 Live from Toronto, Canada, it's theCUBE. Covering Blockchain Futurist Conference 2018. Brought to you by theCUBE. Hey, welcome back everyone. It's theCUBE Live, day two coverage. We're going into so much content, hardcore. We're losing our voice, so much content. I'm John Furrier, your host. Got two great guests here out of a hot startup called MetaLife. They're making a browser that's going to change the game. Bring a crypto vibe to it, but more than that, Ben Tran, the CEO, and Samir Perini's the CMO, MetaLife. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. Thank you, John. Thank you for having us. So we are the hush hush in Puerto Rico. We're talking, you know, like, I love browsers. I remember the browser wars, Netscape, Microsoft, lived through those, DNS, powers, web pages. We know the history. Brave browser comes along. They put MetaMasky and it's out, it's in. There's never been a modern browser out there since DNS. Brave and Batto can try. They're doing something. Add blocker, check. Everyone wants that. But is that modern? Tell us with some news. Tell us the story. Yeah, so as you mentioned, we met at Netscape a while ago and when we first spoke about it, the product, I'm kind of sharing some of the vision with you guys. So the fundamentally, what we've done is, we created the browser experience and we started from scratch. So traditional browsers are based on the Netscape model, which is about 25 plus years old at this point. So what we did is that we took that idea throughout the window and recreated it based on a human-centric approach, which is what we believe is the next phase of the generation of the web is web 3.0. So we are trying to create a browser that is the bridge between web 2.0 to web 3.0. So one of the first things that we did is that we looked at it on a human user-based experience. What do our users want and what's the most relevant information that they need? So we've redesigned that entire experience. We have a patent on something called a board technology, which allows users to get access to information in a much faster way. Each time a user logs in, that experience is customized for them. We have AdLogs like Brave. We've had a very fast processor that is faster than most browsers today, but we've built so many more features and have created a very flexible platform that allows the capacity for so many varied partners to plug into our system and build what they want from it. Just developer-friendly. It's developer-friendly, but it's user-friendly. Because we know that as our users, we don't own our users. Our users have the flexibility to do whatever they want. And the user wants to own their data too, right? I mean, this is what tokens are great for, right? If I can browse the internet and own my data, I can broken my data through my interactions. I mean, constantly we're getting notifications from news outlets, someone's getting leaked, something's hacked. It's like daily, it's constant. Well, take ownership of that. Stop using their products. If you feel your ownership's compromised, stop using it. We're going to have official release in the next two weeks or so, and you'll control the ownership of your data. So it's going to be private secure. Nothing is going to be centralized on a centralized server. It's going to be fully private with the ad blocker built in. All right, so I'll play devil's advocate. Not to put you on the spot, but hey, security, I don't believe you. Startup, no way a startup could do this. How do you answer the security question? Well, this is a product that we have been working on for the past three years. Our team is extremely qualified to produce this. Security is something that we take very closely. We have an internal security person that is responsible for the product itself. And we're also aligning ourselves with the right team and right partnerships. So for example, we're getting Ho Show to do our audit for a smart contract. We're working with companies like Medisert to actually, it's been in the security space for the past 20 plus years. And now they're making our product more secure as a browser. We're talking to another company that's doing a VPN shell. So our product is- It's architected differently. It's an entirely different theory behind it. It's very different than what's existing today. Ben, talk about the company. ICO, you guys do an ICO. You raise money. Are you raising money? What's the status of the company? Yeah, so right now we're just finishing off the first round of our investment. So we raised close to $5 million in equity, less tokens. We're going to be moving to the next phase. Like normal equity, like preferred stock? Yeah, exactly. They're kind of friendly. So we believe that instead of just selling tokens, we wanted our partner's initial round of investors to believe in what we're doing. So we're having amazing partnerships worldwide. So we don't want to be a localized browser. We don't want to be the browser of China, browser of Canada, browser of the world. We think we're doing a global approach. So we have amazing partnerships worldwide. In the next three months, you'll see amazing partnerships that are going to be aligned. We can't speak about them all right now, but you'll see it's going to be really amazing. And you're right, for security. Why, again, why allow just one small company to start up to really handle that responsibility when we can do it collectively? That's what blockchain is all about. Let's all work together to build something amazing and something great. So as a blockchain user, or someone who believes in blockchain and have crypto, am I going to have all this wallet functionality built in, Anthony Diorio, just want the wallet in their face. I'm sure wallet's got to be a feature of this browser. I got a wallet. Now you got to have that. I got an ability to tap into the chain. So if you allow me to speak about some of the integrations into the browser, so we will have a multi-currency wallet. We will have a dapp store, so that's going to allow all these amazing projects that are out, will be the gateway portal for all these companies within our browser. And then we're going to have great partnerships again, that next time we speak, you'll see the amazing partnerships come out. So I'm just looking for your viewers, you know. Yeah, I can't wait to get the updates. To me, I mean, it's kind of intoxicating for me because like, again, I'm a browser geek from the old world, but looking at what the possibilities are, to reimagine the user experience from the perspective of what's coming, exchanges, instant access, trading, data value, rethinking that, and that's something that sounds like you guys have done. Is that correct? Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. I mean, our focus is to create a very flexible product that a lot of people can tap into, but at the same time have privacy and security be the forefront. One of our partners that, again, we would love to mention this, but we have a number of press releases coming up, is looking to actually launch their ICO onto our browser because of the security aspect that the browser offers. Yeah, Telegram has been just completely hacked, Twitter, fake addresses. I mean, I'll be just going on Telegram saying, hey, I'm the company, send me all your email. And a lot of it too is just common, simple practices that we could fix, and it's not very difficult, right? A lot of Web 2.0 was just about monetizing all this value, and we're now giving the value back to you as a digital holder on the digital asset. Okay, so for the folks watching, go to MetaLife, L-Y-F-E, not like Life Kitchen, if you're in California. MetaLife.io, check it out, download the browser. I'm going to get a demo at 4.3, I'll give you my review online later. Guys, thanks so much, Ben, good to see you, Samir. Thanks for coming out and telling us the news. We'll keep tracking you guys, thanks for coming on. Thank you, John, appreciate it. Thanks for having us here. Hot startup, changing the game. Again, the interfaces are a key thing, whether it's content, whether it's data, whether it's security, that's what it's all about, but it's got to be open, it's got to be open source, it's got to be open global. That's all I'm going to do here at theCUBE. Thanks for watching. Stay with us for more after this short break.