"Onchain Native" with Native.fun Founder Derek Brown | ZEROPOD S2 E9
On this episode of ZEROPOD, we sit down with Derek Brown, the mad scientist developer and founder behind the upcoming agentic onchain game called Native dot fun, built on top of the Clanker protocol on Base. We had a blast getting to know Derek and hearing his story, from working as a rural midwest minister to coding in the halls of the some of the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley, and then striking out to build tech startups of his own. His vision for Native is wild and ambitious, and we can’t wait for you to learn all about it! If you enjoy this conversation, please Like, Comment & Subscribe — it really helps us grow our community. — TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Introduction: Positive-Sum Environments 1:15 - ZEROPOD Intro & Guest Introduction - Derek Brown 2:00 - Derek’s Fun Fact: Three Daughters, Same Birthday 3:09 - From Dupont Brat to Tech Builder 7:01 - Discovering Programming 7:06 - A word from our sponsor: Clanker.world 9:00 - The Journey to Tech: From Ministry to SV 18:12 - Tough Times & Family Resilience 24:00 - Getting Into Crypto: Bitcoin at $300 and Satoshi’s Whitepaper 31:01 - The Base vs. Solana Debate: Values & Coexistence 36:00 - The Origin of Clanker and Its Influence on Native 44:00 - What is Native? Sim City Meets Onchain Economies 51:00 - Dots Explained: AI Agents in the Digital City 58:00 - Tokenomics Deep Dive: Fees, Buybacks, and Sustainability 1:06:00 - The User Experience: MVP, Maps, and Gameplay 1:11:00 - Passports & Stamps: Proof of Humanity in Native 1:12:46 - Final Thoughts & How to Get Involved — Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk, JackWyldes and Santhosh. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by Toady Hawk, SuperTightWoody & Suno AI. Ad spot by JackWyldes. Produced by Zero Rights Media. This content is zero rights reserved (cc0), please remix and reuse it in any way you like! #base #onchain #clanker #ai #ethereum #tokens
8: Steph Ango - Tools for Amplifying Our Light
Steph Ango aka Kepano (Website, X) is a designer, writer, entrepreneur,and toolmaker, best known as the CEO of Obsidian, a powerful and flexible writing and thinking tool. Steph's education is in biology and industrial design, but he is true multi-hyphenate creative, working across mediums including software, hardware, supply chain and packaging, words, wood, furniture, ink, color schemes, open-source systems, video, podcasts, and more. Above all, he makes tools—deeply opinionated ones—designed to reduce friction for himself and others in the act of creating. Steph joined Obsidian after initially contributing as a fan and enthusiast and impressing its co-founders, Shida Li and Erica Xu. Under his leadership, Obsidian has grown into one of the most beloved and powerful independent software tools in the world, with millions of users. As a daily user myself, I rely on Obsidian for my research and thinking for this podcast. Before Obsidian, Steph founded Lumi and Inkodye, the former of which was acquired by Narvar. Beyond design, Steph is one of my favorite writers. His concise, sub-500-word essays have shaped my thinking on design, software, learning, agency, constraints, and creativity. While we couldn’t cover all of his ideas in this conversation, we explored many of them in what became my longest conversation to date—one that is packed with wisdom. I believe these ideas will challenge you in unexpected ways and push you to be more creative, agentic, and optimistic. Transcript for episode 8. Timestamps: (1:56): Constraints and style (11:51): Aggressively planting creative seeds but being patient for them to grow (17:42): Stadium of past and future selves (22:34): Asking what can be removed and making incremental progress (28:47): Building a product and company (Obsidian) with the "constraint" of ideology and principles (38:52): Using Obsidian makes Steph better at building Obsidian (44:09): What makes for good design and seeing the world as something designed (by nature or man) (53:11): What makes a good tool? (56:20): Thinking tools and Obsidian (1:04:32): "In good hands" and caring more than anyone else (1:21:38): Engaging all five senses (1:24:46): Creating cohesion or your own cinematic universe (1:30:43): How to time travel (1:33:08): Designing for digital durability or permanence & "File over app" (1:56:46): Investment and "selfishness" in extending your light (2:05:54): Choosing problems to work on (2:09:10): "Nibble and your appetite will grow" (2:12:31): Compounding (2:19:55): "Caloric energy is precious" (2:26:21): "Earth is becoming sentient" (2:39:31): Busy being born and sharing along the way (2:42:11): Love and freedom Links Style is consistent constraint Buy wisely Stadium of selves What can we remove? File over app Obsidian Manifesto In good hands Pain is information Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash Don't delegate understanding Nibble and your appetite will grow A little bit every day Caloric energy is precious Erewhon by Samuel Butler Earth is becoming sentient Agents of chaos Concise explanations accelerate progress Always learning, always teaching Six definitions of love Dialectic with Jackson Dahl is available on all podcast platforms.Join the telegram channel for DialecticFollow Dialectic on TwitterFollow Dialectic on InstagramSubscribe to Dialectic on YouTube
Role Call Ep 1: Saving Civilization Through New Governance Models w/Tracheopteryx (Eigen Foundation)
Role Call is a 6-part miniseries on DAOs, produced by Rehash and co-hosted by Hats Protocol. In our first episode of Role Call, we dive deep into the evolving nature of money, relationships, and reputation with Tracheopteryx, Chief Governance Officer at Eigen Foundation. Rehash host, Diana Chen, is joined by Nick Naraghi and Spencer Graham, co-founders at Hats Protocol, to explore the intricacies of decentralized governance, the transformative power of reputation systems, and the challenges of creating a more accountable and equitable society through blockchain technology. The conversation also touches on the philosophical and practical implications of these changes for organizations and civilization at large.
Stop Overcomplicating Your Startup
Antimo is the Founder of /red, a design business helping web3 startups and companies scale by simplifying design while emphasizing creativity and efficiency. In this episode we cover: - (00:07) The concept of "Ivory Tower Design" - (02:01) Explanation of design systems and their purpose - (08:30) Advice for blockchain and web3 companies on avoiding "Ivory Tower" tendencies - (11:29) Recognizing corporate mindset in startups and avoiding it in early-stage companies - (13:16) The importance of adapting to web3 culture and avoiding overly corporate attitudes Connect with Antimo: - Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/antimofm.eth - Website: https://antimo.fm/ Connect with Kris: - Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/thekris - LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/thekrispartner For sponsorships and collaboration: pod@optimism.show
Building Something Different with Therapy — Simona Pop
Simona Pop is joyfully subverting the status quo. Host of /therapy on Farcaster. Writing and giving talks around building with intention and how existing trauma and socio-economic conditioning can hinder our ability to build something different. She's an advisor at Optimism helping to build the Superchain. Public Goods Steward at ENS DAO and one of the first people I met in crypto attending Ethereal Summit in Brooklyn in 2018. Simona's been a member of the UFO network since the very beginning. We hear something about an upcoming radio show? Sponsors: Higher is a lifestyle — aimhigher.net Where group chats make more money — lore.xyz
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
How Lens Network is leveraging ZKsync's tech to achieve mainstream scale
Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Avara — the software development company behind some of web3's biggest projects, including Aave and Lens. In this episode, Kulechov gives an overview of the modular architecture underpinning the recently announced Lens Network and explains how a modular design is essential to helping Web3 social applications scale. OUTLINE 00:00 Introduction 02:00 Onchain Media 03:40 Lens Scaling Research 07:17 Security Considerations 09:42 Lens Network Architecture 12:58 Tech Stack Considerations 18:42 Web3 Social App Developers 20:36 Lens Network Migration 22:52 Developments in Web3 Social 26:36 Web2 vs. Web3 29:15 Closing Thoughts
#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!
