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.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.24: LGHT x $higher, Colby Mugradi x mmERCH, $Nouns, The Scenecoin Opportunity

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 03:12 LGHT - Higher, memecoins, and more 06:47 The origin story of the Higher channel and how it evolved into a token 08:35 How the idea of Higher being a scenecoin resonates vs being a brand token 11:01 Higher as a DAO token and comparing it to Enjoy being a scenecoin 12:50 LGHT on Higher becoming a lifestyle brand and building a grassroots movement 15:37 How brands can contextualize or constrain on-chain creation in useful ways 20:21 Welcoming Colby Mugrabi to the show to talk about her project MMERCH 22:42 Colby’s background in fashion, discovering Web3, and thinking about generative art 25:14 Digging into the mechanics of the upcoming MMERCH drop and how it works 28:19 Some of the specifics on the materials and manufacturing of these hoodies 30:19 How the MMERCH NFC chip works and how to redeem your token for your wearable 32:13 Colby’s take on MMERCH being a brand that exists in the metaverse vs in the real world 34:37 Drop logistics, allowlist, partnering with DieWithTheMostLikes 36:40 Shifting gears to discuss a piece Josh wrote on The Scenecoin Opportunity 39:37 Jess’s take on The Scenecoin Opportunity and getting your token into the right hands 45:45 Jumping to Nouns DAO announcing they’re launching a token called $NOUNS 51:32 Perpetuating the Nouns meme further and how scarcity has impacted potential growth 53:16 Andrew Kang’s tweet about Mr. Beast and, Unlonely playing with tokens and live streaming 58:03 One quick lightning round on Friend Tech getting a bit of redemption and their imminent launch 01:00 Signing off, thanks for joining, we’ll see you next Friday at 10AM PST, every week is a big week Hosts: Jess Sloss & Josh Cornelius Web VJ: Peacenode Production: Cheryl Douglass None of this is financial or tax advice.

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.16: Boost, Main Characters app, Sora, TG Bots, Finding Love Onchain, ???

A weekly rundown show where extremely online individuals broadly explore (romanticize, even) new consumer internet experiences. We'll explore... 03:16 - Boost with Brian Flynn 29:49 - Love on Leverage 35:29 - main characters.app 41:12 - Sora 50:58 - TG Bots 54:21 - Finding Love Onchain 57:06 - YC RFS 1:00:11 - Lightning Round - “fk it why not 8” - Sam Altman 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