#4- Sid Shekhar, AskGina.ai
Jeff is joined by Sid, Founder and CEO of AskGina.ai . AskGina.ai is an AI-powered on-chain assistant designed to help users discover, analyze, and execute blockchain transactions seamlessly. It functions as a non-custodial smart wallet interface, allowing users to interact directly with blockchain networks while retaining full control over their private keys. They're currently in beta, to learn more, please visit askgina.ai Follow Sid on Warpcast: https://warpcast.com/sidshekharFollow Sid on X: https://x.com/sidshekhar24Follow askgina.ai on X: https://x.com/askginadotai
#8 - Tim Reilly, Bracket
Jeff is joined by TIm, Co-Founder of Bracket. Bracket is currently live, and serves as a community-centered sports predictive market platform. Learn more at https://farcaster.xyz/~/channel/bracketFollow Bracket on Farcaster: https://farcaster.xyz/bracketgameFollow Tim on X: https://x.com/tldr_xFollow Tim on Farcaster: https://farcaster.xyz/tldr
#9 - Jack Dishman, Clanker
Jeff is joined by Jack, Co-Founder of Clanker. Clanker is an AI-powered bot on Farcaster that enables users to create and launch tokens on the Base blockchain by tagging @clanker in a cast with the desired token name and ticker. It automates the deployment process, including setting up a Uniswap V3 liquidity pool with locked liquidity, making token creation accessible even to non-technical users.Learn more by interacting with @clanker on farcaster.xyzFollow Clanker on X: https://x.com/clankeronbase Follow Jack on Farcaster: https://farcaster.xyz/dishFollow Jack on X: https://x.com/JackDishman
#1 - Morgan Kuphal, Tunnl.io
Jeff is joined by CTO and Co-Founder of Tunnl.io, Morgan Kuphal. Tunnl.io is an on-chain influencer marketing platform that leverages blockchain technology and artificial intelligence to automate and secure collaborations between brands and content creators. It enables brands to launch scalable marketing campaigns by providing tools to find creators, set content requirements, and manage payments through smart contracts. Learn more about Tunnl at Tunnl.io Tunnl.io X: https://x.com/Tunnl_ioMorgan Kuphal X: https://x.com/0x_Tunnl
Nick Tomaino: Skin in the Game
The following episode is made possible thanks to DEGEN. 🎩 --- This episode welcomes Nick Tomaino, Co-founder of 1confirmation. He's an early adopter of Bitcoin, and former Coinbase employee, who shares his journey in the crypto space and his investment philosophy. We discuss the rise of meme coins, the value of prediction markets in providing more truth to the world, and Tomaino's core value of 'skin in the game' that drives his investment decisions. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
Ep.33: Smoovie Williams from Sanko.tv, Building on L3s, Layer3 Raise, Rug.fun v2, Onchain Social
A weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer internet experiences. Join us live and online on Fridays @ 1PM EST live.seedclub.xyz 00:44 Jess is back and we have smoovie from sanko.tv joining us today 02:53 We launched the Highly Regarded quiz this week, don’t forget to take it and mint your results for a little surprise during Demo Day 6/20 04:22 Welcome Mr. Smoovie Williams to the show to give us an intro and talk about what he’s been working on over at sanko.tv 15:45 Shifting the discussion to talk about the decision to build an L3 and where the value of any given network comes from 20:24 On Web3 games growing organically from the bottom up, how you can’t fake the funk, and launching a token 27:19 Closing words with Smoovie, thanks for joining, and what you can look forward to over on Sanko in the coming weeks and months 34:07 Another edition of WTFIPDOC where we talk about Lasogette bridging to BTC and Peace’s experience moving his tokens over 39:23 Our next topic, Layer3, how they’ve evolved and their announcement that they raised a $15 million series A this week 45:42 A discussion around the democratization of media leading to the rise of the content creator and now software creators are on the rise 49:08 Jumping to Zapper and their announcement this week that they’re launching a new protocol 56:35 A quick discussion on rug.fun announcing they’re launching v2 of their platform this week 53:56 Far Terminal now making it possible to one-click launch tokens if you’re the host or creator of a Farcaster channel 55:47 Quick lightning round where we cover Jacob from Zora’s post with a graphic showing how onchain social is better, Milady Cult and more 58:40 Thanks for joining us, don’t forget to RSVP for Demo Day June 20th, and we’ll see you back here next Friday at 11am PST / 1pm EST Hosts: Josh Cornelius & Jess Sloss Web VJ: Peacenode Production: Cheryl Douglass None of this is financial or tax advice.
#169 - NICK TOMAINO
Nick is the Founder and General Partner at 1confirmation, a cryptocurrency focused investment firm. After raising its first $26M fund in 2017, 1confirmation now has over $1 billion in assets under management. The firm's early-stage investments include OpenSea, Farcaster, Worldcoin, Polkadot, Cosmos, Polymarket, dYdX, Degen, and others alike. Prior to starting 1confirmation, Nick was a Principal at Runa Capital and worked in business development in the early days at Coinbase. Follow Nick on X @NTmoney and on Warpcast @nick. For more episodes, go to podofjake.com. Previous guests include Mark Cuban, Vitalik Buterin, Brian Armstrong, Balaji Srinivasan, Keith Rabois, Ali Spagnola, Anthony Pompliano, Raoul Pal, Julia Galef, Jack Butcher, Tim Draper, and over 100 others alike. Learn from founders and CEOs of companies like OpenAI, Coinbase, Solana, Polygon, AngelList, Oura, and Replit, and investors from Founders Fund, a16z, Union Square Ventures, and many more. I appreciate your support and hope you enjoy. Thanks to Chase Devens for the show notes and Yiction for the music. Lastly, I love hearing from fans of the pod. Feel free to email me any time at jake@blogofjake.com. Thank you!
#167 - LUCAS CAMPBELL
Lucas is the founder of Pods — a platform for onchain podcasts. Pods launched in private beta in Q4 2023 and since then, has onboarded over 30 podcasts and over 250 episodes on the platform. Prior to Pods, Lucas was the first employee at Bankless, where he led the newsletter for 3 years and launched Bankless Collectibles — the first instantiation of podcast NFTs. Follow Lucas on Farcaster @0xl. I'm excited to partner with Pods to release this as our first episode onchain on Base. For more episodes, go to podofjake.com. Previous guests include Mark Cuban, Vitalik Buterin, Brian Armstrong, Balaji Srinivasan, Keith Rabois, Ali Spagnola, Anthony Pompliano, Raoul Pal, Julia Galef, Jack Butcher, Tim Draper, and over 100 others alike. Learn from founders and CEOs of companies like OpenAI, Coinbase, Solana, Polygon, AngelList, Oura, and Replit, and investors from Founders Fund, a16z, Union Square Ventures, and many more. I appreciate your support and hope you enjoy. Thanks to Chase Devens for the show notes and Yiction for the music. Lastly, I love hearing from fans of the pod. Feel free to email me any time at jake@blogofjake.com. Thank you!
Ep.22: Vibhu from Drip Haus, Solana L2s, SC07, Degen L3, The Token is the Product, Sofamon
A weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer internet experiences. Join us live and online on Fridays @ 10AM PST live.seedclub.xyz 01:21 we’ve got Vibhu joining us from Drip Haus 02:30 How are you describing what Drip is and what’s the intention behind the product? 04:43 Scaling to 160,000 daily active users 06:04 Using machine learning to parse productive users from unproductive ones 07:34 On the choice to go with Solana and creating a simple click to claim mechanism 08:44 Droplets are redeemable for collectibles on the platform and you get 5-10 to claim 11:51 Using the platform to distribute physical artworks and where Drip fits in the creator stack 16:54 No one anticipated a company like Drip existing on Solana pushing 10M NFTs each week 19:39 Solana L2s are coming, there are a number of teams working on solutions now 23:19 The next cohort for Seed Club’s SC.07 has been announced and we’re super excited 25:36 We have a huge range of projects from marketplaces to memecoins, AI, social and more 33:31 Josh tries to introduce the next topic but Peace needs to mint the Little Darlings drop 34:51 Mark Beylin wrote a piece we love called ‘The Token Is The Product’ - Let’s get into it 36:56 Looking at airlines as an example with reward points being a huge part of business 42:44 Moving on to $DEGEN, the Scenecoin of Farcaster - our terminology is catching on 43:37 Announcing Degen Chain - a low cost L3 that will be using $DEGEN as a native gas token 46:20 Charlie Munger talks about building in waves in crypto and how the narrative changes 47:38 Memestocks and a recent story about Truth Social being valued over $6 billion 49:11 We’re seeing more and more stocks that are growing memetically like Tesla, GameStop 54:06 Let’s talk about Sofamon - a project that came out of the last Seed Club cohort SC.06 57:34 Senspace’s new game launch Hosts: Jess Sloss & Josh Cornelius Web VJ: Peacenode Production: Cheryl Douglass None of this is financial or tax advice.
Ep 52 - Drakula with $ALEX Masmej
Alex Masmej returns to chat about the launch of Drakula - an onchain tiktok. We talk about Farcaster alignment and how he’s using tools like Privy and Pimlico to build a mainstream consumer app.
How USDC is dominating the stablecoin market
Excited that the legend, Jeremy Allaire, is my first guest on our new Frames for Base Layer! Jeremy joined me last week to talk about all the amazing things happening at Circle, talking about stablecoin regulation, all the way to the amazing use cases that are popping up for USDC around the world.
Ep 50 - Graeme from Stack
We're joined by Graeme to deep dive on onchain points and their $3m seed round lead by Archetype. We cover everything you need to know about the points meta.