In this episode, Droste hosts a discussion with Trewkat (Miss Katrina) and Adam Miller (The Thriller) about Black Flag DAO's new membership structure and legal entity formation. The conversation, originally recorded as a Twitter Space on February 18th, covers the transition from BanklessDAO, new membership tiers, staking requirements, and upcoming events. Key topics include the special membership opportunity for former BanklessDAO members (ending March 2nd, 2025), the formation of a Marshall Isl...
Feb 23, 2025•46 min•Ep. 54
In this episode of Making Bank, host Droste leads a roundtable discussion exploring the evolving landscape of DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations), examining both successes and failures in the web3 space through the lens of organizational behavior and human coordination. Our distinguished guests bring perspectives from academia, development, governance, and community building: Meredith Lehman is a PhD student in organizational behavior at the University of Colorado Boulder, conducting q...
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 53
BanklessDAO is undergoing both a name change and a redefinition of purpose. Helping frame and steward this set of challenges is a six member Transition Council formed earlier this year: Hiro Kennelly, Trewkat, WinVerse, Coffee Crusher, Rowan and ZFi. This episode seeks to encapsulate both the origin story of our organization and get you up to speed on how the organization is changing. To help me do that, I sat down with Rowan and ZFI, two of the six members of the transition council. ZFi has bee...
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 52
Today's guests are Al Mithani and Chris Biele, aka Links and NFThinker. They're here to share some exciting news about Bankless Card, a core project at BanklessDAO. BanklessCard https://banklesscard.xyz/ NounsDAO https://nns.xyz/ Timestamps 02:20 Ship status and initial feature set 05:40 So you’re partnering with a… bank? 08:50 Rewards and opportunities - what to expect 13:40 A core difference - you are a stakeholder 16:35 Launch partners and availability 17:50 Nouns DAO - the what and why 25:20...
Jan 18, 2024•33 min•Ep. 51
Today’s episode marks our 50th show since we relaunched it in February of 2022. Over these nearly two years, we’ve stayed true to our mission: offering a window into the people of BanklessDAO and the projects they are working on that drive their passion in exploring web3 technology and culture. Though a large percentage of our contributors are U.S.-based, we are a global organization working toward decentralization and exploring the potential of these tools. Today you’ll hear a bit of reflection...
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 50
IcedCool is a longtime core contributor at BanklessDAO and has been with BanklessDAO since its inception over two years ago. Iced has contributed in multiple areas including the Developer Guild and Operations, as well as Treasury & Tokenomics. He previously appeared on Making Bank to discuss tokenomics and a bit of his personal story on Episode 39 (December, 2022). Today he returns to Making Bank to talk specifically about a new primitive he and the Tokenomics team have been working on that ...
Aug 18, 2023•59 min•Ep. 49
Today’s guest is Manuel Maccou. Manuel first appeared on the show a little over a year ago on Episode 18, released July 5, 2022. Today he joins us to talk about Mosaic, a distributed knowledge network he founded and is building. Mosaic is a question and answer platform that helps you accelerate your understanding of complex topics by giving you direct access to communities and experts. Guest Socials https://twitter.com/ManuelMaccou https://twitter.com/mosaicnetwork__ https://warpcast.com/manuelm...
Aug 09, 2023•36 min•Ep. 48
Today’s guest is Ed On, aka jackalpha in Discord. Ed studied civil engineering, so he’s a bridge builder in the literal and metaphorical sense. Just prior to getting into web3, he worked as a web2 product manager at Samsung. Ed is on the core team at Bankless Japan, part of the IMN or International Media Nodes at BanklessDAO. He also works on WonderVerse.xyz and WonderCommunities.com . Wonder builds the WonderVerse, which is collaboration tooling for web3 communities to manage projects, proposal...
Jun 29, 2023•41 min•Ep. 47
Today’s guest is Al Mithani (aka Links), Project Champion for Bankless Card. Bankless Card seeks to bridge the user experience chasm between web3 and the real world safely and easily. Frequent listeners of the show know that we highlight people and projects within BanklessDAO as well as partner organizations that align with our mission and ethos. Bankless Card is one such project. Borne out of BanklessDAO, it’s a great example of innovation in web3, and we’re excited to share today’s update with...
Jun 03, 2023•37 min•Ep. 46
Today’s guest is Allyn Bryce, known by many (or most) online as Liquidiot. Allyn is man of many talents. He’s a voiceover artist, audio engineer, photographer, video editor, occasional English teacher…. and a father of three. In web3, he’s using his talents working on media projects at BanklessDAO as well as several spin-offs like The Rug, a web3 satire publication and its sister podcast, Under the Rug. He’s also got a few personal projects brewing. Guest Links https://allynbryce.com https://the...
May 06, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 45
Today's guest goes by SalmanNeedsAJob on socials. He joined BanklessDAO in late 2021 and has been deeply involved in the community and multiple projects for over a year. A couple of notes before we jump into the episode: Our conversation was recorded in December 2022 so a couple of relative date references are off. Also since then, Salman has launched an “India Blockchain Week” series on his own channel covering various web3 topics over a number of interviews at ETH India, as well as adjacent ev...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 44
Today’s guest is none other than Above Average Joe, a Bankless DAO OG who’s been at the center of building community since its earliest days. Joe has been involved in the crypto space since 2013 and is now focused on compensation and incentive alignment at the organizational level. He last appeared on Making Bank in August of 2022, when Miss Purple of Bankless Africa guest hosted. If you want to get a lot more background on Joe’s story, please check out that conversation from Episode 24. Joe on ...
Feb 20, 2023•45 min•Ep. 43
Koray, who goes by RayBankless.eth, is a core contributor at BanklessDAO and Bankless Türkçe. This is his second appearance on the show. Koray joins us today to discuss two topics. One, an update on his work with Sobol as a DAO Cartographer at BanklessDAO. And two, the Giveth campaign he just launched in conjunction with Bankless Türkçe earthquake relief in southern Türkiye. We are including multiple spellings of Turkey help with indexing. We discuss: 01:30 What’s happening now 04:50 Leadership ...
Feb 12, 2023•28 min•Ep. 42
Today’s guest is Daniel Jacobs, CEO and founding member of ThriveCoin. The purpose of ThriveCoin is simple. ThriveCoin supports crypto communities that want to thank their members who make valuable and meaningful contributions. Daniel has previously built and scaled two “Contribution Economies“, and in his words, Opportunities to build something that truly, fundamentally improve humanity are rare. The blockchain offered us the tools, and ThriveCoin offers us the path. Now we get to see how far w...
Jan 25, 2023•42 min•Ep. 41
Trewkat, or Katrina, is an academic librarian from Australia. She joined BanklessDAO in late August of 2021 and quickly became a contributor. Today, she’s an active contributor in the Writers Guild as well as an editor for Good Morning News or GMN, “the world’s first on-chain newspaper.” Discord: Trewkat#1933 Twitter: https://twitter.com/trewkat Medium: https://medium.com/@trewkat Timestamps 01:45 Trewkat’s background and journey 07:00 On finding a home at bDAO and GMN 12:00 Trust is a $30 Trill...
Dec 21, 2022•50 min•Ep. 40
Today’s guest is IcedCool. Iced is a Bankless DAO OG, and went full-time DAO in 2021. He brings a broad understanding of information technology and software development, and has managed a number of IT, DevOps and software development projects throughout his career. Prior to getting into web3 and DAOs, he was responsible for the IT department of a large east coast regional hospital. In this episode, he spends much of his time thinking about tokenomics at BanklessDAO, and that is largely what we’l...
Dec 14, 2022•42 min•Ep. 39
Today’s guests are Samantha Marin and Brandon Nolte of Quorum. Sam and Brandon met over a year ago through BanklessDAO, and quickly developed a rapport. They have since joined forces to form Quorum. Sam is part of the communications and growth team for Aragon, a framework for on-chain DAOs. She started her DAO journey in BanklessDAO as the talent scout for the Writers Guild. She started the Quorum newsletter in March and recently expanded it into a “metalabel” to include a podcast as well. Brand...
Nov 23, 2022•50 min•Ep. 38
Today’s guest goes by KittySlasher online. He’s a member of Bankless DAO, and a core contributor at Opolis. Kitty has spent the past 15 years climbing the corporate ladder in telecommunications, and this led him to see the flaws in the current work model and on to a search for something different. That’s when he found web3 and Opolis where he now spends his days trying to help others escape the monetarily extractive corporate business model we know today. Discord: Kittyslasher.eth🌈🧻#4392 Twitt...
Nov 16, 2022•52 min•Ep. 37
Today’s guest goes by iSpeakNerd pretty much everywhere. He joined Bankless DAO at the end of November 2021, where he immediately jumped into the Writers and Education Guilds, and soon found himself developing content with the Bankless Academy team. ispeaknerd’s background is in physical science and education. Today he helps with the operations and tooling for multiple DAOs(including Bankless DAO), and is the content director for Bankless Academy, as well as the creator of the Fight Club onboard...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 36
Today’s guest is JengaJoJo. Jenga joined BanklessDAO in July of 2021, initially becoming active in the translators guild. Among other things, he’s involved with the bDAO Global Events team, where we partnered with 8 events in Season 5 alone. He’s also involved with the newly-formed DAOStewards initiative inside bDAO, which seeks to govern public goods such as the $SAFE governance tokens recently dropped to the BanklessDAO treasury, guilds, and projects. Discord: jengajojo.eth#5896 Twitter: https...
Nov 01, 2022•32 min•Ep. 35
Today’s guest goes by Siddhearta on Twitter and in Discord. He’s been with BanklessDAO since its inception and quickly found a home in the Writers Guild. Siddhearta is currently the Writers Guild coordinator and the BanklessDAO newsletter team project coordinator. Discord: siddhearta#9802 Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xSiddhearta Linktree: https://linktr.ee/siddhearta Essays discussed: https://banklessdao.substack.com/p/daos-as-playgrounds-for-growth-and https://banklessdao.substack.com/p/findin...
Oct 24, 2022•38 min•Ep. 34
A conversation about successful DAOlationships – Web3 and DAO relationships. DoinGud, ThriveCoin, List of DAOs, and Chippi are all discussed in the context of community and building (buidl-ing) together with a purpose. Senad Discord: Senad.eth#8782 Twitter: NFThinker Discord: NF Thinker#2814 Timestamps 00:00 - 2:00 Intros Senad is a “DAOplomat” at BanklessDAO and guild coordinator for DAOlationships, executive director of Bankless Research, and a member of the GSE team. NF Thinker is a partnersh...
Oct 16, 2022•26 min•Ep. 33
Today’s episode is Part 2 of a two-part conversation with guests Senad and NFThinker, both of whom are on the DAOlationships team at BanklessDAO. In last week’s episode, we discussed the ConsenSys relationship and onboarding proposal. In this episode, we discuss business development in Web3 more broadly, and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Senad Discord: Senad.eth#8782 Twitter: NFThinker Discord: NFThinker#2814 Twitter: A few of the partner projects discussed: Timestamps 01:00 I...
Oct 10, 2022•40 min•Ep. 32
Today’s episode is Part 1 of a two-part conversation with guests Senad and NFThinker, both of whom are on the DAOlationships team at BanklessDAO. They join us today to discuss a timely topic, the onboarding of 50 employees from ConsenSys to learn about DAOs and BanklessDAO in particular. We discuss the ongoing original and follow-on proposals that our community has been discussing, and clarify the intent of this collaborative effort. In Part two, we’ll continue the conversation about business de...
Oct 04, 2022•20 min•Ep. 31
Today’s guest is Saulthorin, aka BanklessChick.eth. Sauthorin has a professional background focused on graph analytics in the context of social networks. She joined BanklessDAO in July of 2021, becoming active first in analytics, and is currently an elected role holder on the Governance Solutions Engineer or GSE team. In her ‘spare time’, she launched TalentDAO, which is studying layer zero and building human coordination experiments so that we might all benefit. In simplest terms, they are usin...
Sep 27, 2022•56 min•Ep. 30
Bankless Advisor will equip a generation of financial advisors with the education, technology and legal tools to introduce one billion people to the Bankless life. They have an agreement with a company that provides Defi software for financial advisors who will whitelabel and revenue share with Bankless Advisor. Today’s guests are Jacob Benson and Steve Larsen. Jacob goes by Coffee&Crypto on Discord and is passionate about how technology empowers individuals to create solutions and solve pro...
Sep 20, 2022•42 min•Ep. 29
Today’s guest is Grant Nissly. Grant is a writer with the BanklessDAO Writers Guild and the founder of Taptive.xyz. Taptive helps communities grow with the power of writing-focused cohort-based courses. Grant joins us today to discuss the Writers Cohort at Bankless DAO. Discord: Grant#2959 Twitter: https://twitter.com/grant_nissly Taptive proposal on BanklessDAO Forum, Jun 2022: Timestamps 01:45 Grant's journey prior to getting into DAO space 04:05 Why write? 08:00 Cohort-based learning 15:00 Co...
Sep 11, 2022•35 min•Ep. 28
Tony Stark joined BanklessDAO right around the genesis of BanklessAfrica and began his journey working on the BanklessAfrica website. He has been serving a role as BanklessAfrica Tech Steward since, and is now also part of the Mad Hatter Management Crew. In this episode, Tony Stark joins salmanneedsajob on an episode of Making Bank, as Tony tells us about his experience learning web3, journey within BanklessAfrica and the dev guild in BanklessDAO, and some reflections on his career so far within...
Sep 06, 2022•30 min•Ep. 27
Orange is a reputation and trust minting protocol that aggregates data and Web3 reputation models to generate comprehensive reputation proofs in the form of Verifiable Credentials and NFTs. It can be used to objectively calculate and assess the "reputation" for a Decentralized Identifier (DID), and associated wallet addresses. It takes multiple data points into account to assess user behavior and preferences. User data can be processed and manifested as "minted reputation" to be stored, exchange...
Aug 30, 2022•32 min•Ep. 26
Today’s guests are two of the core team members on the Bankless Card project. Links is project champion and NFThinker is an original founding member. BanklessCard is a debit card for DAO contributors, by DAO contributors. Still in development, BanklessCard aims to allow cardholders to earn governance tokens in their DAO of choice. Links is a self-described “startup artist” and joined BanklessDAO in September 2021. He is currently an elected member and lead of the Grants Committee and a core cont...
Aug 24, 2022•33 min•Ep. 25
