In front of the CNBC cameras, he made the whole room go quiet.

Darren leaned back and said nothing. Noah studied him for a second. “You didn’t call me just for paperwork.” “I need the company structured so institutions can buy in,” Darren said. “But more than that, I need the door sealed the next time they try to smear me.” Noah nodded. “Now we’re talking.” His first move was not clauses. It was the company narrative. What could be said, what could not, which products were software, which were advisory, which trades were permitted, which had to be ring-fenced. He redrew every boundary like a map of defensible ground. Then the next opportunity arrived. A company called Helix Forge announced a new financing push, and the press called it “the future of automated manufacturing.