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Unlike the Coinbases, Fidelities, and Galaxies of the crypto world that frequently make the headlines, core infrastructure providers quietly building out the rails of the new financial system often fly under the radar. A leading digital asset technology provider for institutions backed by the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase Ventures, BNY, and Wells Fargo, in the last 12 months, the company has onboarded leading asset managers responsible for a combined $18 trillion in AUM. As Samar Sen, SVP Head of APAC at Talos, tells me this statistic, my eyes widen. “These are some of the largest and most reputable asset managers in the world,” he smiles. Eloquent and poised despite being fresh off the plane from Singapore, I meet a friendly and polite Samar in the bustling media room at TOKEN2049 in Dubai, accompanied by his equally charming marketing lead, Audrey. We exchange pleasant chatter, and they ask how long I’ve lived in Dubai and what brought me to this part of the world before extending an open invitation to visit their office in Singapore. Besides discussing the future of finance, the real attraction there, Audrey explains as she pads down her suit, is a “magic mirror” hanging on the wall that makes you look elongated and several pounds lighter. “I could use a magic mirror,” I say. “Count me in!” Audrey and Samar laugh. “I miss my magic mirror,” she sighs, as we walk toward the seating area and I pull out my recorder. The inefficiency of TradFi’s legacy tech stacks Samar’s background is impressive, having clocked hours at many of the largest TradFi institutions, from Goldman Sachs and Barclays to BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank. But while he worked in what he calls “the inner bowels of the banks,” Samar has always been more attracted to bleeding-edge innovation.…

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