Mint Season 4 episode 27 welcomes Ben Lakoff, co-founder of Charged Particles, which is new protocol that lets you put digital assets inside your NFTs. Now, ordinary NFTs (think neutral molecules) can contain a digital "charge" inside — ERC20, ERC721 or ERC1155 — giving you the unprecedented power to create nested NFTs. In this episode, we discuss how creators can tap into the variety of use cases presented by dynamic NFTs and their upcoming NFT drop, Particlon . I hope you enjoy our conversatio...
Mar 20, 2022•29 min•Season 4Ep. 27
Mint Season 4 episode 26 welcomes Yury Liftshits, Founder and CEO of SuperDAO, an all-in-one DAO formation platform that recently raised $11.5M in seed and pressed funding. Before Superdao, Yury has started four companies with one major exit, is a YCombinator alum, Ph.D. in Computer Science, and was teaching grad-level cryptography courses even before Bitcoin was invented. A long time ago he also won two gold medals at International Math Olympiad. In this episode, he shares why creators should l...
Mar 17, 2022•57 min•Season 4Ep. 26
Mint Season 4 episode 25 welcomes Richerd Chan, Co-Founder at Manifold, Punk #6046, Professional NFT Degen, and smart contract artist. Manifold enables web3 creators to have true creative ownership, preserve on-chain provenance, and interoperate with all major NFT marketplaces. The company is known for building some of the top creator drops in the early NFT days alongside leading figures like Mad Dog Jones, Jay Z, pplpleasr, Steve Aoki, and FVCKRENDER, to name a few. In this episode, we talk abo...
Mar 15, 2022•44 min•Season 4Ep. 25
Mint Season 4 episode 24 welcomes Alec King, an independent artist from Denver, CO and resides in Los Angeles, CA. Following his EP's, "Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2" he released his debut album "Everything's Backwards." Alec is gearing up to release a single every other week until a meteor takes us all out. Since leaving his label, he's taken a dive into the music NFT/web 3 space. Right before the pandemic, he went on tour as direct support for Kiana Lede across the US and Canada. We mainly shoo...
Mar 13, 2022•38 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Mint Season 4 episode 24 welcomes the two co-founders of Catalog.works, Mike Mckain and Jeremy Stern. We had fun recording this one in person during Eth Denver where we got to explore how they’re enabling a new era of valuing music for what it’s worth. They’re legends and the music NFT movement wouldn’t have been possible without them and their hard work. In this episode, we discuss: 00:00 - Intro 09:29 - What Is Catalog? 10:32 - What the Curation Process Looks Like Getting On Catalog as an Arti...
Mar 10, 2022•37 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Mint Season 4 episode 23 welcomes two-time Grammy award-winning producer !llmind who shares his motivation for launching Squad of Knights and argues why beats, loops, and sample packs need to be on-chain. In this episode, we discuss: 00:00 - Intro 09:24 - Understanding IP On Chain 12:23 - How to Eliminate People Sending Files to One Another; Sending the NFT and Integration 15:56 - !llmind’s Point of View on Web Three and Web Two 19:08 - Why do Beats, Loops, and Sample Packs Need to be On Chain? ...
Mar 08, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 23
Mint Season 4 episode 22 welcomes music NFT collector and crypto OG Cooper Turley (aka Coopahtroopa). He rationalizes his conviction for spending 100 ETH on music NFTs to date. He came by my hotel during Eth Denver for our first in-person conversation, making this session the longest episode in Season 4. There’s just too much alpha in one sitting, I hope you can handle it. In this episode, we discuss: 00:36 - Intro 03:56 - Music Projects Dominating The Space 07:08 - How to Price a Music NFT 11:1...
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 4Ep. 22
Mint Season 4 episode 21 welcomes Queen George, the modern jazz-pop artist who’s been publicly, yet thoughtfully experimenting with web3 primitives since April 2021 in an effort to find and build a collector base. We explore a new funnel and interesting case study on how she growth hacked *120* collectors by minting tickets as NFTs for her live concert at Eth Denver. In this episode, we discuss: 02:00 - Intro 07:36 - The World of Crypto Experimentation 13:49 - NFT Ticketing, Metamask, and Eventb...
Mar 01, 2022•59 min•Season 4Ep. 21
Mint Season 4 episode 20 welcomes Mark Dawson, co-founder of Quixotic, the largest NFT marketplace on Optimism, and MusicFund, a community that finds, funds, and supports up-and-coming artists. This conversation took place during Eth Denver so there’s a lot to unpack from the week itself, let alone all the cool stuff he and his co-founder are building, so let’s just dive right in. In this episode, we discuss: 01:08 - Intro 07:05 - How Do Creators Get Started in crypto? 12:55 - What is Quixotic t...
Feb 24, 2022•50 min•Season 4Ep. 20
Mint Season 4 episode 19 welcomes Dwight Torculas and Garrett Hughes, co-founders of the music NFT marketplace, Mint Songs. In this episode, we discuss: 01:53 - Intro 05:38 - Mint Songs 13:59 - Data-first Community 18:17 - Can NFTs help define the future of music? 36:05 - Collection and Ownership 38:54 - How to Convert fans into Collectors? 43:23 - The On Chain Revenue Model 47:43 - What is Metadata? 57:42 - How does a new artist get started? 1:06 - How do you price an NFT? 1:25 - Outro I hope y...
Feb 22, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 4Ep. 19
Mint Season 4 episode 18 welcomes Jermey Vaughn, founder and CEO of Remark - the soon to be social token issuance platform on Solana. The main premise behind this conversation revolves around the current state of social tokens on Solana blockchain and why he believes ESG tokens are a better framework for understanding brands and creators. In this episode, we discuss: 00:25 - Intro 05:21 - Rimark-able 11:29 - What are ESG Tokens? 16:21 - Why Do Musicians Need ESG Tokens? 26:22 - What’s the Differ...
Feb 17, 2022•48 min•Season 4Ep. 18
Mint Season 4 episode 17 welcomes Kevin Owocki, a technology entrepreneur based in Boulder, Colorado, and the Founder of Gitcoin. In this episode, we discuss: 00:31 - intro 05:19 - Gitcoin 14:00 - What’s the Incentive to Build for Open Source? 17:09 - What’s Your Plan to Capture More Market Value? 21:24 - Intersection Between Creators and Gitcoin 24:45 - Synergies Between Journalists and Software Developers 32:20 - Outro …and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Kevin Owocki - https:...
Feb 15, 2022•35 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Mint Season 4 episode 16 welcomes Steve Aoki, the world-renowned DJ, entrepreneur, artist, fashionista, collector, culinary entrepreneur - there aren’t enough titles we can attribute to him. I had the pleasure of chatting with him on all things music NFTs and his latest project titled the Aokiverse! What an epic conversation, there’s a lot to unpack. In this episode, we discuss: 03:10 - Intro 07:53 - Any Concerns Getting Into the NFT Space? 13:31 - Aokiverse 25:03 - Future of the Aokiverse 32:26...
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 16
Mint Season 4 episode 15 welcomes Matt Alston and Melissa Zhang, the power duo behind Bonfire, who aims to be the front page for web3 communities. In this episode, we discuss: 01:27 - Intro 06:37 - How Did You Guys Meet? 09:59 - How Did the idea move from Events to Creators? 18:27 - Are Creators Good Community Builders? 22:25 - Is Web Three the Perfect Medium for Creators? 33:32 - DeFi meets the Creator Economy 38:12 - Governance and the Creators 47:06 - Bonfire 53:36 - Building a Bridge between...
Feb 08, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 15
Mint Season 4 episode 14 welcomes Mark de Clive-Lowe, an American-based Japanese-New Zealand DJ, musician, composer, and producer who’s making headwinds in web3. I wanted to have Mark on because he’s attempting to do something very unique; he's in the process of raising funds to buy back his music catalog from the labels he initially signed with early on in his career. Not only does he share his journey so far and how he’s raised nearly 10 ETH to date, but we provide tips on how you can follow i...
Feb 03, 2022•55 min•Season 4Ep. 14
Mint Season 4 episode 13 welcomes Benny Conn, who’s a developer at Gallery.so and co-founder of Beat Foundry, an NFT platform for entirely on-chain generative and curated music. Benny dropped out of college to pursue his love for where crypto meets music and Beat Foundry was his first stab at this passion. Congrats to him and his team for a widely successful drop and I’m glad I was able to lead the post-mortem deep dive. We recorded this episode on Twitter Spaces so excuse the Air pods level qua...
Feb 01, 2022•45 min•Season 4Ep. 13
Mint Season 4 episode 12 welcomes William Bailey, Founder and CEO of Bolero Music, a platform that brings artists & fans closer together by investing in music through Social Tokens and NFTs. In this episode, we discuss: 00:57 - Intro 06:15 - What does Bolero look for in an artist? 08:23 - Current state of music NFTs 16:03 - Understanding the value behind social tokens 23:07 - Monetizing social tokens 29:23 - Tokenomics 38:24 - The creator virtual circle 44:26 - How do we bring off-chain musi...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 12
Mint Season 4 episode 11 welcomes VÉRITÉ, an American singer and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. She’s also a music NFT pioneer, who played a huge role in setting the minting models and trends for what we know as music NFTs today. In this episode, we discuss: 00:36 - Intro 03:13 - Has Crypto Changed Your Style of Music? 08:16 - Music Ownership in the NFT Space 18:05 - How Do You Generate Value? 23:18 - The Origin of Your Business Acumen 28:18 - Three types of NFTs 37:11 - Lowering Barrie...
Jan 25, 2022•52 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Mint Season 4 episode 10 welcomes Charlie Crown, the Miami-based, Colombian DJ & producer who has released tracks through Sony Music, Dim Mak, and PRMD; and garnered over 25+ million streams in the process. He’s received nods from some of dance music’s biggest names including The Chainsmokers, Steve Aoki, Martin Garrix, and Illenium; and shared stages with other incredible artists like Zomboy, Mija, and Le Youth; in addition to massive performances at Club Space Miami and Life in Color. His ...
Jan 20, 2022•41 min•Season 4Ep. 10
Mint Season 4 episode 9 welcomes Spartan Daggenhurst, an award-winning Anglo-Greek filmmaker, composer, pianist, and poet. He grew up between England, Greece, and France before moving to Los Angeles at the age of 9. In 2016, he graduated from Bard College in New York with a degree in Piano Performance and Music Composition. He works actively in various artistic mediums, including film, opera, and poetry, and is fluent in English, Greek, French, German, and Italian. He’s also the founder of The F...
Jan 18, 2022•52 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Mint Season 4 episode 8 welcomes Grady, the la-based singer-songwriter and producer who’s been making a lot of noise in web3. From starting a decentralized record label called Good Karma DAO, selling music NFTs online, and even crowdfunding his next album on-chain - there’s a lot to learn from this guy. In this episode, we discuss: 02:04 - Intro 13:19 - Good Karma DAO 18:42 - Good Karma DAO’s First Showcase 27:44 - $CHERRY Part 1 36:22 - Future of Music in Web Three 39:53 - Parallels between the...
Jan 13, 2022•58 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Mint Season 4 episode 7 welcomes the Overstimulated duo Daniel Allan and Henry Chatfield who are setting the example for how a music creator DAO should look and feel. Here’s an end-to-end recap of their journey, analyzing the last 3 months of their work where we break down October's crowdfund as showcased in a previous episode and the day-to-day of bringing this on-chain EP to life. In this episode, we discuss: 00:44 - Intro 05:26 - Artist Management/Community Management 09:56 - Evolving Role of...
Jan 11, 2022•51 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Mint Season 4 episode 6 welcomes serial entrepreneur and social media mogul Gary Vaynerchuk, who’s the founder of VaynerMedia, VaynerX, VeeFriends FlyFish and so much more. It was a pleasure hearing his POV on the evolving landscape of web3 and all that it brings. In this episode, we discuss: 00:39 - Current state of NFTs in 2022 06:14 - Will record labels evolve into hedge funds? 11:34 - Why buy music NFTs? 17:10 - Creator coins vs NFTs? 22:31 - Forming a DAO to buy the Jets 24:41 - Similaritie...
Jan 06, 2022•36 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Mint Season 4 episode 5 welcomes Spencer Graham, who is a core contributor at DAOhaus, where he helps with product development, internal operations, communications, and tokenomics. He’s been contributing full-time to DAOs since 2020, and introduces a solid foundation around product development in web3. In this episode, we discuss: 00:43 Intro 07:15 DAOs and DAOhaus 16:03 CCOs: Community Contribution Opportunity 21:48 CCOs vs ICOs 30:42 What are the cons of CCOs? 45:16 Outro I hope you enjoy our ...
Jan 04, 2022•48 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Mint Season 4 episode 4 welcomes Xcelencia, a Puerto Rican songwriter and musician who growth hacked his way through Spotify playlists and now has landed in the world of web3. He’s the creator of the social token $EQUIS and more recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on mirror to bootstrap the birth of Infinite, an immersive multimedia album and digital art experience that will grow in real-time as fans engage with the project. In this episode, we discuss: 00:39 - Intro 03:45 - Playlist Build...
Dec 30, 2021•39 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Mint Season 4 episode 3 welcomes M.Shadows, founder and lead singer of the iconic rock band Avenged Sevenfold. I grew up playing their music on the drums and have admired them ever since I can remember. I wanted to have him on because he started the Deathbats Club, a 10,000 PFP project whose perks and utilities are inner-twined within each NFT. We recorded the episode pre-launch so keep that in mind while listening, but regardless he drops so many golden nuggets on the music industry, being earl...
Dec 28, 2021•59 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Mint Season 4 episode 2 welcomes Dayo Adeosun, co-founder of Glass Protocol. In this episode, we talk about all things video NFTs, the fundamental macro problems facing short form mid form and long-form videos in web 2, why people want to own videos, how we can better educate creators around the world on the concept of ownership, and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint ------------------------------------------------------------------...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Mint Season 4 episode 1 welcomes Kyle and Evan Dhillon, two brothers on a journey to empower the creative value of music by creating on-chain music production tools for creators. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Claim your FREE Listener Badge NFT proving you listened to this episode https://adamlevy.io/poap-season-4 -------------------------------------------------------...
Dec 21, 2021•47 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Mint Season 3 episode 20 welcomes Dada Boipelo, a multidisciplinary artist, creative director, and NFT artist based in Nairobi who’s fully immersed in growing her artistic expression and community-building skills within the Web3 space. She also leads the community at AfrofutureDAO ($AFTR), a Socialstack community that aims to grow a vault containing hundreds of hours of raw video footage and thousands of photographs of African history. In this episode we discuss: 00:00 - Intro 2:53 - Physical vs...
Dec 16, 2021•34 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Mint Season 3 episode 19 welcomes Andile Masuku, founder of the African Tech Roundup. The independent Africa-focused technology, digital, and innovation media platform recently tapped into the world of crypto by launching their social token, $ATRU on Socialstack. With the help of their community, they’re exploring new financing paths to bypass traditional corrupt media in Africa. In this episode we discuss: 0:00 - Intro 5:09 - About Andile Masuku 13:22 - Tell us about $ATRU 19: 21 - Journey into...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 19
