Mint Season 5 episode 16 welcomes Alex Masmej, creator of $ALEX token and co-founder of the web3 Instagram alternative Showtime.xyz, joins Mint to share why free NFTs will be the trojan horse for creators and new users during the 2022 bear market. In this episode, we discuss: 00:36 - Intro 07:44 - Showtime's Origin Story 13:01 - The Evolution of Social Tokens and Creator Coins since $ALEX 17:56 - Thesis on Web3 Social 26:58 - Understanding Soulbound Tokens 35:32 - How To Make Money Off Free NFTs...
Jun 21, 2022•52 min•Season 5Ep. 15
OpenSea Co-founder and CEO Devin Finzer share his vision for the next billion users in web3 and NFTs. Full episode Season 3, Episode 3 About Mint Shorts A new segment on Mint capturing the best moments from the podcast in a bite-size format. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Claim Free NFT https://adamlevy.io/nft/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com ...
Jun 20, 2022•57 sec•Season 3Ep. 3
Mint Season 5 episode 15 welcomes Erik Reppel, head of Data at Zora, who joins Mint to give us an intro on all things blockchain data: from why NFT project founders and creators should analyze their collector's activity to how to apply these insights to grow their community. In this episode, we discuss: 00:09 - Intro 13:10 - What Does Ownership Mean in Web3? 26:27 - Designing Custom Experiences for Collectors using Data 27:40 - The Downside of Blockchain Transparency 34:44 - Web3 Has a Metadata ...
Jun 16, 2022•53 min•Season 5Ep. 15
Dave Young of the $PLAY community shares his tip for surviving a crypto bear market. Full episode Season 1, Episode 11 About Mint Shorts A new segment on Mint capturing the best moments from the podcast in a bite-size format. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Claim Free NFT https://adamlevy.io/nft/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com ----------------...
Jun 15, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Mint Season 5 episode 14 welcomes Nass, Chief Information Security Officer at a16z, who joins Mint to share his life as an early graffiti artist, to leading Facebook’s crypto arm, and now building his NFT side hustle, Rebels. In this episode, we discuss: 00:07 - Intro 04:24 - Most Common Security Vulnerabilities NFT Projects Adopt 06:42 - Lessons Learned While Building Facebook's Crypto Arm 15:55 - What is Rebels? 18:11 - Rebel's Innovative NFT Features 29:58 - Building a Multi-dimensional NFT P...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Gary Vaynerchuk tackles shares some tips on how to launch an NFT project. Full episode Season 4, Episode 6 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Adam Levy on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/levychain Instagram: https://ww...
Jun 13, 2022•1 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Iconic DJ and NFT advocate Steve Aoki share his journey into web3. Full episode Season 4, Episode 16 About Mint Shorts A new segment on Mint capturing the best moments from the podcast in a bit size format. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Claim Free NFT https://adamlevy.io/nft/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com -----------------------------------...
Jun 10, 2022•1 min•Season 4Ep. 16
Mint Season 5 episode 13 welcomes Mirror’s Growth Engineer Patrick Rivera who shares why you should think twice before dismissing the opportunity to mint a writing NFT. In this episode, we discuss: 00:09 - Intro 06:41 - The Ideal Creator on Mirror 08:41 - Essential Tools To Build A Community 12:45 - Soulbound Tokens 22:23 - Why Collect a Writing NFT 24:26 - Why Mint a Writing NFT? 26:26 - NFTs as Social Graphs 29:36 - Insights Discovered While Building Mirror 34:34 - What Virality Looks Like in ...
Jun 09, 2022•41 min•Season 5Ep. 13
Gary Vaynerchuk tackles the question of how independent artists should be thinking about music NFTs. Full episode Season 4, Episode 6 About Mint Shorts Enjoy the best moments from the podcast in bite-size segments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for Adam Levy's newsletter https://levychain.substack.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow Adam Levy on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/levy...
Jun 08, 2022•2 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Mint Season 5 episode 12 welcomes gmoney, the collector of JPEGS, occasional disrupter, and all-around NFT advocate. In this episode, we discuss: 00:56 - Intro 10:01 - Tips for Building a Personal Brand 15:20 - Pseudonymous Identity in Crypto 19:47 - The Free Mint: Bootstrapping a Web3 CRM 29:10 - Preserving Quality with Curated Communities 31:12 - Why The Bear Market Energy Reveals Your True Colors 35:07 - Gmoney's Love for Fashion 38:22 - Where Do You See the World of Web Three and Fashion Col...
Jun 07, 2022•51 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Mint Season 5 episode 11 welcomes Michael Blau, the magician, mentalist, web3 software creator and engineering partner at a16z. He breaks down his alter ego x0r, unveils smart contract illusions that normies fall trapped to in web3, and the art of magic. In this episode, we discuss: 00:13 - Intro 12:36 - Working with David Blaine 17:11 - How To Build a Software Simulation 25:00 - Time Management: Creator, Investor and Software Developer 26:46 - The Origin Story of x0r 36:09 - How Creators Can Us...
Jun 02, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 11
Mint Season 5 episode 10 welcomes Joey DeBruin, founder of Backdrop.so, who explains the overlap between being a neuroscientist to building consumer applications in web3 for DAOs. In this episode, we discuss: 00:14 - Intro 00:05 - Understanding Joey's Interest in Token-based Communities. 07:25 - Biggest Challenges in Starting a DAO 09:55 - Improving Education Around Crypto 12:15 - How to Find Your DAO's 'Why' and Purpose 15:17 - How to Build a Minimum Viable Community 25:50 - Understanding the D...
May 31, 2022•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 10
Mint Season 5 episode 9 welcomes Wilson Wei and Ryan Li who share their vision for putting creators and users at the forefront of ownership with their decentralized social graph, CyberConnect. In this episode, we discuss: 00:15 - Intro 09:13 - What Inspired Ryan and Wilson to Build in Web3 Social? 15:07 - Elon Musk's Potential Acquisition of Twitter 18:34 - How To Defeat Bots and Spammers in Web3 Social? 20:53 - What Does Ownership Actually Mean in Web3? 29:59 - Web3 Social Tools to Empower Crea...
May 26, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Mint Season 5 episode 8 welcomes Ice Cube, the legendary rapper, actor, and now web3 entrepreneur who shares how NFTs can be used to buy ownership into one’s favorite basketball teams on the BIG3. In this episode, we discuss: 00:00 - Intro 03:48 - What is BIG3? What Does it Aim to Do? 08:53 - Curating Unique Experiences for Sports Team Owners 13:53 - Perks of Collecting a BIG3 NFT 20:09 - Why Ice Cube Took a Major Stake in Dogecoin 23:57 - The Intersection of Movies and NFTs 26:58 - The Intersec...
May 24, 2022•36 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Mint Season 5 episode 7 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. She joins the podcast for another episode and shares how she plans to release her up n coming EP in a web3 native way. Queen George: https://twitter.com/iamqueengeorge Sound drop: https://www.sound.xyz/queengeorge Learn more by visiting: https://adamlevy.io/mint ------------------------...
May 19, 2022•42 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Mint Season 5 episode 6 welcomes Will Collier, co-founder of Decent.xyz, one of the more innovative and experimental music NFT marketplaces that have been making quite the noise lately. From fractionalizing royalties to optimizing artist liquidity through bonding curves, they’re focused on helping artists capture more value from their careers. Will is an experienced entrepreneur whose origin starting a food non-profit very much overlaps with his new mission to change the old systems in the music...
May 16, 2022•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 6
Mint Season 5 episode 5 welcomes Aleyna Dogan, an entrepreneur, writer, and photographer who is currently working at VaynerNFT and spearheading Mint’s Sunday TL;DR newsletter. Her background is in technology ethics, and she has been in NFT space for a year and a half. She started NFTimes, the weekly comprehensive NFT newsletter last July, and also writes for the Mint podcasts’ newsletter. She assists onboarding of artists, especially women, LGBTQ+ and people from other underrepresented groups in...
May 15, 2022•32 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Mint Season 5 episode 4 welcomes Emma-Jane Mackinnon-Lee, Founder of DIGITALAX, a web3 fashion company, and founder of The Copyright Cartel, a dedicated Web3 Creative Commons DAO. We deep dive into the CC0 license: what it is, how it works, and the bull case for dedicating rights to the public domain. In this episode, we discuss: 00:10 - Intro 01:36 - What is CC0 DAO? 03:03 - Getting Started in Web3 05:58 - Emma-Jane's Upbringing 13:48 - Biggest Takeaways Working on Wall Street 19:34 - Motivatio...
May 12, 2022•50 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Mint Season 5 episode 3 welcomes David Greenstein, Co-founder of Sound.xyz, one of the most popular music NFT marketplaces in the space. I’ve been watching the growth of Sound all the way from day zero when we first met and he shared his excitement on how he’s about to change the game for independent music artists. It’s incredible to see how far he’s come. In this episode, we discuss: 00:24 - Intro 18:56 - Sound.xyz and the Drop Experience: Editions, Golden Egg and More. 29:39 - Creating an Asse...
May 09, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Mint Season 5 episode 2 welcomes illaDaProducer, the Grammy-nominated multi-platinum Producer who created numerous hits alongside Eminem, MegTheStallion, Future, Gunna, DJ Khaled, lil Pump, Rick Ross, lil Wayne, and many more. He came on to chat about his latest venture, Who Who’s Tree House, which acts as a launchpad for hungry producers looking for intimate mentoring and potential placement via his deep music network. What an incredible upbringing and his immigrant-inspired hustle is one worth...
May 05, 2022•56 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Mint Season 5 episode 1 welcomes Andre Benz, founder of the widely successfully EDM YouTube channel The Nations and CEO of Soundmint.xyz, a go-to platform for curated audiovisual NFTs. I wanted to have him on to share his unique perspective on growth hacking one of the largest curated music EDM brands on YouTube, and how that translates into his newest curated venture. In this episode, we discuss: 01:30 - Intro 01:38 - How Runescape influenced his understanding of crypto and web3 01:58 - Growth ...
May 03, 2022•51 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Mint bonus episode: I was invited to speak at NFT LA on all things about the creator economy and lead a discussion with Jesse Tevelow of Praise, Alexandra Hooven of Rally, and Noel Borges of Mintblack. 00:00 - Intro 02:12 - The current state of the web3 creator economy 06:28 - Should creators strive to build virality or a niche group of true fans? 14:22 - How to transition your web2 audience into web3? 22:02 - What data can creators unlock via NFTs and other crypto assets? 35:47 - Outro …and so ...
Apr 26, 2022•38 min•Season 4Ep. 35
This episode is different than the rest. Mint Season 4 was epic. We now reach over 20,000 web3 creators, founders, and investors per month across audio, video, blog, and newsletter, to name a few. I started Mint 10 short months ago to focus on the web3 creator economy and couldn’t be happier with its progress to date. A special thanks to Coinvise and Polygon Studios for collecting my sponsorship NFTs and making this season possible. For this season, I curated 20 creators to be featured across 20...
Apr 21, 2022•18 min•Season 4Ep. 35
Mint Season 4 episode 34 welcomes Matthew Chaim, who’s the founder of SONGCAMP and ideator of CHAOS, a 77-person collective building towards a headless music artist. In this episode, we discuss: 02:08 - Intro 07:58 - Why Music Needs Web3 09:47 - How has crypto influenced your creativity? 12:39 - What is SONGCAMP and CHAOS? 26:50 - Patronage-based NFTs vs Ownership-based NFTs 34:28 - What to expect from Matthew Chaim in the future 40:38 - Outro …and so much more I hope you enjoy our conversation....
Apr 14, 2022•42 min•Season 4Ep. 34
Mint Season 4 episode 33 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 is back for a second episode on season four of Mint mainly because I love what the team is building at Beat Foundry, his energy and passion for music beams every time he talks about what he does. It’s genuinely contagious. In this episode, we discuss: 00:19 - Intro 09:56 - What Rights do You Get When You Buy a Beat...
Apr 07, 2022•45 min•Season 4Ep. 33
Mint Season 4 episode 32 welcomes Lee Parsons, CEO of Opulous, who’s changing how artists access the funding they need to pursue their music. He’s on a mission to wake up the outdated industry and he explains why the legacy music system is about to encounter a rude awakening. In this episode, we discuss: 01:07 - Intro 08:18 - How Web3 Will Fix The Music Industry 14:27 - How Do Artists Get Started on Opulous? 15:43 - What is an S-NFT? 19:22 - The future of music NFTs at Opulous 24:22 - What will ...
Apr 05, 2022•51 min•Season 4Ep. 32
Mint Season 4 episode 31 welcomes Paul Zehetmayr, the new co-CEO of LimeWire, the discontinued peer-to-peer file-sharing software that we all loved and abused in the early 2000s. Paul and his partner are revamping the iconic brand, but taking it in a new direction to focus on music NFTs. In this episode, we discuss: 00:00 - Intro 2:07 - Step aside RIAA, LimeWire is back 11:19 - What traits go into valuing music NFT's? 20:02 - What makes a music artists valuable in web3 from a collector's point o...
Mar 31, 2022•57 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Mint Season 4 episode 30 welcomes Justin Blau, who’s an American DJ, electronic dance music producer, NFT pioneer and one of the most cited and recognized thought leaders in web3. Justin is on mission to revolutionize the music industry. He’s been on this path for years now, but more recently started Royal.io where musicians sell royalty ownership in their songs and give collectors access to special perks via NFTs. In this episode, Justin shares his insights on: 00:00 - Current state of music NF...
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 30
Mint Season 4 episode 29 welcomes a live Twitter Spaces co-hosted alongside Coinvise where their team member Cody interviewed Adam on his origin story into crypto and his thesis on the web3 creator economy. 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 ---------------------------...
Mar 27, 2022•34 min•Season 4Ep. 29
Mint Season 4 episode 28 welcomes Dan Hannum, COO of ZenLedger, who’s on a mission to provide crypto traders and tax professionals with the most user-friendly tax and accounting software for cryptocurrency investments, trading, and fund operations. This episode outlines what crypto-native creators should look out for during tax season. From issuing tokens, selling and buying your first NFT, to even forming a DAO, here’s a comprehensive discussion on web3 taxation and tips to consider. Promo: Get...
Mar 22, 2022•59 min•Season 4Ep. 28
