 Live from Nassau in the Bahamas, it's theCUBE, covering Polygon 18, brought to you by Polymath. We're welcome back to our live coverage of Polygon 18. We are in the Bahamas. It's theCUBE's coverage of the cryptocurrency, ICOs, blockchain, the entire industry, token economics. This is sponsored by Polymath. They're the host, hosting us here. They make a securitized token platform to help people tokenize their business. We're Dave Vellante and we're with Al Burgio, CUBE alumni, one of the CUBE alumni, only CUBE alumni here. Now we're adding more. Good to see you. Thank you for having me guys. Thanks for coming on. Al, you're the CEO founder of a blockchain venture, FuseChain and open source project, DigitalBits.io. We talked about this on studio in Palo Alto around the project. How's it going? Are you doing an ICO? What's happening? What's the momentum? Talk about what's going on. Well, the momentum is great and as we can see by an event like this, I mean the attendance is phenomenal, the discussions are great, and there's definitely an ongoing movement towards blockchain, cryptocurrencies and so forth. And we're obviously very excited to be a part of it and equally so, been experiencing phenomenal success while we've been in stealth mode. We're excited to be sharing that in the coming weeks. I always try to get data out of you, but you're like an iron trap man. You're like, we'll not reveal it. I saw you in the hallways this morning, even last night at dinner, I mean surrounded by investors, you're getting the people throwing their cards at you. That's a good sign. I mean, but it's still early. This is an emerging ecosystem. And you're a senior entrepreneur, so you're attracting that kind of interest in the venture solid. What's the story? What's the story of these investors? What are they interested in? Why are they approaching you? Why the appetite for your project? And how are you approaching it as a season that I see? Most people want to promote the hell out of their opportunities. You're not. You're taking a different approach. Well, we definitely, obviously we'll turn on the marketing engine publicly with a full tank of gas. And you'll see that in the coming weeks, but we've been able to definitely have significant number of conversations while in the stealth mode phase. Really, I think what's attracting a lot of the interest is that we've identified a massive market opportunity. And really where blockchain technology can help, among other things, bring liquidity to a space that does lack liquidity. And that for us is the loyalty and rewards market. It's a multi-billion dollar market. And we feel that what we've built with the Digital Bits protocol and the Digital Bits network is really going to solve a big problem out there for businesses, enterprises, as well as consumers. And we're excited to be bringing that to life and with phenomenal support from ecosystem partners, among others. Let's talk about the show. We're going to bring you back tomorrow when we wrap up, because I know you've got a lot of meetings and schedules and going to check out the session. So I want to get your take on the show after the fact, but going into the show, you have some early conversations, some early data is coming in from these hallway conversations and interviews. What are you seeing? I mean, what's the bottom line? I mean, is the ICOs are hot? The SEC is coming down and putting out subpoenas. A wave of subpoenas recently. The advisor role, you got venture capitalists. It's unregulated. They're selling, they're pumping, they're dumping. I mean, I know of a couple of people that are in some coin deals that are venture funds, but they're also marketing the same thing. So they get their hands slapped. Yeah. What's the state of the industry? I think there's high energy in this space. It's moving really fast and some organizations are getting overly anxious, moving perhaps a little too fast without getting their ducks in a row and maybe perhaps that's resulting in some risk slapping. But overall, this is a big evolution that's happening. And what we're seeing obviously is a new asset class, but it can take the shape of perhaps a security or utility and the law applies to these things differently. And so people need to do their homework. So you were at the video coin event last night. You've been, they've been very successful. We're going to have Halsey Miner come on shortly for an interview. Seasoned entrepreneur, he's back at the game. I mean, this market's attracting pros. Absolutely. Goldman Sachs guys now run block tower, institutional investors, you got pro entrepreneurs coming in and you got the young guns coming up. I mean, this is a really kind of a really robust fertile environment. Yeah. I think it's only the beginning. We're going to see a tremendous amount of ongoing pedigree enter this space. Every day we're seeing evidence of ongoing validation. And it is by no coincidence that we're already seeing some phenomenal pedigree. And I think, like I said, it's just going to continue. What's the bone observation that you would share to people that are watching about this event? Obviously a lot of Canadians here, you're a candidate living in the U.S., but it's not just Canadians, it's a global economy. Yeah. What's your observation of the show? There's definitely, if I look at the attendee list here, it's this convergence that's happening. So you have Wall Street or the Canadian equivalent, which is Bay Street, traditional investment banking, brokerage type of institutions that are here, very curious in terms of how blockchain will impact the securities markets. And then you have the innovators that are on the forefront of this, really driving the technology that's going to support and help even that industry evolve. So there's a lot of talk here, in particularly as it relates to that category. A lot of whales, a lot of influencers, a lot of advisors, a lot of money here, a lot of action. A lot of action. All right, Albergio is the founder and CEO of FuseChain and sponsors of digitalbits.io. It's a great open source project. Check it out. I'm going to still try to get some information out of you because you're still in stealth mode, but you're good. They continue. Thanks for having me guys. Cube alumni here in Bahamas for the Cube coverage. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. More coverage after this short break.