about the story of like going from perps to kind of the pivot that you're going towards with AI.

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<v Josh Han>100%.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So there's kind of two great like mega trends that are happening right now, right?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>There's like the mega trend of crypto and tokenization of everything you can trade, like quite literally anything, anywhere at any time.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Every exchange is the everything exchange.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Hyperliquid is at $96 at the time of this taping.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>You can trade anything you want, right?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>You can trade Bitcoin.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>You can use Bitcoin as collateral to get a loan on Hyperliquid and open up a space expert.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And that's kind of always been like the holy grail of finance, right?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Is the ability for people all over the world to take a sovereign kind of asset, Bitcoin or a stablecoin and use that to

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Get exposure to Western capital markets.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>When we were starting GTE, this was not the case, right?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Like a majority of things that were traded on chain were meme coins and governance tokens.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And we thought, okay, this is a very similar parallel and analog to the internet in which as you start to scale up a lot

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Of the base underlying infrastructure, a lot of value starts to move to applications that have real utility for the end users.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And so if the internet's constraint was compute at the time during the first dot com bubble, and then subsequently, the excess compute enabled applications

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Like YouTube or Facebook, we thought a similar sort of phase shift will happen where the constraint during the last bubble was block space was

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Very expensive to do transaction on Ethereum.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Solana was very unstable.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It's hard to get price discovery on chain.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>When that gets solved, all of the value will move to applications that are able to actually bend these assets.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And so when we started GTE, our focus was on how do we contribute scaling technology that actually enables 24 seven permissionless markets around the

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<v Enzo Coglitore>World.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I think we're there.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And I think in the other side of that mega trend, you know, is the AI vacation of everything AI in the past, like three

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<v Enzo Coglitore>To four years has gotten quite literally smarter like than any human that has ever existed ever.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And the rate of change is an exponential.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And so we were having this conversation last year, the best AI model app was like probably Claude Sonnet for like GPT five 365 days

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Later, those models look like toys like they're like, you wouldn't even like want to like use it in any capacity because what it can

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Do now.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Right now, you open AI today put out like I think it was like 106 different like mathematical advancements that they made with their new

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Model that's unreleased.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And that is like an example of like what exists today.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Our belief is that by this point next year, we're going to be talking about use cases that AI enables for finance and on chain

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Activity, that our mind will things that we couldn't have even thought of.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And so when we saw, okay, we now have very liquid exchanges, Hyperliquid, Lighter, Solana, the next kind of crash course is that AI

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Is going to see this marketplace and start to absorb that people will then start to enter the marketplace with agents, where the agents able

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<v Enzo Coglitore>To read across all the different chains and make an objective decision.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And we're the best places to execute that trade.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Maybe you want to trade Bitcoin perps for you, that could be Hyperliquid.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>If you have capital on chain, maybe you want to trade meme coins for some people, that's Robinhood Chain, the AI has no opinion, it

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Will just execute what the demand of the user is.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>We're very focused on making that next leg of access possible for the end consumer.

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<v Josh Han>That makes a lot of sense as perp exchanges meme coins kind of decentralized and a lot of the old pains that we had in

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<v Josh Han>Like 2021 have gotten solved by the new exchanges.

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<v Josh Han>You guys want to give the ability for everyone to utilize AI.

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<v Josh Han>I think you're correct in that the equivalent of a PhD is in our pocket now through Astra.

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<v Josh Han>And you would have to previously pay an employee or a quant, let's say a six figure salary, but you can do that now with

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<v Josh Han>Like a $10 subscription.

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<v Josh Han>Where do you see that enables GTE?

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<v Josh Han>What kind of trading or different types of strategies are possible now that weren't let's say a year ago, 100% like one of our

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Taglines is Wall Street intelligence in the palm of your hand, where you're able to quite literally have, you know, I would say it's actually

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Smarter than a PhD, right?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Like I would say like the smartest person in the world is probably Terence Tao by raw IQ.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And AI is doing math that like Terence Tao cannot do anymore.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And even he's kind of conceded defeat.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>If you look at like there's like Jelani Nelson, who's like the CS professor at Harvard that went to Berkeley.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>That was actually like Jeff's like teacher for when Jeff was like a TA.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I don't know how goes class even he's joined Anthropic, right?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It's like, okay, like, yeah, academia has like basically conceded defeat to AI, right?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And what does that mean in practice?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What it means is that people who have some semblance of Edge are going to have an even bigger Edge and find the limits of

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Their Edge much faster in terms of relation to the markets and trading.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So if you, you know, we call this kind of like a one man firm have the ability to quantify information and stack that with

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Qualitative beliefs, and then use that to make a trade, you're able to do that much faster with an agentic tool suite.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And so the way that we think about our product is it's not a product where you can just tell the AI to make money.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It's almost the inverse.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>The AI is waiting for you to tell it what your ideas are, to make money and validate it for you.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Use back testing, use simulations, track flows across finance, buy-in and Hyperliquid, be able to traverse the world of on and off chain

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Finance and help you make a decision with confidence much faster.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So what this means is that people that previously would have had to set up entire desks, quantitative developers, infrastructure teams, execution engineers can now

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Rely on a suite of agents through a singular agent that we call Edge to define and determine what their Edge is in relation to

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<v Enzo Coglitore>The rest of the market.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>As they start to trade more and more Edge starts to remember who you are and what you did.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So let's say we made a trade where we made a lot of money.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I like Meta Muse as an example, I bought Meta Muse or I bought Meta stock when when Muse came out.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>The AI remembers that now.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So it's going to ask me, why did you buy Meta?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Like what did you learn about the world that you were right when the market opened on Monday?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>If you bought it on a Saturday, you got gifted with like a God candle.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And the next trade that you make, it's going to remember that you've made that trade.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And then by the 10th or 11th trade, it's going to find like the next setup for you.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Because what we've done not only in building this harness for the AI is we've also given it a computer.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So it has the ability to be omnipresent.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It's looking and searching for things while you're asleep.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And it never stops.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And so we believe that just today, those are a couple like example use cases by next year, it's going to be able to surface

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Insights better than any human ever could have and do research better than any human ever could have.

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<v Josh Han>Got it.

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<v Josh Han>So using GTE's new product Edge, you have the equivalent of having a CFO analyst, on-chain analyst, or really whoever you want on your

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<v Josh Han>Team managing your finances, or at least your portfolio.

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<v Josh Han>Tell me a little bit more about how you are using it.

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<v Josh Han>Am I using this as a new harness or am I bringing it into my harness?

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<v Josh Han>What is the first product suite for Edge look like?

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<v Josh Han>So we built our own custom harness.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And the way it works is it's built inside of GTE.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And what we do is obviously we're this Labs Corporation and we license that product to GTE

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Company.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And on our front end, now we have a representation of the harness.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And so what you're able to do now is you're able to set it up with your past.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Give us your wallets, give us your past brokerages.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Let us read and create a trader profile for you and create a universe where it's uniquely you and the AI.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So the AI goes in and says, Hey, you bought Hyperliquid at $4.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What were you thinking?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Most people did not treat that as a consensus bet, obviously, because Hyperliquid ripped to $96.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So you had alpha in relation to the rest of the market.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Why?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Tell us why.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>As we start to build this world with you and the AI, the AI starts to get better as it starts to understand what you

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Like to look for, what your alpha is, what your Edge is.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And so the reason why we had to build our own harness is because general purpose models and general purpose harnesses do not really apply

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Well to domain specific industries like finance.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>The reason why AI is so good at math and science is because there's a verifiable reward.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>There is an outcome that's deterministic where after smashing 10,000 agents, it's able to solve a millennium problem.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Finance is a bit more like time dated.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>You make a trade, you are either right or wrong in that trade, but there are a series of time has to happen before you

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Get rewarded.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>If, for example, you could buy hype at $4, you only get rewarded the $4 to $96 move by holding it the entire time.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What was your conviction?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What was your belief?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And so, but as the AI starts to collect more and more of the data in that time series, it starts to get better operating

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Within that.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>But the only solution that we found was to create a harness and subsequently what we call an ontology, which is the relation of objects

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<v Enzo Coglitore>That the AI has the ability to understand.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It's like a term for metaphysics essentially means,

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<v Enzo Coglitore>You know, the AI knows what a tool is, what a sandbox is, what a back testing is, what simulation is, how to search Twitter,

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<v Enzo Coglitore>How to know when to call what tool for each specific function.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So if a user says the word backtest, it calls our custom backtesting tool, and it knows the ability to do that.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>If a user says the word perps, it determines whether or not they're saying finance or Hyperliquid.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>That is like where a lot of the value lies.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>If you ask ChatGPT or Claude, it gets you pretty close.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>But it eventually suffers under the noise.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And this is why companies like Palantir exist.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>That's where my co-founder worked.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>You have the ability to actually surround the model with what you just called a harness and really exemplify its abilities for the specific domain

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<v Enzo Coglitore>That it exists in.

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<v Josh Han>That makes a lot of sense.

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<v Josh Han>I've trained my OpenClaw and Hermes agent now to do specific crypto things, but it still hasn't reached the level that I want.

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<v Josh Han>Another concern that I have as a potential user is really just, how do I know my funds are going to be compromised?

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<v Josh Han>If this agent has my private keys,

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<v Josh Han>I could wonder if it could get injected, prompt injected, and send my keys or like my funds to someone else.

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<v Josh Han>What kind of security measures are you guys thinking about as trading becomes more agentic?

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<v Josh Han>A hundred percent.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So the first is, we try and keep it extremely locked down.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>We were exploring things like TEEs where we don't even see the inference that you have in relation with the AI.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I think Muse is a perfect example of this where you're able to cross the chasm, make it so that even if it has sensitive

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Information,

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<v Enzo Coglitore>A human still has to approve all of those different actions.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So even if somebody tries to prompt inject it in relation, that already means they have access to your device, which means that you've been

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Compromised pretty hard.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And so for things that are API based, things that somebody, if they're able to get access into the system, we try and build as

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Many guardrails as possible that require the agent to actually have multiple levels of approval.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>This is where this ontology comes inside of.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Eventually at some point, there's these benchmarks where the agent is supposed to make money.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It always ends up like, boom.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It's because the agent, in isolation, it just eventually suffers from noise.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And what we've done is we spent a lot of time making sure the agent isn't just going to eat your balance into a perp

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And in position because it thinks it's a good idea and it just gets wrecked.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Because the worst thing that can happen here is not just like, oh, you have the wrong response.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>The worst thing that happens is Ken Griffin takes all your money.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And you really don't want that to happen.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>That's even worse in some capacity than having databases deleted or having the AI send a text to your ex-girlfriend.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>This is the next level of that.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So we've spent a lot of time applying, what does AI look like in enterprise?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What does AI look like in terms of getting traders to trust it?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>If we're able to get a trader to trust it, and these traders are what I call security aware.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Then we're able to probably cross that chasm for everybody else.

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<v Josh Han>Very nice.

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<v Josh Han>I have so many questions because you've used this more than anyone else now.

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<v Josh Han>Whether you call it an agent or Edge and how much Edge it actually gives you, you only know.

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<v Josh Han>What are some of the surprises that you found testing Edge that maybe people should look forward to or I could try once it comes

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<v Josh Han>Live?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Yeah, so Edge is really good at crossing strategies.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>AI is really good at copying.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So let's say, for example, you have some sort of macro trader that you love, Stanley Druckenmiller.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It's like, okay, Kevin Warsh worked for Stanley Druckenmiller.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>He's now the new Fed chair.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>You tell the AI, okay, go use yt-dlp.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>This is like the Python YouTube downloader.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Download all the Druckenmiller's transcripts for everything he's talked about.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Download all of the Kevin Warsh when he was getting selected by Trump to be Fed chair post.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Understand, like, okay, in what world did he actually decide to raise rates?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What world do we live in right now based off what these guys have said this surpass people?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>This is macro.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Now, let's find assets that are correlated to this.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So, okay, like if they're raising rates right now, but ultimately in the long term, like Druckenmiller and Warsh, they want more volatility.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What assets are going to benefit from that?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And then from within that basket of assets, what assets do I know?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Crypto, stocks, tech stocks, et cetera.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>When do I know assets are mispriced relative to what other people think?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Then how am I able to then start to apply more quantitative thinking to when's the proper time to buy?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Do I have another trader that I know that times trades really well that are shorter term variations?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Say I'm long term bullish on tech, but I'm looking for an entry.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>When is an entry?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What qualifies an entry?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Well, there's another trader.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Let's say I like Ansem as an example.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Ansem, by the way, has great trading knowledge from like 2021 before the meme coin shit started, like really smart.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>You can take some of those where they're talking about specific entries, then apply that to the thematic sector.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What I've done now is I've just taken information from the Fed chair, the best macro investor of all time, and I've combined that with

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Like these crypto guys that are really good at timing flows and in and outs and momentum plays.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>That gives me the ability to now see both sides of the game.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I don't have to just buy Nvidia and chill.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I can actually accumulate properly based off what I think is the best entry point relative to my greater grand thesis.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>That is where I see Edge and AI really starting to like kind of [unclear] users' behaviors.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It would have taken you a whole team of analysts to study just Druckenmiller, all team of analysts just study momentum trading, whole team

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Of analysts just study execution on top of that, break thematic sectors, et cetera.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>But like an agent can do this all in one run.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It's able to do this and then remember it.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Then if you make the trade and if you were right, agent knows you have alpha relative to everybody else.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Example of this is like I did a trade where I bought Intel right after Claude Code came out because I was like, okay, CPUs

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<v Enzo Coglitore>The agent helped me because you have a lot of emotions as a trader.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Where you lose money is you either overtrade or you get flooded out of the position and then it rips.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It's like the classical story of like it's like a dollar away from my liquidation price.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I close the position and then like Zcash ripped like $1,000 and I would have made a million dollars.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>As a human, you're subject to these biases.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>AI does not suffer from these same biases.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What it's really good at is coaching you to stay calm.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>When I bought Intel, it was at like I think $40 and then it went back down to like $25 and I was like, should

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It was like, tell me your fundamental thesis.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What did you think here?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Why did you think that?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Well, if you're right, then the risk to reward calculation is greater than the drawdown another $10 if you're playing a long term game.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It like basically soothes my emotional state.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It's like, oh my God, I will never not use AI to structure my trades and think through my trades with me because it's going

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<v Enzo Coglitore>To catch my faults as a trader and it's going to magnify my wins and magnify the things that are good about me.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And that creates a really good co-pilot to exist within a financial market.

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<v Josh Han>I think co-pilot is a really good way to describe this potential product, mostly because trading is a solo game.

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<v Josh Han>It's more similar to golf than it is a tennis or like game with other teammates.

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<v Josh Han>And now you have the equivalent of like talking to other agents in use.

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<v Josh Han>Do you imagine this to be some kind of like UI where I have my Druckenmiller agent and then my portfolio agent and then my

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<v Josh Han>On-chain agent?

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<v Josh Han>Or do you kind of imagine it to be one agent that kind of has context to everything?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Yeah, it's a good point and a good question.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I actually am not bullish on like the [unclear] setup.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I think it's just too hard to manage.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Like, you know, you have your chief of staff agent or like my manager agent.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>I'm much more bullish on like what we've done, create a singular agent with the ability to like nest sub-agents but hide that from

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<v Enzo Coglitore>You where you have just your Edge, you can name it, and then you can interact with it.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>But it has the ability to spawn up sub-agents and orchestrate different workflows on demand, but that gets all abstracted away to the end

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<v Enzo Coglitore>This seems to be the next frontier of agent experiences.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>You can see everybody kind of going for this, OpenAI with [unclear], Meta with Muse.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And so our belief is that this is going to continue to increase and we want to specifically create that agent for finance.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What we don't want is to show you, hey, like, here's like a base straight agent, or here's like a Druckenmiller agent.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Like, that is just like noise in relation to like actually working with an agent that's doing research that only you know is real.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>That only you know is good information because you took the trade and you got that data yourself.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What we don't want to be is like telling you like download GTE and like use our agents and like we're going to make you

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Like it's actually the complete opposite, right?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It's like download GTE, use our agents.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>If you make money, you're going to make way more than you would make just trading on [unclear] or the same thing on trading

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<v Josh Han>I mean, from everything that Enzo has told us, this does seem like the most comprehensive agent solution for not only on-chain trading, but

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<v Josh Han>Really portfolio diversification and management.

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<v Josh Han>When can people expect and try it themselves?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Yeah, so probably at the time of like this recording coming out, I expect like we rolled it out to like 20 to 50 kind

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Of VIP traders.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Think like your favorite names on CT or like people like head of trading at like major HFTs that are just like trading on their

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<v Enzo Coglitore>PA.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>We want to roll this out cohort by cohort.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>We're very interested in collecting data and see what people use for what we call financial intelligence.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>So what are they asking the AI to do?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What questions are they asking it to actually do?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Is it sandbox?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>All these different things.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Then we want to scale that out.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>The thing about this product is like pretty compute intensive.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And so we don't view ourselves as going for the mass market here.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Actually, I'll be very opinionated in saying that.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Like if you want to just like monkey see, monkey do, there are really good social trading platforms for you to trade on.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>We are much more interested in the person that does $10 billion worth of volume that wants to $100 billion worth of volume while retaining

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Their alpha and their P&L gets magnified in exponential for that.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>If that's you, then I think you're going to love using GTE and you can find me.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Nice.

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<v Josh Han>It does seem like you're building the product for yourself as well as like the team members that I've met from GTE for the people

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<v Josh Han>And fans of GTE.

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<v Josh Han>Thus far, is there anything else that you want to share or let know what's happening?

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Yeah, I think that what I would say is it's taken us a long time to get to market.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And there's a good reason.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>We only wanted to put a product out there that was fundamentally

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Accessible only on GTE.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And for the longest time, I think GTE was very focused on creating something but faster.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Solana, but faster.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Hyperliquid, but faster.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And what we realized is like speed is only a single like lever that we can pull in that, you know, Hyperliquid is pretty

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<v Enzo Coglitore>It can definitely get faster, but fast is not enough.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>What we need now is intelligence.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And what we've built is a product that you can only access on GTE.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And that's why we're excited to roll this one out now because we've been using it internally.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>We've turned over a couple hundred million dollars worth of volume just on our PAs in the last couple of weeks.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>We've been making like money doing this.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And what we think is going to happen is that this is going to be kind of like a genie out of the bottle.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>When people start doing this, it's going to exponentiate and magnify volumes where we're on top of any chain or any exchange.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>We're able to go and talk to the most sophisticated traders that have setups there and work with them to magnify their setups.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Our main focus is to really exponentiate volume across the board.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>We're big believers in the perpification of everything, the tokenification of everything.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>We think AI is going to love crypto if it doesn't already already.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>And we think that this is going to be the next leg to turn the volumes from like one to two trill to like 10

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Trill.

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Because when that gets combined with RWAs and tokenized assets, by the end of the decade, these agents will be helping you process trillions of

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<v Enzo Coglitore>Dollars worth of volume.

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<v Josh Han>Very nice.

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<v Josh Han>Very exciting updates from GTE.

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<v Josh Han>Enzo, thank you very much for your time and we'll wrap it up.

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<v Josh Han>Thank you.

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<v Josh Han>Yeah.

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<v Josh Han>Nice, man.

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<v Josh Han>Thank you.
