Writing, Podcasts and Minting Base Colors — JAKE

JAKE is a pseudo anonymous internet creator. Going with the classic blue, colour code #0000FF as his pfp. Host at Pod Of Jake where he’s interviewed almost 200 guests over 4 years. Most recently Jacob from Zora and others such as Vitalik Buterin, pplpleasr and Mark Cuban. Writer at Blog of Jake, where he’s published about creativity and writing, documenting his experiences as a podcaster, observing what’s happening on the internet, reviewing crypto news, thinking about how to learn and build. JAKE is also the founder of Base Colors, a new onchain collection where you can mint unique colour codes on Base and give them a name, an interesting primitive which many people are starting to play around and experiment with. We talk about the benefits of writing online. Go behind the scenes experiences of hosting a podcast. Thoughts on the crypto scene, Bitcoin and pseudo anon identities on the internet, decentralized social like Farcaster, and thinking too much about Colors. ___ UFO Sponsor Resources ↑ Higher — https://www.aimhigher.net/ 🌐 International Meme Fund — https://imf.bz/ --- @jake @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm

Electronic Music Scenes — Sound Of Fractures

Jamie Reddington is an electronic music producer, consultant and lecturer from London who recently released his debut album Scenes. His music is shaped by hiphop, UK dance music and soul. Leaning into telling stories, with textures and samples captured from his phone, featuring the sound of his daughter’s heartbeat. The record was released as a co-creation. ‘Over 350 memories were submitted and turned into Scenes, capturing a moment in time. People stopped, took time out of their lives and engaged in a process that connected music and emotions.' We talk about the past, present and future of music on the internet. What's most interesting for artists right now? ___ UFO Sponsor Resources ↑ Higher — https://www.aimhigher.net/ 🌐 International Meme Fund — https://imf.bz/ --- @soundoffractures @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm

Exploring the Memecoin Supercycle with IMF — Gami, Clouted

Gami and Clouted are core contributors from International Meme Fund (IMF) and $MONEY. Their team believes it is now crucial to have native liquidity and financial infrastructure for the meme sector. They're both from Sydney and have shared interests in defi financial engineering, game theory and the memecoin phenomonen. We talk about financial nihilism. Memes as emergent properties of the internet. Why do some meme assets succeed when the vast majority fail? How do you choose the tokens that go up? (no financial advice). The internet is stranger than you think.

Interpreting Technology with AIxDESIGN — Nadia Piet

Nadia Piet is Founder and Creative Lead of AIxDESIGN, a global community conducting critical AI research for the benefit of people, not profits. She's a designer, researcher, organiser and faculty member at ELISAVA's Design for Responsible AI. We talk about many things artificial intelligence. AlphaGO and Move 37. AI models trained on creative assets without permission. Commodification of digital life. What's causing the rapidly improving visual quality of generative AI such as DALL-E and Midjourney? Big picture, what are constructive ways to be thinking about AI?

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

A Collective Signal with UFO — Alex Guy, aiio, LGHT

Nick Hollins, Alex Guy, aiio and LGHT are hosts of the first shows on the UFO network. Alex is head of Growth at Zerion and recently launched Still Here. A show to explore his curiosity talking with people who are active web3 citizens. Through all the ups and downs of crypto. Answering the question of what motivates and inspires them. Why they’re still here. aiio is a researcher, community builder and writer bridging across web3 and the underground electronic music and arts communities in Copenhagen. Soon bringing a podcast to UFO. She writes about the concept of space, linking it to human culture, existence, and the need for adaptive ecosystems. LGHT is an artist, designer, writer, and technologist based in the Eastern United States. Creator of the Hypercultures essay series as well as co-founding Based Management. His work mainly focuses on protocol design, the science of digital language/memetics, and zero to one acceleration of tech primitives and adoption. We talk about UFO as a collective signal. Building a radio station. Sharing ideas for how we see this going forward into 2024.

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.

Happy Friday with the park ⌐Ⓗ-Ⓕ — Derek Taylor

Derek Taylor is a musician and founding member of the park. A band with many of the largest onchain music mints of all time. Based in Los Angeles, originally from San Francisco. They stage Fridays at the Park, bringing artists together in the room to write and record music. In-person experiences that also help onboard into the onchain and crypto world. Derek is a coffee enthusiast and raconteur. Owner of the legendary Menotti’s Coffee Stop in Venice Beach. We jumped on the mics to record days before I flew out to FarCon. We co-hosted HIGHER SESSIONS down at Venice Beach skatepark on Saturday morning, with the park, higher and UFO. Trevor aka The Gardener had a mountain of flowers there and was creating bouquets for people passing by and the park was providing coffee. We talk about the back story of the park, stories of creative collaborations across the world, how best to get started on the onchain scene as a musician, and how things look into the future. 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

Higher is a lifestyle — Martin, Six, Kugusha

Martin, Six and Kugusha are all early members of higher. A new creative collective with its own native currency, built with a token on Base, publishing on Zora, and accelerating out of sight as one of the all-time fastest growing Farcaster channels. Higher is a lifestyle, an optimistic mindset, a brand being built in real time by hundreds of people on the internet. The word itself was used in crypto for some time, but the idea that “Higher” could be something bigger was kickstarted by LGHT in March. LGHT created the arrow logo and the /higher Farcaster channel, after a suggestion from Jacob from Zora that the unicode up arrow (↑) could be the symbol for “higher”. And LGHT then made a few memes in a collection on Zora. We talk about everyone’s early experiences on Farcaster and views on how it’s developing. About the origins of higher and what’s emerging so far from this experiment, building a brand together. Zooming out on the possibilities and general sense of fun and play with people on the internet that is something to be a part of. 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

Designing Social Instruments with Scene Infrastructure Company — Jose, Ethan, Neesh

Scene Infrastructure Company is a software business building better instruments for socialization. We recorded with the founding team, Jose Mejia, Ethan Daya and Neesh, and what we got down on tape is super valuable context, experiences and thoughts around founding a new company. For design, product, community building and technology choices. Coming from earlier founding experiences at organizations like FWB and Zora. On designing a brand, and finding inspirations from retro spots like computer magazines, playstation games and lore, to create something fresh. We talk about their vision for the future and what they’d like to build, as they’re figuring it out in real time. They will be activating a social product experience for FWB Fest in California in August. 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

Creating Within the NFT Mania with Zen Academy — Zeneca

Zeneca is the founder of Zen Academy, a space designed to be a helpful community to learn about about web3 and NFTs. Former professional poker player. Speaker and content creator, writing about crypto, web3, NFTs, and the future of the internet. We talk about new ideas in onchain media. Adapting when your business model disappears along with NFT royalties. Highlights from the blur that was the NFT boom. About Zeneca’s interest in stoicism and well founded concerns about mental health and burnout from being maxed out when you are extremely online.

Serendipity Machines and Hypercultures — LGHT, Gami

LGHT is a creator, artist and writer who explores web3, art, NFTs, DAOs, memetic icons, hypercultures and more at lght.mirror.xyz. Publishing imaginative concepts, research, insights and models. Gami is our first returning guest, a member of Nouns and founder of Gnars. This recording was the first time these two have met each other “in person” for a conversation. We jam about memetic icons, skateboarding, hyperstructures, minting onchain, psychedelic experiences and the future of the internet. Wandering into the philosophical, a few concepts were struck upon: serendipity machines, and ever increasing novelty in the universe as per Terence McKenna.

Accelerating Better Futures with RADAR — Fancy

Fancy is an instigator at RADAR and previous founding team at Protein. RADAR is a decentralised global collective of more than 300 researchers, early adopters and innovators accelerating better futures. We catch RADAR as they launch Cycle 3 — Our Centaur Future. Producing a foresight report that paints a picture of what lies ahead with artificial intelligence and lays the groundwork for how to bring it to life.

Reimagining Art Practice with UFO — Ivano Salonia

Ivano Salonia is the creative director of UFO, based in Amsterdam. An artist, musician and creator in extended realities and virtual worlds. Since July 2022, Ivano and Nick Hollins have been creating the visual identity, art and brand of UFO. We went to ETH Tokyo in April 2023 and hacked on a UFO project with Lens Protocol and Livepeer. We talk about Ivano’s artistic practice starting out in advertising, design and brand. Doing work with global companies and agencies. How he became interested in making art in virtual reality, and experiments with AI and generative tools such as Midjourney. Diving into the web3, crypto and NFTs space from 2020. Working on projects including the motorcycle art video game Night Run with Matto from Hypercastles, and designing the 3D records for the Metalabel Quality Drops.

Manipulating Frequencies Since '96 — Kabuki

Kabuki is a producer, musician and artist based in Germany. Manipulating frequencies since ‘96. Building audio installations and exploring the realms of web3, NFTs and onchain music. We talk about his music and inspirations that came through electronic music and jungle in the 90s. About his creative process and philosophy. Learning how things work. How music technology is always changing in format and concepts. About his creative projects in web3, experimenting with ideas for music NFTs, beat tapes, live performances, videos and installations.

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.