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. Researcher and author of the Last Mile Defi Report on crypto adoption in Latin America. 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 crypto builder space and being accepted as a fellow of the Ethereum Foundation to research opportunities, challenges and use cases for crypto adoption in Latin America. 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 happening in the region.

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. We talk about media and internet communities. The web3 creator playbook including the ability to earn ownership in protocols and DAOs through participation rather than only financial means.

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. We 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 up to present day.

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. 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. We talk about the NFTs scene over the past couple years, with a few highlights including Terraforms, Blitmaps, Loot, Toadz and Nouns.

Design with Seed Club and Songcamp — peacenode

Peacenode is a designer and graphic artist at Seed Club and Songcamp. We talk about his origin stories in crypto and background in the music scene. Creative practice and making poster designs for over 200 days straight. And we jam about projects we’re into like Nouns Builder from Zora.