Hyperactive Episode 5 - Red with Antimo FM
We walk-and-talk with freelance product designer, Antimo FM. Antimo shares his journey from growing up in Italy with a passion for comic books and illustration, his path to design, crypto, and Farcaster, and how he’s using Hypersub to build community and earn recurring revenue onchain.
Hyperactive Episode 4 - Narisofka's Gang with Sofia Komarenko
We walk-and-talk with artist, illustrator, and designer Sofia Komarenko. Sophia shares her journey from growing up in Siberia and Kaliningrad to becoming a professional artist. She discusses her influences from cartoons and games, her entry into the NFT space, and the challenges of the crypto winter. Sophia highlights the importance of physical representations of digital art and how she’s using Hypersub to earn recurring revenue, and build a community of supporters that help sustain her artistic practice.
Terminally Onchain with YB
We discuss the past, present, and future of YB's work, and how he's using Hypersub to earn recurring revenue onchain with Terminally Onchain.
The Yon Experience with Yon Frula
We discuss the past, present, and future of Yan's work, and how he's using Hypersub to earn recurring revenue onchain with The Yon Experience.
Believe in Something with Jihad Esmail
We discuss the past, present, and future of Jihad's work, and how he's using Hypersub to earn recurring revenue onchain for Believe in Something.
How Layer3 Is Transforming User Engagement Onchain ft. Brandon Kumar
This episode welcomes Brandon Kumar, Co-founder of Layer3. Throughout our chat, he shares his journey from leaving venture capital to entering crypto, diving into the creator economy, onchain user behavior, and the innovative incentives like XP and Cubes that drive engagement. We also explore Layer 3's distribution network, user growth strategies, and the challenges of data fragmentation in the crypto space. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
many such cases ep 12: building for high-quality content with @dwr
on this episode (recorded “like a year ago”), @dwr joins @ted and @nonlinear to discuss the number one priority for farcaster right now: the challenge in creating a sustainable supply of quality content. we cover user engagement metrics, the current state of channels and what they could become, and how the team is thinking about enabling high-quality content through new features. @dwr also shares some of his insights on the power of text-based content and cultures on social platforms like twitter and what the emergence of AI-generated content may mean for these platforms. 00:39 farcaster’s top priority 01:29 challenges and strategies for building communities 07:30 reducing the barrier to high-quality content 15:20 the dominance of text-based content 18:35 in-group culture, power of memes, and AI-generated content 25:25 the future of channels
Creativity with Extinction Rebellion — Charlie Waterhouse
Charlie Waterhouse is a co-founder of the Art Group and Media team at Extinction Rebellion based in London. He’s Creative Director of This Ain’t Rock ’n’ Roll, and a director of the Brixton Pound. We talk about the origins of Extinction Rebellion, a global movement using non-violent direct action to persuade governments to take action on climate, and inspire public consciousness to the cause.
Broadcasting Onchain Media with Vessel — Steph Alinsug
Steph Alinsug is a brand builder, storyteller, community organiser, and media creative. Founder of Vessel. An emergent startup designing for the onchain media ecosystem. She was previously the Media Steward at Seed Club. Internet native accelerator with a growing network of alumni projects including ALLSHIPS, Cabin, Forefront, Metalabel, Poolsuite, Protein, Refraction, Songcamp, Take Up Space and Water & Music. We talk about Broadcast, an inaugural web3 media event held in Brooklyn May 2023. An invite only summit focusing on the future of onchain media. It was a collaboration between Vessel, Seed Club, and Foster which is a writers collective based in New York.
New Internet is Here with Boys Club — Natasha Hoskins
Natasha Hoskins is a creator, brand builder and Co-Founder of Boys Club. A social collective bringing a new voice to the new internet. Product studio and media company. Best known for their parties, community, podcasts, interviews with crypto builders, memes, merch and a newsletter. We talk about their experiences building a social collective brand in crypto. How they designed their DAO. How they are thinking about audiences and making collaborative releases like printing a physical zine and distributing by hand across South by Southwest.
Towards Infinite Gardens with Ethereum in Latin America — Marcus AM
Marcus AM is a creator, researcher, builder and artist. Fellow of the Ethereum Foundation and co-creator of Ethereum Guatemala. Researcher and author of the Last Mile Defi Report on crypto adoption in Latin America. We talk about Marcus’ origin stories growing up in rural Guatemala, observing corruption and fraught financial infrastructure leading to his early interest in Bitcoin. Through to verging into the crypto builder space and being accepted as a fellow of the Ethereum Foundation to research opportunities, challenges and use cases for crypto adoption in Latin America. Crypto as a counterculture movement. Marcus’ interests in podcasting. Supporting young developers and teams in the Latin American ecosystem and the impact created by Devcon and ETH Global events happening in the region.
Navigating the Future with Extinction Rebellion — Clare Farrell
Clare Farrell is a founding member of Extinction Rebellion. She’s an activist, artist, designer, communicator and organiser. In the Adam McKay movie Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence go on television to raise the alarm about an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, only to be met by the banal absurdity of how mainstream news works. Well, Clare Farrell has that role in real life. Appearing on TV to speak on behalf of this XR movement. A surreal experience to find yourself in. We discuss their demands for net zero carbon emissions by 2025, citizens assemblies and direct democracy, and reparatory justice for nations and people around the world most impacted by the climate crisis.
Skateboarding in a CC0ciety with Nouns and Gnars — Gami
Gami is a founder at Gnars and a member at Nouns. With his team at Omega they just dropped an NFT project called Forgeries. An open edition minting NFT copies of Noun 401 and one of those tokens unlocked ownership of the real Noun. His background is in skateboarding, growing up in rural Australia, before becoming a sponsored skater and other adventures. We talk origin stories in crypto and NFTs, his early involvement in Nouns and the founding of Gnars, a community owned (and run) extreme sports club with over 1000 members. They are responsible for the grind box in a public square in Rio de Janeiro which was a bright red pair of Nouns noggles, some iconic early Nouns images. Now they’re teaming up with skateboarding hall of famer Bob Burnquist for community projects in Brazil.
Reflecting Your Identity with Disco — Evin McMullen
Evin McMullen is the co-founder and CEO at Disco. A company building tools to make it easy to carry your data from web2 to web3, under your ownership and control. Using Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable credentials. We talk about Evin's origin stories before web3 and crypto, how the Disco team came together, and the community design superpowers unlocked by combining Disco with tools from Guild.
Playing Piano with Zora and FWB — Yuri Rybak
Yuri Rybak is a musician and producer. Partnerships at Zora. Early member at Friends With Benefits, including as a producer at NFT Pirate Radio with Chuck Anderson. We talk about writing and producing music, the music industry, and what we see as emergent for music NFTs and artist collectives. We get into Yuri’s musical path through life, leading to early involvement with FWB on the scene for many experiments in NFT releases from artists including Glassface, Pussy Riot, and Eric Hu. Experiences from the inside at Zora, their brand and creative, zorbs, minting to 1155 contracts, and the rising ecosystem of Nouns Builder projects.
Reimagining eSports with BLVKHVND — Sirsu
Sirsu is the co-founder of BLVKHVND. He’s an artist, designer, brand creator, gamer. BLVKHVND is creating an emerging ecosystem for onchain esports organizations. Their mission is to be the center of competition no matter where it lives. We talk about Sirsu’s journey from earlier days in gaming, art, NFTs and crypto. From raising $1 million in one day on a Mirror crowd fund to booting up an eSports organization with multiple teams competing around the world. Helping to launch Mint Fund in collaboration with others at Forefront, Zora and Seed Club ~ a community-owned initiative helping crypto creators mint their first NFTs. Sirsu has many stories to tell, and much of it is shared here for the first time.
Aggregating Web3 Social with Yup — Nir Kabessa
Nir Kabessa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Yup, along with Co-Founder Vernon Johnson. Yup is the best of web3, all in one feed. Aggregating the best content of Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs and Twitter. Nir was President of Blockchain at Columbia from 2018 to 2020. Since 2020 he’s been a Mentor at the Columbia IBM Blockchain Accelerator. Speaker and investor, contributing at publications including Forefront, Hacker Noon and Big Think. We talk about the EVM as a social network. The rapid evolution, growth and experimentation we’re seeing in web3 social. What it means for media networks like UFO. And Nir’s early origins in the crypto space, starting way back in 2014 and amping up from 2017.
Exploring Web3 Collectives with Folklore — Rafa
Rafa is a web3 creator, writer, and operations specialist. Crafting lore and exploring web3 collectives, combining org design theory with digital community building. Most recently he worked at Mirror as their Community and Growth Lead. He's the founder of Folklore, a community exploring long-form articles related to belonging, lorecraft, human relationships, and digital realms. We talk about media and internet communities. The web3 creator playbook including the ability to earn ownership in protocols and DAOs through participation rather than only financial means.
Bringing Japan and the Netherlands together with Midnight夏季Breeze — Dutchtide
Dutchtide is an independent artist, designer and founder based in the Netherlands. Creator of the NFT collection MidnightBreeze, released in 2021. Illustrations inspired by 90s vaporwave and the Japanese word Ma 間 which translates to ‘space’ but can be interpreted many different ways. We talk about the inspirations of Japanese art and culture for his art practice coming from a Dutch style of colour, light, composition and architecture. His earlier days in NFTs including the life altering sale of a Beeple work which funded his own projects and secured a CryptoPunk.
Create What's Missing with Public Assembly — losingmyego, 0xTranqui, Salief Lewis
losingmyego, 0xTranqui and Salief Lewis are founding members from Public Assembly. A collective of web3 developers building dev tools, educational materials, libraries and repositories of information. Public Assembly launched on Nouns Builder on December 3, 2022. Their project began as a four-week creative sprint and evolved from being anti-DAO to launching a DAO of their own. We talk about the philosophy of co-creation, open source, and the types of communal environments we create together on the internet.
Amplifying Tokenized Communities with Forefront — Jihad Esmail
Jihad Esmail is a core contributor at Forefront, proliferating collective creation. Key author for Tokenized Communities Year In Review, and a researcher at Other Internet, an applied research organisation studying social technology. Active in the Nouns DAO community, one of the most fascinating things happening in the crypto space as its evolved since launch in 2021. We talk about governance, memes, NFT memberships, onchain media and trends for communities from ERC20s and social tokens to PFP collections, onchain social and nounish projects.
Funding Public Goods with Gitcoin — Scott Moore
Scott Moore is the Co-Founder of Gitcoin, the community of builders, creators, and protocols at the centre of open web ecosystems. We talk about the ideals of solarpunk, aiming to build towards a techno-positive future, what it means and how this ties into recognising web3 as a counterculture movement. About the origins of Gitcoin and what they’ve discovered along the way. Thinking about funding public goods like a subway system that produces value for a whole city, the people who live there and all their activities.
Co-Curating the Art NFTs Ecosystem with JPG — María Paula, Trent Elmore
María Paula is the retired founder of the Department of Decentralization which organised the ETH Berlin hackathon events. Trent Elmore was working in DeFi before teaming up with María and Sam Spike as co-founders of JPG. A platform and infrastructure to promote and preserve the NFT ecosystem's cultural objects via exhibitions and canons. We talk about the origins of JPG, community co-curation for the Dynamic and Conceptual Art Canons, and observations from earlier years in Ethereum through DeFi summer up to present day.
Riding Motorcycles Through Art Worlds with Night Run — Matto
Matto is a generative artist, audio, code, and visual. Managing Director of Thousand Ant, creative studio based in New York. His latest Night Run is a conceptual art project with three parts: A motorcycle game where you look at art in a generated city space; An NFT collection with imaginary fashion houses; A series of videos with commentary. We talk about the NFTs scene over the past couple years, with a few highlights including Terraforms, Blitmaps, Loot, Toadz and Nouns.
Talking 2017 NFTs with CryptoKitties and Dapper Labs — Benny Giang
Benny Giang is a product marketer and creative thinker in UX design, growth and community. Co-founder at Future Primitive where they work on experimental creative projects involving NFTs such as the Stapleverse with Jeff Staples. Team member #13 at Dapper Labs and a co-founder of the iconic CryptoKitties in 2017. Later NBA Top Shot before departing from Dapper in October 2021. We talk about origin stories and creating the first ever NFTs discord community for CryptoKitties including founders from Dapper, Axie Infinity, and OpenSea.
