All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode.

An act impact, a high caliber butt-kicking episode that we got prepared for you today.

I'm really excited.

You guys know me.

I'm Bryce, joined as always by my co-host, Brendan Veman, reigning from the sunny state of Florida.

Brendan, how are you doing, my man?

Doing fantastic, Bryce. Another great day in cryptocurrency. And this is a project that hits home

to both of us. You know, we've talked about them before.

Hopefully a lot of the listeners are familiar with this guest,

as we are always excited to learn about the great world of not only Defi,

but when it comes to like RWAs and tokenization and all of this great stuff.

So, man, another great episode, ready for the Masters.

Absolutely.

These guys are the It Kids, I guess I'll say. The it kids in the RWA, real world asset tokenization realm. I'm going to stop beating around the bush. I'm just

going to bring on our guest. The CEO of Maple Finance, Ryan O'Shea. Welcome. How are you doing?

I'm good, Jen. Good to be here. Thanks for having me.

Yes, absolutely. And full disclosure, you know, I'm a holder of Maple. So I always like to be disclosing that as we bring on awesome guests.

I truly, you know, kind of put my money where my mouth is. I think Maple's awesome

for many reasons, which I don't want to spoil it. I'm going to have you tell the good citizens

of Crypt Nation all about Maple. But before we dive in, let's get acquainted. You and I, the audience,

Ryan, kind of who are you? What were you doing before Maple and really what got you into crypto?

Yeah, absolutely. And good question to start with. I definitely had more of a traditional type

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