With the passage of the Genius Act, crypto now has to make a choice. Will we use blockchain technology to censor, monitor and control or will we use it to liberate and empower people? Metal chooses the latter. The House of Representatives sent a clear message that we will not allow a CBDC to proliferate in the United States, and thus it falls on banks, credit unions, and financial institutions to issue their own stablecoins or partner with existing platforms. This move was anticipated in our design years in advance as we have created the only compliance-first and user friendly architecture in Metal blockchain that will not only allow institutions to issue their own stablecoins into a basket that can interact, but to launch their own private and public blockchains in a connected network as Metal subnets. Furthermore, we recognized that institutions need a blockchain that is performant and one that can handle digital identity safely and responsibly while preserving your privacy. Metal blockchain may just be ambitious as the advent of Bitcoin in 2009, because it is not just a technology, but a vision for our future that puts people back in control of their finances, giving us the ability to create wealth and prosperity where such opportunities did not previously exist.