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At ETHConf in Manhattan, June 2026, Niv of YMAX answers questions Maceo collected from strangers in Times Square that morning, among them what crypto even is. YMAX, he says, “is cross-chain yield orchestration, so enabling users to generate yields on the stable across different protocols and chains in a very easy one-signature experience,” letting users “pick different positions across AAVE, Morpho, Compound on different chains, Arbitrum, Optimism Base” and sign once while the platform executes the rest. On the bad perception crypto still carries: “I think they got the bad perception. They think crypto is all about scamming, pricing, worthless tokens and stuff like this.” Underneath that, he says, “the core element of crypto is still about building a new infrastructure for the financial industry.” Asked the Times Square question directly: “It’s the future of infrastructure. infrastructure for humanity.” For teenagers looking to get in, his advice is to build or analyze rather than trade: “the new people need to focus on gaining the skills to be either be able to build application on crypto or be able to analyze this market.”

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0:00AIt’s just changing.

0:01BOkay, and so what’s your name?

0:02ANiv.

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0:03BOkay, and where are you from?

0:04AI live here in New York.

0:06BOkay, and what are you working on?

0:07AI’m working on YMAX, which is cross-chain yield orchestration, so enabling users to generate yields on the stable across different protocols and chains in a very easy one-signature experience.

0:18BOkay, and now what does that mean?

0:20ASo users coming into our platform, it’s a dApp, they can pick different positions across AAVE, Morpho, Compound on different chains, Arbitrum, Optimism Base. So they basically create their own portfolio, they decide how to allocate their USDC, and then they need only to sign one time and we execute the entire flow for them automatically, fully on-chain and custodial.

0:42BOkay. And what do you feel like people outside crypto don’t get about crypto?

0:46AI think they got the bad perception. They think crypto is all about scamming, pricing, worthless tokens and stuff like this. You know, at some point it was true, there was a lot of noise, but underneath there is a lot of interesting stuff going on. There is a real true -- the core element of crypto is still about building a new infrastructure for the financial industry, but even more than the financial industry, to empower the users, the end user, and kind of like create a new playing field that is more equal between the different stakeholders. Well, I think that’s perfect.

1:22BYou know, I was walking around Times Square before I came here asking people questions for the crypto experts like yourself, and some people said, what even is crypto? So what would your answer to them be?

1:30AIt’s the future of infrastructure. infrastructure for humanity. If you want to, if we want to, even especially in the age of AI, machine, big corporate, if we want to stand a chance with providing, enabling, empowering people to be able really to manage their self-sovereignty and have a more digital identity, you know, be able to manage their assets and owning their digital identity, crypto/blockchain, that’s the answer.

2:03BOkay. Okay. And how can teenagers make money in crypto?

2:07ABitcoin and crypto. I think the new people need to focus on gaining the skills to be either be able to build application on crypto or be able to analyze this market. So, you know, either you can provide insights or you can build. That’s the 2 elements. No more speculation, trading. This is pretty much over. But if you are, if your reasons are true and sincere about it, coming early and you believe in it, You can gain a lot of fortune down the road.

2:40BAwesome. And where can we find you online on X?

2:43AYou can follow our handle, ymax.com or gorg.com. That’s the company and the infrastructure. And we are there. We’re sharing a lot of information. We are having another play in the agentic finance space. And so come check it out. All right.

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