UFO
A podcast where artists, musicians and tech creators talk about the future. Hosted by Nick Hollins.
Wed, December 04, 2024
Philosophy, Guilds and Open Machines — Ven Gist
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 historical context for where we are today. And what's coming up heading into 2025, where Ven is helping to stage Cosmolocal Playground in Amsterdam in the Spring. ___ UFO Sponsor Resources 🏙️ Towns — A feature-rich, onchain messaging experience that’s fully owned by its members. You build the space, set the rules, and make money. Build your community at towns.com ↑ Higher — A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. Higher is a lifestyle. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net 🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) — A DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund ___ @vengist @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm
Fri, November 08, 2024
Art, Music and AI with ORIGIN STØRIES — Sean Bradford
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 relationships and enable world building between artists and audiences. ___ UFO Sponsor Resources 🏙️ Towns — A feature-rich, onchain messaging experience that’s fully owned by its members. You build the space, set the rules, and make money. Build your community at towns.com ↑ Higher — A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. Higher is a lifestyle. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net 🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) — A DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund ___ @0xl @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm
Fri, October 25, 2024
Creating Onchain Media with Pods — Lucas
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 platforms like Layer3 and Boost to amplify distribution by offering token incentives and rewards for people to collect their content. ___ UFO Sponsor Resources 🏙️ Towns — A feature-rich, onchain messaging experience that’s fully owned by its members. You build the space, set the rules, and make money. Build your community at towns.com ↑ Higher — A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. Higher is a lifestyle. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net 🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) — A DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund ___ @0xl @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm
Tue, October 15, 2024
Writing, Podcasts and Minting Base Colors — JAKE
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. JAKE is also the founder of Base Colors, a new onchain collection where you can mint unique colour codes on Base and give them a name, an interesting primitive which many people are starting to play around and experiment with. We talk about the benefits of writing online. Go behind the scenes experiences of hosting a podcast. Thoughts on the crypto scene, Bitcoin and pseudo anon identities on the internet, decentralized social like Farcaster, and thinking too much about Colors. ___ UFO Sponsor Resources ↑ Higher — Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net 🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund ___ @jake @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm
Thu, October 10, 2024
Electronic Music Scenes — Sound Of Fractures
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 engaged in a process that connected music and emotions.' We talk about the past, present and future of music on the internet. What's most interesting for artists right now? ___ UFO Sponsor Resources ↑ Higher — Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net 🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund ___ @soundoffractures @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm
Mon, October 07, 2024
Exploring the Memecoin Supercycle with IMF — Gami, Clouted
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 up? (no financial advice). The internet is stranger than you think. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm SPONSORS Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Thu, September 19, 2024
Interpreting Technology with AIxDESIGN — Nadia Piet
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 thinking about AI? ufo.fm news.ufo.fm SPONSORS Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Thu, August 15, 2024
Rolling Forever with Skateboarding and Art — Dave Bachinsky
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 life as a pro skater, kickflipping El Toro 20 stair and competing in Street League (SLS). How the industry, scene and culture has evolved over the years. And how things look in 2024 with skateboarding returning in the Paris Olympics. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm karma.ufo.fm SPONSORS Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Wed, July 31, 2024
Building Something Different with Therapy — Simona Pop
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. We hear something about an upcoming radio show? ufo.fm news.ufo.fm karma.ufo.fm SPONSORS Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Wed, July 10, 2024
Art, Music and Festival Culture with Refraction — Malcolm, Raf, Greg
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. Today we reveal that Refraction and UFO are teaming up via our radio station. And exclusive alpha is shared for the future of Refraction for the first time on this show. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm karma.ufo.fm SPONSORS Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit higher.party Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz OPEN has built state of the art onchain ticketing infrastructure that puts artists, organizers and fans back in control. Anyone can participate in the ticketing revolution through the DAO of creators, builders and token holders. To join the onchain tickets movement with OPEN, head to onopen.xyz Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Wed, July 03, 2024
Going Faster with Farcaster Index and Terminal — Carlos Gomes
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.ufo.fm SPONSORS Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit higher.party Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz OPEN has built state of the art onchain ticketing infrastructure that puts artists, organizers and fans back in control. Anyone can participate in the ticketing revolution through the DAO of creators, builders and token holders. To join the onchain tickets movement with OPEN, head to onopen.xyz Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Tue, July 02, 2024
Nouns Culture with The Yellow Collective — Toadyhawk, Benbodhi
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 lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit higher.party Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz OPEN has built state of the art onchain ticketing infrastructure that puts artists, organizers and fans back in control. Anyone can participate in the ticketing revolution through the DAO of creators, builders and token holders. To join the onchain tickets movement with OPEN, head to onopen.xyz Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Thu, June 27, 2024
Happy Friday with the park ⌐Ⓗ-Ⓕ — Derek Taylor
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 before I flew out to FarCon. We co-hosted HIGHER SESSIONS down at Venice Beach skatepark on Saturday morning, with the park, higher and UFO. Trevor aka The Gardener had a mountain of flowers there and was creating bouquets for people passing by and the park was providing coffee. We talk about the back story of the park, stories of creative collaborations across the world, how best to get started on the onchain scene as a musician, and how things look into the future. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm tour.ufo.fm SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit higher.party Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz OPEN has built state of the art onchain ticketing infrastructure that puts artists, organizers and fans back in control. Anyone can participate in the ticketing revolution through the DAO of creators, builders and token holders. To join the onchain tickets movement with OPEN, head to onopen.xyz Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Thu, June 27, 2024
Higher is a lifestyle — Martin, Six, Kugusha
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 March. LGHT created the arrow logo and the /higher Farcaster channel, after a suggestion from Jacob from Zora that the unicode up arrow (↑) could be the symbol for “higher”. And LGHT then made a few memes in a collection on Zora. We talk about everyone’s early experiences on Farcaster and views on how it’s developing. About the origins of higher and what’s emerging so far from this experiment, building a brand together. Zooming out on the possibilities and general sense of fun and play with people on the internet that is something to be a part of. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm tour.ufo.fm SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit higher.party Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz OPEN has built state of the art onchain ticketing infrastructure that puts artists, organizers and fans back in control. Anyone can participate in the ticketing revolution through the DAO of creators, builders and token holders. To join the onchain tickets movement with OPEN, head to onopen.xyz Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Wed, May 01, 2024
Designing Social Instruments with Scene Infrastructure Company — Jose, Ethan, Neesh
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 magazines, playstation games and lore, to create something fresh. We talk about their vision for the future and what they’d like to build, as they’re figuring it out in real time. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm tour.ufo.fm SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit higher.party Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz OPEN has built state of the art onchain ticketing infrastructure that puts artists, organizers and fans back in control. Anyone can participate in the ticketing revolution through the DAO of creators, builders and token holders. To join the onchain tickets movement with OPEN, head to onopen.xyz Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Wed, April 17, 2024
Music Evolution with Topia — LATASHÁ
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 music and working together. Music prize winner in the We Love The Art contest from Optimism for WAVE, a track and music video produced from her home studio and environment. We talk about her origins in music and production, making beats and writing, coming up in the scene in New York City. Experiences working at ZORA in these earlier formative stages of the onchain arts community. Reflections on the space in this moment in 2024, and hints at what she’s building now at Topia. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm tour.ufo.fm SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Fri, April 05, 2024
Flying Cars, Robots and Reality Oracle Computers with Faust — July
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. In this episode we talk about July’s background in arts and tech. How he grew up all over the world in his childhood including Japan, the Netherlands and California. Observations about counterculture movements. What’s happening on Farcaster and onchain. About collective imagination and the zeitgeist, how that is expressed through culture. Why people want to build robots. What all these things mean for the future. And a bit about Farcon in Venice Beach where we’ll be meeting in-person, early May. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm tour.ufo.fm SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Mon, March 04, 2024
Digital Art Trends for 2024 with Highlight — Nat Emodi
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 working on ideas for a blog post which became ‘20 for ’24: Digital Art Trends That Will Shape This Year’. We decided to record an episode about these ideas, and put the focus on art and trends in the industry, technology, for artists and collectors, galleries and curators. Jumping on the mics right before Nat was heading to the airport to fly out for NFT Paris from California. We talk about art trends such as the expansion of ‘generative’ as a concept. Games and interactivity having an increasing role in digital art. And how best to create immersive IRL gallery experiences for onchain and digital art. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm tour.ufo.fm SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Mon, February 19, 2024
Coming Together for Music in Barcelona with Oval — Alvaro Delgado
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 Series on Zora. The first token is a text note that outlines their project, and the second is a video for BCN, their entry for the music category of the We Love The Art contest by Optimism. Oval produced a song, visualizer, and artwork inspired by Barcelona and its people. Fragments of a city that needs to be heard, seen, and felt. The video was assembled from clips sent in from their community in the city, to offer a multi-faceted composition. In this episode we talk about the inspirations of Oval for creating a space for people to belong. The power of events to build a community and an actual scene where cross-pollination, friendships and collaboration can take form. We talk a bit about the music industry in a time of shifting technology. About radio and the onchain realms, looking at places like NTS, Catalog Radio and what we’re creating here at UFO. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm tour.ufo.fm SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Fri, February 09, 2024
A Collective Signal with UFO — Alex Guy, aiio, LGHT
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 communities in Copenhagen. She writes about the concept of space, linking it to human culture, existence, and the need for adaptive ecosystems. Soon bringing a podcast to UFO! LGHT is a pseudo anon artist, designer, writer, and technologist based in the Eastern United States. Creator of the Hypercultures essay series as well as co-founding Based Management. His work mainly focuses on protocol design, the science of digital language/memetics, and zero to one acceleration of tech primitives and adoption. Today we’re announcing LGHT’s upcoming series on UFO — PROTOTYPE This is a special episode for UFO 50. We started in September 2022, soon after Nick Hollins returned to Byron Bay in Australia after travelling in Europe, where he met Alex and aiio at ETH Barcelona in July. The first episode was with Charlie Waterhouse, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion who helped design their art and iconography. From the jump UFO was publishing with the available onchain tools. Publishing on Mirror, establishing a web3 social audience on Lens Protocol, releasing mints. We had the UFO Genesis Pass in November 2022 with over 8000 mints, which helped create an audience and community starting from scratch, which has only grown since then. In June 2023, UFO was the first podcast to mint on the Zora network as it went live. We publish to an 1155 contract, and you can listen and mint onchain via all your favorite apps. There’s been 61 guests on UFO, covering arts, music, technology, and culture. Exploring trends in AI, web3 social, onchain media. Many of the most happening projects have dropped into the UFO studios to share stories along the way. It’s been a place for revolutionary ideas. A show to discover new projects and the people creating them. Revealing the many connections and friendships between people in this space who are collaborating and building things together. It is a counterculture scene, spread across the world, and happening for the most part online and onchain. Now that we’re here, next steps for UFO is launching a collective of podcasts. Building towards an onchain radio station and magazine from ufo.fm. Our approach is a combination of music, arts and ideas. These podcasts we have coming through, including quite a few we’re not announcing yet, will surprise and delight our listeners. We’re still early. This recording for UFO 50 with Alex, aiio and LGHT was the first time the four of u
Fri, February 02, 2024
Songwriting, Music and the Internet in 2024 — Leo Pastel
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 Service Choir with Kanye. Leo is super prolific talking about music online, sharing opportunities in the web3 space, and co-hosting a weekly live space GRLKRASH talking all things music, with a podcast on the way. Music NFTs have been a hot topic in the US lately after Flyana Boss withdrew an NFT mint because their fans called for them to cancel it. Onchain music is a controversial and unpopular medium at this moment. NFTs have a reputation problem. Meanwhile, Condé Nast announced major layoffs at Pitchfork, gutting the editorial staff. People have since been reflecting on the value of music. How do we appraise and experience it culturally? If we’re making music and no-one’s around to listen, critique, write about it and record into the zeitgeist — does it make a sound? ufo.fm news.ufo.fm tour.ufo.fm SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz .
Fri, January 19, 2024
Multiplayer Music Communities with Fam — Nick Smith
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 collective that formed in the late 90s while recording D’Angelo’s acclaimed album Voodoo. Involving members Questlove, D’Angelo, James Poyser and J Dilla along with collaborators Common, Erykah Badu, Q-Tip, Mos Def, Talib Kweli and many others. Nick is intrigued by music collectives through history such as the Wu Tang Clan, The Grateful Dead, Odd Future, and Native Tongues. In late 2023, Nick ignited a pop up group called Cheeks Collective. Spurred by a tweet about exploring ways to collectively stage music events around the world. A telegram group formed with people interested in staging parties, hosted by local producers. A bit like Boiler Room. Positive sum. In this podcast, we talk about Nick’s origins in crypto, as a co-founder from Talisman and projects with Flex Dapps. Ambitions and dreams for onchain music and experimenting in new formats for creating and releasing music on the internet. The revelation of positive sum collabs with artists and people in the community, to help make art, music, and experiences happen. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm tour.ufo.fm SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz Lore is where communities come onchain. Helping communities of all kinds raise funds onchain, up and down vote decisions and take action towards a collective mission. They are accepting applications from community leads and creators who want to crowdfund initiatives to be on their V2 launch line up. Go to lore.xyz to apply
Mon, January 08, 2024
Music, AI and Neural Audio Synthesizers with SEMILLA AI — Hexorcismos + Aiio
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 record features artists from around the world collaborating with AI models created for each artist’s musical imprint and style. Moisés is the founder of SEMILLA, helping to design and build an astonishing and surreal synthesiser in Iceland using seeds of divination cast into a circle which then produce sounds based on their placement. The SEMILLA AI instrument employs computer vision techniques to translate the coordinates of the thrown maize in the “world-space” interface and utilizes knobs to scale their values. The divinatory practice serves as an interface to inject real-world randomness into the process of synthesizing new sounds using neural networks for sound synthesis. aiio aka Irina is a researcher, community builder and writer bridging across web3 and the underground electronic music and arts communities in Copenhagen. Her creative practice is informed by her collective intellgience research practice. Building spaces that enable people with diverse areas of knowledge to come together and experiment. She's the co-founder of an experimental collective that she started in a garage, co-host of Ethereum meetups in Copenhagen and is currently co-creating a distributed interface for digi-physical communities. As aiio and cattfutur she writes about the concept of space, linking it to human culture, existence, and the need for adaptive ecosystems. ufo.fm news.ufo.fm tour.ufo.fm SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz Lore is where communities come onchain. Helping communities of all kinds raise funds onchain, up
Wed, December 27, 2023
Reimagining Content Collecting with Mint & Bello — Adam Levy
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 web3 social, and how we can use these tools to help establish an audience and a culture and vibe around our releases. We were running in parallel when not many other people in the industry were doing what we’re doing. Turns out that Adam’s journey in creating Mint and figuring out how to build a subscriber base ends up inspiring what he’s building at Bello. They realised how helpful it would be to know more about the collectors of their releases. What these people are doing onchain. Coming up with new ways to assemble an audience. For example, UFO had released our Genesis Pass on Mirror in November 2022, and Adam showed us on Bello that ⅓ of those collectors had a Lens profile. We could see by wallets that minters of the UFO Genesis Pass were also subscribers to UFO on Lens. In this episode we talk about Adam’s early experiences in music, playing drums, the records he was into. How his first experiences hosting a podcast type show including interviews with Mark Cuban and others illuminated a path forward to creating Mint and putting out 7 seasons so far with many big names in crypto, music and entertainment. This episode was recorded while Nick was working from Liverpool for a week, setting up a podcast / radio studio in an apartment in the centre of town. Stay tuned! ufo.fm news.ufo.fm tour.ufo.fm SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz Lore is where communities come onchain. Helping communities of all kinds raise funds onchain, up and down vote
Fri, December 15, 2023
Memetic Tribes and The Casino on Mars — Rafa & Jihad
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 Paradigm. ‘It’s useful to think of crypto as a new planet that’s being settled. Skeptics see a desolate planet without purpose. Or worse, a haven for an unsavory casino. Optimists see the planet’s potential: a blank slate on which we can build an upgraded financial system and internet platform.’ We talk about a research piece written by Rafa, Welcome to the Swarm, in which he’s exploring ideas around swarm theory and how groups form, with an extra interest in how this manifests online. Can only imagine where we’ll be a year from now, when we do this episode again! SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Paragraph is where you can create, distribute & monetize - on your own terms. This publishing platform enables creators to mint posts as collectible content and send token-gated newsletters directly to wallet addresses. To get started with these radically powerful tools, visit paragraph.xyz Lore is where communities come onchain. Helping communities of all kinds raise funds onchain, up and down vote decisions and take action towards a collective mission. They are accepting applications from community leads and creators who want to crowdfund initiatives to be on their V2 launch line up. Go to lore.xyz to apply Bonfire is the no-code website builder for web3 creators, brands & communities. UFO listeners also get a free 1-month trial to Bonfire Pro. Claim this offer at bonfire.page/ufo
Fri, December 01, 2023
Minting Blank CDs with Songcamp — Matthew Chaim
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: Genesis, Elektra, and CHAOS ~ the epic headless band with 77 contributing artists. Leading up to their latest, C4 which drops today! C4 is an imaginative collection with 15 contributing artists producing 5 songs. Audiences are invited to mint blank CD NFTs which can be used to write music to disc. We wander in conversation about music, technology, internet collectives, how Matthew likes to write and produce music, and other esoteric and musical topics. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Interface is a mobile companion for Ethereum travellers. Connect with people and communities you’re a part of, stay updated with their onchain footprint through activity feed and notifications, read, watch and listen to onchain media – all in one place. Visit interface.social Lore is where communities come onchain. Helping communities of all kinds raise funds onchain, up and down vote decisions and take action towards a collective mission. They are accepting applications from community leads and creators who want to crowdfund initiatives to be on their V2 launch line up. Go to lore.xyz to apply Bonfire is the no-code website builder for web3 creators, brands & communities. UFO listeners also get a free 1-month trial to Bonfire Pro. Claim this offer at bonfire.page/ufo
Thu, November 02, 2023
Bringing the World Onchain with Base — Jesse Pollak
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 decentralise Coinbase and bring the whole org onchain set things in motion, and led to Base being developed like a breakaway startup from within. You'll hear stories about how it’s working behind the scenes for players in this onchain movement including Base, Zora and Optimism. We look back on Onchain Summer from August and highlight projects including Basepaint, Happy Friday coffee by thepark, create.fun, Paragraph and Lore. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Interface is a mobile companion for Ethereum travellers. Connect with people and communities you’re a part of, stay updated with their onchain footprint through activity feed and notifications, read, watch and listen to onchain media – all in one place. Visit interface.social Lore is where communities come onchain. Helping communities of all kinds raise funds onchain, up and down vote decisions and take action towards a collective mission. They are accepting applications from community leads and creators who want to crowdfund initiatives to be on their V2 launch line up. Go to lore.xyz to apply Bonfire is the no-code website builder for web3 creators, brands & communities. UFO listeners also get a free 1-month trial to Bonfire Pro. Claim this offer at bonfire.page/ufo
Wed, October 25, 2023
Creating Within the NFT Mania with Zen Academy — Zeneca
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 370,000 followers on X. We talk about the future of the internet. Opportunities in onchain media. Adapting when your business model disappears along with NFT royalties. Highlights from the blur that was the NFT boom. About Zeneca’s interest in stoicism, and well founded concerns about mental health and burnout from being maxed out when you are extremely online. The need to have balance in our lives, physical fitness, sleep and touching grass when dealing with the drug feed which can be the internet signal. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Interface is a mobile companion for Ethereum travellers. Connect with people and communities you’re a part of, stay updated with their onchain footprint through activity feed and notifications, read, watch and listen to onchain media – all in one place. Visit interface.social Lore is where communities come onchain. Helping communities of all kinds raise funds onchain, up and down vote decisions and take action towards a collective mission. They are accepting applications from community leads and creators who want to crowdfund initiatives to be on their V2 launch line up. Go to lore.xyz to apply Bonfire is the no-code website builder for web3 creators, brands & communities. UFO listeners also get a free 1-month trial to Bonfire Pro. Claim this offer at bonfire.page/ufo
Wed, October 18, 2023
Revolutionising Websites for Artists and Fans with Bonfire — Matt Alston, Melissa Zhang
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 over your own connection to your audience and community. We talk about the origins of Bonfire and the opportunities to be found in new models for artists on the internet. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Interface is a mobile companion for Ethereum travellers. Connect with people and communities you’re a part of, stay updated with their onchain footprint through activity feed and notifications, read, watch and listen to onchain media – all in one place. Visit interface.social Lore is where communities come onchain. Helping communities of all kinds raise funds onchain, up and down vote decisions and take action towards a collective mission. They are accepting applications from community leads and creators who want to crowdfund initiatives to be on their V2 launch line up. Go to lore.xyz to apply Bonfire is the no-code website builder for web3 creators, brands & communities. UFO listeners also get a free 1-month trial to Bonfire Pro. Claim this offer at bonfire.page/ufo
Tue, October 10, 2023
Community for Culture-Makers with Take Up Space — Paff
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 internet, music forum culture, meeting people IRL through music festivals, dance floors and events. How shifting economic forces in cities around the world are making the artist lifestyle much more difficult to sustain than even 10-20 years ago, as culture is pushed to the edges. How organizations like Take Up Space are helping to meet this gap in experience for culture makers, as much of our lives go digital, and we seek connection with like minded people from around the world, and in our local communities. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Interface is a mobile companion for Ethereum travellers. Connect with people and communities you’re a part of, stay updated with their onchain footprint through activity feed and notifications, read, watch and listen to onchain media – all in one place. Visit interface.social Lore is where communities come onchain. Helping communities of all kinds raise funds onchain, up and down vote decisions and take action towards a collective mission. They are accepting applications from community leads and creators who want to crowdfund initiatives to be on their V2 launch line up. Go to lore.xyz to apply Bonfire is the no-code website builder for web3 creators, brands & communities. UFO listeners also get a free 1-month trial to Bonfire Pro. Claim this offer at bonfire.page/ufo
Wed, October 04, 2023
Producing in The Metaverse with BasedAF — SuperMassive
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 live action content in virtual reality and game engines with a motion capture suit. Doing wild things with facial capture and live streaming, and amazingly short production time thanks to a custom built camera which films the VR space in real time. Robin has worked as a producer, editor, director and vfx artist across everything from music videos to TV and directing a feature film back in 2014. We talk about storytelling and his creative journey. How he got into the web3 space and later joined The Defiant as director of video to produce a whole series I was watching at my place back in Australia. How he’s since stepped out of the crypto world, jumping into another industry that’s at the edges: The METAVERSE. Fucking about with what’s possible, and experimenting with virtual content creation. All of this and more! SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Interface is a mobile companion for Ethereum travellers. Connect with people and communities you’re a part of, stay updated with their onchain footprint through activity feed and notifications, read, watch and listen to onchain media – all in one place. Visit interface.social Lore is where communities come onchain. Helping communities of all kinds raise funds onchain, up and down vote decisions and take action towards a collective mission. They are accepting applications from community leads and creators who want to crowdfund initiatives to be on their V2 launch line up. Go to lore.xyz to apply Bonfire is the no-code website builder for web3 creators, brands & communities. UFO listeners also get a free 1-month trial to Bonfire Pro. Claim this offer at bonfire.page/ufo
Thu, September 21, 2023
Internet Energy as Collectives with Lore — Thomas Scaria
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 modular protocol that covers the entire lifecycle of community capital formation, coordination, and allocation. Through Lore you can explore communities and mint Membership NFTs. Make things happen coordinating with internet friends. We talk about social fi and Thomas’ thoughts about friend.tech. How Robinwood paved the way for what we’re seeing today in crypto and NFT markets. Crypto as a counterculture movement. Internet subcultures and group chats. Building collectives to take action together. How the web3 movement might address realities that a great many internet people are outright hostile to NFTs and crypto. Start changing people’s minds by doing cool shit, using the internet in new ways. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Interface is a mobile companion for Ethereum travellers. Connect with people and communities you’re a part of, stay updated with their onchain footprint through activity feed and notifications, read, watch and listen to onchain media – all in one place. Visit interface.social Lore is where communities come onchain. Helping communities of all kinds raise funds onchain, up and down vote decisions and take action towards a collective mission. They are accepting applications from community leads and creators who want to crowdfund initiatives to be on their V2 launch line up. Go to lore.xyz to apply Bonfire is the no-code website builder for web3 creators, brands & communities. UFO listeners also get a free 1-month trial to Bonfire Pro. Claim this offer at bonfire.page/ufo
Fri, September 08, 2023
Serendipity Machines & Hypercultures — LGHT + Gami
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 age, as our society expands and intertwines with the virtual, a proposition is put forward to embrace an unprecedented concept: the hypercommons. A bold exploration of the new frontiers of social, political, and artistic realms, the hypercommons embodies the protocol-built public goods and luxuries, the onchain hypercultures they foster, and the positive externalities they engender.” LGHT has written a series of essays on related topics: “Hypercultures are very much a legitimate feature of onchain activity, and not a bug. With less than 1M onchain collectors in the space and even less creators, anybody here can realistically be part of the next hyperculture.” These ideas live in realms mapped by Zora. Collecting and creating and experimenting onchain and across web3 social. We jam about memetic icons, skateboarding, hyperstructures, minting onchain, psychedelic experiences and the future of the internet. Wandering into the philosophical, a few concepts were struck upon: serendipity machines, and ever increasing novelty in the universe as per Terrence McKenna. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Interface is a mobile companion for Ethereum travellers. Connect with people and communities you’re a part of, stay updated with their onchain footprint through activity feed and notifications, read, watch and listen to onchain media – all in one place. Visit interface.social Lore is where communities come onchain. Helping communities of all kinds raise funds onchain, up and down vote decisions and take action towards a collective mission. They are accepting applications from community leads and creators who want to crowdfund initiatives to be on their V2 launch line up. Go to lore.xyz to apply
Fri, September 01, 2023
Accelerating Better Futures with RADAR — Fancy
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 collaborative foresight report that paints a picture of what lies ahead with artificial intelligence and lays the groundwork for how to bring it to life. “In the now, the near, and the next, it’s clear that we’ll be living (working, playing, learning, and creating) with more human-like technology than we’ve ever dealt with before, drawing to mind fear-inducing scenarios that feel straight out of science fiction while simultaneously calling on us to look more closely at what, exactly, makes and keeps us human.” We talk about RADAR LAUNCH and briefs funded with $10,000 from Kernel, Buidl Guidl, Future Primitive and OP Games. Wandering into philosophical conversations about AI, NPCs, and a gamified multiverse of emergent futures. How we play together to put our energy towards the futures we’d most like to see. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Interface is a mobile companion for Ethereum travellers. Connect with people and communities you’re a part of, stay updated with their onchain footprint through activity feed and notifications, read, watch and listen to onchain media – all in one place. Visit interface.social
Thu, August 10, 2023
Exploring Ethereum with Interface — wijuwiju.eth
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. What their team has been building since then, including essential contributions in design by Annoushka. Thinking about what the Interface app can do today, and some alpha for what’s on the near horizon. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Interface is a mobile companion for Ethereum travellers. Connect with people and communities you’re a part of, stay updated with their onchain footprint through activity feed and notifications, read, watch and listen to onchain media – all in one place. Visit interface.social
Thu, August 03, 2023
Onchain Culture x Nouns Builder with ERC-6551 — Jayden Windle, Isaac, Neokry
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 Builder and what’s happening in that ecosystem. The state of DAOs in 2023, opportunities we see going forward. Manifestations of onchain media. Collective creation as DAOs form around NFTs. Web3 social and how it relates onchain across ecosystems — with new possibilities for building communities and releasing creative works. How ideas like these and many others are forming a new lifestyle for the internet. As the town square we’ve had on twitter seems a little under siege, experiencing some tremors. As individuals break off to all corners of the internet. We can stay connected with our friends via onchain actions. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Interface is a mobile companion for Ethereum travellers. Connect with people and communities you’re a part of, stay updated with their onchain footprint through activity feed and notifications, read, watch and listen to onchain media – all in one place. Visit interface.social
Mon, July 31, 2023
Reimagining Art Practice with UFO — Ivano Salonia
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 is the first on the network. We talk about Ivano’s artistic practice starting out in advertising, design and brand. Doing work with global companies and agencies. How he became interested in making art in virtual reality, and experiments with AI and generative tools such as Midjourney. Diving into the web3, crypto and NFTs space from 2020. Working on projects including the motorcycle art video game Night Run with Matto from Hypercastles, and designing the 3D records for the Metalabel Quality Drops. We talk about his creative process and philosophy. About the creative scene in Amsterdam with many artists and musicians, technology projects, extended realities and VR. And the creation of the UFO art style and drops including UFO Genesis Pass and the Frequency Modulation release on Zora, remixing a retro MTV ad from the 1980s. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Mon, July 17, 2023
Manipulating Frequencies Since '96 — Kabuki
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 NFTs, beat tapes, live performances, videos and installations. I met Kabuki in 2021 through the artist collective at voyager. This episode has been a standing invitation since the beginning of UFO. This was a really fun conversation, talking a lot about music. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Thu, July 13, 2023
Experiencing Music with wavWRLD — Karma + Violetta
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 Songcamp and CHAOs, the headless band. We have a lot of shared experiences as musicians. Creatives in the crypto world exploring web3 social via Lens Protocol. Experimenting with creative concepts for NFTs. Forming artist collectives and experimenting with releases. Minting works with split contracts going to artists. Staging live shows, documenting the experience and minting those performances onchain. We talk about their latest project wavGAME. A collective release involving artists who performed at their first wavWRLD live showcases in New York, featuring TK, Tarot, AbJo, Cam Murdoch, Jadyn Violet, Fred Riko, KarmaVioletta, and Black Dave who was the guest for UFO 11. wavGAME is a conceptual build where collectors can mint digital trading cards across 6 levels which unlock various prizes, including ultimately an offer to win a trip with flights for a 1-on-1 concert with the artist. We talk earlier days of crypto and creativity from 2021, and where we see things are heading this year, particularly with Lens and what we’re doing there. And about AI , artificial intelligence being introduced to the creation of music, at unprecedented levels, our thoughts in this time SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Mon, July 10, 2023
Investing in the Future Internet with 1kx — pet3rpan
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 from Sydney Australia. Recently organised a summit in Lisbon focusing on autonomous worlds, which he notes is kind of an updated phrase for “the metaverse” which was the topic a few years ago, even before Facebook was called Meta. We talk about his experiences in the web3 space. About the early internet and how it works. About the cypherpunks from the 70s, 80s and 90s who pioneered these ideas about digital freedoms and rights, and cryptography. And we talk about collective lore and canon, like a shared belief in the Star Wars universe that is held in a shared imagination. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Wed, July 05, 2023
Decentralizing Social with Purple — Chris Carella, Phil Mohun
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. Chris and Phil met each other through joining Purple DAO which took form in the Farcaster community and ecosystem of builders in Ethereum. When it dropped, people’s profile pics started turning purple. Purple was an early DAO launched with Nouns Builder. The daily auction is up to #257. We talk about experiences behind the scenes at Purple. Contentious votes and ideas about DAO governance. The urgent need and opportunity to build out the web3 social ecosystem. What they like about the properties of Farcaster. And the potential for DAOs like Purple to fund public goods and open source projects in ways that don’t always require a profit incentive. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Yup is the best of web3 all in one feed. Aggregating content across Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. Search across platforms, customize your feed, and show off your NFTs and POAPS on your profile. Visit yup.io
Wed, June 28, 2023
Broadcasting Onchain Media with VESSEL — Steph Alinsug
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 network including the CLUB podcast later renamed Building at the Edges , hosted by Jess Sloss. In this episode we talk about Broadcast - an inaugural web3 media event held in Brooklyn May 2023. An invite only summit focusing on the future of onchain media. It was a collaboration between VESSEL, and Foster which is a writers collective based in New York, and Seed Club. Participants included Zora Zine, Optimism, Gitcoin, Station Labs, Lens, Metalabel, Protein, Boys Club, Yup, Pleasr, Base, Friends With Benefits, Koop, Beem, Hypeshot, Joke, Tribute Labs, Forefront, Folklore, POAP, and IDEO ++ We talk with Steph about her learnings from experiences joining the crypto space, how she became involved with the team at Seed Club and collaborating across the network as it’s grown over the past years. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Yup is the best of web3 all in one feed. Aggregating content across Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. Search across platforms, customize your feed, and show off your NFTs and POAPS on your profile. Visit yup.io
Tue, June 20, 2023
New Internet is Here with Boys Club — Natasha Hoskins
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 bigger and better parties. I ask Natasha about their experiences building a social collective brand in crypto, how they designed their DAO, how they are thinking about audiences, and making collaborative releases like printing a physical zine ~ distributing by hand across South by Southwest. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Yup is the best of web3 all in one feed. Aggregating content across Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. Search across platforms, customize your feed, and show off your NFTs and POAPS on your profile. Visit yup.io
Wed, June 14, 2023
Towards Infinite Gardens with Ethereum in Latin America — Marcus AM
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, Tierra Foods, Create The Change, green fintech at Aspiration, and deploying last-mile housing with Lamina POP. He researched climate and finance at the Smith School and graduated from the University of Oxford. In this episode we talk about Marcus’ origin stories growing up in rural Guatemala, observing corruption and fraught financial infrastructure leading to his early interest in Bitcoin. Through to verging into the Ethereum and crypto builder space and being accepted as a fellow of the Ethereum Foundation to research opportunities and use cases for crypto adoption in Latin America. We also talk about crypto as a counterculture movement, Marcus’ interests in podcasting, supporting young developers and teams in the Latin American ecosystem, and the impact created by Devcon and ETH Global events in the region. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Yup is the best of web3 all in one feed. Aggregating content across Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. Search across platforms, customize your feed, and show off your NFTs and POAPS on your profile. Visit yup.io
Mon, June 05, 2023
Navigating the Future with Extinction Rebellion — Clare Farrell
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 as part of XR. She appears on TV to speak on behalf of this decentralised movement, especially when the show has potential to be a bit antagonistic. A surreal experience to find yourself in. It’s not the every day. In this episode we talk about Clare’s origins in fashion and design and creative activism, up to being part of the originating group of Extinction Rebellion in 2018. We discuss their demands for net zero carbon emissions by 2025, citizens assemblies and direct democracy, and reparatory justice for nations and people around the world most impacted by the climate crisis. We also talk about the non-functional political process, expanding police powers in the UK and Australia, and punitive jail sentences and fines being introduced to discourage peaceful protest. About the failings of mainstream media to even pretend they’re here to faithfully report the news and context of the world we’re living in, not just for the climate issue, and what this all means for us and the planet. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Yup is the best of web3 all in one feed. Aggregating content across Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. Search across platforms, customize your feed, and show off your NFTs and POAPS on your profile. Visit yup.io
Mon, May 01, 2023
Skateboarding in a CC0ciety with Nouns & Gnars — Gami
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 (and run) extreme sports club with over 1000 members. They are responsible for the grind box on the streets of Rio, Brazil which was a bright red pair of Nouns noggles, some iconic early Nouns images. Now they’re teaming up with skateboarding hall of famer Bob Burnquist for community projects in Brazil. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Yup is the best of web3 all in one feed. Aggregating content across Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. Search across platforms, customize your feed, and show off your NFTs and POAPS on your profile. Visit yup.io
Wed, April 26, 2023
Reflecting Your Identity with Disco — Evin McMullen
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 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Yup is the best of web3 all in one feed. Aggregating content across Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. Search across platforms, customize your feed, and show off your NFTs and POAPS on your profile. Visit yup.io
Fri, April 07, 2023
Playing Piano with ZORA & FWB — Yuri Rybak
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, and Eric Hu. Experiences from the inside at ZORA where he now works, what’s up over there, their brand and creative, zorbs, minting to 1155 contracts, and the rising ecosystem of Nouns Builder projects. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Yup is the best of web3 all in one feed. Aggregating content across Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. Search across platforms, customize your feed, and show off your NFTs and POAPS on your profile. Visit yup.io
Fri, March 31, 2023
Reimagining eSports with BLVKHVND — Sirsu
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 perpetual auction of NFTs to join their DAO. In this episode we talk about Sirsu’s journey from earlier days in gaming, art and crypto. You’ll hear stories from the origins of Zora, Rarible and Foundation. Being in telegram groups for art and NFTs long before the hype really came into the space. And what it’s been like for Sirsu behind the scenes, having extraordinary experiences, like raising $1 million in one day on a Mirror crowd fund, and booting up an eSports organization with multiple teams competing around the world. About helping to launch Mint Fund in collaboration with others at Forefront, Zora and Seed Club ~ a Community-owned initiative helping crypto creators mint their first NFTs Sirsu has many stories to tell, and much of it is shared here for the first time. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Yup is the best of web3 all in one feed. Aggregating content across Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. Search across platforms, customize your feed, and show off your NFTs and POAPS on your profile. Visit yup.io
Wed, March 22, 2023
Aggregating Web3 Social with Yup — Nir Kabessa
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 and Big Think. Writing topics include EVM Network Effects, NFTs & the Meme Economy, The Super DApp Thesis, and Curator Economy: Monetizing Taste in Web3. In this episode we talk about the EVM as a social network. The rapid evolution, growth and experimentation we’re seeing in web3 social. What it means for DAOs and media networks like UFO. Nir’s early origins in the crypto space, starting way back in 2014 and ramping up from 2017. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Yup is the best of web3 all in one feed. Aggregating content across Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. Search across platforms, customize your feed, and show off your NFTs and POAPS on your profile. Visit yup.io
Fri, March 17, 2023
Exploring Web3 Collectives with Folklore — Rafa
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 that’s redeemable for high quality artisanal craft, experimenting with a more sustainable and just model enabled by NFTs. Since soon after the launch of UFO in September 2022, Rafa has been in the loop as a creative thinker, someone to jam with about ideas on strategy and community formation as we experiment. He helped our team with the launch of the UFO Genesis Pass with a subscribe to mint on Mirror in November with over 7800 NFT mints in 3 days. In this episode, we go right into these topics of web3 media and communities, the creator playbook, about NFTs as unlocks, earning ownership in protocols and DAOs through participation and effort. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Yup is the best of web3 all in one feed. Aggregating content across Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. Search across platforms, customize your feed, and show off your NFTs and POAPS on your profile. Visit yup.io
Wed, March 01, 2023
Bringing Japan and the Netherlands together with Midnight夏季Breeze — Dutchtide
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 around you fades to a haze and you are lost to the midnight summer breeze. In this episode we go into the inspirations of Japanese art and culture and its influence for his art practice coming from a Dutch style of colour, light, composition and architecture. His earlier days in NFTs including the life altering sale of a Beeple work which funded his own projects and secured a CryptoPunk. Experiences with Midnight Breeze as a community of collectors has grown up around the works. And what their team has been busy doing ever since the initial drop to create a second version in which the collection is being reimagined in a time intensive process, evolving from still image into fully rendered animation. The world of Midnight Breeze is coming to life. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz Yup is the best of web3 all in one feed. Aggregating content across Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs, and Crypto Twitter. Search across platforms, customize your feed, and show off your NFTs and POAPS on your profile. Visit yup.io
Fri, February 17, 2023
Create What's Missing with Public Assembly — losingmyego, 0xTranqui, Salief Lewis
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 creative sprint and evolved from being anti-DAO to in fact launching a DAO of their own. We talk about the philosophy of co-creation, open source, and the types of communal environments we create together on the internet. How things change when your working group becomes a DAO and shifts to a new mode where anyone can buy an NFT, join the DAO and start making proposals for initiatives. Decentralized governance with a collective treasury, in action. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Tue, February 07, 2023
Amplifying Tokenized Communities with Forefront — Jihad Esmail
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 launched NFT for community access. They’ve been out here shipping for the ecosystem since 2020. Building up a network, resources and tooling via their contributors and community. Jihad is highly active in the Nouns DAO community, one of the most fascinating things happening in the crypto space as its evolved since launch in 2021. In this episode we go into all things governance, memes, NFT memberships, onchain media and trends seen over recent years for web3 communities from ERC20s and social tokens to PFP NFT collections, web3 social and the emergence of nounish projects. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Wed, February 01, 2023
Funding Public Goods with Gitcoin — Scott Moore
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 Optimism. Through his work with Gitcoin and their DAO, they have been thinking a lot about regenerative structures, and are keenly focused on funding public goods. In this episode we’ll talk about the ideals of solarpunk, aiming to build towards a techno-positive future, what it means and how this ties into recognising web3 as a counterculture movement. About the origins of Gitcoin and what they’ve discovered along the way. Thinking about funding public goods like a subway system that produces value for a whole city ecosystem, for the people who live there and all their activities. And we talk about the nature of web3 projects like Nouns DAO, formed in a memetic way, almost entirely from the grassroots as people try to collectively figure out what this meme is and what they’re trying to do with it. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Thu, January 26, 2023
Co-Curating the Art NFTs Ecosystem with JPG — María Paula, Trent Elmore
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 of NFTs, designed to index a new contextual data layer for the ecosystem that will map relational networks and improve discovery, context, and searchability. In this episode we’ll talk about the origins of JPG, community co-curation for the Dynamic and Conceptual Art Canons, and observations from earlier years in Ethereum through DeFi summer and the NFTs bull market up to present day. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Mon, January 23, 2023
Riding Motorcycles Through Art Worlds with Night Run — Matto
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 with commentary. UFO art director Ivano Salonia collaborated on creative and design, including for the Night Run logo and designs for imaginary fashion houses you’ll hear about in this episode. We also explore the NFTs ecosystem that Matto has been interested in over the past couple years, with a few highlights including Terraforms, Blitmaps, Loot, Toadz and Nouns. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Thu, January 19, 2023
Talking 2017 NFTs With CryptoKitties & Dapper Labs — Benny Giang
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 ever NFTs discord community for CryptoKitties, a group chat including founders from Dapper, Axie Infinity, OpenSea and many others. We explore new creative experiments Benny is working on with Future Primitive, including BEEP3R ~ a hackathon project from ETH Global making nostalgic 90s pager NFTs that can communicate onchain via XMPT. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Mon, January 16, 2023
Valuing Artists By Their Potential — Black Dave
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 million NFTs. In this episode, we talk platforms for minting music such as ZORA, Catalog and Sound. Dynamics of scarcity in music NFTs ~ 1/1s as fine art and editions as building blocks for communities. And his belief that we should value artists by their potential, not their present moment. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Wed, December 21, 2022
Creating Onchain Records with Metalabel — Anna Bulbrook, Yancey Strickler
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 with their latest release, After The Creator Economy. In this episode we talk about two new articles published by Yancey ~ ‘Reinventing The Record’ and 'The Onchain Era' ~ and the importance of directly valuing the creative work you love. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Wed, December 14, 2022
Collecting Art With Friends — Nicolas Sassoon, Sam Mason de Caires
Nicolas Sassoon is a Franco-Canadian artist using early computer graphics to create a wide array of pixelated forms, patterns & architectural structures. His works are published on SuperRare, Foundation, and Objkt, having been collected by some of the most notable NFT collectors in the space. Sam Mason de Caires is an engineer who’s into generative art. Presently at Syndicate DAO, and previously at Foundation and Rainbow. Together they are 2/4ths of Gossamer. Along with their friends Tim Smith and FEELS, they are a collective who are collecting art together as a DAO. View their collection at gossamerdao.xyz In this episode we talk about art and the web3 space. About Nicolas’ artistic practice, and how he makes his works. How technology is enabling new ways to create, collect, and support artistic expression. And what kinds of art Sam and Nicolas are interested in for Gossamer. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Mon, December 05, 2022
Music, Sound Sculptures & Reality — Martí Ruids
Martí Ruids is a musician and sound artist. Professor and researcher in the sculpture department at the Universitat de Barcelona. With more than a decade of experience with sound sculptures and working with masters in Japan. Member of Híbrida, Nen i Cavall. Part of a duet band RIUH with Raquel Cruces performing traditional folk music from the Iberian Peninsula. Member of Pangalmelan, exploring gamelan music from Indonesia, using pots and pans to create unique instruments, rhythm, pitch and percussion, achieving trance like states. We met in July in Barcelona in fortuitous circumstances, on the way in to see Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s new band ~ The Smile at Pablo Espanyol. In this episode we talk about experimental music. Sound and resonance. How it effects consciousness. The very nature of reality. Martí's work reviving Baschet Sound Sculptures with concerts in Japan. And exploring the realms of traditional music from Iberia, across places in Catalunya, Basque country, and Portugal. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Wed, November 30, 2022
Creating with AI in Generative Art & Visual Effects — ATARA
ATARA, aka Johannes Saam, is an Academy Award-winning creative technologist, futurist, and web3 artist. With two decades innovating in visual effects and film, raised by 80s and 90s movies and video games, he's an explorative creator of generative art, and most recently as co-founder of a new NFT collection ~ DALL-E Punks. Reimagining the iconic CryptoPunks through a visual AI engine stack to create a new interpretation, reflecting the traits of the originals, such as hoodies, cigarette and eye patch ~ only that each image is now totally unique, and the eye patch prompts turned into pirates. In this episode we talk about his visual effects career in the film industry, exploring creativity through coding, mathematics and technology, the latest from AI generative platforms such as DALLE-2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and we go behind the scenes for the creation of DALL-E Punks. SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. A permissionless and transparent social graph that is owned by the user. Lens is the last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Mon, November 21, 2022
Design with Seed Club & Songcamp — Peacenode
Peacenode is a designer and graphic artist at Seed Club and Songcamp. Seed Club is the leading network for DAO builders and operators, with an alumni of DAO projects including Cabin, Poolsuite, Water and Music, Metalabel, Krause House and many others. Songcamp is a music community focused on collective creation, who recently staged CHAOS ~ an experiment with 77 collaborators forming a headless band outputting music NFTs, with revenue going out to artists via split contracts. In this episode, we talk with Peace about his origin stories in crypto, background in the music scene, about creative practice and making poster designs for over 200 days straight, how he got involved at Seed Club and Songcamp, and a jam about projects we’re into like Nouns Builder from Zora. __ SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io/ ~ Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. With Lens, your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. The last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Thu, November 03, 2022
Evolving Web3 Communities with Guild — Reka
Reka is a co-founder at Guild , the ultimate tool for platformless memberships and quests for internet communities. Guild expands the creative possibilities for assembling as a group. Helping to drive the web3 space forwards with tools which allow DAOs to evolve beyond financialised token communities as the only available option for managing access and participation in projects. Reka writes about communities, DAOs and internet culture and has just dropped a new series on Mirror - chaos is a public good - co-written with her friend, LDF from DISCO. In this episode, we talk about the origin stories of Guild, how their team came together, what they’re focused on building, new integrations with projects such as Otterspace, and Reka’s interest in Jokedao and $JOKE race. __ SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io/ ~ Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. With Lens, your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. The last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Tue, October 25, 2022
Social Web3 Wallet with Zerion — Alexander Guy
Alexander Guy is head of marketing and growth at Zerion, a Smart, Social Web3 Wallet. This is a place to manage your crypto, DeFi and NFT portfolios. Trade across multichain and connect to any decentralized application. In this episode we get into the crypto lifestyle. Why we think it’s a compelling space to be potentially looking to join a company or create a project. We talk about common pitfalls of the crypto lifestyle like FOMO, always being on, stress about security, excessive time on social and information input, and challenges in getting up to speed when you’re new and joining crypto. Meeting the Zerion team at ETH Barcelona in July, Alex was telling me about their new mobile crypto wallet and how the platform is extra helpful for web3 citizens. People active in DAOs, token communities and NFTs. I was preparing UFO for launch at that time, and we created a collaboration with Zerion as a sponsor of UFO. __ SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io/ ~ Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. With Lens, your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. The last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Mon, October 17, 2022
Creativity In Multiplayer with Metalabel — Austin Robey
Austin Robey is a member of the founding squad at Metalabel. An assembly of founders, creators and producers emerging from the web2 economy, now helping to amplify the meme of the metalabel. Imagined as a release club where groups of people with shared interests create and release work together. Sometimes it’s more fun to create things as part of a collective, and often you can have a stronger cultural impact by working as a group under a collective banner or label. A metalabel allows groups of people to join together, and pool their skills and resources and audiences in support of a larger vision or purpose. Creativity in multiplayer mode … Austin is a writer who explores ideas about collective internet culture for publications including Forefront, and Friends With Benefits, and most recently for Metalabel’s brand new publication, PUBLIC RECORD. The article is ‘Evolution of the solopreneur’, examining examples such as Water & Music, Song A DAO, and Songcamp with their 77-member band, headless CHAOS. __ SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io/ ~ Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. With Lens, your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. The last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Thu, October 06, 2022
Making Art, Code & Lore for Crypto Coven — Nyx
Nyx is a co-founder of Crypto Coven, focusing mostly on art, code and lore for an NFT collection of 9999 witches created by five friends. A compelling force of storytelling which sparked a community to expand upon their world. In 2021, Nyx and her friend Alethia, both artists, had been in lockdown together and decided they wanted to create a pfp NFT collection. One that was female forward. They were intrigued by what was happening in NFTs, but didn’t identify themselves with the various ape and cartoon characters that were happening Alethia suggested they create a project around witches. A group formed to bring the collection to life. Joining Alethia and Nyx were Xuannü, Aradia and Keridwen. Within 2 months, and many nights of art, design, coding and storytelling, everything had come together. In this episode, we talk about all the ins and outs of a project like this from the inside perspective. The power of lore, storytelling and world building. And what can be accomplished in smart contract design and doing creative things with the tech. __ SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io/ ~ Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. With Lens, your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. The last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
Wed, September 28, 2022
Creativity with Extinction Rebellion — Charlie Waterhouse
Charlie Waterhouse is a co-founder of the Art Group and Media team at Extinction Rebellion based in London. He’s Creative director of This Ain’t Rock ’n’ Roll, and a director of the Brixton Pound. In this episode, we talk about the origins of Extinction Rebellion, a global movement using non-violent direct action to persuade governments to take action on climate, and inspire public consciousness to the cause. We explore how design and art played a part in its formation. And direct actions such as the recent protest at the House Of Commons in the UK, in which activists glued themselves to each other around the speaker's chair. We also talk about learnings that may be taken from web3 and DAOs, and lines drawn between 60s counterculture, punk and current day social movements. __ SPONSORS Zerion combines every corner of web3 in a simple and intuitive app for self-custodial humans. Discover the hottest NFT collections, track your DeFi rewards, and vote in DAOs across 10+ chains. Get started at zerion.io/ ~ Lens Protocol is the open-source tech stack for building decentralized social media applications. With Lens, your followers go with you to whatever application you want to use. The last social media handle you’ll ever need to create. Visit lens.xyz
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