Alex Masmej Talks $DEGEN: Fueling Drakula's Growth and the Onchain Creator Economy
Join us in this episode as we sit down with Alex Masmej, the brain behind Drakula and a key player in the farcaster ecosystem. From his early days of conceptualizing Showtime as the 'Instagram of NFTs' to pioneering Drakula, Alex's journey is nothing short of remarkable. Drakula, now making waves as the 'TikTok of Web3', has seen an explosive start with over $30M in transactions in just two weeks, introducing a new and engaging way for fans to support video creators. Alex returns to the podcast to share the lessons learned from pivoting Showtime to creating Drakula, highlighting the strategic moves, go-to-market strategy, and the decision to adopt $DEGEN as the native currency of the app. I hope you enjoy our conversation and our genesis episode on Pods!
[BONUS] LIVE FROM DENVER: L2 WARS
On our final special bonus episode of Rehash recorded live in Denver on March 1, 2024, we’re holding our first ever debate between three major L2 chains: Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism. The representatives from each chain are Hudson Jameson (Polygon), Disruption Joe (Arbitrum), and Binji (Optimism). Each representative gives opening and closing statements about why the layer 2 chain they’re working on is the best one, shares some popular use cases for projects building on their chain, and some even attack other chains in an attempt to win the L2 wars.
[BONUS] LIVE FROM DENVER: CRYPTO THE GAME (CTG)
On this special bonus episode of Rehash recorded live in Denver on March 1, 2024, we’re speaking with Dylan and Tyler, co-founders of Crypto The Game, as well as Richie and Tina, two finalists from Season 1 of CTG. Dylan and Tyler share behind the scenes secrets on the creation of Season 1 of CTG, including how they came up with the challenges, issues they had to tackle in real time, and unexpected things to come out of the game. Richie and Tina then share their perspective of CTG as not only players, but finalists. They share their very different strategies throughout the game, building alliances, and what they would do differently next season. Finally, Dylan and Tyler reveal some alpha on what you can expect from Season 2 of CTG, which will be launching soon.
[BONUS] LIVE FROM DENVER: THE MULTICHAIN WORLD
On this special bonus episode of Rehash recorded live in Denver on March 1, 2024, we’re speaking with Irene Wu, Foobar, and Munam about the multichain world.
