Cooper Turley aka Coopahtroopa, the founder of Coop Records, joins season 6 to talk about why creators need to think and act like startups. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 10 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 m...
Oct 03, 2022•3 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Richard Chen, a general partner at 1Confirmation and a dune top wizard joins season 6 to share some metrics he uses to measure the success and activeness of a community. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 15 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Sep 30, 2022•3 min•Season 6Ep. 15
Mint Season 6 episode 15 welcomes Richard Chen, general partner at 1Confirmation and a dune top wizard. For the next half hour we discuss all things venture investing, where data meets the creator economy, music NFTs, building a successful community, and so much more. I hope you guys enjoy our conversation. Time Stamps 00:08 - Intro 02:05 - Crypto Startups at Universities 05:26 - Balancing Data and Privacy 06:29 - How a VC Can Use On-Chain Data For Investments 08:14 - Understanding the Web3 Crea...
Sep 29, 2022•35 min•Season 6Ep. 15
Reo Cragun, the web3-native music artist explains how he uses data as an artist. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 14 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: htt...
Sep 28, 2022•3 min•Season 6Ep. 14
Mint Season 6 episode 14 welcomes Reo Cragun, the web3-native music artist, multi-talented rapper, singer, producer, and songwriter who shares about his journey in web3 and his vision behind his biggest NFT project to date called Frameworks. We also discuss how Reo uses data to be a smarter creator, his relationship with Nipsey Hussle, the dynamics between artists and labels, and so much more. I hope you guys enjoy our conversation. Time Stamps 00:08 - Intro 09:14 - Current State of Music in Web...
Sep 27, 2022•59 min•Season 6Ep. 14
Alex Svanevik of Nansen.ai talks about the cross between DeFi and NFTs. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 4 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://www.i...
Sep 26, 2022•6 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Black Dave, the web3-native music artist, joins mint to talk about his thoughts on the future of renting NFTs. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 13 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://twitte...
Sep 23, 2022•4 min•Season 6Ep. 13
Mint Season 6 episode 13 welcomes Black Dave, the web3-native music artist, creative thinker, and self-proclaimed genius. From dropping free NFTs to setting records across crypto Twitter, I wish I had him on the podcast sooner. We had an awesome conversation on all things music NFTs, the early days of Clubhouse, building communities, designing experiences for collectors and so much more. I hope you guys enjoy our conversation. Additional Resources BlackDave’s Twitter blackdaveblackdave.com -----...
Sep 22, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 6Ep. 13
MP, Co-founder of JPEG, explains how creators can take advantage of on-chain data for monetization in their communities. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 1 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...
Sep 21, 2022•4 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Tyson Battistella, CTO and Co-Founder of Zora.co, talks about things that excite him in today's market aside from Zora. Full episode Season 6 Episode 8 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:...
Sep 20, 2022•2 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Sound.xyz Co-Founder and CEO David Greenstein on the platforms roll of curation. Full episode Season 5, Episode 3 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: htt...
Sep 19, 2022•9 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Jenil Thakker, Founder of Coinvise, explains what most of the use cases were for community air drops and what they have evolved to be in today's market. Full episode Season 6 Episode 12 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 Lev...
Sep 16, 2022•3 min•Season 6Ep. 12
Mint Season 6 episode 12 welcomes Jenil Thakker, Founder of Coinvise, an open platform on Ethereum where creators can launch a social & build a tokenized community. For the next half hour we spoke about the launch of the new airdrop tool on coinvise, expectations for the new feature, how the airdrop filter works, and so much more. I hope you guys enjoy our conversation. Time Stamps 00:06 - Intro 01:40 - Membership NFTs 06:00 - The Airdrop Tool 07:21 - Incentivizing Participation 10:04 - Expe...
Sep 15, 2022•31 min•Season 6Ep. 12
Rantum, the blockchain data wizard, shares his point of view on community interoperability in web3. Full episode Season 6 Episode 11 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/levyc...
Sep 14, 2022•3 min•Season 6Ep. 11
Mint Season 6 episode 11 welcomes Rantum - The blockchain data wizard whose work can be seen across Art Blocks, Uniswap Grants, and writer at the Our Network newsletter. Our theme for the next half hour revolves around on-chain data; specifically, how creators can use on-chain data to build stronger communities. We outline various metrics you should consider tracking, Rantums mental model for analyzing dashboards, and so much more. I hope you guys enjoy our conversation. Time Stamps 00:37 - Intr...
Sep 13, 2022•33 min•Season 6Ep. 11
Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana, explains why Apple and Google, the top dogs in web2 haven't joined the web3 wave yet. Full episode Season 6 Episode 2 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:...
Sep 12, 2022•2 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Cooper Turley aka Coopahtroopa, founder of Coop Records, shares his thought process on how creators should value ownership in web3, and some ways we can teach them how valuable owning your audience really is. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 10 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 -----------------------------------...
Sep 09, 2022•4 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Mint Season 6 episode 10 welcomes Cooper Turley aka Coopahtroopa who rejoins Mint to debut his new venture Coop Records backed by a $10 million funding round to double on his love for supporting music artists and early-stage crypto startups. I feel like we’re gonna look back at this episode as an iconic moment in his career as he sets the example for what he calls an Artist Seed Round. Additional Resources Episode Timestamps and Transcripts Cooper’s Twitter Coop Records -------------------------...
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Natalia Murillo aka Nati, who’s the founder of Koop, shares her view on monetary access to communities in web3 and how she sees this model playing out in the future. Full episode Season 6 Episode 9 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fol...
Sep 07, 2022•3 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Mint Season 6 episode 9 welcomes Natalia Murillo aka Nati, who’s the founder of Koop, a new home for communities to become more personal and collaborative. In this episode, we discuss Koop’s product vision, Nati’s plan for turning consumers into contributors, on-chain data, her vision for a new social media, the evolution of creator governance, and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Time Stamps 00:10 - Intro 07:22 - Getting Started in Web3 10:18 - Lessons Learned for New Creators J...
Sep 06, 2022•52 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Gary Vaynerchuk shares his thought process on how to go about building a community as a creator in web3. 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/l...
Sep 05, 2022•5 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Tyson Battistella, CTO and Co-Founder of Zora.co, breaks down the meaning of a hyperstructure and explains why its valuable. Full episode Season 6 Episode 8 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: h...
Sep 02, 2022•4 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Mint Season 6 episode 8 welcomes Tyson Battistella, CTO and Co-Founder of Zora.co the NFT marketplace protocol. Throughout the hour, we discuss how he got his start in web3, the early days at Coinbase, lessons learned along the years while building their marketplace protocol, hyperstructures, his thesis on the web3 creator economy, web3’s data problems, and so much more. Additional Resources Episode Timestamps and Transcripts Tyson’s Twitter Zora.co ----------------------------------------------...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Aaron McDonald, crypto OG and founder and contributor to Altered State Machine, FLUF World, Futureverse, Sylo, Centrality and D64 Ventures, explains how to build stickiness in web3. Full episode Season 6 Episode 7 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------...
Aug 31, 2022•4 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Mint Season 6 episode 7 welcomes Aaron McDonald, crypto OG and founder and contributor to Altered State Machine, FLUF World, Futureverse, Sylo, Centrality and D64 Ventures. Time Stamps 01:37 - Intro 05:14 - Crypto in 2015-2016 14:09 - How Do We Build a More Positive Metaverse 22:16 - Creating Stickiness in the Metaverse 30:06 - What Does Ownership Really Mean In Web3? 30:39 - Strategies for Using On-chain Data 39:51 - Taking Web3 Mainstream 43:28 - Current State of UX in Web3 47:30 - Understandi...
Aug 30, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Michael Blau, the magician, mentalist, web3 software creator and engineering partner at a16z, shares his way of applying the psychological skills he learned as a magician to current web3 markets. Full episode Season 5 Episode 11 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 ------------------------------------------------...
Aug 29, 2022•3 min•Season 5Ep. 11
Erick Calderon, founder, and CEO of Art Blocks, breaks down the project's curation strategy Full Episode Season 6 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 Inst...
Aug 26, 2022•4 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Mint Season 6 episode 6 welcomes Erick Calderon, founder and CEO of Artblocks. In this episode we talk about his transition from importing tiles for 19 years to starting art blocks, putting together the platform’s curation board, his favorite NFTs, how he utilizes on-chain data, NFTs on Tezos, music NFTs and more. I had some microphone issues with the software i use to record, so apologies for the airpods like quality on this episode. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Time Stamps 02:27 - Intro ...
Aug 25, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Slow Ventures' Megan Lightcap, interviews me this time and has me share my take on social tokens in todays market. Full episode Season 6 Episode 5 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://twi...
Aug 24, 2022•3 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Mint Season 6 episode 5 welcomes a fun conversation between Slow Ventures’ Creator Principal Megan Lightcap and Mint host Adam Levy on the pseudonymous creator economy, why on-chain data is the most exciting opportunity for creators, Time Stamps 00:12 - Intro 04:17 - Recapping NFT NYC 08:39 - How Does Web3 Empower Creators? 15:12 - The Divide Between Web2 Creators and Web3 Creators 24:29 - Thoughts Around Social Tokens 29:26 - How Creators Should Use On-chain Data to Serve Their Communities 36:4...
Aug 23, 2022•45 min•Season 6Ep. 5
