Ep.25: Brian Flynn (Boost), Runes and Bitcoin Ordinals, Halving, Airdrop Fumbles, Social Token Distribution
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 00:27 Intro - We’re back, it’s episode 25, and we’ve got Brian Flynn co-hosting 02:25 Quick reminder, we’re hosting Free Wifi - an event at Farcon in LA on 5/4 03:53 What’s the latest from Boost and finding the right users for a given product 05:59 Maria Shen’s tweet thread on 20 of the most innovative onchain experiences 07:30 Deeper dive on crypto social mechanics, Nouns DAO launching a token 09:54 It’s interesting how the token model can dictate how a coin is described 12:17 Memecoins vs NFTs and lowering the barrier to entry for participants 13:55 How PartyDAO is evolving, crowdfunding for DAOs and NFTs, Party vs Party 16:28 It was a hot week with a lot of drama in and around Crypto The Game 20:39 Putting a price on things that didn’t have a price before, the 2nd half of Maria’s thread 21:24 Taking a look at what Unlonely is doing with livestreaming and 30 minute token launches 24:25 Digging into Runes and Bitcoin Ordinals, something Peace has waited a long time for 27:33 Peace tells the story of how he got into Bitcoin and shares his thoughts on Bitcoin the brand 31:11 The Bitcoin Halving is announced with a short clip by Peace that’s now up to be minted on Zora 34:56 Let’s talk about Uniswap, reaching $250B in L2 volume, creating a market for absolutely anything 40:17 Discussing marketing strategy in crypto and Ben Roy’s tweets about Farcaster’s strategy 43:03 First time founders focus on product, second time founders focus on distribution 47:55 We hold the belief that tokens are a form of media and experimentation driven by price 48:20 Looking at the struggle with airdrops, Jupiter, and other de-fi protocols putting tokens out 53:17 Brian brings up a tweet by Mason from Token Soft discussing onchain go-to-market strategy 56:43 Remaining bullish on social distribution, curating audiences and looking at what $ENJOY is doing 1:00:00 We’re at the top of the hour, thanks for tuning in, see you next week at 11AM PST / 1PM EST Hosts: Jess Sloss Web VJ: Peacenode Guests: Brian Flynn Production: Cheryl Douglass None of this is financial or tax advice.
Bright Moments Venice: The Finale ft Seth Goldstein
Seth Goldstein is an entrepreneur, art collector, and mentor, who has led pioneering ventures for two decades. He founded Bright Moments in 2021, a digital art gallery fostering crypto art communities worldwide, pioneering live IRL minting experiences with digital artists. Co-founding companies like SiteSpecific and Majestic Research, he's made waves in internet advertising and data analysis. This Podcast episode is sponsored by Studio Asisi, the team behind Berlin-based artist Yadegar Asisi, who has been exhibiting the world's largest panoramas and creating immersive art for over 20 years. His inaugural digital collection, Canvas Legacies, pays homage to the Impressionist movement and nimbly blends analog and digital. Now minting on https://nft.asisi.de/ Subscribe to Kaloh's Newsletter 👉 https://www.kaloh.xyz/ Kaloh's Podcast 👉 https://www.kaloh.xyz/s/kalohs-podcast Connect with me: X 👉 https://www.x.com/kaloh_nft Instagram 👉 https://www.twitter.com/kaloh_art Farcaster 👉 https://warpcast.com/kaloh In today’s episode, we discuss: Venice's Unique Vibe (00:02:07) Seth describes Venice, Italy's unique lifestyle and atmosphere, focusing on its small streets and artistic history. Bright Moments' Finale in Venice (00:03:14) Seth explains the significance of Venice for the Bright Moments project's finale, including minting crypto citizens and the finale project. Showcasing at Venice Biennale (00:04:30) Seth discusses the international art fair and festival, Venice Biennale, and the deliberate timing of the Bright Moments finale to coincide with the event. Cultural Awareness and Evolution (00:07:10) Seth reflects on the journey of cultural awareness and sophistication of the Bright Moments project from London to Paris. Challenges of Nomad Life (00:09:37) Seth shares the complexities and emotions of living a nomadic lifestyle for three years and the toll it takes on relationships and work. Economic and Market Changes (00:12:00) Seth discusses the economic volatility and market changes experienced by Bright Moments, including shifts in cryptocurrency values and competition from other projects. Incorporating Shiny Objects (00:15:42) Seth addresses incorporating new trends like meme coins, Ordinals, and Farcaster into the Bright Moments finale event. Future Plans for Bright Moments (00:27:17) Seth hints at taking a breather after the finale and reflects on the team's hard work, expressing a desire for people to reflect on and appreciate the minted NFTs. Decentralization and community events (00:31:17) Discussion on decentralization, community-hosted events, and the shift of decision-making to the community. Meme coins and art market trends (00:35:11) Their impact, and the trends in the art market. Artist and collector challenges (00:42:05) The challenges faced by artists and collectors in the current art market, including the need for experimentation and adaptation. Ordinals and the Bitcoin ecosystem (00:45:29) Discussion on ordinals, its relationship with the Bitcoin ecosystem, and limitations compared to Ethereum-based art projects. Until next time, - Kaloh Mentioned: Piter Pasma, Monica Rizzoli, Phil, Spongenuity, Venice Biennale, Bright Moments, Crypto Citizens, Foundation, Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin Ordinals, Base, Coinbase, Farcaster, MetaMask, Tezos, OpenSea, Tyler Hobbs, Zancan, Zach Lieberman, Casey Reas, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Martin Grasser, Camille Roux, Squiggles, Mitchell F Chan, Sofia Crespo.
#168 - JACEK
Jacek is the creator of $DEGEN, an innovative cryptocurrency and L3 built on Base on Ethereum and popularized on Farcaster. Follow Jacek on Farcaster @jacek. For more episodes, go to podofjake.com. Previous guests include Mark Cuban, Vitalik Buterin, Brian Armstrong, Balaji Srinivasan, Keith Rabois, Ali Spagnola, Anthony Pompliano, Raoul Pal, Julia Galef, Jack Butcher, Tim Draper, and over 100 others alike. Learn from founders and CEOs of companies like OpenAI, Coinbase, Solana, Polygon, AngelList, Oura, and Replit, and investors from Founders Fund, a16z, Union Square Ventures, and many more. I appreciate your support and hope you enjoy. Thanks to Chase Devens for the show notes and Yiction for the music. Lastly, I love hearing from fans of the pod. Feel free to email me any time at jake@blogofjake.com. Thank you!
Modular March EP 16: Where Eclipse & SVM Fit in The Modular Thesis
Typically, you wouldn’t think of Solana having a strong footing in the modular thesis. After all, the design choices they have elegantly pioneered (credit where credit is due) revolve around scaling a single state machine. This simply won’t scale to billions of users, and they will need to modularize. However, the extremely performant and extensible Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) is an effective tool to build an extremely fast rollup atop Ethereum. We can all be friends here, right? Welcome to today’s Modular March presentation, where we take our first dive as a team into the fascinating world of Eclipse and its modular approach to blockchain scalability and security. For those who’ve been around the block(chain), you know the drill: scalability often comes at the cost of complexity or security. Yet, Eclipse offers high throughput without the mess of state fragmentation via their flexible architecture. They’re mixing the best of both worlds – Solana’s speed and Ethereum’s security, with a splash of Celestia for that decentralized data layer cherry on top. We enjoyed this presentation with Sydney while also trying to understand where the tradeoffs or weaknesses in this design lie. We found some edge-cases but what was most interesting was the application possibilities as a result of using the SVM. We had some solid takeaways, you’ll enjoy this.
Ep 53 - Tools for Modern Life
Ep 53 - Tools for Modern Life We're joined by Mykel Online to talk about the second collection of Tools for Modern Life - an onchain music project launched exclusively on Sound and Farcaster.
Modular March EP 10: Endless Modular Application Possibilities with Lagrange
A core fundamental primitive of blockchain is the unlocking of usecases which are not possibly in any other type of system. We’ve heard a lot of this and we believe the technology stack is being built as we speak which will facilitate an array of “breakout apps” atop of it. In today’s piece, we set out to find out what type technological design constraints are present in the current modular ecosystem as well as the necessary solutions. If you’ve been following us for awhile, you know the Lagrange team from our zkAcademy. If you are newer here, you’re in luck. Andy and Rob sat down with Ismael, co-founder of Lagrange, to learn why zk coprocessors are crucial in enabling offchain computation for data queries and processing tasks that are too intensive for standard smart contracts. By creating a decentralized network for ZK proving and prioritizing access to complex onchain information within the modular ecosystem, Lagrange is playing a crucial role in the modular thesis. Let’s have a great week and continue to push forward as part of Modular March.
How BlackRock’s New Fund on Ethereum Got a Very Crypto Welcome
On Wednesday, BlackRock, the world's leading asset management firm, announced the launch of a tokenized investment fund, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity (BUIDL) Fund, developed in collaboration with Securitize. Carlos Domingo, founder and CEO of Securitize, discusses the launch of the fund, which is native to the public Ethereum blockchain and aims to bring an institutional-grade cash management product to crypto institutions, offering faster token issuance, redemption, and transferability. Learn more: What Is Real-World Asset (RWA) Tokenization? A Beginner's Guide He also talks about how Blackrock has embraced crypto, how the launch of the fund was “front run” by crypto Twitter, and how Blackrock will deal with issues such as the fund being dusted with ETH tainted by sanctioned Tornado Cash ETH.
Modular March EP 5: Value Accrual in The Modular Thesis with Tarun Chitra
The value accrual model in the modular stack is akin to that of the rise of the early internet. According to Tarun, founder of Gauntlet and a prominent angel investor, we will see more and more specialized usecases for applications which are highly expressive. As a result of this, the need for a modular stack becomes more and more apparent. We really enjoyed this conversation which drew inspiration from the evolution of the internet and computing to paint a clearer picture of the modular future. We’ve been quite deep in the technical weeds during Modular March (exactly where we want to be), so it was refreshing to host a discussion that goes beyond technicalities and instead touches on the practical application layer of modular blockchains. Hope you enjoy and feel free share with your friends who are trying to answer the question “why modularity?” & “where does the value accrue in the modular stack?” for the future of blockchain scaling.
Market Trends: Memecoins, Blast L2, and SocialFi
Imran and Qiao sat down to talk about the current market trends such as Memecoins, Blast L2, SocialFi, and more. No BS crypto insight for founders. 00:00 Intro 00:56 Welcome to Good Game 01:24 Memecoins Becoming Very Consensus 04:11 “There's a Culture Shift” 08:28 Shitcoins Imran is Following Right Now 11:28 Tremp and Boden 17:47 Qiao: I Really Like the Idea of Trading Personal Tokens 20:24 The Blue-Chip Memecoins 23:30 A Tweet That Lost Imran a Lot of Followers 25:55 This Cycle is Unlike Any Other Cycle 26:34 Why Imran is Still Very Bullish on HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu 27:21 Bitcoin Puppets 30:29 Why Memecoins Are Taking Off on Solana 34:02 Base God (TYBG) 35:31 "Crypto is Going to Lead Culture Moving Forward" 39:20 Could Layer 2 Have Its Own Geo-based Chain? 42:07 Things on SocialFi Imran is Excited About 43:21 What Friend.tech V2 is About 46:08 Crypto Startup Stories: Pump.fun 54:28 Do You Think Friend.tech 2 Will Launch on Blast? 55:13 Let's Talk About The Blast Launch 56:51 Unique Apps Built on Blast: Baseline Protocol 01:02:43 Solana is Retail, Blast is Degen Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3N675w3 Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3snLsxU Website: https://goodgamepod.xyz Twitter: https://twitter.com/goodgamepodxyz
Why EigenLayer May Be the Most Innovative New Ecosystem Since Ethereum
Sreeram Kannan, founder of EigenLayer, and Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder and CIO of Polychain Capital, an investor in EigenLayer, say that the developer ecosystem around EigenLayer is sprouting up very fast, which reminds Carlson-Wee of the developer excitement in Ethereum’s early days. They discuss the potential of EigenLayer, which uses a restaking mechanism to allow ETH stakers to reallocate their staked ETH and Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) to bolster security for other protocols. They cover how it could turbocharge Ethereum's rollup scaling roadmap and enable Ethereum to become a stack of decentralized software as a service providers. Additionally, they discuss the potential risks associated with restaking as well as how EigenLayer could work with AI.
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.
How Decentralized Social Network Farcaster Hopes to Eventually Get to One Billion Users
In the two weeks since Farcaster introduced its Frames feature that allows developers to easily add mini apps to users’ posts, the decentralized social network has become the talk of Twitter, now X, and increased its user base by ten times, according to co-founder Dan Romero. Romero joins Unchained to discuss why Frames has become so popular, the philosophy behind Farcaster and its client Warpcast, why the crypto component behind Farcaster is being kept to a minimum, how Apple’s new Vision Pro could lead to the creation of a 3D social network on Farcaster, how he and his fellow co-founder’s background at Coinbase helped shape their decisions about building Farcaster, and his vision for eventually getting Farcaster to a billion-plus users.
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
