Hyperactive Episode 10 - Kaloh's Newsletter and Podcast with Kaloh

We walk-and-talk with writer, podcast host, and renaissance man, Kaloh. Born in Venezuela, his journey began studying computer science, working as a developer by day and mining Bitcoin by night. Originally an escape, Kaloh's writing achieved bestseller status on Substack shortly after leaving the startup world behind. An art collector and community builder at heart, he continues to demystify the onchain frontier through his writing and podcast.

Hyperactive Episode 9 - Hyefa with Aoife O'Dwyer

We walk-and-talk with artist, designer, and illustrator Aoife O'Dwyer. She shares her journey from biochemistry, to web design, to independent art-making. We explore and discuss ideas around storytelling, connection and co-creation through art and onchain experiments.

Hyperactive Episode 8 - Muse Studio with Max Jackson

We walk-and-talk with multidisciplinary artist and Hypersub OG, Max Jackson. He shares his journey from driving a pedicab, to discovering calligraphy, printmaking, and design, to minting his work onchain and building a community of passionate creators and collectors.

Hyperactive Episode 7 - Coop Records Club with Cooper Turley

We walk-and-talk with Coop Records Club founder, Cooper Turley. He shares his journey from studying music business in college, his humble beginnings as an eBay reseller and crypto trader, learning about DeFi and decentralized governance, cofounding FWB, and now bringing music onchain. He also talks about what it’s been like building through the bear market, incentivizing mints with meme coins, boosts and quests, sharing upside with his community, and what’s next.

Why AI & Crypto Go Together and Why You Should Care

Ron Chan is the CoFounder of Inference Labs. In this episode, we cover why AI and crypto go together and why you should care. Ron shares how Inference Labs is solving for AI verification, one of the biggest challenges to realizing the fullest vision for decentralized AI, including their ongoing work with Bittensor and EigenLayer. ------ 🔗 Essential Show Links 🔗 ► Youtube: https://youtube.com/@DeFiDad ► Apple: https://tinyurl.com/edgepod ► Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/edgepodspotify ► Linktree: https://linktr.ee/edge_pod ► Follow DeFi Dad: https://twitter.com/DeFi_Dad ► Follow Nomatic: https://twitter.com/Nomaticcap ► Learn about DeFi and Web3: http://defidad.com/ ------ The Edge Podcast Sponsor Resources ☀️ SUMMER.FI | THE BEST PLACE TO BORROW AND EARN IN DEFI https://summer.fi/?utm_source=DeFidad 🚀 FLAT MONEY | THE LOW VOLATILITY YIELD-BEARING FLATCOIN DESIGNED TO OUTPACE INFLATION https://flat.money/ 🍵 MATCHA.XYZ | THE BEST PRICE ON OVER 5 MILLION TOKENS https://matcha.xyz/?utm_source=theedgepodcast&utm_campaign=2q24 🧑‍🌾 MANTLE | THE ETHEREUM L2 FOR TOP NATIVE YIELDS https://www.mantle.xyz/ 🐡 PUFFER FINANCE | LIQUID RESTAKING FOR THE LITTLE FISH https://puffer.fi/ 💰 TELLER | DEFI'S CASH ADVANCE https://teller.org/ 🌕 MOONBEAM | INTEGRATED WEB3 FOR BUILDERS AND USERS https://moonbeam.network/ ------ Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 3:40 - Founding Inference Labs 7:52 - Centralized vs decentralized AI 12:14 - The decentralized AI engine 21:40 - Mantle mid-roll 22:34 - Why decentralized AI verification 25:18 - What is Bittensor? 27:07 - How Inference Labs uses Bittensor 31:44 - Teller & Moonbeam mid-roll 32:58 - Incentivizing contributors to Inference Labs 34:59 - Building Sertn, powered by EigenLayer 41:11 - Closing ------ 🔗 Guest Links 🔗 ► Inference Labs Website: https://inferencelabs.com/ ► Inference Labs on Twitter: https://x.com/inference_labs ► Ron on Twitter: https://x.com/sudo_ron ------ If you're a DeFi/Web3 builder, contact our team at: https://fourthrevolution.capital/ All opinions expressed by hosts and podcast guests are solely their own opinions and not necessarily those of Fourth Revolution Capital. Podcast guests and 4RC may have positions in the assets or other matters discussed in this podcast. DeFi Dad was a seed investor in Inference Labs in 2023. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions. Do your own research. This is not a recommendation or endorsement to buy any token(s) related to any platform(s) discussed.

Public Parks and DAOs: The Rise of Digital Cities with Alex Zhang

I'm excited to bring back OG episode. Mint Season 3 episode 7 welcomed Alex Zhang, a Co-Founder of Friends with Benefits and the aspiring Jane Jacobs of DAOs. This was probably the most important conversation I’ve had on Mint so far. He brings so much insight and is really well versed with all things DAOs. We discuss: 0:00 - Intro 4:10 - Growing up a Son to Immigrants 7:34 - Becoming the Jane Jacobs of DAOs 20:55 - Understanding Dynamism in a Digital City 24:02 - The Differences Between Real Cities and Digital Cities 29:34 - FWB Season 4 39:47 - Crypto as an Incentive 46:49 - Photography and Crypto - The Similarities 49:09 - What Eats Web 3.0? 51:30 - Outro ...and so much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

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.

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.

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.

Valuing Artists By Their Potential — Black Dave

Black Dave aka Dave Curry is a music artist, producer, rapper, photographer, and innovator in the realms of web3 music and NFTs. He’s a contributor at Water & Music and shares ideas about crypto and music at his Mirror publication. He helped to found a collaborative music project Amethyst from his hometown in Charleston, South Carolina. We talk platforms for minting music. Dynamics of scarcity in music NFTs ~ 1/1s as fine art and editions as building blocks for communities. And his belief that we should value artists by their potential, not their present moment.

Creating Onchain Records with Metalabel — Anna Bulbrook, Yancey Strickler

Anna Bulbrook is a musician, multi-disciplinary cultural curator, creative producer, and director. A founding squad member at Metalabel. Music Curator at TED. Playing violin with artists like Perfume Genius, Beyoncé, Vampire Weekend and Spiritualized. Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur. He’s the cofounder and director of Metalabel, cofounder of Kickstarter, and cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent. We explore two articles by Yancey, 'Reinventing The Record' and 'The Onchain Era', and directly valuing the creative work you love.

Collecting Art With Friends — Nicolas Sassoon, Sam Mason de Caires

Nicolas Sassoon is a Franco-Canadian artist using early computer graphics to create a wide array of pixelated forms, patterns & architectural structures. His works are published on SuperRare, Foundation, and Objkt, having been collected by some of the most notable NFT collectors in the space. Sam Mason de Caires is an engineer who’s into generative art. Presently at Syndicate, and previously at Foundation and Rainbow. Along with their friends Tim Smith and FEELS, they are a collective who are collecting art together as a DAO. We talk about art and the crypto space. About Nicolas’ artistic practice and how he makes his works. How technology is enabling new ways to create, collect, and support artistic expression. And what kinds of NFTs Sam and Nicolas are interested in for Gossamer.

Music, Sound Sculptures and Reality — Martí Ruids

Martí Ruids is a musician and sound artist. Professor and researcher in the sculpture department at the Universitat de Barcelona. With more than a decade of experience with sound sculptures and working with masters in Japan. Member of Híbrida, Nen i Cavall. Part of a duet band RIUH with Raquel Cruces performing traditional folk music from the Iberian Peninsula. Member of Pangamelan, exploring gamelan music from Indonesia, using pots and pans to create unique instruments, rhythm, pitch and percussion, achieving trance like states. We talk about experimental music. Sound and resonance. How it effects consciousness. The very nature of reality. Martí's work reviving Baschet Sound Sculptures with concerts in Japan. And exploring the realms of traditional music from Iberia, across places in Catalunya, Basque country, and Portugal.

Creating with AI in Generative Art and Visual Effects — ATARA

ATARA aka Johannes Saam is an Academy Award-winning creative technologist, futurist, and web3 artist. With two decades innovating in visual effects and film, raised by 80s and 90s movies and video games, he's an explorative creator of generative art. We talk about his visual effects career in the film industry, exploring creativity through coding, mathematics and technology, the latest from AI generative platforms such as DALL·E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and we go behind the scenes for the creation of DALL-E Punks.

Design with Seed Club and Songcamp — peacenode

Peacenode is a designer and graphic artist at Seed Club and Songcamp. We talk about his origin stories in crypto and background in the music scene. Creative practice and making poster designs for over 200 days straight. And we jam about projects we’re into like Nouns Builder from Zora.

Evolving Web3 Communities with Guild — Reka

Reka is a co-founder at Guild, the ultimate tool for platformless memberships and quests for internet communities. She writes about communities, DAOs and internet culture. We talk about the origin stories of Guild, how their team came together, what they’re focused on building and Reka’s interest in jokedao and jokerace.

A Social Crypto Wallet with Zerion — Alexander Guy

Alexander Guy is head of growth at Zerion. A place to manage your crypto, DeFi and NFT portfolios. Trade across multichain and connect to any decentralized application. We talk about the crypto lifestyle. Why we think it’s a compelling space to be looking to join a company or create a project. And common pitfalls of the crypto lifestyle like FOMO, always being on, stress about security, excessive information input, and getting up to speed when you’re new and joining crypto.

Creativity In Multiplayer with Metalabel — Austin Robey

Austin Robey is a member of the founding squad at Metalabel. An assembly of founders, creators and producers emerging from the web2 economy, now helping to amplify the meme of the metalabel. Imagined as a release club where groups of people with shared interests create and release work together.

Making Art, Code & Lore with Crypto Coven — Nyx

Nyx is a co-founder of Crypto Coven, focusing mostly on art, code and lore for an NFT collection of 9999 witches created by five friends. We talk about creating a project like this from the inside perspective. The power of lore, storytelling and world building. What can be accomplished in smart contract design and doing creative things with the tech.