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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.

#171 - EMIN GÜN SIRER

Emin is Co-Founder and CEO of Ava Labs, the organization behind the ⁠Avalanche⁠ smart contract network. He is a computer scientist, software engineer, and researcher who has focused on distributed systems, network security, and cryptocurrencies for more than 20 years. Before building Ava Labs, Emin was an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University and co-director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts at the university. In 2003, Emin designed ⁠Karma⁠, the first cryptocurrency based on a proof-of-work protocol, years before the creation of Bitcoin. Follow Emin on X ⁠⁠⁠⁠@el33th4xor⁠. 0:00 - Emin’s deep history around cryptocurrencies 8:20 - Why Bitcoin took him and his colleagues by surprise 11:28 - Emin’s vision for the future of the crypto industry 16:34 - Avalanche’s approach to scaling crypto-economic activity 23:05 - How Avalanche’s architecture supports multiple sub-nets 27:34 - The real importance of decentralization 32:40 - Emin’s perspective on technological regulation 41:57 - The unique properties of Avalanche’s Snowball consensus 49:00 - Why the best technology does not always win in the market Mint this episode for free onchain on Base at ⁠⁠⁠pods.media/pod-of-jake/171-emin-gun-sirer⁠⁠ 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.23: Degen Chain, Syndicate, Orb on Lens, $ENJOY tipping, L3s, Gas tokens

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 04:34 Let’s move into the L3 conversation, welcome to Jacek and Will from Degen Chain 06:18 Syndicate - the frame chain 12:34 There are tons of experimental ideas for tokens already playing out as L3 applications 17:58 Tipping was very unpopular when it first launched, now its social distribution for tokens 21:25 How they decided to use Degen as a gas token 25:43 Next let’s bring Nilesh from Orb 30:15 Creating a different category for users and thinking of them as curators instead 33:07 Rebranding communities as a feature in the app to ‘Clubs’ that have superpowers 36:30 You can now mint directly within the Orb app, just swipe and that’s it, you’re done 37:09 Building for mobile wallet users and the many who prefer not to use mobile wallets 42:23 Typical ways to launch coins vs how $ENJOY was launched and how tipping works 45:05 Quick recap of all the things we’ve seen pop up for Enjoy - ads, an anthem is coming, etc 54:04 Josh was actually first to launch the Costco Hot Dog memecoin on pump.fun 56:28 This is just funny, there’s an AI token generator? Might be a top signal 58:10 We’re going to be doing a ton of fun stuff at Farcaster in LA coming up in May, stay tuned Hosts: Jess Sloss & Josh Cornelius Web VJ: Peacenode Production: Cheryl Douglass None of this is financial or tax advice.

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#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!

Can Omni Network Solve for Ethereum’s Fragmented L2 Liquidity?

Austin King is the CEO of Omni Labs. In this episode, we discuss how Omni Network can solve for Ethereum's fragmented L2 liquidity. Austin shares his vision for how this EVM blockchain, secured by Ethereum, aims to power one united user experience for all DeFi and Web3 apps built across rollups. ------ 🔗 Essential Show Links 🔗 ► Youtube: https://youtube.com/@defidad ► Apple: https://tinyurl.com/edgepod ► Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/edgepodspotify ► Linktree: https://linktr.ee/edge_pod ► Follow DeFi Dad: https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ► Follow Nomatic: https://twitter.com/Nomaticcap ► Learn about DeFi and Web3: http://defidad.com/ ------ The Edge Podcast Sponsor Resources 🚀 FLAT MONEY | NEW FLATCOIN AND DELTA-NEUTRAL MARKETPLACE BACKED BY RETH https://flat.money/ 🌊 SWELL NETWORK | NATIVE LIQUID RESTAKING WITH RSWETH https://www.swellnetwork.io/ 💧 INSTADAPP | NEW LENDING AND BORROWING VAULTS WITH FLUID https://fluid.instadapp.io/ 🧑‍🌾 MANTLE | THE ETHEREUM L2 FOR TOP NATIVE YIELDS https://www.mantle.xyz/ 🟢 KELP DAO | THE FIRST LIQUID RESTAKING PLATFORM FOR LSTS https://kelpdao.xyz/restake 🟣 MAVERICK PROTOCOL | DEFI INFRA MADE TO CUSTOMIZE, AUTOMATE & INCENTIIZE LIQUIDITY https://app.mav.xyz/theEdgePodcast ------ Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 5:12 - Austin's background 8:48 - What is Omni Network? 9:26 - What is Omni solving for? 11:39 - Blockchain design of Omni 12:46 - Getting to sub-second finality 15:34 - Omni vs major interoperability solutions 18:36 - Inspiration from prior builders 20:35 - Maverick mid-roll 21:44 - Secured by Ethereum thanks to EigenLayer 23:02 - ether.fi commits $600M of staked ETH 24:12 - Risks of restaking 28:28 - The Open Liquidity Network 32:06 - Could Omni deprecate bridging protocols? 33:34 - Ethereum security, with a Solana-like UX 36:03 - Expand beyond Ethereum? 37:25 - Closing ------ 🔗 Guest Links 🔗 ► Omni Website: https://omni.network/ ► Omni Whitepaper: https://docs.omni.network/whitepaper.pdf ► Omni on Twitter: https://twitter.com/omniFDN ► Austin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/0xASK ------ If you're a DeFi/Web3 builder, contact our team at: https://fourthrevolution.capital/ All opinions expressed by hosts and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and not necessarily those of Fourth Revolution Capital. Podcast guests and 4RC may have positions in the assets or other matters discussed in this podcast. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions. Do your own research. This is not a recommendation or endorsement to buy any token(s) related to any platform(s) discussed.

Ep.21: Bracket Game, Sports Memecoins, Scenecoins, $Degen, Blast/Optimism/Base Recent Growth

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 01:16 We’ve chosen our cohort for SC.07, an announcement is coming soon so stay tuned 03:03 John and Tim join show to talk about their new project Bracket.Game that just launched 07:12 There’s a lot of overlap between crypto communities and sports communities 08:14 What would the experience of having ownership of your favorite team feel like? 08:54 The mechanics of Bracket.Game and how IRL performance impacts user payouts 09:44 How the prize pool works and how users can hold shares of their teams all year round 12:09 How to get started with Bracket.Game and the current model leveraging $DEGEN 19:52 Josh’s tweet about the % of cultural value of ticket sales, tv deals, stored in the orgs equity 26:53 Scenecoins vs Memecoins, Seed Club is basically just over intellectualization as a service 32:16 We love that we’re back in our social token era again, our day one thesis at Seed Club 35:26 Mr. Beast, his chocolate bars, running ads, and how the attention economy works 41:39 The NBA is launching in-context betting by adding live betting to NBA League Pass 46:14 Botto is back in the news, just raised, it’s an autonomous AI artist guided by human votes 52:13 A quick recap on the week in memecoins, the $SLERF dev disaster presale and launch 56:11 Look at what Blast and Optimism are doing to drive market adoption and growth 58:04 Memecoins on Base 01:00:50 We’re hosting an event at Farcaster’s Farcon, come hang with us there in LA in May Hosts: Jess Sloss & Josh Cornelius Web VJ: Peacenode Production: Cheryl Douglass None of this is financial or tax advice.