Onchain Summer 2024 with Jesse Pollak
Onchain Summer 2024 is here. We’re joined by Jesse Pollak to chat about all things Base - from their strategy to bring the world onchain to the Smart Wallet and resetting the price of a free mint. 25 minutes of onchain energy!
Ep.24: LGHT x $higher, Colby Mugradi x mmERCH, $Nouns, The Scenecoin Opportunity
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 03:12 LGHT - Higher, memecoins, and more 06:47 The origin story of the Higher channel and how it evolved into a token 08:35 How the idea of Higher being a scenecoin resonates vs being a brand token 11:01 Higher as a DAO token and comparing it to Enjoy being a scenecoin 12:50 LGHT on Higher becoming a lifestyle brand and building a grassroots movement 15:37 How brands can contextualize or constrain on-chain creation in useful ways 20:21 Welcoming Colby Mugrabi to the show to talk about her project MMERCH 22:42 Colby’s background in fashion, discovering Web3, and thinking about generative art 25:14 Digging into the mechanics of the upcoming MMERCH drop and how it works 28:19 Some of the specifics on the materials and manufacturing of these hoodies 30:19 How the MMERCH NFC chip works and how to redeem your token for your wearable 32:13 Colby’s take on MMERCH being a brand that exists in the metaverse vs in the real world 34:37 Drop logistics, allowlist, partnering with DieWithTheMostLikes 36:40 Shifting gears to discuss a piece Josh wrote on The Scenecoin Opportunity 39:37 Jess’s take on The Scenecoin Opportunity and getting your token into the right hands 45:45 Jumping to Nouns DAO announcing they’re launching a token called $NOUNS 51:32 Perpetuating the Nouns meme further and how scarcity has impacted potential growth 53:16 Andrew Kang’s tweet about Mr. Beast and, Unlonely playing with tokens and live streaming 58:03 One quick lightning round on Friend Tech getting a bit of redemption and their imminent launch 01:00 Signing off, thanks for joining, we’ll see you next Friday at 10AM PST, every week is a big week Hosts: Jess Sloss & Josh Cornelius Web VJ: Peacenode Production: Cheryl Douglass None of this is financial or tax advice.
Ep.26: Gaby Goldberg, FVCKRENDER X Lisa Foundation, Stripe enters crypto arena
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 00:20 Intro - Welcome back, it’s episode 26 and we’ve got Gaby Goldberg co-hosting 02:09 A quick reminder about FarCon and our event Free Wifi; it’s also week 3 or 4 of SC07 02:48 Welcoming FVCKRENDER to the stage along with Ilya from Lisa Foundation 04:12 Throwing it to Ilya to give us a little background on Lisa, the drop and more 06:26 FVCKRENDER gives us some backstory on his work and his solo show Ascend in NYC 12:51 Thank you to Ilya and FVCKRENDER for joining, be sure to check out their upcoming show 13:21 The evolution of different crypto narratives and looking at the next wave of DAOs 21:15 Dissecting Eddy Lazzarin’s tweet about memecoins not being very interesting 24:12 Who are the consumers in crypto? They’re developers. We need to understand that. 27:30 We need a pathway to unlock the path to sustaining interest in DeFi tokens 29:04 Digging into Treat, a recently announced L2 brought to you by the Shiba ecosystem 32:38 Moving on to discuss Rediclio-gate, Polymarket’s marketing intern’s termination over a tweet 38:54 Breaking down Gaby’s piece on Integrate, and crypto companies creating their own ‘stack’ 44:16 Transitioning into talking about Zora Social, onramps into crypto, and launching a mobile app 51:53 Kyle from Daylight’s tweet about improving UX in crypto and onboarding the next gen of users 54:07 Stripe announced the return of being able to accept crypto payments alongside credit cards 56:06 A discussion on a piece about zombie chains and measuring activity across different L1s 59:01 We have time for one Lightning Round, it’s a John Palmer tweet with a meme on crypto hot takes 59:54 A special thank you to Gaby for co-hosting today’s show, tune in next week, live from FarCon Hosts: Jess Sloss Web VJ: Peacenode Guests: Gaby Goldberg Production: Cheryl Douglass None of this is financial or tax advice.
