12/5/24 Discord AMA Summary

12/5/24 Discord AMA Summary

Summary of Discord audio AMA, December 5th, 2024.

Space and Time participants:

• Scott Dykstra, CTO and Co-Founder

• Catherine Daly, Head of Marketing

• Mike Post, Community Manager

Thank you to all of the community members who attended!

[Session begins] Mike: So, we're going to kick it off with some roadmap questions. So, Scott, Space and Time really got well, of course, in 2022 we saw some really exciting progress in 2023, 2024 has been a huge year for Space and Time. So what would you say are the key milestones Space and Time is aiming to achieve in 2025 and what technical accomplishments are you most looking forward to?

Scott: That's a big question. So really excited about delivering ZK-proven data onchain, on Ethereum, on Mainnet in Q1 and we just launched testnet at SmartCon in Hong Kong with our friends from Chainlink, and that was a chance for us to start to put together this decentralized network of node operators around the world that are running Space and Time compute and kind of processing Ethereum data and getting it ready for ZK-proven queries. And so next step is mainnet and kind of taking this technology we've been incubating for the last three years, this really fast, sub-second, ZK-prover and delivering it in a decentralized network. In addition kind of on the UI side, we've been cooking up some exciting new tools around AI-driven app development, AI-driven smart contract development, AI-driven queries making it really, really easy for creators to create something that's data-driven, that can be deployed to the chain, and start to actually build little applications that use Space and Time's data without writing any code. So we're putting a lot of effort into a really fun user experience that both technical and non-technical community members can participate with, and then, of course, launching mainnet. So, we're really excited.

Mike: Absolutely, it's going to be super exciting and it's been a lot of building, and it's really going to come to fruition in 2025 which is amazing. So the next question is more of, I guess, a little bit of a change of course. Have there been any developments in the world of blockchain throughout 2024 so far that have compelled any development course changes in our roadmap?

Scott: Oh, that's a good question. Wow. I think that's been the theme of crypto in general. The pace moves so fast, and there's so many teams that are innovating so quickly, it's very hard to keep up with, and just to even be abreast of, or have all the changes happening in the engineering world of crypto. But I think as they occur and as new teams create new open source repos and open source protocols that can be leveraged, I think there's always opportunities to improve, for example, one answer to that question is, as Risk Zero and Succinct, which are, by the way, two other very high quality projects in the ZK-proving space. Risk Zero and Succinct are building generic zkVMs, basically just servers that can ZK-prove any kind of computation as they have improved their solutions and kind of gotten to market in 2024. We saw a very interesting opportunity to integrate with them as well and offer clients onchain, offer DeFi smart contracts, a way to run both Rust scripts and SQL queries that put data into those Rust scripts. That's just one example integrating with Risk Zero and Succinct. On the other side, we've been really fortunate and pleasantly surprised by the quality of ZKsync's, elastic chain, the kind of ZK-roll up that the ZKsync team has been incubating, and we've done a lot of integration work with ZKsync Era and with the with the ZK-roll up as well, given advancements in that ecosystem. Finally, I think everyone's turning their eye to Solana as there's so much happening on Solana right now that, of course, it really blossomed in 2024 so we're starting to do some indexing of Solana, and beginning the long process of supporting it, which I think it'll take a long time. It's a very complicated and massive chain with a lot of data. So that's going to be quite an effort, quite a haul, but I think it's a worthwhile effort. We've been very EVM-focused overall, so far.

Mike: Awesome. And speaking of Solana and other chains in general, are we going to continue to integrate other chains as time goes on?

Scott: Yeah, absolutely. We're working on Arbitrum right now, starting with Solana, focusing on tackling it in Q1, and continuing to expand chain support. Again, we're very comfortable with the EVM, and starting to expand beyond it.

Mike: Sweet. I'm looking forward to that. So another one, in the current web3 environment, what do you consider to be the most important challenge facing Space and Time and what would you say are the measures that Space and Time is taking to face that challenge? Give me multiple challenges too.

Scott: I think adoption as it's very hard to understand this technology because it can be a bit slow at first, we're building a core primitive that will power the next generation of sophisticated smart contracts onchain. We're building a way for smart contract developers to actually get data to their smart contracts and ask very complicated questions about activity onchain, something that's never been done before, and right now, DeFi developers are building with a hand tied behind their back because they can't really access onchain data. They can't build with a database which everyone's used to building with. There's no way onchain to just ask simple questions, like, show me the total volume of Scott's wallet's transactions. And when we provide that new primitive and enable that soon, developers will struggle to kind of think of how to use it on day one, because they're so used to building with one hand tied behind their back. They're so used to being limited to what the EVM can do today, not having a query engine, not having a way to ask questions about onchain activity within their smart contracts and process data. So, once you provide that new ability, it's adoption, people scratch their heads day one, right? And they say, okay, well, how do I get started? So there's this education process of showing them how to use this technology, identifying use-cases, and actually integrating it into their smart contracts. The faster that occurs, and the more DeFi protocols, games, airdrops, and DePIN networks that integrate Space and Time and use us as the database to power their network, then it creates this snowball effect, and we see a lot more adoption happen rapidly. But I think that's the challenge every protocol has, right? The question that Mike asked was, What's the biggest challenge to overcome? I think it's just that adoption curve getting started.

Mike: Awesome. So let's turn to Cat a little bit here for some community and marketing questions. I'll take these in no particular order. So Cat, the question we get very often is about the Space and Time community NFTs, which have been super popular, and it's been great to see how enthusiastic people have been about them. And if you're new to the community, we are often giving people opportunities to win them in various community contests. So Cat, you've noted before on Space and Time AMAs that the community NFTs are going to possess no utility. Have there been any changes to that plan since the last AMA, and how do we plan on distributing the remaining NFTs?

Cat: Yeah, I will tackle the second question first. Yeah, for those of you guys who have been with us since the beginning, you know, we've got five versions of our community NFT collection, and we're about halfway through the final fifth version. So, it's been a crazy journey and it's crazy to think that we're almost through that final version. But as far as plans to distribute them, I think we're going to kind of stay the course of what we've been doing, which is hosting different community engagement activities and contests that showcase what we feel is a real, solid contribution to building a Space and Time community. So whether that's contests around creativity like creating memes, art or building dashboards and actually utilizing Space and Time. We want to make sure that we're distributing those to people who are really putting an effort there and really taking part in our community building activities. So utility, just to be clear, no utility to our community NFTs. They're simply a way for the team to showcase and recognize and thank you guys for what you do within the community and making sure that that contribution is properly recognized.

Mike: Let's move over to a question about the rewards platform. So we got started on Zealy, I believe, around the beginning of this year, and we've kind of wound down on it recently and been having more quests on Galxe instead. Will Zealy quest be reactivated in the future?

Cat: I've gotten this question a couple times individually as well. I mean, I'm not going to say no, never, but at least during testnet, we're definitely going to focus our community quests on Galxe, both to reach the widest audience possible, and also just to consolidate things so y'all aren't having to jump between platforms to redeem quests. So Zealy was more of just a fun way to engage our early community members and sort of give y'all direction on how to best engage with Space and Time in the early days. And we're stoked to have all of our new friends on board. So if you're new here and wondering how to engage, at least for now, Galxe is the place to start, for sure. If that changes, of course, you all will be the first to know. But for now, we've kind of let Zealy take a back seat so everyone can participate on Galxe.

Mike: If you have not checked out Galxe already, it's just galxe.com/spaceandtimedb. So Cat, speaking of community, what plans do we have to build and maintain a strong community up to mainnet and beyond? And yeah, I'll leave the next half the question for us to answer.

Cat: I think what makes Space and Time unique, and this is both my own observation and what I hear from members of the community, unique from other communities in web3, ones I'm a part of, maybe ones that you're a part of, is that I feel we're really a little family, or, I guess now, a big family, when I chat with you guys on Discord or Twitter, it's really clear to me that at least those of you who are really involved, really engaging, creating content, all of that are here to really be a part of and contribute to a real community, right? That's the motivation, and that makes me really happy. That's definitely what we want to foster here. We appreciate all of you that contribute to creating and cultivating that environment, and we want to continue fostering that sort of feeling within our community. So we try to be really intentional with the types of events we host, the way we give away NFTs, the type of content we engage with and encourage, because at the end of the day, there's nothing more important to us than fostering a real community with all of you, right? You know, we could have a big Discord server with a bunch of bots like every other community in web3 and sure, you know, we could do that. But what's awesome to me about our community is that as Scott said, there's so many familiar faces in this chat. And, I'm interacting with you guys daily on Twitter and on Discord. And I feel like I know you, and I feel like we're actually friends, and I feel like you're friends with each other, and that's to me at the end of the day. That's how a web3 project wins is having that sort of real community feeling, and that's what we want to continue fostering

Scott: And speaking of interaction just really quick, in the chat, I just posted a question. If you could ask an AI assistant to AI-generate any kind of onchain business or crypto app, what would it be? It means if you could generate any kind of Dapp, any kind of smart contract, and build an onchain business of your own. Think like Pump dot Fun for just generating apps. What would be the first thing you'd build? I'd love to hear from the community, respond in the thread and love to hear any ideas that you guys have while we chat. Thanks, Mike.

Mike: Absolutely, let's see them, I'm looking forward to this. So I'll just quickly echo Cat, who said basically everything I was planning to. Yeah, just appreciate you guys so much, and we're looking forward to continuing to appreciate you after mainnet. And also, it's super helpful when people reach out with feedback, because we want to be making this the best community we can, the best community experience we can for everybody here. Also just want to shout out, speaking of you know, community showing up. Those of you who made the trip to Hong Kong for SmartCon and got to meet Cat and Scott, that's awesome.

Cat: That was so fun. Yeah, for those of you who don't know, Scott and I were in Hong Kong for SmartCon a few weeks ago, and we had a handful of community members from across China come meet us there, and actually, meet up with us in person. And it was so fun to get to meet y'all and talk face to face and kind of put faces to the aliases that we see on Twitter and Discord. So, shoutout to you guys that joined us for that. That was so much fun. And you know, we look forward to more of that in the near future,

Mike: So, let's move on to some ecosystem and technical questions. We saw the very big and very successful launch of the SXT chain back in late October at SmartCon. And Scott, how would you explain the SXT chain in simple terms to the average web3 enthusiast?

Scott: Yeah, I would say that surprisingly, smart contracts have no access to data, and so if you want to build an app onchain, you can't ask any questions about things like people's wallet activity, their onchain history. You can't ask questions about onchain history, and so Space and Time solves that. We built a really fast ZK-proof to deliver to smart contracts, data about Ethereum, about ZKsync Era, Polygon, Bitcoin, Sui and soon Base, Arbitrum and Solana and so we're solving this major problem we have in crypto, which is that smart contracts can access data from their own chain, and we solve it trustlessly, without breaking the security model of the blockchain.

Mike: Awesome. Well, you definitely did make that very simple. Always end with your ability to take technical concepts and render them down to digestible form.

Scott: I think honestly, we still have a long way to go. I think we need to improve a lot as a team. I still struggle a lot to figure out how to explain this simply because, it is a very technical concept, and to folks that are not super familiar with Solidity or familiar with smart contracts, they have no idea that there's no way to access data onchain. Most people don't know this, especially if they haven't written smart contracts. But I was just so surprised, when I first discovered crypto, Ethereum and smart contracts, that you can't ask basic questions like, show me the total volume of Scott's transactions. And so, we solved that problem, and we need to get a lot better at telling our story. SXT Chain is the blockchain for Zk-proven data, and we serve as a new primitive to make smart contracts smarter.

Mike: All right, rock on. So, you mentioned we're doing something that hasn't been done before, which makes this question, I guess, a little bit less meaningful. But what do you consider the projects in web3 right now that are most similar to Space and Time and what sets us apart from those?

Scott: Sorry, ask it again.

Mike: What do you consider the projects most similar to Space and Time in web3 right now? And what sets us apart from those projects? What makes us better?

Scott: A lot of people compare us to Dune and The Graph on the data side, regarding our support for indexing different blockchains and allowing queries to run and dashboards to be built. We get compared to Dune and The Graph. What sets us apart from them is that they're not ZK-proven, right? Smart contracts can't query dune. Smart contracts can't query The Graph. They're not delivering these ZK-proven query results onchain. Conversely, a lot of people compare us to Chainlink, but Chainlink is more of a partner of ours in that we're not so much an Oracle as we are a data provider, and Chainlink works with a lot of data providers to aggregate data providers and deliver kind of Oracle consensus driven data back onchain to smart contracts. The difference is, Chainlink is not a database. Chainlink does not hold the history of Ethereum. You can't ask Chainlink. Hey, show me the total volume of loans that Scott's wallet has paid off. Chainlink is just a conduit to get our data to clients. It's another option for clients to access Space and Time.

Mike: All right, good to know. We've got a couple more in the way I ordered these questions and makes them a little bit incongruous. We've heard some references to indexing nodes possibly being run on common hardware in the future, so more accessible to the average web3 goer. What's the status on that and when it's ready, what will it look like?

Scott: Sorry, I was reading one interesting question in the chat. I apologize. It was, how do you prove trustlessness on the SXT side, on the Space and Time side, that the data that you provide is authentic. How do you create that trustlessness? How do you cryptographically prove that your data hasn't been tampered with? Great question from Exodus in the chat, so Space and Time has a network of indexing nodes that all redundantly collect data from Ethereum, process it, prep it for the ZK-prover and our chain, SXT Chain, its whole job is exactly that. The whole job of the SXT Chain is to prove the authenticity of that data. The chain witnesses data from multiple providers, literally hundreds, soon, and comes to consensus that those providers are providing the right Ethereum data, finds a quorum and cryptographically signs that data with a threshold signature during consensus. That way when we're building ZK-proofs against queries for that data, we can prove that we haven't tampered with that data, that it's been signed by the network, witnessed by the network, notarized by the network, and came from a large variety of sources. A lot of data providers redundantly provide the same data. We came to consensus on it, signed it, and now you can query it with ZK-proofs in doing so, then it remains trustless. Sorry, Mike. I apologize for the little interruption there. I just thought it was a good question worth answering. Now, what was the question you were asking me?

Mike: Hey, man, if you see any more questions you'd love to answer. Let's just work them in there. So, I was asking about indexing nodes, and that we've heard references to indexing nodes possibly being run on common hardware in the future. So what's the status on that, and what will it look like ultimately, when it's ready?

Scott: Good question. So, we're targeting first just opening up the indexing to the community for folks that have larger servers. We might deploy, for example, like an Eigenlayer AVS or something similar to make it easy for node operators to run an indexer. And then shortly after, we'll be adding a MacBook program or a Linux program, so that something can run on your laptop to run an indexer as well. We're still kind of debating whether to make it a MacBook program or Google Chrome plug in, but something easy that maybe a Chrome browser could run, where anybody can run on commodity hardware and use their laptop's compute in order to index the chain and earn some rewards for doing so, probably looking at Q2 next year.

Mike: Very cool, awesome that we'll be able to get a lot more people involved in the average project and node ops. But can you tell us anything about Space and Time's planned tokenomics? For example, can we expect staking rewards and so on.

Scott: Yeah, we're working on decentralizing the network and designing an incentive for digital assets that can be used in our permissionless network to compensate node operators and other participants. And I can't say too much more, other than that those incentives are being designed now. In terms of rewards delivered to node operators and to participants in the network, there's validator rewards for validating the network, meaning participating as a node that secures data, and there'll be rewards for providing good data to the network. Now this gets really interesting. We reward table owners for creating tables that have valuable data. So you can go on the Space and Time Chain at mainnet and create your own table and populate it with your own data. And if that table gets queried a lot, you get rewards for the queries against your table. And in that way, we're kind of creating a data marketplace that incentivizes high quality data to be added to our network. And then you can delegate your rewards to your own wallet, to maybe other data providers that populated your table and delegate your rewards to the prover operators, the node operators that executed queries on your behalf. You do whatever you want with your rewards, but the awesome thing is getting rewarded for providing high quality data that people actually want to query. So that's part of the kind of economic model around our chain that we're really excited about.

Mike: Awesome, and I guess, only tangentially related. But does Space and Time plan any future funding rounds? I mean, back in August, we closed our $20 million Series A. What's that looking for in the future?

Scott: Think we're good to go. We have a lot of firepower. We have a very healthy treasury, and I don't really see a need for any more fundraising. Think we're just building towards the mainnet at this point and trying to get the mainnet launched.

Mike: Sweet, so actually going to dish back to Cat here before we get to tech questions. I missed the second part of a question earlier. What are the next steps that we're taking in terms of widening awareness of Space and Time and attracting new users?

Cat: Well, I think we've got attracting new users kind of in a good groove. I mean, our Twitter following has grown from 200,000 to 300,000 within a couple months. So, we're going to keep focusing on that, as I mentioned earlier, keep focusing on the events within discord and within the community that foster real, genuine engagement, for sure. And I want to shout out all of you that have you know been participating in those meme contests, dashboard contests, etc, because we love to see what you create. I think we're also going to focus more on getting visibility within the broader crypto community, and then also within specific geographic markets. You know, as you guys know, the team is mostly based in the US, but obviously, crypto is global, so we're looking at expanding our community team, expanding our mods and advocates to cover places like, the Asia region better, and make sure that we're best serving community members in those areas. So you know, it's going to take more muscle and more team and more mods and more community members to support the community as fast as it's growing, and we're super excited about that.

Mike: Awesome, sorry about that meant to ask that one earlier. So, moving on to a couple of technical questions. So Scott, are there any future Space and Time applications or features that you feel will be geared toward more ordinary users, just the average web3 enthusiast?

Scott: Yeah, I was starting to mention earlier, we've been building sort of an AI studio where non-technical creators, anybody in the community, can AI-generate businesses onchain. They can AI-generate Dapps onchain that have a smart contract backend, have a beautiful, fun frontend, and start to build onchain businesses that are powered by Space and Time's data. I'm not saying it'll be perfect, but it'll improve a lot as the quality of LLMs improves over the next year. And we're looking to launch that ideally, around mainnet. You know, sometime in March, hopefully, maybe early April, if all goes according to plan. And we're really excited, because this will be a chance for non-technical folks to use Space and Time and build something really fun. It doesn't require any programming knowledge, no writing code, just simply tell the chatbot what to build, and a simple little crypto app will be built for you, powered by Space and Time's data. I think this is the future, right? You can almost think of it as like Pump dot Fun for apps, letting anybody build their own onchain business, their own onchain game, their own onchain web app, their own onchain DeFi protocol. So all of these different mini apps require a lot of data, and we provide that

Mike: Awesome. I'm looking forward to making some cool Dapps. So moving on to the next one. How do we plan to tackle scalability and adoption challenges as more developers and Dapps start using the Space and Time platform?

Scott: Yeah, we have a lot of work to do. I think we discovered during testnet that we have a ton of scaling work. So we've been working to scale our database quite a bit and add a lot more compute so that folks can get faster queries. And then, of course, the chain itself scales on the decentralization side. We're hoping to have a lot of our scaling challenges solved by mainnet, and we're putting a ton of effort toward it.

Mike: Sweet. I look forward to seeing that. Another one I missed earlier on the list. How can developers contribute to Proof of SQL?

Scott: Ooh, well, Cat, do answer that one?

Cat: Yeah. So Proof of SQL, the repo is available on GitHub, and we also have this kind of bounty program for community contributions. I can have Mike link it in discord when the AMA is done. But basically, Jay and our Proof of SQL team have put out a list of different tasks that we need completed within the repo, whether it's code contributions, docs contributions, simple bug fixes that developers can complete and earn rewards for so we're super excited about that. We've seen some really good contributions so far, I think, after we launched it, we had all of the bounties completed, within a couple days, and the team had to scramble to find more. So that's obviously a really good problem to have, and it's super important to us to make sure that our developer community is participating in developing Space and Time's projects, and we're super bullish on the open source community and excited to incentivize more development there.

Mike: And if you have claimed a bounty, just sign into the developer section here on Discord and let us know. Man, we've really blown through pretty much all the questions we set up for this. Space and Time, Scott is changing the way data is handled in web3 by using ZK-proven data for smart contracts. Of course, with AI and DeFi getting more traction. Where do you see Space and Time fitting in over the next several years?

Scott: We'll have a very heavy focus on AI, as we always have. So, I see Space and Time leading around, delivering data to AI agents that generate apps and as apps onchain get generated right smart contracts get generated that call Space and Time to retrieve data. AI agents get generated that call Space and Time to get context about what's happening onchain market data from Space and Time. As web apps, or, you know, mini apps are generated that are mini onchain businesses, Space and Time will serve as the database to power those businesses and store kind of critical data that's ZK-proven, and also track all their crypto payments onchain and I think the answer to that question is simply, crypto will become the payment rails for the internet, and as applications on the internet integrate crypto the same way they've integrated Stripe for payment rails and a way to transfer money efficiently between AI services on the internet. Space and Time becomes the database that powers that financial rail. We become the source that tracks all of the crypto movement across every generated app and generated experience on the web. So more of the web becomes a generated experience. AI agents involved in that experience paying each other in crypto and using crypto for payment mechanisms for humans as well. I think crypto serves as a much more sufficient, much more sophisticated, and much easier way for AI agents to transact. I think the blockchain is a little challenging for humans to use, right? We struggle to bridge money from L2s to L1s, and we struggle to kind of figure out how to trade perps and AI agents will help a lot with that. They'll streamline that process for us and so a blockchain is a great way for an AI agent to transact, and I think that will require a lot of data processing, there'll be so many transactions across so many chains, across so many web apps across the Internet, that'll create, petabytes worth of cryptographically tamperproof data that will need to be processed by us.

Mike: You just made mention to AI agents making it easier to interact onchain. How does the Space and Time studio use AI to optimize working with Blockchain data?

Scott: Right now? It helps you to write SQL and helps you write queries that process blockchain data, because writing queries can be really challenging if you don't know SQL well, and just ask a Natural Language Prompt about our blockchain data, and that SQL query will get generated for you.

Cat: We got a good question in the chat, I want to make sure we cover it. Scott, somebody asked, what is our strategy around partnerships? Who in the ecosystem are we looking to partner with? Who are we targeting?

Scott:

Actually, Cat, why don't you take that one? I'd love to hear your answer.

Cat: So I think there's a few different areas that we're focused on. And we've alluded to it a couple times throughout the AMA. One is, all the big DeFi protocols, I think, Proof of SQL’s solution for providing ZK-proven data to smart contracts unlocks the most, at least today, unlocks the most for DeFi, and allows, the OG DeFi protocols, like Aave for example, to become more data-driven and scale to kind of match the use-cases that TradFi solves today. So that's one that we're really excited about. Another is, AI protocols, right? You see them popping up all over web3, especially over this last year. And as Scott mentioned, we have a really unique opportunity to provide data to AI agents. So that's, that's another one that we're really excited about and focused on, web3 games. Obviously, we've got a lot of synergies there. We work with some of the biggest games in web3 like Shrapnel and Wildcard, and are always excited and bullish about new ones popping up around there. And, yeah, I mean, really, just anybody looking for data, that's kind of the beauty of Space and Time is that at the end of the day, we're just a really fast, provable database for crypto and every app needs a database.

Mike: Absolutely. Thank you, Cat. So just a final tech question for Scott, data security and user privacy are really critical concerns in web3, of course, how do we plan to address potential risks associated with storing and processing sensitive data on a decentralized platform, especially for enterprise clients?

Scott: So the security side is really interesting, the purpose of the SXT chain itself, is to actually secure data. The chain witnesses data provided from multiple sources, and the chain comes to consensus that those redundant sources of Ethereum data have all mostly submitted the same data, right? It finds a quorum, it finds a threshold of Ethereum data during consensus, and then the chain. The job of the chain is to threshold, sign that data and secure it with consensus and basically add that data to blocks of our blockchain so that no one can tamper with it right. Creating a cryptographically tamperproof mechanism to show the world that our data has not been hacked and tampered and then that allows for ZK-proven SQL queries against that data, because we can show that the source data was signed by our blockchain. On the privacy side, we can also support encrypted data, so clients like enterprise clients, can insert data into our chain that gets encrypted on the way in, so the chain is only holding data that's already been encrypted so even node operators can't see it. Security is twofold. One, making sure that the data can't be tampered, which is what our chain does with consensus, and two, making sure that data stays private, which is what encryption solves for us.

Mike: Great. Thank you. So we're going to move on to just a final couple of fun questions we got so, Cat, why don't you answer this one first, and then we'll get to Scott, if you had to boil down your ultimate goal for Space and Time into one sentence, what would it be?

Cat: Ooh, put me on the spot. Okay? I would say, from a community perspective, and let Scott speak to more of the tech perspective. I would say my goal, at least in my role, is to build and foster a community of people that are passionate about building and ushering in the next generation of the internet and who believe that a ZK-proven database like Space and Time is kind of the key to unlocking that. And I think, you know, we're well on track for that goal. I think you guys have been awesome and kind of holding the flag of Space and Time and furthering our mission. And, yeah, we're super excited about the future together.

Scott: Well said, I think that's a great answer.

Mike: Okay, that'll do it then. And then a final question. Scott, why don't you kick us off on this one? What is one thing about Space and Time that you feel most people in the community might not know, but should?

Scott: Community might not know, but should, that we're building the most powerful AI studio for creators to generate crypto apps. We are going to make it really, really, really easy to make crypto apps, and we're hoping to launch that by March. Let anyone non-technical just describe what the app should do and then generate it and deploy it to the chain of their choice. And the reason we're enabling that is because we want to make it easy for people to use our data. Crypto applications require a lot of data, and we have the ZK-proven data to power all these applications. So we thought, okay, let's also make it really easy to AI-generate. This will be the first AI studio in crypto that allows users to generate crypto apps. We're really excited.

Mike: All right, Cat, what say you?

Cat: I think Scott took the good answer there. I would just say this is maybe a cop out, because I know a lot of you know this, but if you're new to the community, you might not, Space and Time is Microsoft's only web3 investment. So if you didn't know that, it's a pretty cool fact.

Mike: Yeah, that is an awesome fact for sure. So that is the end of our questions. We want to thank everybody who submitted questions. Sorry if you weren't able to get to yours. We've got kind of a limited amount of time here. So, Scott, Cat, anything you'd like to say to conclude?

Cat: I just want to kind of say what we've said a few times throughout the AMA, we're super excited about all of the community growth that we've seen. We're super grateful to all of you for the ways in which you contribute to the community, and we're really excited about the future.

Mike: Scott, any closing words?

Scott: Really happy to see everyone here. We're so thankful for everyone's participation. This is the project to watch in 2025. We're gonna have a really, really exciting launch in 2025, testnet's already kicked off and is going well. Stay tuned. Stay active on Twitter, on Discord. There's so many exciting announcements coming. Everything is launching in 2025 baby! GMGB, talk soon, my friends.

Mike: Awesome! Thank you Cat. Thank you Scott and thank you everybody who came to be with us here today in this AMA. Real quick, this opened up temporarily, just while I have all of you here and ideas and feedback channel anything you think we could be doing better on the community level. You know, any project features you'd be interested in seeing, any feedback you have of any sort, please put it there. We'd love to hear from you. So again, thank you for coming and we will see you next time.

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