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.
Ep.17: Consumer Infra Wars, Community Stake, Crypto x AI, SC07
A weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer internet experiences. We'll explore... 03:05 - Community Stake 19:35 - SC07 Applications 39:35 - Pitch Tips 47:32 - Consumer Infra Wars 53:28 - Crypto x AI 57:18 - Lightning Round Join us live and online on Fridays @ 10AM PST live.seedclub.xyz
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
Ep.19: Memecoin Supercyle, Crypto ETFs with Alongside, Financial Nihilism, AI on Zora, L2 Wars
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 00:01:11 We have Kel with us - the real next L1 trade is a memecoin supercycle 00:10:44 Where do you see this memecoin trend going in the next 3, 6, 9 months? 00:13:25 Austin from Alongside Crypto 00:18:10 What’s changed with this cycle to get people excited about investing in indexes 00:29:14 Enjoy launched the very first memecoin ever on the Zora network 00:36:20 Some fun new AI updates on Zora and Jacob’s post on convergence of AI and crypto 00:39:48 Travis Kling on financial nihilism 00:53:59 The bull case for Web3 social and Farcaster as a powerful go-to-market tool 00:54:45 Get in babes, we’re going to Brand New by Boys Club at SXSW and there’s a zine 00:59:52 The struggle with hyper financialized social apps Hosts: Jess Sloss & Cheryl Douglass Web VJ: Peacenode None of this is financial or tax advice.
Ep.20: Stani Kulechov - Lens goes permissionless, Johnny Mack on Hypersub, SXSW recap, Memecoins as currency, Narrative Engineering
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 00:02:16 An introduction to Lens Protocol with Stani and some recent updates, like going permissionless 00:04:30 Diving deeper into Lens’ growth strategy and empowering app developers 00:08:41 Teams working to extend the protocol and incorporating memecoin mechanics 00:18:19 Johnny Mack joins the show, founder of Fabric and Hypersub 00:34:10 We went to Austin for Boys Club’s SXSW event /brandnew, it was incredible 00:39:12 Deep dive on a recent article about consumer apps and the attention theory of value 00:45:57 Memecoins could become currency for fans of brands and sports organizations 00:49:14 Drakula is an example of a ‘publisher exchange’ to check out 00:54:06 Founders need to be narrative engineers and stay close to the meta 00:59:00 Thanks for tuning in! Don’t forget to mint the episode and /brandnew pieces on Zora Hosts: Jess Sloss & Josh Cornelius Web VJ: Peacenode Production: Cheryl Douglass None of this is financial or tax advice.
OP Radio #34: Bedrock Upgrade with Karl & Ben
In this episode of OP Radio, we talk with OP Labs CEO Karl Floersch and Optimism Co-founder Ben Jones about the the Bedrock upgrade. Bedrock is a big deal for a number of reasons, not the least of which is it lays the foundation for the OP Stack with a simplified, modular codebase. Hear about this significant Optimism milestone from two of the individuals who have been at Optimism from the very beginning.
OP Radio #5: The Past, Present, and Future of the Optimism Collective
Hear from one of the co-founders of Optimism and the current Executive Director of the Optimism Foundation Jing on Optimism's past, present, and future of the Optimism Collective.
OP Radio #11: Supreme Optimist Kelvin Fichter
The notorious smart contractor extraordinaire Kelvin Fichter joins this episode of OP Radio to discuss his Ethereum origin story and why he's dedicated his life to building Optimism.
