Robin Schmidt aka SuperMassive is the founder and CEO of BasedAF. Multi-award winning film director and creative. That dude what ran an ULTRAmarathon in VR Chat. Sponsored by FRAZ, the No1 beverage in the Metaverse. He's also that dude what produced killer YouTube videos with The Defiant all through DeFi summer and the NFT run from 2021. I travelled out from Amsterdam to the BasedAF offices just outside of The Hague. Where I had the opportunity to have a look at the volume where they produce liv...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 39
Thomas Scaria is the co-founder and CEO of Lore. Where communities turn social energy into collective power. Thomas worked right around the edges of crypto adoption at Wyre, leading expansion to the defi and NFT ecosystem. Before then was a Sr Investment Associate at Citi. Since April 2020 his focus has been on Lore. They are about to launch their V2 with an app for collective crowdfunding for initiatives, media, and missions. Exclusively on Base. Available on mobile. Lore V2 introduces a modula...
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 38
LGHT is a creator, artist and writer who explores across web3, art, NFTs, DAOs, memetic icons, hypercultures and more at lght.mirror.xyz. Publishing imaginative concepts, research, insights and models. Gami is our first ever returning guest, a member of Nouns and founder of Gnars DAO. This recording session was actually the first time these two have met each other “in person” for a conversation. On June 21, Gami minted “HYPERCOMMONS” A Manifesto for a Positive-Sum World: “In the dawn of a new ag...
Sep 08, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 37
Fancy is an instigator at RADAR and previous founding team at Protein. RADAR is a decentralised global collective of more than 300 researchers, early adopters and innovators accelerating better futures. They discover and validate emerging trends powered by collective intelligence. Building a foundational set of imagination platforms for a better future. We catch RADAR as they launch Cycle 3. Over 10 weeks and beyond, they’ll be researching and cultivating — Our Centaur Future. Producing a collab...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 36
wijuwiju.eth is an initial contributor at Interface. Their app is a companion for exploring the realms of Ethereum. A tool that makes sense of onchain data, context and meaning that is all over the place. Gathering it together in ways that are understandable, enjoyable, surprisingly social, and actionable in terms of being on top of signals in the crypto space. We talk about how their team came together to build on these ideas. From an initial burst of support via a 50 ETH crowdfund on Mirror. W...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 35
Jayden Windle is a developer from Future Primitive. Isaac is a product manager from Zora working on Nouns Builder. Neokry is a resident engineer from BuilderDAO and Nouns Builder. We join for a group conversation about the new NFT standard ERC-6551 which Jayden is working on with Future Primitive, including our friend Benny Giang. Any NFT that has previously existed or will in the future has now become a wallet. NFTs can now hold other NFTs. It’s turtles all the way down. We talk about Nouns Bui...
Aug 03, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 34
Ivano Salonia is the creative director of UFO, based in Amsterdam. An artist, musician and creator in extended realities and virtual worlds. He is the artist behind the UFO poster art and NFTs. Since July 2022, Ivano and Nick Hollins have been creating the visual identity, art and brand of UFO. We went to ETH Tokyo in April and hacked on a UFO project with Lens Protocol and Livepeer. And we just built a website at ufo.fm ~ an onchain radio station and club for music, arts and ideas. This podcast...
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 33
Kabuki is a producer, musician and artist based in Germany. Manipulating frequencies since ‘96. Building audio installations and exploring the realms of web3, NFTs and onchain music. We talk about Kabuki’s music and his inspirations that came through electronic music and jungle in the 90s. About his creative process and philosophy. Learning how things work. How music technology is always changing in format and concepts. And about his creative projects in web3, experimenting with ideas for music ...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 32
Karma and Violetta are music artists, travellers in the crypto space, exploring onchain music and art and creative collectives. Based from Miami, USA. They are founders of wavWRLD. Seeking to create unique musical experiences that connect artists with their true fans. wavWRLD is a creative collective and music community that has been a shared space for many web3 music artists, and web3 builders for apps such as Riff ~ a music and sound app built on Lens. Karma and Violetta are both a part of Son...
Jul 13, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 31
pet3rpan is a partner from 1kx. Investing in autonomous worlds, NFT IP, metalabels, generative consumer and DAOs. Summoner at Hydra Ventures, a fund backing investment DAOs. Early founding member at MetaCartel from 2018, the web3 community of creators and developers focused on building blockchain applications, using crypto in interesting ways, exploring new ideas and experiments with DAOs. I first met Peter possibly in 2018, but definitely Berlin Blockchain Week in August 2019. He’s originally f...
Jul 10, 2023•55 min•Ep. 30
Chris Carella is a founding DAO member from Purple. He’s an artist, contributor across Nouns and Product Lead at the DAO tooling platform Charmverse. Phil Mohun is an early member of Purple and a founding DAO member of the arts community at Bright Moments. Working with generative and AI artists to produce iconic, real world experiences of their art. To join Bright Moments DAO, you collect a CryptoCitizens NFT which is a collection being minted in a global tour of cities for IRL minting events. C...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 29
Steph Alinsug is a brand builder, storyteller, community organiser, and media creative. Founder of VESSEL . An emergent startup designing for the onchain media ecosystem. Until recently she was the Media Steward at Seed Club . Internet native accelerator with a growing network of alumni projects including ALLSHIPS, Cabin, Forefront, Metalabel, Poolsuite, Protein, Refraction, Songcamp, Take Up Space and Water & Music. Steph helped to grow the brand, events like Seed Club Demo Day, and a media...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 28
Natasha Hoskins is a creator, brand builder and Co-Founder of Boys Club. A social collective bringing a new voice to the new internet. Product studio and media company. Best known for their parties, community, podcasts, interviews with crypto builders, memes, merch and a newsletter. In this episode we talk about the Boys Club origins from Natasha getting intro’d into crypto by her co-founder Deana Burke. To a full capacity dinner event for predominantly women interested in web3. Going on to hold...
Jun 20, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 27
Marcus AM is a creator, researcher, builder and artist. Fellow of the Ethereum Foundation and co-creator of Ethereum Guatemala . Author of the Last Mile Defi Report on crypto adoption in Latin America. Host and producer of the Odisea Podcast and recently the Last Mile DeFi Podcast. Very much a global traveller and was a part of Europe’s leading start-up incubator Entrepreneur First. Contributing across a range of initiatives in regenerative projects and impact investing including CityDAO, Cohere...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 26
Clare Farrell is a founding member of Extinction Rebellion . She’s an activist, artist, designer, communicator and organiser. If you’ve ever seen the Adam McKay movie ~ Don’t Look Up ~ with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, in which an asteroid is found to be on a collision course with Earth, and the protagonists go on national tv news in America to try and raise the alarm, only to be met by the banal absurdity of how mainstream news works. Well, Clare Farrell has that role in real life a...
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 25
Gami is a founder at Gnars and member at Nouns. His team at Omega just dropped an NFT project called Forgeries. An open edition minting NFT copies of Noun 401 ~ and one of those tokens unlocked ownership of the real Noun. Gami has a background in skateboarding, growing up in rural Australia. Before becoming a sponsored skater and other adventures. In this episode we talk origin stories in crypto and NFTs, his early interest and involvement in Nouns, and the founding of Gnars, a community owned (...
May 01, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 24
Evin McMullen is the co-founder and CEO at Disco. A company building tools to make it easy to carry your data from web2 to web3, under your ownership and control. Your identity for the metaverse. Using Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable credentials. In this episode we talk about Evin’s origin stories before web3 and crypto, how the Disco team came together, and the community design superpowers unlocked by combining Disco with tools from Guild. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 ...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 23
Yuri Rybak is a musician and producer. Partnerships at ZORA. Member at Friends With Benefits, including as a producer at NFT Pirate Radio with Chuck Anderson. In this episode we talk about writing and producing music, the music industry, and what we see as emergent for music NFTs and artist collectives. We get into Yuri’s musical path through life, leading to early involvement with FWB, where he was on the scene for many experiments in NFT releases from artists including Glassface, Pussy Riot, a...
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 22
Sirsu is the co-founder of BLVKHVND. He’s an artist, designer, brand creator, gamer. BLVKHVND is creating an emerging ecosystem for onchain esports organizations. Their mission is to be the center of competition no matter where it lives. After breaking history as the first DAO to win a professional world championship they are driven to make the HVND fully owned and stewarded by everyone on the internet to build upon that success. In December 2022, BLVKHVND launched on Nouns Builder with a daily ...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 21
Nir Kabessa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Yup, along with Co-Founder Vernon Johnson. Yup is the best of web3, all in one feed. Aggregating the best content of Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. A new way to curate your own feed and post across platforms. Nir was President of Blockchain at Columbia from 2018 to 2020. Since 2020 he’s been a Mentor at the Columbia IBM Blockchain Accelerator. He’s a speaker and investor, contributing at publications including Forefront, Hacker Noon an...
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 20
Rafa is a web3 creator, writer, and operations specialist. Crafting lore and exploring web3 collectives, combining org design theory with digital community building. Most recently he worked at Mirror as their Community and Growth Lead. He's the founder of Folklore, a community exploring long-form articles related to belonging, lorecraft, human relationships, and digital realms. He’s the Co-Founder of Local, working with artisans in Puerto Rico on a project that offers a space to collect NFT art ...
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 19
Dutchtide is an independent artist, designer and founder based in the Netherlands. Creator of the NFT collection ~ Midnight Breeze, released in late 2021. Illustrations inspired by 90s vaporwave and the Japanese word Ma ~ which translates to "space" but can be interpreted many different ways. In this case to space in-between spaces. Midnight Breeze is a project about a lonely road. A road where you the viewer are the last one awake, the last one to see the night. A moment of stillness, all aroun...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 18
losingmyego , 0xTranqui and Salief Lewis are founding members from Public Assembly . A collective of web3 developers building dev tools and educational materials ~ libraries and repositories of information. Public Assembly launched on Nouns Builder on December 3, 2022 ~ leveraging the unique physics of the internet to create what’s missing as fast as possible. Bread crumbs to leave in the dark forest of crypto. In this episode we go into the origins of their project which began as a four-week cr...
Feb 17, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 17
Jihad Esmail is a core contributor at Forefront - proliferating collective creation. He’s a researcher at Other Internet, an applied research organisation studying social technology. Key author for Tokenized Communities Year In Review ~ the third edition was just released. Forefront has arguably the single best crypto newsletter in the game. Their products including Pulse and Terminal are geared towards supporting the ecosystem of tokenized communities. Forefront Membership Pass is a recently la...
Feb 07, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 16
Scott Moore is the Co-Founder of Gitcoin, the community of builders, creators, and protocols at the centre of open web ecosystems. He's also the Co-Founder of Kernel which is an 8-week, invite-only program for people looking to build relationships, products, and companies in web3. Its core intention is about learning together and many of the brightest builders in crypto have joined Kernel since it began in 2020. Scott is a steward for core infrastructure projects like ENS, Gnosis Safe, and Optim...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 15
María Paula is the retired founder of the Department of Decentralization which organised the ETH Berlin hackathon events. Trent Elmore was working in DeFi before teaming up with María and Sam Spike as co-founders of JPG . A platform and infrastructure to promote and preserve the NFT ecosystem's cultural objects via exhibitions and canons. JPG's Exhibitions allow users to curate online NFT exhibitions, which are stored on Arweave in perpetuity. JPG Canons are community created and governed lists ...
Jan 26, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 14
Matto is a generative artist, audio, code, and visual. Managing Director of Thousand Ant, creative studio based in New York. Lead for Hypercastles in mid-2022, a community project to build a Unity game engine based 2D and 3D explorer of the Terraforms on-chain NFT megastructure by Mathcastles. His latest Night Run is a conceptual art project with three parts: A motorcycle game where you look at art in a generated city space; An NFT collection with imaginary fashion houses; A series of videos wit...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 13
Benny Giang is a product marketer and creative thinker in UX design, growth and community. Co-founder at Future Primitive where they work on experimental creative projects involving NFTs and DAOs such as the Stapleverse with Jeff Staples. Team member #13 at Dapper Labs and a co-founder of the iconic CryptoKitties early NFTs project in 2017. Later working on NBA Top Shot before departing from Dapper in October 2021. In this episode we talk about the origin stories of NFTs and creating the first e...
Jan 19, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 12
Black Dave aka Dave Curry is a music artist, producer, rapper, photographer, and innovator in the realms of web3 music and NFTs. He’s a contributor at leading music DAOs such as Water & Music, and shares ideas about crypto and music at blackdave.mirror.xyz. He helped to found a collaborative music project Amethyst from his hometown in Charleston, South Carolina. His latest release Black Dave Token is an audacious project which aims to support his musical journey raising 250 ETH with 1 millio...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 11
Anna Bulbrook is a musician, multi-disciplinary cultural curator, creative producer, and director. She is the Music Curator at TED and has played violin for artists like Perfume Genius, Beyoncé, Vampire Weekend and Spiritualized. Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur. He’s the cofounder and director of Metalabel, cofounder of Kickstarter, and cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent. Together with the squad at Metalabel, their ideas are collectively coming into focus wit...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 10
