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focus on security, safety, speed, all the things big banks and institutions

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I'm your host Carrie lutz A.
We got a special guest on today,

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Anthony Saliba. Anthony, you're a
veteran options trader. You've built plotforms,

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sold them at a substantial profit.
You've got a new platform called Liquid

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Mercury and it looks pretty interesting and
hey wanted to find out from you what

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it's about. First the questions comments
KL at Carrie lets dot com. We'll

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get you an answer back, Anthony. So welcome and tell us about Liquid

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Mercury. Thanks Kerry, great to
be here, Thank you well. Liquid

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Mercury is my fourth generation of derivatives
software. It's a platform that handles multiple

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asset classes, but primarily digital assets. So we do spot and options on

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cryptocurrencies. We're a B to B
but your audience, that is customers can

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find us. We do white label
to certain institutions that offer our retail solution.

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We really focus on security, safety, speed, All the things big

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banks and institutions on Wall Street that
we've vended to for about twenty five years

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have counted on interesting. So how
long has it been around for? So

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Mercury is a few years old.
My original company, liquid Point, is

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still the dominant technology on listed options. I sold that company a number of

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years ago and got my same team
back together to build out our fourth generation

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of the technology for the digital asset
space. So a big differentiator from the

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rest of the software out there is
that you know, we're options guys and

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gals and we're able to deliver n
number of legs and a spread We have

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our own spread book, we have
a matching engine. Things that set us

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world apart. But we also have
you know, good clean technology for brokers

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and traders that are in the prop
zone or professionals all right, So it's

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basically kind of for insiders, guys
who are who really know their stuff traders

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effectively, and obviously the companies that
trade prop traders, et cetera. Right,

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correct, correct here? Okay,
so what are the benefits of this

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platform? You know, why are
you going through this exercise? Obviously there's

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something compelling here. Right. Well, in the early days of crypto,

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first ten years or so, well, maybe the first seven years, there

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was really nothing and it was you
know, Walt's wallet and people cobbled together

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things. And then in the mid
to eighteens you started to see basically e

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commerce systems crop up to provide you
know, exchanges, places for people to

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meet, and that's proliferated over the
you know, first part of this decade.

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But what we bring is real Wall
Street grade sultware that banks and incisions

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can count on with safety, security, reporting compliance, even though the rule

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set in the US is still very
fluid. We've built everything for best execution,

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the ability for the customer or our
clients customers to get a great sale,

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know, the you know, food
chain of pricing or handling of that

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asset. Predominantly coins, all coins, bitcoin, eat whatever they're trading.

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We're connected to about forty different venues, but we have OTC market makers that

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give commissionless prices to our clients.
And you know, it all happens in

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a blink of an eye, so
we're fast and accurate and say, okay,

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so industrial grade if you will,
right, absolutely, thank you.

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I was searching for the braise all
right, So hey, what about your

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tokenization thing? Merk O thanks asking? Yeah, Emmy r c H token

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we launched earlier this year is listed
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in Europe and UK, and we'll
be watching on bit rude beginning of next

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month and two other Asian exchanges that
we're on DeFi uh, you know,

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to swap. And our token has
two main value propositions for our institutional clients.

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It spins off discount tokens. You
know, our token is able to

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be presented each month or a discount
off of our clients invoices, So there's

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a scarcity built in and our clients
by for splitting that discount with whoever might

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be the holder of our token that's
on the institutional side. So as our

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business grows, obviously the value of
the token grows and you know, we're

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just getting started with Liquid Point.
I sold a company or of a billion

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about twelve years ago, and we
plan to do the same thing with Liquid

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Mercury. On the personal or individual
side, we have a rewards program that

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will be launching at the beginning of
the year that if you stake your tokens

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you'll have access to third party software
that I've curated for trading research, some

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big names in the research, special
research just for this group. And then

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I'm launching a podcast called Meals with
Market Makers, and you'll only get this

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through our rewards program. So,
being one of the market wizards in the

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original book, I've gone around and
collated those of us are still alive and

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creating some content that'll be fun and
also have some relevance to today's trading and

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juxtapose what we were familiar with at
the launch of Options and what we see

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currently in the current crypto environment.
All right, so, hey, giving

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you your choice, you got to
pick one market or the other options or

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crypto options on crypto. Okay,
Well, I know that options are the

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best product ever created at bar None. I think the US options market has

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the most liquidity and it has the
most safeguards the best pricing. Now with

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the zero days expiration, you can
tickle your fancy at every way. And

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soon zero t expiration will be coming
for equities themselves, not just indexes.

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That's where my heart really is.
Can you just explain that to zero to

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expiration, how that works for us? Please? Absolutely? Yeah, zero

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to expiration are are options that expire
the same day, at the end of

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the day. Okay. So you
know, I spent a lot of time

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at the CBOE and with the CBOE, and we learned in the early days

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not to use gambling analogies, so
I didn't. But I'm no longer film

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either. Why right, But these
are one day bets, if you will,

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on the direction of the index for
the trading day, and those will

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becoming to equities probably in twenty twenty
four, which really give the investor a

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lot of variability, a lot of
choice, and a lot of fun.

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Yeah. Okay. Eventually come with
crypto June carry. I mean, as

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you get as you get ETFs approved
or rypt, the ripple effect in the

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spot market and the crypto options exchange
will be big. There's going to be

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all sorts of edging opportunities. Yeah, I know, I know, it's

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growing by leaps and bounds. You
look at the volume of these markets and

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the liquidity, it's rather amazing.
It is. Listens. So, if

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I'm just your run of the middle
trader here, what do you think I

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should be looking at now? Well, if you're not in the digital asset

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space, you really should take a
look at it at a minimum. And

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there's some courses online that are pretty
they're pretty meaty and in depth, but

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the number of them you only need
to watch really the first few classes at

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the most, maybe one or two. There's one dating back till like twenty

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seventeen or twenty eighteen, a Princeton
program that helps people get started, so

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at least you get familiar. I
had dinner with the friend of mine professional

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medical fields that I have no clue
what crypto is and why do we need

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it? You know, in five
minutes or less, I really answered all

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his questions and he came away understanding
that there's a huge value, you know,

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in the blockchain itself and the capabilities
that distributed ledgers and where it impacts

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all things traded, from listed options
and futures to art to real estate to

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wy goo cattle, for instance,
but take a class get familiar with crypto.

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If you're in crypto and you're already
dabbling in it, then I think,

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you know, you really want to
look at some of the second tier

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tokens that have been on their butt
since the ft X admission. You know,

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Sam Bankman fraudster, came out and
admitted to you know, the things

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that he's done, and stuff is
starting to percolate in a lot of fear

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that was in the market is dissipating. So I would take a look at

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that stuff. And of course are
tolkien to merk which is currently training under

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a penny and we have big plans
for it. Interesting, very interesting.

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So you want to go over to
Liquidmercury dot com take a look at what

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Anthony's offering here. I'm kind of
intrigued by it. If you've got a

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question for Anthony myself. The email
is kl at Kerryloods dot com. The

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link is in the show notes this
interview on Financial Survival Network dot com.

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Just go there, click that link. While you're there, sign up for

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a free newsletter Anthony. It sounds
like very interesting days ahead, absolutely carry

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I really appreciate it. We're excited
as ever, and you're seeing more and

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more traditional financial companies now starting to
decide what they're going to bring in as

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far as their infrastructure and software like
ours to satisfy their needs. Thanks for

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