The macros were placid today, likely due to the upcoming CPI and FOMC events happening. NFTs saw a huge weekend for volumes, punk 9059 points out that this is likely due to the insane flip ratios going on with NFTs seeing multiple hands in a way we haven' seen before. Sartoshi's rumored return has been met with skepticism combined with anticipation from his holders. We had the Knights who say Nah on to discuss their awesome project that combines actual historical artifacts and efforts to reunite...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 36 min
We went through our usual macros & NFT with yet another consecutive day missing our specialist OSF toggle us his perspective. Luckily, we had the macro daddy to offer his professional take on things. The NFT market hasn't been too exciting but one of our very own Lindsey Barnes sold her trippy fur, rainbow madonna ape for 420.69 eth! A monumental sale to a well deserved contributor of the space. We love to see it! We featured Bunchu.eth to go through the new Starbucks Odyssey rewards program...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 33 min
Today's show led with Mando bringing in the macros as OSF is out on leave for unknown reasons. We did some dives into $APE as it's all the rage with the upcoming staking event set to go all the live on Monday. Crypto Kaleo unexpectedly joined us and gave us some insights into which projects he's looking at and how he see's the current environment. We went over the recent Miami event and discussed events in general and how they might look different in the future. GM! Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
Dec 08, 2022•1 hr 25 min
What an epic show! Day 2 live from the Ledger open, our hosts pulled in different key members from the ledger team to express how they felt about the entire conference. It was an amazing listen yet again, with the CTO, the CEO and other key players that put together a proper scope of the teams outlook regarding stax and everything surrounding the event. We also had some special guest like Brycent who gave us a live freestyle and champ medici who was a speaker on one of the panels. This show push...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 59 min
Today's episode was broadcast live from the Ledger OP3N event held in Paris, France. They company made a huge announcement about their new star product and everyone who shared compared the launch to one of Apple's legendary launch events. The hosts sat huddled together and Brough in various stars and guests they saw walking in proximity to their host site. Definitely one for the ages and a fun listen to get a feel of what it was like to attend an epic event like this. GM Hosted on Acast. See aca...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 28 min
The macros didn't have much excitement to talk about even with Fridays payroll number coming in above consensus. OSF advised listeners to hang on for the future CPI number coming in on the 14th and the FOMC to get a grasp of what to expect for the new year. NFTs have been seeing some decent movements, with focus around $ape staking going live, tons of news from RTKFT, the past week of art Basel and the expected Blur airdrop. The show was joined buy the Outland art team to discuss the upcoming se...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 28 min
Yesterday at the gateway, an event put on by NFT now, Farokh announced that Rug Radio is dropping a PFP collection with none other than Cory Van Lew. He joined us on stage to talk about his inpsiraton, his process and why we accepted to do a PFP project. GM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. https://linktr.ee/rugradio
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 35 min
Today's show was consulted a little different with the founder of Uniswap joining us right from the start. The entire episode is filled with insight from arguably one of the most important people in the world of crypto. His ideas on decentralization and foresight to how we can implement it were amazing and a must listen for all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. https://linktr.ee/rugradio...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 17 min
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Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 28 min
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Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 26 min
Our daily macro expert, OSF was missing today but luckily we have the macro daddy to shed light on recent developments. We had Mondoir, not to be confused with Mando, on to give us his heart felt reasoning behind his edition drop that will use proceeds to help families affected by the brutality of the regime in Iran. Visit His official Twitter account for details. The featured guest was non other than Pascal Gauthier, Chairman and CEO of Ledger, possibly the only name associated with trust in th...
Nov 25, 2022•1 hr 32 min
Today's show was packed full of good info about the macros with great takes on some new NFT activity the hosts observed. In very little time however the stage was taken over by the Chimpers team to announce their collaboration with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Paramount. The scheduled special guest was arguably more massive as the co-founder of The Sandbox Game came through to discuss his amazing metaverse. Leading the charge with huge names sprawled across their maps and constant new ...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 29 min
Traditional markets were highlighted as doing well and nearing what could be called a recovery off the year lows. Macros are all in all uneventful likely until next month. NFT market saw some success stories with some recent non derivative mints, selling out and trading far above mint price. We welcomed Innamodja on to talk about her code green NFT and her general efforts towards philanthropy and pro-climate activism. The vampire club is a small project that will try to educate through story tel...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 34 min
Nothing else matters but the awesome energy and high frequency vibes from Refik Anadol, the joy of the entire web3 space at the current moment. He is officially in the MOMA, and accolade that every artist and simply participant of the space dreamed about up until this point. This installation is historically monumental and will be an event not soon forgotten. The piece itself is amazing and based in extreme use of technology including Ai and uses outside inputs to create a living work of art. A ...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 31 min
The macros were dull and will likely remain so until the next events happen in December. NFT markets were also less than exciting but there was a massive 295 eth sale for a fidenza. We had ThankyouX on to talk about his upcoming STATE OF THE ART DROP that involves redemption of physical pieces of his massive canvases that were painted by the man himself. NFTperp also came up to talk about their NFT futures platform that will allow users to short their NFTs! Listen in for the details. ThankyouX o...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 36 min
The highlight of the show was Donnie big bag and his infectious charisma that had every one listening it in a joyful disposition. Master of kusama and builder on the ghost blockchain polkadot, he has ground up empire that he is building with a cult like following with the force to ratio the best of posts. Certainly wasn't to look out for Donnie and listen in to get a taste of what he is doing. Listen to Donnie @ 38:26 GM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. https://linktr...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 37 min
Today marks the first episode of season 2 plus the rebrand to GM Web3! Macros were placid with nothing worth this episode's description. NFTs also not seeing much movement, but we had Emonee on to discuss her #FundtheJump initiative. She teamed up with moonpay and more to get 50k to kids for tech and education if 500 people change their pfp to one of 2 images for the next 48hrs. Our special guest was Ledgerstatus from the famous Up Only podcast and twitch stream. They have had legends like Vital...
Nov 17, 2022•1 hr 41 min
Today the Macros still looking decent but stocks retraced a bit after the multi day rally we saw from the market. Crypto seeing a bit of a dip and NFTs as a whole actually saw some positive price action with the entire Yuga family getting some decent volume. Instagram recently released their new fearture enabling users to mint directly on the app with the ability to immediately sell on Opensea. We had Eric Rubens, who is one of the select inaugural artists, to describe his experience and what he...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 24 min
Market sentiment is rough but today is beautiful day in the metaverse and Macro sentiments are actually looking positive. PPI number came in under consensus and added to the case against inflation. WE had MC Lader on from Uniswap to get a little backstory on her journey and give some insight into where Uniswap is with all of this turmoil. Gakkoverse also joined us to discuss their upcoming story telling NFT drop. MC Lader on @ 29:25 Gakkoverse on @ 1:08:56 GM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 29 min
One of the best GM NFTs episodes to date! After running through the macros in preparation for the crazy macro month of November, we dove into NFTS quickly and then got straight to our special guest Raoul Pal! Raouls words were a breath of fresh air during the hard times and the rough market everyone is enduring. He gave shot outs to Rekguy, gave amazing predictions for the future of NFTs and filled everyone who listened with a bullish sentiment that's sure to get you through the bearish winter! ...
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 30 min
Today marks an incredibly exciting day in Web3 & Virtual Collectibles with Nike officially launching .SWOOSH. A Rug Radio special event! To stay up to date with .SWOOSH: blog.swoosh.nike Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. https://linktr.ee/rugradio
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 33 min
The weekend was jam-packed with updates, claims and allegations towards SBF, FTX and now spreading towards Crypto.com. With this type of event comes exaggerated hype and engagement, so rumors abound and the noise makes it difficult to cut through to the truth. Our stage walks through most of the claims to guide listeners to a sound emotional location. Stay cautious as ever. We also had news of Nike pushing a new web3 front with dot swoosh, a platform that will involve creation and even potential...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 30 min
An informative close to the end of a long hard week of endurance from all participants of the space. Listen in for long and short term views of the macro environment and get some valuable insight into the state of crypto along with how it all matters to NFTs. GM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. https://linktr.ee/rugradio
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 28 min
Yesterday was one of the most intense days in the history of crypto, aside from the drama surrounding royalties happening inside of the NFT space. The FTX crash hit everyone hard even for those that don't use the platform. It's a net loss as outside perspective and sentiment will definitely drop and general fear will rise. In lighter news we had Super Rare Zack and a legendary lineup of artists on to discuss the upcoming Rare Pass drop. Its a unique pass system that will reward participating art...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 32 min
The amount of drama and cultural relevance contained in this episode is unreal. A critical pivot in the FTX story happened during the show and the stages reaction is recorded. At 35:50 the introduction to the CEO and CTO of opensea are introduced and with them the intense conversation of royalties after they announced they are considering changes and creating some sort of tool to help with the issue. This is episode is a must listen, enough said. GM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 43 min
Today the macro talk was quick and we dove straight into the debacle between Binance and FTX. Controversy and allegations that range in the billions of dollars have been thrown around and rumors of FTX not being able to stay afloat under certain circumstances were made. Our stage discussed all of this with the final conclusion being that time will tell. Our special guest today was Bobby Hundreds, founder of the Adam Bomb Squad. He initially came on to discuss his new upcoming drop called the Bad...
Nov 08, 2022•1 hr 44 min
The macros were quite shaken after the FOMC commentary from Powell exposing his Hawkish views when the market was expecting to hear some dovish sentiment. Payroll and CPI are still set to come later this month, meaning despite the sell-off from this news, there is even less certainty ahead. Much to our surprise Crypto is holding strong agains the macro struggles and is building the case for decoupling. Meta announced that they will enable the creation, display and sales of NFTs on Instagram via ...
Nov 03, 2022•1 hr 33 min
We had a pretty extensive dive into the macros today, its the second day of the FOMC and the market is very aware of the potential outcomes from the press conference that is to follow. There are more events coming up this month that will certainly influence price action across markets. The wizard of Soho and Keyboard Monkey both joined us to go through the different scenarios that could play out. Art Gobblers were still the talk of the town and stirring up controversy from all ends, this summary...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 25 min
The report on Macros was less than flattering today despite being the first day of the FOMC. News that affects price action won't be released until tomorrow. NFT talk was all Art Gobblers, with controversial narratives being pushed in the space, we hear from our hosts about the issues and the new paradigm backed project in general. During the show there was a sweep of 30 Rug Radio NFTs by a wallet named UAE, we found out it was the group bedu who are creating a metaverse experience known as 2117...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 31 min
According to our specialist OSF, the macros are in for a BFW! Multi events and with even more to come throughout the month means nothing is certain! NFTs had an odd week but with only 1 out of the top 5 projects being non PFP projects the climate feels good. We had Metaversal as our special guest today, previously an anon investor that was behind the EMBRACE CHAOS wallet who has been sweeping Rug Radio NFTs for the past weeks. They invested by becoming a massive holder, a true web3 approach that...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 30 min
