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
Ep.28: Zora acquires Mint.Fun, $FRIEND, Blast szn, Farcaster Incentives
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 00:23 Intro - Welcome back, it’s episode 28 of Internet Explorers, thanks for those who joined us IRL last week 03:23 Let’s bring Worm Emoji up to the stage to talk about Mint.Fun, Rug.Fun, Context and more 04:40 Worm gives an overview of his journey into crypto and creating Context - the first Web3 social feed 07:51 What did you learn from growing these products and ultimately selling them to bigger companies 14:43 Rug.Fun is all over the timeline, make sure to go claim your airdrop if you haven’t already 17:23 Experimenting with how you can change the way people think about memecoins 21:39 Productizing memecoin consensus building and the big opportunity with becoming the shilling point 25:22 Building chat features into the products your building as a growth mechanism 30:10 Another edition of WTFIPDOC - WTF is Peace doing on-chain - a follow up on Runemilio 37:51 Some new Farcaster incentives coming out of FarCon and the call for more clients 43:21 The inevitability of this being a consumer cycle in crypto and 3 new products that broke into the top 15 49:16 A segue into another consumer product - Friend.Tech and an update on their token launch 54:14 It’s obvious Blast is putting a lot into promoting projects and tokens and NFTs on their network 57:39 Tremp token and the political attention thesis playing out in real time, plus Trump’s take on NFTs 59:01 That’s it for this week, thanks for tuning in, we’ll see you next week at 10am PST / 1pm EST. Enjoy! Hosts: Josh Cornelius & Jess Sloss 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.
Ep.25: Brian Flynn (Boost), Runes and Bitcoin Ordinals, Halving, Airdrop Fumbles, Social Token Distribution
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 00:27 Intro - We’re back, it’s episode 25, and we’ve got Brian Flynn co-hosting 02:25 Quick reminder, we’re hosting Free Wifi - an event at Farcon in LA on 5/4 03:53 What’s the latest from Boost and finding the right users for a given product 05:59 Maria Shen’s tweet thread on 20 of the most innovative onchain experiences 07:30 Deeper dive on crypto social mechanics, Nouns DAO launching a token 09:54 It’s interesting how the token model can dictate how a coin is described 12:17 Memecoins vs NFTs and lowering the barrier to entry for participants 13:55 How PartyDAO is evolving, crowdfunding for DAOs and NFTs, Party vs Party 16:28 It was a hot week with a lot of drama in and around Crypto The Game 20:39 Putting a price on things that didn’t have a price before, the 2nd half of Maria’s thread 21:24 Taking a look at what Unlonely is doing with livestreaming and 30 minute token launches 24:25 Digging into Runes and Bitcoin Ordinals, something Peace has waited a long time for 27:33 Peace tells the story of how he got into Bitcoin and shares his thoughts on Bitcoin the brand 31:11 The Bitcoin Halving is announced with a short clip by Peace that’s now up to be minted on Zora 34:56 Let’s talk about Uniswap, reaching $250B in L2 volume, creating a market for absolutely anything 40:17 Discussing marketing strategy in crypto and Ben Roy’s tweets about Farcaster’s strategy 43:03 First time founders focus on product, second time founders focus on distribution 47:55 We hold the belief that tokens are a form of media and experimentation driven by price 48:20 Looking at the struggle with airdrops, Jupiter, and other de-fi protocols putting tokens out 53:17 Brian brings up a tweet by Mason from Token Soft discussing onchain go-to-market strategy 56:43 Remaining bullish on social distribution, curating audiences and looking at what $ENJOY is doing 1:00:00 We’re at the top of the hour, thanks for tuning in, see you next week at 11AM PST / 1PM EST Hosts: Jess Sloss Web VJ: Peacenode Guests: Brian Flynn Production: Cheryl Douglass None of this is financial or tax advice.
Ep.18: Perl & Fantasy Social, $Enjoy, Decentralized Social, Blast, Software Companies as Lifestyle Brands
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 Hosts: Josh Cornelius & Jess Sloss Web VJ: Peacenode Production: Cheryl Douglass Development: David Hurley Operations: Merna Makar
S7 E4 | Building, Investing, and Finding Ikigai in Crypto w/13yearoldvc
On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with 13yearoldvc, Ecosystem Lead at Eigenlayer, about how she studied 50 projects a day to identify trends as a VC, why she now enjoys building more than investing, and what it is about Eigenlayer that she believes makes it a really special one of a kind project.
Ep.08: Memecoins, Solana Euphoria, Protocol Rewards, The Future of Cross-Chain
A weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer internet experiences. This week we discuss... - A wild week of memecoins, and some cool experiments out of the @farcaster_xyz world - @solana euphoria and @ethereum cope - a professional network fork of http://friend.tech by @coordinape - @viamirror and @soundxyz_ protocol rewards and the growing onchain media distribution ecosystem - @ourZORA cross-chain minting and the future of chain inhabiting Join us live and online on Fridays @ 10AM PST live.seedclub.xyz Hosts: Jess Sloss & Josh Cornelius Web VJ: peace_node Production: Cheryl Douglass Development: David Hurley Operations: Merna Makar
Exploring Consumer Crypto with SC06
A look at the people and products in SC06, Seed Club’s Consumer Crypto Accelerator