How To Validate Your Ideas
Colin is the Co-Founder of Ponder, a web3 survey platform that provides unique insights and innovative polling features to help users gather meaningful data and drive engagement in real-time. Discussion: (00:36) How to effectively approach distribution with limited resources (04:19) The importance of building in public and crafting a consistent narrative (05:15) Balancing founder intuition with user feedback (08:47) Launching predictive polling and its impact on user insights (12:02) Key strategies for collecting actionable user feedback Connect with Colin: - Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/cojo.eth - Website: https://www.weponder.io/ Connect with Kris: - Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/thekris - LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/thekrispartner For sponsorships and collaboration: pod@optimism.show
A brief history of Ethereum hard forks
This episode is a brief history of Ethereum hard forks, from the early days of the Frontier thawing to the more recent Dencun upgrade. Sources: https://ethereum.org/en/history/
EP15_ABRIL
i love me some spice, and there's no better person to bring the heat like Abril Zucchi. new city, new project, new outlook on life. Abril tells all about herstory, transitioning from dev to devrel, moving to new york, working as a devrel. bon appetite 🤌
Rainbow Rewards with Mike Demarais
Rainbow wallet just debuted their first ETH rewards to top users of the hottest growing crypto mobile wallet. We sat down with the founder to chat through Rainbow’s journey launching a points system and building a compelling mobile-first experience for crypto-natives and beginners alike. We dive into onchain social discovery, celebrity coins and much more!
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. Sponsors: Your crypto wallet for everything onchain — zerion.io Create, distribute and monetize on your own terms — paragraph.xyz Higher is a lifestyle — aimhigher.net Home of onchain ticketing — onopen.xyz Where group chats make more money — lore.xyz
Introducing "The Guilded Age" podcast
Gary Sheng, the host of the podcast, gives a brief introduction of the podcast. 👜 COLLECT THIS EPISODE https://pods.media/guild 🫂 JOIN THE GUILDED AGE GUILD https://guild.xyz/the-guilded-age 👋 FOLLOW US Guild: https://x.com/Guildxyz Gary: https://x.com/GarySheng
Understanding Onchain Distribution and the Evolution of Web3 Marketing ft. Brian Flynn
This episode welcomes Brian Flynn, CEO of Boost.xyz, to discuss the future of earning crypto. Brian shares his insights on the evolution of crypto marketing, highlighting the shift to onchain strategies and the use of token incentives as a cost per action (CAC). He also delves into Boost's vision, the importance of growth for crypto-native businesses, and the role of viral NFTs. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction and Background 08:07 - Boost: Facilitating Onchain Distribution 15:08 - The Power of Onchain Distribution 35:18 - The Value of Attention in the Crypto Space 41:20 - The Profile of an Ideal Growth Marketer in Web3
EP 8: JESSE POLLAK AND BASE
Jesse Pollak shares his backstory and how he got into Web3. He grew up in Washington, DC, attended a Quaker school, and played competitive soccer. He didn't learn how to code until his senior year of high school. He joined Coinbase as a software engineer and eventually became a leader in scaling their consumer products. He then started Base within Coinbase, with the mission of creating an open financial system for the globe. Base is driving international expansion by supporting decentralized builder communities like FBI in India and Builders Connect in Nigeria. They are focused on empowering local builders and providing resources to help them grow.
