Mint Season 2 episode 2 welcomes Neil Harbisson and Pol Lombarte, two biohacking artists leveraging NFTs to remotely alter their bodies. Cyborg-artist Neil Harbisson was born color blind but he can ‘feel’ and ‘hear’ colors, thanks to a WiFi-enabled bone-conduction antenna that is permanently implanted into his skull. Together, Neil and Pol experimented with a new state of NFTs where the buyer can directly send colors into Harbisson’s head. On the side, his friend, Pol Lombarte sold ‘access’ to h...
Aug 17, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Don Diablo is an industry-defining NFT artist, Dutch DJ, record producer, musician, and songwriter of electronic dance music who is known for his electronic style of production and vocalizing in most of his songs. He led a multi-industry career ranking sixth in the 2020’s top 100 DJs by DJ Mag, as well as amassed millions of dollars in sales for his crypto-inspired fine art. In this episode we talk about the origins of his early inspiration into music, how his dad plays a major influence through...
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr 45 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Mint Season 1 episode 11 features Dave Young - a serial entrepreneur and an indie game developer with over 15 years of experience. Using game tech combined with complex full-stack backends, Dave has founded and created teams to build complex products, like ScreenBlazer, Magnus Rush, and Announcr. On this episode, we discuss how he’s helping fund school supplies for the youth through his social token, his framework for deriving value and utility, the 12 projects emerging in his ecosystem surround...
Jul 09, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Mint Season 1 episode 10 features American entrepreneur and author Peter Shankman. He is best known for founding HARO, an online service for journalists to gather feedback from the public. His fight for creating more positive awareness around ADHD has led him down the rabbit hole of monetizing his community through $SHANK coin. We talk about the launch of his new book and how he's incentivizing his audience to get access to that book by holding $SHANK tokens. Peter breaks down some tips to futur...
Jul 08, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Mint Season 1 episode 9 features Matt Mcdonald who is the lead vocalist and guitarist for The Classic Crime - a rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 2004. After leaving a record label in 2011, TCC pioneered the use of crowdfunding and other middle-men bypassing tools, continuing to make music, content, and community experiences for supporters a decade later. Their latest experiment with crowdfunding comes in the form of their social token - $CRIME, ticker C R I M E. In this episode, Matt a...
Jul 08, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Mint Season 1 episode 8 features Cooper Turley is actively shaping the Creator Economy through projects like Audius, Friends with Benefits, and PleasrDAO. He advises Variant as an operator and investor and works with teams on token launches and governance through Fire Eyes DAO. On this episode, we talk about his recent article mapping out the current DAO landscape. With 100s of DAOs in existence, he argues which ones he thinks will outpace the test of time, his point of view on how crypto is rev...
Jul 08, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Mint Season 1 episode 7 features Harrison First is an American songwriter and producer. He works producing for other artists in addition to his own solo works through his independent label JNRY FIRST. He is one of Ängie's best friends and a frequent collaborator. He’s also the creator of $FIRST coin. On this episode, we talk about his methodology for creating a token-gated audio library aimed at supporting NFT artists who need quality audio for their drops, his view on how social tokens will tak...
Jul 08, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Mint Season 1 episode 6 features Jeremiah Owyang who is an advisor to Rally.io, an active angel investor, and is well recognized by both the tech and media industry for his grounded approach to deriving insights through rigorous research. He’s also the creator of the social token $JOW has achieved dominant placement on the social token charts. On this episode, we talk about his early insights into watching the rise of Facebook, Instagram and other web 2.5 platforms and why they’re prime for disr...
Jul 08, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Mint Season 1 episode 5 features WhaleShark, a social entrepreneur and investor with a focus on disrupting the status quo, whose work is widely known for the successful $WHALE community. He's a prolific advocate of NFTs, social tokens, DAOs and much more with an impressive track record of managing 3 different social token communities. On this episode, WhaleShark and I discuss his latest project Elite also known as the ticker $1337, his vision for creating digital clothing dedicated to gaming com...
Jul 08, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Mint Season 1 episode 4 features Bomani X, A Black guitarist, singer-songwriter, and celebrity digital strategist who has worked with Jill Scott, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Wyclef, and more. He’s also the founder of Lit.Spins and was selected as Clubhouses’ icon for the longest time. More recently, he’s known for his social token $BOO and in this episode, we talk about how social tokens will revolutionize the music industry, his vision for $BOO, how he’s created a utility for token holders by playi...
Jul 08, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Mint Season 1 episode 3 features Jenil Thakker, CEO and Founder of Coinvise, who focuses on helping creators launch personal or community-owned social tokens on Ethereum. Coinvise is also Season 1’s sponsor and is helping make this podcast a reality. On this episode, Jenil and I discuss how to improve the UX/UI around minting, his mission for Coinvise on it becoming a decentralized Reddit for communities and creators, how can crypto help keep a community sustainable long-term, how do you keep pe...
Jul 08, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Mint Season 1 episode 2 features Jack Johnson, who’s artist name is JVCKJ. He’s widely known as one half of the multi-platinum pop duo Jack & Jack. He’s a creative force whose earned a billion-plus streams, achieved multi-platinum records, and countless sold-out tours. He’s also the founder of PSTL aka Pastel coin - a gateway to building his vision for his creator economy. On this episode we talk about his journey as an early internet personality on the once popular social media platform Vin...
Jul 08, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Mint Season 1 episode 1 features Allie Mcpherson and Mason Geysir - the duo behind $ALLIE coin. Allie Mcpherson is a popular gaming streamer making headwinds across YouTube and Twitch where she primarily streams card games like Hearthstone & MTGA. Mason Geysir is the backend behind $ALLIE coin - he helps manage the day-to-day or ALLIE’s brand and all that Allie coin entails. Together, they are a powerhouse. The three of us discuss Allie and Mason’s upbringing, their motivation behind $ALLIE ...
Jul 08, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Yo 👋 I’m Adam Levy and this is Mint – an exclusive look into how the creators of today are building the communities of tomorrow using web3 primitives like social tokens, DAOs, and NFTs, to name a few. On the 1st of every month, I'll be releasing a series of episodes and articles on how to leverage the power of these web3 tools and technologies into your creator economy and across your community. Introducing Season 1: From modern fan clubs where the people own the artist to multi-million dollar ...
Jul 08, 2021•2 min
