One of the most recognizable sports brands ever is big into NFTs, but not here to maximize profit. Today's pod will look at how the Chicago Bulls manage their brand, their logo, their everlasting success from the 1990s, and how they have approached launching into web3. We'll also look at the revenue streams of the NBA, and how the league is hell bent on maximize each avenue.
Steph Curry is Forbes' #5 highest paid athlete of 2022. But by the time he's done playing, his business moves and crypto investments could make him even richer than Michael Jordan. LG dives into the business of Steph Curry and his mega deals with Under Armor and FTX.
A message from LG. We are taking time to retool things at The First Mint, and quite frankly the podcast is the first thing I want to change. It needs a refresh. This podcast will return the week of October 17th, with a fresh approach, new stories, and the love of sports we all started with. And maybe, just maybe, a new partner or two.
What do we, as normal people, actually own in web3? Yes, we own the NFTs, but we SHOULD own the network. Today's guest, Jess Sloss, runs The Seed Club: an incubator for web 3 communities and networks. On today’s show, we discuss what we as participants in this network (and our multiple sub networks) should expect from the space, and what it should expect from us.
There’s a golden question in NFTs - Where is it all going? There’s no straight answer here. The NFT boom came out of nowhere, as did its biggest players. So with no predictable origin, it’s challenging to predict a future, or a final act. But today's guest cares less for what the future holds, and more for what creators need right now today. He is a mission-based builder, and develop one of the industry's most useful tools, Premint. Brenden Mulligan joins us on the show.
It's here. The most practical use of sports NFTs has arrived on NFL ALL DAY, and the man behind it all joins us for an in-depth dive into the platform, its future, and his background in sports marketing. Welcome Dave Feldman to the show, the GM of one of the most important products in the space.
We know NFTs have potential, but just how big will they get? We welcome a true OG and podcaster, Andrew Steinwold, host of Zima Red, to break down how NFTs will come to swallow land deeds, international markets, and all forms of commerce. Plus, we get a sneak peek into the early days of the NFT scene.
What if you quit your job to RESEARCH crypto full time and write about it? That's todays guest, Jack Niewold, who has covered the LUNA collapse, the ETH Merge, the Celcius Collapse, and hands out lengthy advice FOR FREE on the internet. We cover his how he got started, his tips for 100x on an altcoin, and what to look for in the future of NFTs.
What does it take to get 5000 Likes on a single tweet about NFTs? Today's guest, ThreadGuy, can tell you all about it. He started writing threads, but is now a primary player in the meme economy of the crypto world. His secrets to success include capturing timely sentiment, a competitive nature, and an absolutely chaotic approach to making daily content.
Its coming. The much talk about ETH merge is just a month away, and the price action is heating up. But WHAT exactly is the merge, and how will it affect our NFTs? And more recently...what is this talk of forking? We bring on a legend, 0xQuit, to talk us through one of the most hyped events in crypto history.
Last week, the $Flow token, Dapper Lab's underlying blockchain, surged 40% on the Instagram integration news. A bullish sign for sure. But what do we really know about the token, and what its future holds? And more importantly...how much $Flow are we getting airdropped at the end of this month?
The crypto market can't make up its mind, so we called up one of the best in the biz: Tascha from Tascha Labs, who literally holds a PhD in Macroeconomics and is a well known writer in the crypto space. She shares her insight on the macro, the war, the market, and how this current version of NFTs has zero chance of sticking around.
What drives NFT bull markets? And what will bring on the next one? We've got the co-founder of Dapper Labs, Mack Flavelle, on the show to tell us about how NFTs came about, and how their predecessors were emojis and GIFs. Oh, and he also thinks that Roadmaps are super dumb.
We've heard this before: “fortunes are made in bear markets”. But what exactly does that mean? We bring on The Wolf Of All Streets to tell how he approaches portfolio building in the crypto space, and discuss lessons from recent hardships.
These brands, they are a changin’. With many fortune 100 brands now entered into the web3 arena, what will this seismic shift mean for the average retail consumer, who will now need to navigate the metaverse to find their fave product? We welcome Adam Brotman, former EVP + CDO of Starbucks, and now advisor to many web3 projects, to talk the brands of web3.
In the last month alone, UFC Strike has shipped Burning, Free Moments, Themed-Drops, Champions Club, and setup an incredible booth at International Fight Week. Although this is a bit more of a niche topic than usual for the show, I wanted to dive in because I’ve personally found the speed and execution of UFC Strike to be beyond that of its counterparts in the Dapper ecosystem.
Web3 is changing rapidly, and pretty soon all our favorite shows, books, and songs will be native NFT projects. This renaissance is being led by two industry pioneers - SAFA and Valet Jones from Jenkins The Valet - and they're on to discuss the future they envision for everyone’s favorite story.
Jayne Peressini. Fresh off the end of the NBA season, we welcome her to show to get an inside look at how the NBA Top Shot platform plans to grow and what her first order of business has been at Dapper.
We really thought 2022 would be “the” year for NFTs. Turns out, we were dead wrong. And rather than focus on the doom and gloom of the market, we're looking way further ahead to mass adoption, and what its gonna take to onboard 100,000,000 into non fungibles.
NFL All Day. Candy MLB. NFTU College Hoops. And this week - NBA Top Shot. Burning has finally arrived to the sports NFT world and just in time to combat the woes of oversupply. In this pod, we'll explore the different methods for burning, and their short + long term impacts.
Are NFTs only about making money? With the market in a weird place, LG goes back to the original value points of NFTs, and dives into Vitalik Buterin's latest proposal on the future of Ethereum: Soulbound Tokens.
The markets are down. The coming times will be slow. Yes, its a good time to build. But as collectors, how can we contribute without founding a project project or getting a job? We dive into how and why collectors can matter during the first ever NFT winter.
Following the worst week in NFTs (maybe ever?), it's a good time to think about stability in the space. What projects will survive? How do you cope with unrealized losses? And most importantly... how do we define trust going forward?
NFTs are slowing. The economy is crumbling. The outlook is bleak, and we may be on the verge of another crypto winter. But that doesn't mean NFTs can't keep growing in the coming years ahead. Today we dive into the history of Crypto Winter, and what may drive the next major wave of adoption to crypto and NFTs.
Many NFT projects claim to be the "best" at something, but its often just marketing puff talk. So how do we breakthrough that Marketing 101 speak and dig deeper into both marketable aspects of the NFTs, but also how those aspects are sold. Yes, this is a pod about how NFT market themselves to us, and what we as consumers expect and demand from them.
Meet Marcus, the founder of Rumble Kong League AND the Director of Marketing for The Sandbox. Born a red-bull crushing gamer, Marcus turned his passion into a career in gaming (including a stint at Blizzard), and now lives/breathes the Play2Earn revolution. So what's his POV on today's NFT trends, and what will it take for gamers to love NFTs the same way we do? We dive in.
We love sports. But man, there are A LOT of sports card-style NFTs right now. To the point where some of the companies behind them have paused the release of supply for a few weeks in order to appease community sentiment. These companies NEED to sell product, but how do they do so while marketplace prices tank? We dive deep into this one.
Big brain alert! Wil from The Littles hops joins us to day to chat about the shifting landscape of NFTs, launching his own project, staying sane with time management, and how he became a thought leader. Warning, this episode may cause you to run and buy The Littles ***disclaimer: LG owns one of the NFTs in question
We kick off a fresh new month with a late night chat with Phil D, LG Doucet, and our faves from around the community. We discuss the latest NFT All Day blog post, legendary profits, Top Shot and Dapper malaise, Ballerz, and chat with Buddsy from Flunks.
Batman has entered the chat, and he is not messing around. Warner Brothers is launching Digital-Physical Hybrid NFTs, marking the DC Multiverse's entrance to web3. The First Mint (and very much LG) is proud to partner with Hro, the platform launching these NFTs with WB, to bring you all the info, drop details, and excitement of this massive step forward in NFTs. On the show, we have Josh Hackbarth (Head of NFT Development at Warner Brothers) and Mark Evans (Marketing Lead, North America, Hro), t...
