Mint Season 6 episode 25 was a little different as I was on the other side of the microphone for this one. I went on The Unstoppable Podcast hosted by Josh Gordon where we talked about my early days getting started in crypto, tips for community building via NFTs, the value behind issuing free NFTs, my creator playbook, and so much more. I hope you guys enjoy our conversation. Additional Resources Josh Gordon Unstoppable Domains Episode Timestamps and Transcripts ---------------------------------...
Nov 03, 2022•56 min•Season 6Ep. 25
Rantum, the blockchain data wizard, shares his mental model for analyzing on-chain data and building dashboards. 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://twit...
Nov 02, 2022•3 min•Season 6Ep. 11
Heno. the web3-native music artist joins Season 6 and explains why web3 is the perfect platform to target social justice. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 24 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: htt...
Nov 02, 2022•4 min•Season 6Ep. 24
Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder of Solana, shares a few applications that can only be built on the Solana blockchain. 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: https://tw...
Nov 01, 2022•4 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Mint Season 6 episode 24 welcomes Heno. the web3-native music artist who joined Mint to share the latest on his upcoming EP “In The Meantime” which acts as a vehicle to his next album, “I’m Tired Of Being Hypersurveilled”. Throughout the hour we break down his intentions behind the project and the overarching restorative justice initiative. I hope you guys enjoy our conversation. Time Stamps 01:33 – Intro 07:06 – Navigating Through Web3 14:03 – Where Music NFTs Meet Social Impact Initiatives 26:...
Nov 01, 2022•45 min•Season 6Ep. 24
Reo Cragun, the web3-native music artist shares his view on where he thinks crypto plays a part in the world of live performances. 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: Twi...
Oct 31, 2022•3 min•Season 6Ep. 14
Scott Hansen, AKA Tycho, and Matt Jones, founder, and CEO of Medallion, join Season 6 to break down the meaning of audience interoperability in web3. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 16 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 o...
Oct 31, 2022•3 min•Season 6Ep. 16
Erick Calderon, founder, and CEO of Art Blocks shares some key mindsets and actions that were taken to make Art blocks what it is today. 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...
Oct 28, 2022•10 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Gaby Goldberg, the self-proclaimed shit poster and investor at TCG Crypto, joins season 6 and shares her thoughts about free NFTs. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 23 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: Twi...
Oct 28, 2022•4 min•Season 6Ep. 23
Aaron McDonald, crypto OG and founder and contributor to Altered State Machine, FLUF World, Futureverse, Sylo, Centrality, and D64 Ventures, shares his view on what it means to own your audience 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 -----------------------------------------...
Oct 27, 2022•5 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Mint Season 6 episode 23 welcomes Gaby Goldberg, the self-proclaimed shit poster and investor at TCG Crypto. Time Stamps 00:09 - Intro 02:44 - Web2 Users vs. Web3 Users 07:36 - Challenges Creating a Network Effect Using Tokens 10:13 - Web3 Consumer 17:56 - Curation in Web3 24:19 - Digital Identity 27:02 - Will Decentralized Identity Ever Be Centralized? 47:39 - How to Build Product Defensibility When Data Is Open to All 51:15 - Outro Additional Resources Gaby’s Twitter TCG Crypto Episode Timesta...
Oct 27, 2022•56 min•Season 6Ep. 23
Stani Kulechov, the founder of Aave and Lens Protocol, explains the true meaning of social capital and the enabling features that Lens Protocol provides in web3. Mint Shorts exclusive, no full episode. Check out Stani on Mint Season 6 Episode 18 . 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 -----------------------------...
Oct 26, 2022•4 min
David Greenstein, the Co-Founder of Sound.xyz joins Season 6 for his second time being featured on Mint. He shares some alpha on strategies that have worked best for artists dropping on Sound. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 22 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 ---------------------------------------------------...
Oct 26, 2022•3 min•Season 6Ep. 22
Alex Masmej of Showtime talks about Apple's new NFT restrictions and where they could be going with their new policy. Mint Shorts exclusive, no full episode. Check out Alex on Mint Season 5 Episode 16 . 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Oct 25, 2022•3 min
Mint Season 6 episode 22 welcomes back David Greenstein, the Co-Founder of Sound.xyz. We talk about his vision for the future of music, Sound’s protocol, their new 0% fee music NFT marketplace, and much more. I hope you guys enjoy our conversation. Time Stamps 00:00 - Intro 01:17 - The Current State of Music NFTs 05:04 - Lessons David Learned Since His Last Time On Mint 07:17 - What Can Be Built On Top of Sound? 10:09 - If Spotify or Apple Music Were to Release a Protocol 10 Years Ago 13:15 - Th...
Oct 25, 2022•57 min•Season 6Ep. 22
Jenil Thakker, Founder of Coinvise, shares his view on what participation really means as an independent creator in web3. 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 Levy on social media: Twitter: htt...
Oct 24, 2022•2 min•Season 6Ep. 12
Hildebert, the Dune Wizard and Data Analyst at Dragonfly Capital joins Season 6 to share his POV on creator royalties in web3. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 21 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...
Oct 21, 2022•5 min•Season 6Ep. 21
Mint Season 6 episode 21 welcomes Hildebert, the Dune Wizard and Data Analyst at Dragonfly Capital. Throughout the hour, we discuss blockchain data in the creator economy, metrics to measure the success of a crypto community, Hildebert’s perspective on royalties, the world of zero knowledge technology, trends that made on-chain data more favorable to analyze, and so much more. I hope you guys enjoy our conversation. Time Stamps 00:09 - Intro 04:21 - How Do People Use the Data You Provide? 06:17 ...
Oct 20, 2022•37 min•Season 6Ep. 21
Dan Romero, Co-Founder of the sufficiently decentralized social network Farcaster, joins season 6 and explains more about the spectrum between centralized and decentralized on Farcaster. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 20 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 ---------------------------------------------------------...
Oct 19, 2022•8 min•Season 6Ep. 20
Mint Season 6 episode 20 welcomes Dan Romero, Co-Founder of Farcaster, the sufficiently decentralized social network. Throughout the hour we discuss his thesis for web3, the current state of web3 social, building an audience as a crypto-native creator, what it means to be sufficiently decentralized, how web3 will beat the bots, and so much more. Previously, Dan was the 20th employee at Coinbase and is an active early-stage angel investor across web2 and web3. I hope you guys enjoy our conversati...
Oct 18, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 6Ep. 20
Natalia Murillo aka Nati, who’s the founder of Koop, comes on season 6 and explains how the competition for engagement in web2 evolves to something different in web3. 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fo...
Oct 17, 2022•2 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Sridhar Ramaswamy, the co-founder, and CEO of n.xyz joins season 6 to compare the differences between web2 search and web3 search. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 19 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: Twi...
Oct 14, 2022•4 min•Season 6Ep. 19
Mint Season 6 episode 19 welcomes the co-founder and CEO of n.xyz, Sridhar Ramaswamy. This ex-Googler previously led the largest search engine’s $115 billion advertising division and has his eye on a new focus: blockchain data. With their debut launch this week, followed by an impressive series A led by Paradigm, we explore how he’s building web3’s indexer of choice and how his time at Google lead to where he is today. I hope you guys enjoy our conversation. Time Stamps 00:13 - Intro 04:27 - Wha...
Oct 13, 2022•48 min•Season 6Ep. 19
Stani Kulechov, the founder of Aave and Lens Protocol, joins season 6 to explain how creators can make money on his platform, Lens Protocol. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 18 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 ...
Oct 12, 2022•3 min•Season 6Ep. 18
Mint Season 6 episode 18 welcomes the founder of Aave and Lens Protocol, Stani Kulechov. Throughout the hour we discuss his vision for web3 social, how creators use crypto to communities, how creators make money on Lens, user-generated content as an asset class, migrating collectors from other chains onto Lens, how to use the lens social graph outside of their protocol, and so much more. I hope you guys enjoy our conversation. Additional Resources Stani’s Twitter Lens Protocol Episode Timestamps...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 6Ep. 18
Erick Calderon, founder, and CEO of Art Blocks breaks down NFT technology and the importance of having them fully on-chain. 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: ht...
Oct 10, 2022•4 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Joe Vezzani, the CEO and Co-founder of LunarCrush joins season 6 to explain what owning your data really means in web3. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 17 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...
Oct 07, 2022•3 min•Season 6Ep. 17
Mint Season 6 episode 17 welcomes a dear friend and mentor Joe Vezzani. He’s the CEO and Co-founder of LunarCrush, a social media analytics platform empowering traders with top-tier insights and sentiment on your favorite crypto projects. In this episode, we discuss key strategies for navigating through a bear market, the evolution of the web3 social landscape, on-chain data vs. off-chain data, how traders and creators can best leverage data, common pitfalls analytics fall trap too, and what Joe...
Oct 06, 2022•51 min•Season 6Ep. 17
Scott Hansen, AKA Tycho, and Matt Jones, founder, and CEO of Medallion, join season 6 to break down the roadmap for Tycho's new open-source community. Full Episode Season 6 Episode 16 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 ...
Oct 05, 2022•4 min•Season 6Ep. 16
Mint Season 6 episode 16 welcomes Scott Hansen, AKA Tycho, and Matt Jones, founder, and CEO of Medallion. Throughout the hour, we discuss Scott’s new open source community, the collaboration with Medallion, the similarities and differences between blogging and building a web3 community, bridging fans into web3, finding a balance between documenting and creating, and so much more. I hope you guys enjoy our conversation. Time Stamps 00:16 - Intro 04:51 - How Blogging Helped With Community Building...
Oct 04, 2022•48 min•Season 6Ep. 16
