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Danyel Arenas says blockchain works much closer to what people think banks do. People assume their money is simply sitting there. In crypto, that's often the reality. He explains that most blockchain systems are non custodial, meaning you can't just grab someone's money, use [Spoken audio]: huge return. What happens with blockchain, which is excellent, is that it actually does what happens with blockchain is what you think happens with the banks is what happens with blockchain, which is that the capital is just stored there. And the main reason it's stored there is for a couple of reasons. One, because very few people are actually lending out outside capital, right? They're more being used as liquidity pools to move capital. So they leave the capital there and the infrastructure of crypto and blockchain has not developed to the point where you have too many options to really lend that out for those kind of micro moments like you can with the banking sector. The banking sector can make money off moving the money around for an hour. The other thing is that in crypto, most things are non-custodial, right? So you can't really grab somebody's money using it and put it back in.