Ven Gist is a philosopher of networks, designer of worlds. Researcher at The Open Machine which is a publication for the generation of experimental cultural and conceptual compliments to the decentralized web. He's an early member of MetaCartel, an org which funded many projects to develop open source technology and experiment with DAOs. Now working on Guild Guild. A locus of coordination for Creating, Stewarding, Enabling, and Studying Guilds. We talk about the open source movement. The histori...
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 69
Sean Bradford is an artist, musician and creative technologist. Founder of ORIGIN STØRIES, a creative tech studio producing custom AI-powered tools for co-created experiences. He's lived many lives. As a vocalist and recording artist signed to a major label. Performing on Broadway. A DJ who spent a lot of time in Berlin, before moving to Stockholm and now Amsterdam. A crypto native, deeply immersed in AI and generative systems. Exploring how these creative tools can be used to transform relation...
Nov 08, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 68
Lucas is the Founder of Pods. A new way to publish, discover, and own your favourite podcasts. The place for bringing your podcast onchain. He's also Co-Founder of Fire Eyes DAO, a collective of crypto-natives who designed token economic and governance systems for projects including Optimism, ENS and Gitcoin. And was also an early employee at Bankless. We talk about what we've learned from a few years experimenting with onchain media. How minting works like a broadcast signal. And creators using...
Oct 25, 2024•53 min•Ep. 67
JAKE is a pseudo anonymous internet creator. Going with the classic blue, colour code #0000FF as his pfp. Host at POD OF JAKE where he’s interviewed almost 200 guests over 4 years. Most recently Jacob from Zora and others such as Vitalik Buterin, pplpleasr and Mark Cuban. Writer at BLOG OF JAKE, where he’s published about creativity and writing, documenting his experiences as a podcaster, observing what’s happening on the internet, reviewing crypto news, thinking about how to learn and build. JA...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 66
Jamie Reddington is an electronic music producer, consultant and lecturer from London who recently released his debut album Scenes. His music is shaped by hiphop, UK dance music and soul. Leaning into telling stories, with textures and samples captured from his phone, featuring the sound of his daughter’s heartbeat. The record was released as a co-creation. ‘Over 350 memories were submitted and turned into Scenes, capturing a moment in time. People stopped, took time out of their lives and engag...
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 65
Gami and Clouted are core contributors from International Meme Fund (IMF) and $MONEY. Their team believes it is now crucial to have native liquidity and financial infrastructure for the meme sector. They're both from Sydney and have shared interests in defi financial engineering, game theory and the memecoin phenomonen. We talk about financial nihilism. Memes as emergent properties of the internet. Why do some meme assets succeed when the vast majority fail? How do you choose the tokens that go ...
Oct 07, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 64
Nadia Piet is Founder and Creative Lead of AIxDESIGN, a global community conducting critical AI research for the benefit of people, not profits. She's a designer, researcher, organiser and faculty member at ELISAVA's Design for Responsible AI. We talk about AlphaGO and Move 37. AI models being trained on creative assets without permission. And what's causing the rapid improvement of generative AI such as DALL-E and Midjourney? In the face of constant change, what are constructive ways to be thin...
Sep 19, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 63
Dave Bachinsky is a professional skateboarder, woodworker, and visual artist based in Carlsbad, California. In 2020, he launched a visual collection called Roll Forever featuring videos filmed with a drone from a bird's-eye view, observing a skaters' line in a pool or skate spot and edited to loop indefinitely, as if the line never ends. His new project Changing Tides was minted on Highlight. Dave is super early bringing skateboarding to the crypto, NFTs and new internet scene. We talk about lif...
Aug 15, 2024•58 min•Ep. 62
Simona Pop is joyfully subverting the status quo. Host of /therapy on Farcaster. Writing and giving talks around building with intention and how existing trauma and socio-economic conditioning can hinder our ability to build something different. She's an advisor at Optimism helping to build the Superchain. Public Goods Steward at ENS DAO and one of the first people we met in crypto attending Ethereal Summit in Brooklyn in 2018. Simona's been a member of the UFO network since the very beginning. ...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 61
Malcolm Levy, Raf Katigbak and Greg Liburd are co-founders of Refraction. An artist-owned community leading the next wave of digital art, music and culture — online, onchain and IRL. They all have extensive backgrounds in media, culture, festivals, films, brands. As artists, designers, writers, producers and creative people. Raf was early at VICE. Greg did a bunch with Jordan. Malcolm was the Director of the New Forms Festival 2001-16, and Curator of CODE Live during the 2010 Olympics Games. Tod...
Jul 10, 2024•59 min•Ep. 60
Carlos Gomes is the Founder of Forefront. Early contributor at Seed Club and Mint Fund. Currently building Farcaster Index as a place to discover farcaster tokens and mints. On the other side, they shipped Terminal as the fastest way to create a channel token on Farcaster. Carlos and Nick met IRL for the first time at FarCon in California, and then again during ETH Berlin. Current topic of conversation is going faster. Build it faster. Do it faster. Accelerate everything. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm tour...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 59
Toadyhawk and Benbodhi are contributors in the Nouns ecosystem. Founders of The Noun Square, an onchain media collective funded by Nouns, which is home to the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast. The project has evolved into The Yellow Collective on Base. Supporting artists and creativity onchain and exploring nounish culture. We talk about memes, DAOs, the vanishing media business, hanging out at FarCon in California, and the future of Nouns. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm tour.ufo.fm SPONSORS Higher is a lifesty...
Jul 02, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 58
Derek Taylor is a musician and founding member of the park. A band with many of the largest onchain music mints of all time. Based in Los Angeles, originally from San Francisco. They stage Fridays at the Park, bringing artists together in the room to write and record music. In-person experiences that also help onboard into the onchain and crypto world. Derek is a coffee enthusiast and raconteur. Owner of the legendary Menotti’s Coffee Stop in Venice Beach. We jumped on the mics to record days be...
Jun 27, 2024•55 min•Ep. 57
Martin, Six and Kugusha are all early members of higher. A new creative collective with its own native currency, built with a token on Base, publishing on Zora, and accelerating out of sight as one of the all-time fastest growing Farcaster channels. Higher is a lifestyle, an optimistic mindset, a brand being built in real time by hundreds of people on the internet. The word itself was used in crypto for some time, but the idea that “Higher” could be something bigger was kickstarted by LGHT in Ma...
Jun 27, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 56
Scene Infrastructure Company is a software business building better instruments for socialization. We recorded with the founding team, Jose Mejia, Ethan Daya and Neesh and what we got down on tape is super valuable context, experiences and thoughts around founding a new company. For design, product, community building and technology choices. Coming from earlier founding experiences at organizations like FWB and Zora. On designing a brand, and finding inspirations from retro spots like computer m...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 55
LATASHÁ is the founder of Topia . The evolution will not be televised. It will be onchain. She’s an artist, musician, producer, world builder. An original from the onchain music scene who was minting works on Zora back in 2021 kinda time. She had one of the earliest websites with onchain music videos and tracks. In this period she became Community Lead at Zora and produced ZORATOPIA. An events series and community which helped to educate and onboard artists into new internet ways of releasing mu...
Apr 17, 2024•56 min•Ep. 54
July is a founder of Faust. Developing Roc: a reality oracle computer that notarizes reality, onchain. He’s an engineer who built flying cars and autonomous vehicles with Kittyhawk, a startup backed by Google. He’s an early Farcaster user and creator of the /july channel with 6.5K members. A place where anyone is invited to post musings, thoughts & dreams. July is based in the Bay Area and we met recently via Farcaster where he posts about art, history, philosophy, and thoughts on technology...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 53
Nat Emodi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Highlight. Their product is being used for generative releases by leading artists, organizations, and platforms. Helping creators to release any type of collection, from tightly curated series to generative open editions. Opening the space for experimentation as more people can explore their ideas and make generative art. Nat is based in the Bay Area. We met online when we were both judges for the We Love The Art competition hosted by Optimism. He was worki...
Mar 04, 2024•50 min•Ep. 52
Alvaro Delgado is a musician, artist, and co-founder of Oval — A newborn creative community from Barcelona. Starting in 2024, Oval is putting together a series of concert and club nights, community events, suppers, and writing camps — designed to foster cross-pollination among individuals who have come to the city in search of something more: a spotlight, a sense of belonging. They believe they can build something better, and they want to do it onchain. The project was introduced with Barcelona ...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 51
On today’s show, Alex Guy, aiio and LGHT. We are the hosts of the first shows on the UFO network. Alex is head of Growth at Zerion and in December launched Still Here. A show to explore his curiosity. Talking with people who are active web3 citizens, through all the ups and downs of crypto, answering the question of what inspires and motivates them. Why they’re still here. aiio is a researcher, community builder and writer bridging across web3 and the underground electronic music and arts commun...
Feb 09, 2024•59 min•Ep. 50
Leo Pastel is a musician, songwriter, multi-sensory artist and active builder in web3 music from Cincinnati, Ohio. He started releasing music in 2018 and has been involved from early days in the crypto music scene. His first single Woah was a hit with almost 750,000 streams on Spotify. He's produced as part of Songcamp and Camp CHAOS, and performed at FWB Fest in 2023. Leo tells stories about experiences in the gospel scene, growing up in a musical family, and singing as part of the Sunday Servi...
Feb 02, 2024•57 min•Ep. 49
Nick Smith is a designer from Melbourne, Australia. Founder of Fam, a space for music communities to grow, collaborate and collectively fund creative projects. He’s an OG early member from FWB and helped to organise Soulquest, a collaborative music project featuring Iman Europe, V.C.R, illcamille, and Swarvy, along with visual artists Jamee Cornelia and Shawntel Johnson. The group performed and recorded at FWB Fest in 2023. This project is an inspired homage to The Soulquarians, a loose collecti...
Jan 19, 2024•58 min•Ep. 48
Welcome to 2024. We talk about music. Artificial intelligence. Creative practice, processes and collaborative formats. Nascent space. Onchain collectives. Minting works. Experimental music. What it all means. Hexorcismos aka Moisés Horta Valenzuela is an artist, musician and technologist working with generative artificial neural networks over the past 7 years. Based in Berlin, originally from Mexico, his upcoming album MUTUALISMX is coming out on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People on February 15. The r...
Jan 08, 2024•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 47
Adam Levy is the creator and host of Mint Podcast . Exploring the web3 creator economy, discovering how the creators of today are building the communities of tomorrow. Genuinely of the best podcasts in the space. He is also a founder of Bello , where you can discover actionable insights about your collectors from their wallets and onchain activity through a simple search. We met in November 2022 when Mint and UFO were both early moving media projects on Lens, experimenting with onchain media and...
Dec 27, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 46
Rafa is the founder of Folklore, a community crafting knowledge of connection, lorecraft, and digital realms. An amazing place to discover ideas and pieces of writing thanks to collective curation. Jihad Esmail is a writer, researcher and builder. A media dealer at Forefront proliferating onchain collective creation. Active contributor in the Nouns ecosystem, and various onchain experiments. Our conversation centres on a couple things. The Casino on Mars article written by Matt Huang for Paradig...
Dec 15, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 45
Matthew Chaim is a founder of Songcamp which is an artist collective and creative studio experimenting with songwriting camps and emergent technology to unlock new ways of creating and releasing music on the internet. Started in 2021, Songcamp has run three online songwriting camps with over 50 emerging musicians from around the world. The music they created was released via compilation projects as onchain immersive collections. We talk about all three of the previous Songcamp releases to date: ...
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 44
Jesse Pollak is contributor #1 at Base. A new Ethereum L2, incubated by Coinbase and built on the open-source OP Stack. We talk about Jesse’s origin stories in tech and being early to join Coinbase. Where he served as lead for all Retail engineering, including building Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, and Coinbase Wallet. What does it mean to bring the world onchain? We go behind the scenes to discover ‘how did this get made?’ in relation to Coinbase and Base. How the idea to do something radical like de...
Nov 02, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 43
Zeneca is the founder of Zen Academy , a space designed to be a helpful community to learn about about web3 and NFTs. Former professional poker player. Speaker and content creator, writing about crypto, web3, NFTs, and the future of the internet. A catalyst for a community which spun up during the 2021 NFT mania. Zeneca first appeared on Twitter back in those days, initially posting daily NFT stats. In the hype of the time, many creators reached massive social followings, and today Zeneca has 37...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 42
Matt Alston and Melissa Zhang are co-founders of Bonfire. The no-code website builder for web3 creators, brands and communities. A place for artists to connect with their fans and design exclusive experiences. A nexus point for all your releases across onchain media, NFTs and creative works. It looks to be a sign of where things are headed as we evolve out of the web2 social media paradigm. These platforms and algorithms are super demanding of creators’ time. The ideal is maximising your control...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 41
Paff is a co-founder of Take Up Space. A community, creator collective and media company for culture-makers. Writer, creator and speaker based in Scotland, previously from Australia. Who created Take Up Space with their wife, Hannah Peacock. Emerging from the covid lockdown experiences of 2020 into 2021. Through community, events and media, their goals are to create opportunities for POC & queer voices to take up space as their most authentic selves. We talk about earlier times on the intern...
Oct 10, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 40
