Learn more about Taylor:

• DWIT Podcast IG: @official_dwit
• DWIT Podcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@official_dwit
• DWIT Podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3mXWYWJZJDvfhC6T0agm2C?si=3efb815e22a74403
• #5 Taylor Lo: Mamba Mentality. Basketball star to closing $10MM deals in China: https://wld.show/episodes/5-taylor-lo-mamba-mentality-basketball-star-to-closing-10mm-deals-in-china

For the last 8 years, Andrew has been running Junto. A men’s leadership retreat for guys who are curious about men’s work and serious about personal growth. I recently participated in Andrew’s Junto in Austin a couple weeks ago.

• Junto Website: wejunto.com
• Andrew Horn's Website: itsandrewhorn.com
• What's the Big Idea Podcast
  • Spotify
  • Apple Podcast
  • Youtube
• Andrew's Substack @andrewhorn

Beyond the main program, Will shares to Andrew what meant the most to him: helping run a pre-reunion wellness retreat with past guest Gene Lee, and leading a three-hour men’s group for other lodge leaders—an idea sparked by past guest Rich Shiu. Both experiences gave him a chance to explore how to create deeper connection inside the fraternity.

While serving as the U.S. Army Missile Command Commanding General at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, from 1989 to 1992, Major General Chen's leadership was crucial in ensuring the readiness and effectiveness of missile systems deployed in the largest deployment and combat use of missiles in Army history during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Bill also played an essential role in adopting missile interceptor technology for national and theater missile defense programs. He developed the Patriot Missile System and dedicated himself to missile defense, which earned him widespread recognition.

After retiring from the Army in September 1993, Major General Chen continued to serve the nation by working in the defense industry. He held leadership roles at United Defense and FNSS Defense Systems in Turkey, demonstrating his dedication to enhancing international security.

Bill has written a book on leadership: Blend-in, Stand-out. Bill is also the editor in chief of the book, Unsung Heroes: Recognizing and Honoring Chinese American World War II Veterans - Congressional Gold Medal Recipients.  

Bill's father, Moon Chen joined the Flying Tigers during WWII as an American to support China. The Flying Tigers composed of pilots from the United States Army Air Corps, Navy, and Marine Corps, recruited under President Franklin Roosevelt's authority. Their mission was to bomb Japan and defend the Republic of China. Because the US wasn't in the war, they had to volunteer and attack the Japanese under a foreign banner.

Learn more about Dan Chung:

• Website: https://www.dchungfigures.com
• Instagram: @dchung_art
• Dan Chung's Travis Scott Action Figure in 90210 Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuNBLjJzRoo
• Snoop Dogg / Lil' Snoop Action Figure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snv1MTsd0vg
• Martha Stewart Action Figure:  https://www.adweek.com/agencyspy/martha-stewart-gets-her-own-action-figure/

Victor is also the founder and CEO of Victor & Company, an economic growth consultancy. His economic development clients have included the World Bank, Ford Foundation, Inter-American Development Bank, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has also worked with corporate clients seeking to grow entrepreneurial innovation, including Accenture, IBM, and Microsoft.

Previously, he was the Vice President of Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation, the world’s leading philanthropy supporting entrepreneurs with an endowment of $2 billion.

Learn more about Victor and how to get involved:

• Right to Start: https://www.righttostart.org
• Victor & Company economic growth consultancy: https://www.victorh.co
• Book: The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley

With an 11-year background in visualization and meditation and over 15 years working for global brands in advertising, she understands the key to unlocking your true potential lies in mastering the mental game. In this episode, Christi explains exactly what she does and how she does it!

Download the visualization mentioned in the episode: christipowell.com/wldshow

To learn more about Christi and what she does: https://christipowell.com

In this episode, Jeremy shares how he grew up in Singapore with a silver spoon and lost it all when his parents went bankrupt. He reveals how he rebuilt his life, excelled in investment banking across top firms, and eventually transitioned into a fintech startup. Jeremy discusses personal challenges, including a painful divorce, and how he practices gratitude to maintain resilience. Additionally, Jeremy talks about his relationship with Sonia Chew, a well-known TV and radio host, and the lessons he's learned.

Giles Li - Lin. Sanity.

Dana has won two Grammys in Latin Jazz & classical music for collaborations with Paquito D’rivera. And has worked with top Hip-Hop artists such as Kanye West, and tops iTunes Charts with DJ A- Trak & DJ Qbert in EDM. He has also been a guest musical director on Broadway.

As an internationally renowned musician composer, Dana cooperates with global brands to create immersive music experiences. Recently he has created themes for top names including Hermès, Prada, Hugo Boss, Virgin Galactic, ESPN, Porsche, Infiniti, New York & Shanghai Fashion Week, Hong Kong Fintech Week, Singapore Fintech Festival, Mont Blanc and the Annual $1,000,000 Global Teacher Prize in Dubai.

A leading innovator at the intersection of music, technology & wellness, Dana is continuously experimenting. He is one of the first artists in the world pairing human talent with artificial intelligence powered music composer engines creating electronic symphony “iDragon” with DeepMusic.Ai & Dell Technologies; pioneers live music + VR powered 3D art concerts. Dana founded the music social impact platform TEKTONIKmusic.org and created corporate & public music wellness programs at Google, YouTube, WeWork, HTC and the World Economic Forum’s flagship Davos Congress. Dana works with Yamaha to consult on the design of the “Silent (electric) Cello”, serves as a U.S. Musical Ambassador and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Learn more about Dana:

• Dana's Website
• #UpgradeMe Podcast

Prior to Winston Francois, Jason was the VP at Vively Health, VP of Marketing at Headspace, and Chief Marketing Officer at Soothe. Jason was also the co-founder of Heal, providing access to primary care doctors through a simple app. 

In this episode, we talk about Jason's career and gave him the perfect experience to build a growth consulting firm for founders.

For decades, he has been heavily involved in numerous civic engagement initiatives, spanning from serving on non-profit boards such as Center for Asian American Media, Head Royce School, and Center for the Pacific Rim at USF, to co-founding Roses in Concrete, a public charter school serving primarily students of color in East Oakland. He and his wife Tonia started Karma Pictures, a media company developing feature films telling Asian American stories. Michael has a B.A degree in economics from Harvard College and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.

Geo currently manages his family office, where he invests in financial markets, venture capital, and private equity. And uses the profits to support causes in climate change, nature conservation, and refugee aid. Prior to running his own family fund, Geo was a forex trading desk head with over 20 years of experience at global investment banks.

In this episode, we discuss how Geo built Fidenza Macro and how he makes good decisions in trading, in his career, and in life.

Learn more about Geo:

• Fidenza Macro Newsletter
• Huang Chen Foundation

This include’s Joe’s son. Jameson Wang, the starting quarterback of Cornell Big Red Football, an NCAA D1 football program.

Jameson is currently the only starting D1 Asian college football quarterback and is on his path to the NFL Draft, with the hopes of being the first Asian quarterback in the NFL this century.

Previously, Joe was the Co-Founder & General Manager of the American Football Union, an ambassador to the sport in the China market. Developing Chinese university football teams, and creating the fan base among the university students in Beijing. Joe was also the American Football head coach for the China National Team.

Kickstarter: The Improbable Road to the NFL Jameson Wang: The Next Level Asian American Quarterback Kickstarter

The documentary features Jameson Wang’s Road to the NFL. The film will spotlight the life and love of football of Asian American D1 college athlete Jameson Wang, while bringing awareness of the challenges faced by not passing the “eye test” -- that of looking like conventional quarterbacks.

Filmed in both New York and California, the story explores the personal journey of Asian American athlete Jameson Wang, and how he uses his cultural heritage to overcome adversity and achieve success both on the field and in the classroom. 

The documentary will highlight the unique challenges faced by Jameson in the world of sports from youth, through college, both on and off the gridiron, instilling a powerful message about grit, determination, and the power of perseverance. The film will highlight diversity, equity, fairness, and inclusion obstacles of a college quarterback.

The film serves as an important medium to embrace diversity and promote inclusion in all aspects of life. It will exemplify the American Dream; the ideal that everyone can achieve true success through hard work, persistence, purpose, and drive. 

Jameson Wang could very well be the next sports Cinderella story and you can be part of it by supporting this project!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/qbjman8/the-improbable-road-to-the-nfl

First, at Cook County Illinois as a paralegal advocating for foster children on a case by case basis. Then at the state level for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services as a Deputy Director, as the Deputy Chief of Staff, and the Chief Accountability Officer.

Then for multiple states - as a change management consultant for foster care for the state departments of Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. And today. at the federal level - working for the Office for Refugee Resettlement under the Unaccompanied Children Program.

In this episode, Jeremy shares his story and life mission with us.

Lee helped found the Asian American Legal Foundation and Asian American Coalition for Education. Most well known for its part in helping win the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. A landmark decision of the US Supreme Court in 2023 in which the court held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

As the Chief Legal Officer for Newegg, Lee was famously known as "chief troll hunter.” He was one of the few attorneys a decade ago to fight back against the multi-billion dollar patent troll industry and win.

In this episode. we talk about Lee's fight against IP patent trolls and race-based affirmative action.

Gene has taught and arranged events for tens of thousands participants globally. Including at events such as Tze San Sze Monastery in Hong Kong, and the Feel Good Festival in Shanghai. And has worked with corporate clients such as NIKE and WeWork.

Before starting Better Me NYC, Gene worked in investment banking and wealth management, leading expansion efforts in Asia, at JPMorgan, HSBC, and BBVA.

In this episode, we talk about Gene's journey from investment banker to dharma yoga teacher. And the different ways we can raise awareness and find inner peace.

Learn more about Gene and Better Me NYC:

• Instagram: @bettermenyc
• Website: https://bmnyc.co/

In this episode, Conrad shares immigrant story as a  Chinese American and what he's learned while pursuing the American dream.

In 1999, Deron co-Founded Menus.com, which failed during the dot-com bubble bust in 2001. However, from the assets of Menus.com, he Co-Founded and bootstrapped Datassential, which has become the global leader in data analytics and research for the foodservice industry with clients like Nestle, Kraft Foods, Coca-Cola, Door Dash, and MacDonald’s. Datassential sold a majority stake to Spectrum Equity, a growth private equity firm, in 2019 for $125M.

Deron also Co-Founded Collective Solution, a global call center business, in 2002. Collective Solution has over 3,000 employees and provides customer service and back-office operations to leading ecommerce and media companies like Amazon, Minted, Fashion Nova, and Triller, from its call centers in the Philippines, Honduras, and Jamaica.

Seven years ago at the age of 21, Anthony suffered a life-changing accident that left him as a quadriplegic. Although he’s recovered some function since, he’s still currently in a wheelchair.

Today, Anthony is the Cofounder and CEO of Vinovest. Vinovest helps investors diversify their portfolios into rare wine and whiskey, an asset class that has outperformed the S&P over the past three decades. Vinovest has over $100MM in assets under management.

In this episode, we discuss

• Becoming paralyzed at 21. And how he persevered to grow and sell Envoy Now.
• His relationship with his wife Mckenna  and how they've stayed together since teenagers.
• Securing Mark Cuban as his first angel investor through a Shark Tank-esque campus pitch.
• Leaving college as a Thiel Fellow and meeting Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin.
• Hustling to work for Blockfolio, its sale to FTX, and meeting Sam Bankman-Fried.
• The genesis of Vinovest and how he carved out a serious reputation in the wine industry.

Learn more about Anthony:

• Vinovest Website: www.vinovest.co
• Video: Anthony pitching Mark Cuban Shark Tank-style
• Anthony's Instagram: @anthony_j_zhang
• Anthony's Twitter: @anthony_j_zhang
• Fortune: A 22-Year-Old Entrepreneur Moves Forward After a Life-Changing Accident Left Him Paralyzed

Julian is one of the most colorful and interesting people I have ever met. The first time I met him, he explained to me why and how he has so many porn star friends that he used to know. And the second time we met, he gave me a tour of an incredible Hollywood mansion that his client turned into a Tiktok influencer content house. The decisions Julian has made and the path he has taken is unlike anything I’ve ever seen.

Learn more about Julian:

• julianchanlegal.com
• Fetti: Julian Chan’s Legal Career: From Finalizing $100M Deals To Representing Billion Dollar Brands

• How Joe lost $10MM selling his company to a publicly traded company that  suddenly filed for bankruptcy
• Why Joe (Harvard-Westlake, Stanford, Harvard Business School) took his kids out of the Harvard-Westlake private school track and moved to rural Washington
• What Joe is going through taking care of his dying father with late onset Parkinson's disease

Our guest is Joe Cha, who’s story can be divided into two acts. The first half of Joe’s life, by most standards, would be considered impressive and inspiring. Growing up in SoCal, Joe attended some of the top universities in the world, with multiple degrees from Stanford, as well an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has had a storied career, which includes being a one time consultant bringing multinational companies to China in the early 90’s, a tech entrepreneur who founded one of the hottest companies that raised millions of dollars during the first dotcom boom, he was also a corporate executive at Yahoo at the height of the platform’s influence.

However, through all of these experiences and accomplishments, while at times rewarding, Joe found only fleeting moments of happiness and satisfaction with his life. It took a perfect storm of personal and professional challenges that up-ended Joe’s world for him to redefine his values, priorities and life goals, and embark on the second chapter of his life.

I wanted to bring Tony on here today to dig a little deeper about his experience as an entrepreneur in China.

Tony is also the executive director of Phi Skin Medical Group. PhiSkin is a medical investment and management group. Founded in 2012, currently operating seven medical clinics in Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou and Ningbo. The company is dedicated to provide skin and cosmetic beauty enhancement services with non-invasive and minimally invasive medical procedures.

Submit your stories and photos of Park 97: https://forms.gle/CkRwHEZntWGss5mr6

After selling his company, Peter went on a journey to find his authentic self. This work included working with the dying as a Zen hospice practitioner. Practicing cold exposure by climbing a Poland mountain in negative 31 chills with just a bathing suit. And experiencing nature immersion by participating in a two week survival course in a Utah desert with only a water bottle, a blanket, a knife, and the clothes on his back.

These rich experiences has led Peter to his calling: coaching CEOs and facilitating leadership mindfulness retreats. In this episode, we talk about his deep commitment to transforming leaders through mindfulness practices. And how by doing so, leaders can cause less harm to themselves and others, including in their personal and professional relationships. 

Learn more about Peter:

• Peter's Twitter: @corbett3000
• Peter's Instagram: @corbett3000
• Leadership Coaching Website: stillrush.co

By having track a record of molding champions, Andy has earning himself the nickname "Elitesmith" - a blacksmith for elite athletes. Some of his clients include:

• Four-weight world champion Leo Santa Cruz
• Two-time WBC super middleweight champion David Benavidez
• 5 times boxing world champion Yokasta Valle
• IBF featherweight champion Luis Alberto Lopez
• Two-division world champion Yésica Bopp
• UFC Fighter Gabriel Green
• UFC Fighter Daniel Rodriguez

To learn more about Andy and Forj Fitness

• Website: forjfitness.com
•  Andy "Elitesmith' Aguilar's Instagram:  @the.elitesmith
• Forj Fitness Instagram: @forjfitness

And Milk and Eggs - a digital platform providing consumers with higher quality, fresher, perishable foods at lower prices and greater convenience. Milk and Eggs was acquired by GrubHub in 2019.

After selling Milk and Eggs, Kent went to Taiwan to become the Chief Operating Officer and Board Director for JustKitchen. The leading virtual kitchen operator in Taiwan, creating & curating delivery-only food brands and cuisines on the internet. With more than 40 locations in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, and Malaysia. Just Kitchen had its IPO in 2021.

Today, Kent sits on the boards for half a dozen businesses in Taiwan.

Finally, Kent is a physical specimen and has done a lot work on his own fitness journey and has a depth in knowledge of how to gain muscle for men over 40.

Learn more about Nick:

• Instagram: @seacreaturecreations
• Airbnb Experience Kelp Forest Spearfishing Adventure
• Airbnb Experience Lobster Hunting After Dark

When Matt is not training, he’s an investment, business and market analyst who has currently guided $500m worth of investments in long term equities.

In this episode, we ask about Matt's experience completing the Bigfoot 200 miler. And the why and the how he runs ultramarathons.

Video of Matt finishing the Tahoe 200: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv_RnroLBm6

Brian is the author of The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the World. A book that outlines the blueprint of the company’s management philosophy.

Brian is also the founder and Chairman of RADII, a digital media platform dedicated to bridging understanding between East and West by providing a window into Chinese youth culture.

 In this episode we talk about his experiences with Jack Ma at Alibaba, how he navigated his career, and his learnings from his experiences.

Learn more about Brian:

• Website: https://www.brian-wong.com
• Radii: https://radii.co
• Book: The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the World
   

Paul is the Director for the AI/ML department at pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, GSK. His team is responsible for the AI/ML services and infrastructure that enable researchers to leverage advanced AI. To develop novel therapies to existing diseases and quickly respond to new diseases with personalized drugs, driving better outcomes at reduced cost with fewer side effects.

Prior to GSK, Paul was a software engineer at Google. And prior to that, Paul worked in startups in Korea with Evan Lai, a friend of the podcast.

I met Paul in Mexico City for Evan’s birthday. Paul is a Korean Adoptee. And we had a great conversation about what that was like. And what his experience was like - going back to Korea as an adult. It was a fascinating perspective. And I felt like it was worth exploring on this podcast.

Just for a little of context. Andrew, Lee, and I are in this group chat called 6-pack Global Challenge. There’s about 50 friends in this group chat, age range 30’s to 50’s, living all over the world.

As the title of the group chat says - we’re all working towards a six pack. But really it’s a community where we share exercise, diet, and health knowledge with each other and hold each other accountable.

Brian’s perspective and health journey is quite unique. His wife Audrey recently crossed the 5 year mark of being in remission after her cancer diagnosis in 2018. Through this life-altering experience, he’s gained a deep knowledge on diet and inflammation.

What’s more is that he’s been tracking everything about his lifestyle in an excel sheet since the cancer 5 years ago. A detailed food journal, including the amount of daily water intake, coffee, alcohol, sleep, exercise. He’s quantified things everywhere he can, qualified everywhere else, and has monitored all the patterns.

Obviously, this impressed the hell out of all of us in the group. And we wanted to learn more.

Ron has 4 decades of professional experience advising elected officials, Fortune 500 companies, and government entities on public relations, political, and communication strategies. Ron is a master storyteller, and has won nearly 100 awards for his creative work.

Prior to founding Imprenta, Ron served on the staff of some the country’s most prominent elected officials. Including California Governor Gray Davis. And was a political appointee in President Clinton’s administration at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Ron is also the founder and creator of the Asian Pacific Leadership Foundation. APALF. Recognizing the need for Asian Pacific Americans to serve as elected and appointed leaders in America. Successful alumni include California Attorney General Robert Bonta and California State Controller Betty Yee.

Ron is also the producer and writer of The Race Epidemic: Resurgence of the Yellow Peril. An award winning documentary on the epidemic of hate against Asian Americans during the covid outbreak.

A collection of guiding principles from the greatest investors in history that he cowrote with his nephew Tim and daughter Oia.

San is currently focused on real estate investing in multifamily apartments. With a 5-year goal to acquire and actively manage a billion dollar portfolio in the top 10 growth markets like Tampa, Jacksonville, Atlanta, and Dallas.

Prior to Real Estate, San was the cofounder and managing partner of SMC Capital. An early growth private equity firm that was ranked top 30 in China.

San’s current mission in life is coaching his 3 daughters through GenFIRE to achieve Financial Independence. Genfire is an educational platform who’s mission is to empower one million parents and the next generation to achieve Financial Independence.

Tuan earned his Bachelor's from UCLA, followed by a law degree at UC San Francisco. From there, he spent a decade as a litigation attorney doing corporate law at Reed Smith, a top global law firm.

Today, Tuan is a Litigation Attorney at Sessions, Israel & Shartle and has litigated hundreds of cases in state and federal courts. Tuan also undertakes pro bono work, notably suing the U.S. government on behalf of Vietnamese refugees and representing a Cambodian genocide survivor.

Learn more about Imran and AllianceDAO:

• Dane's Twitter: @lund_dane
• Dane's Writing: https://lund.mirror.xyz
• AllianceDAO Website: https://alliance.xyz
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In this episode we discuss:

• Basics of what we are building at Alliance DAO / why DAO.
• Where do DAOs win? (What are the comparative advantages of DAOs vs other organizational forms)?
• What are the essential ingredients of DAO formation? (what does it mean to be a DAO architect)?
• What is the most important part of DAO formation? (where do you spend the most time)?
• What is the proper scope of a DAO’s governance?
• How does DAO governance relate to political theory and corporate governance?
• How do you think about community organization within DAOs? (should DAOs be flat / hierarchical, etc?)
• How do you think about whether to self-build DAO tooling vs engage third parties to provide tooling services?
• What DAOs need to gain credibility / play a real role in the global economy?
• What are the hardest parts of DAO formation?
• What do you see at the frontier of DAO formation, or DAOs more generally? (what do you expect to see in the next generation of DAOs)?
• What should policymakers consider if they want to foster DAO growth and protect the public?

If you liked this episode, you can find more episodes at wld.show!

In this episode we discuss how Carl got into the comic book industry, why the comic book industry is broken, and how 247 Comics uses Web3 to change the model.

Learn more about Carl and 247 Comics:

• Carl's Twitter: @CarlChoi
• 247 Comic's Website: https://247comics.com
• 247 Comic's Twitter: @247comicsHQ
• Sean Chen's Instagram: @seanchenart

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In this episode we discuss Omar's time at Priceonomics, working for Balaji at Coinbase, his experience as an EIR at Paradigm, and his founder's journey starting Center.

Learn more about Omar and Circle:

• Omar's Twitter: @omarish
• Omar's Website: https://omarish.com
• Center's Twitter @centerapp
• Center's APIs: https://center.dev 
• Center's NFT Search: https://center.app 

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Liquifi has become the renowned expert on automated token vesting and token cap tables. With a star-studded list of customers that are using their product to solve their operational pain.

In this episode we discuss:

• What is a token?
• Why tokens?
  • Distributed ownership w/ a host of web3 benefits.
  • To interact with the blockchain?
  • Ownership in a protocol, company, etc.
• Core reasons to use tokens as equity:
  • Automatically get many financial services
  • Instantly a liquid market
  • Ability to interact with crypto native applications (contracts) - aka instant financial services
    • Attracts speculation
    • Creates perverse incentives
  • Different tokens can interact with each other
• Tokens = programmable ownership
  • Buying, selling, voting, attaching conditions
• Ask yourself why do you want a token:
  • Why do people want this?
  • Why would there be demand?
  • Why are we creating a token?
  • Does a governance token make sense?
  • A bet on what might happen in the future? Something unlocks with the token’s capability.
• Minting tokens and giving them out:
  1. Get a lawyer and ensure you’re compliant.
  2. How to raise money
  3. How to mint the token
  4. How to distribute the token
  5. Automated token vesting
• What Liquifi does:
  • Prevents mistakes
  • Allows you to configure distributions on a per person basis
  • Automates distribution
  • Automates legal
• The future of tokens
  • Automated value & transfer changes.
  • More inter-twined actions
• Parts of the Liquifi product:
  • Gathering addresses for how to distribute
  • Set up any grant
  • Lock ups
  • Vesting
  • Cost basis accounting
  • As an employer investor
• How Liquifi works with companies
• Everything it takes to set up a token:
  • Clear why for the Token
  • Landing ideal tokenomics
    • Launchpads: Ava launch, Binance (start and launch a token)
    • Do any people come to mind?
  • Marketing plan
  • Token distribution plans and strategies
  • How to launch
  • What exchanges to launch on
  • How to provide liquidity
  • How to drive perception
  • Launch preparation
    • Cap table set up
    • Gather wallet addresses
    • Run KYC
  • Set up infrastructure - accounting, taxes - so all pieces in place
  • Employee policies
  • Preventing insider trading
  • Community comms
  • Governance & change requests
  • Set up with Snapshot / Tally
  • Token road map
• How can tokens enable new models of work?

Learn more about Robin and Liquifi:

• Robin's Twitter: @robindavidji
• Liquifi's Twitter @liquifi_finance
• Liquifi's Website: https://www.liquifi.finance

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Anand and Peter first met and worked together on the Android Team at Google in 2011. When Google acquired Anand's first company, Bumptop, and incorporated Bumptop’s touch screen user experience into the Android phone. Peter led Google’s evolution into becoming a design-first company by creating Material Design, prototyping Google Hangouts, Google Now, and Google Keep.

In this episode, we discuss: 

• Anand's first company Bumptop and its acquisition to Google's Android team
• Peter's work redesigning  Google with Material Design
• Peter's prototyping process with Google Hangouts, Google Now, and Uber
• Spatial's story
• How Peter created Instaspatial

Links mentioned in Podcast:

• Anand's Bumptop TED Talk
• Peter's Material Design and Uber work: https://peter.ng/timeline

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Jon's famous Twitter Thread Explainers:

• The $UST Depeg Thread
• The Celsius Thread
• Centralized crypto fintechs are in deep trouble and rumored to be facing insolvency.
• Interviewing a North Korean hacker

Learn more about Jon and Aztec:

• Jon's Twitter: @jonwu_
• Aztec's Website: https://aztec.network
• Aztec's Twitter @aztecnetwork
• Aztec Connect: https://aztec.network/connect

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We discuss what inspired Seb to start Zapper and his vision for the company.

Learn more about Seb and Zapper:

• Seb’s twitter - @sebaudet26
• Zapper’s twitter - @zapper_fi
• Zapper’s Website: zapper.fi

In this episode we discuss:

• The lessons learned in Seb’s early career and how he applied them building Zapper.
• What led Seb to leave ShakePay to found his own company.
• How Seb knew he had product market fit with Zapper.
• Why Seb was so addicted to DeFi? Why did Seb believe DeFi was going to be a 10x change?
• What’s a safe DeFi place right now?
• How does Zapper educate their customers on the evolving world and using Zapper?
• How Seb does his own research.
• What’s the hardest part about building Zapper?
• DeFi is important because it can raise monetary access for people. However, not every one understands finance.
• Insights from running the company Zapper.
• How does Zapper run so lean?
• What is Seb excited about the most?

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Tell us what you think by DM'ing @wiiichang. If you liked this episode, you can find more episodes at wld.show!

Tell us what you think by DM'ing @wiiichang. If you liked this episode, you can find more episodes at wld.show!

Nouns DAO is one of the most interesting NFT projects we’ve come across. And Noun 53 is here tell us what Nouns DAO is and it how it works.

Earlier this year, Noun 53 led the effort in naming a new species of Glass Frog discovered in Ecuador Nouns DAO. Helping the Rainforest Trust and Ecominga protect endangered species and conservation efforts.

Learn more about Noun 53 and Nouns DAO:

• Noun 53's Twitter: @Noun_53
• Noun 53’s Auction Page: https://nouns.wtf/noun/53
• Proposal to name a recently discovered species of glass frog after Nouns: https://nouns.wtf/vote/16
• [New Species of Glass Frog Discovered in Ecuador Named Nouns DAO
• Nouns DAO Twitter: @nounsdao
• NounsDAO Website: https://nouns.wtf

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In this episode, we learn how Shrapnel works and why it’s the perfect game for the blockchain.

Learn more about Calvin and Shrapnel:

• Calvin’s Twitter: @metacalvinz
• Shrapnel’s Twitter: @playSHRAPNEL
• Shrapnel’s Website: https://www.shrapnel.com

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• anthonyleezhang.eth: 3AC in trouble
• Zac Prince: BlockFi liquidating 3AC
• Danny: 3AC taking $1MM from trading account
• Tim Connors: Merit Circle DAO vs YGG

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Together with his wife and cohost Aarthi, he broke the Internet during Covid, hosting the Good Time Show on Clubhouse. Where he brought on guests like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerburg, and Virgil Abloh.

Learn more about Sriram and a16z Crypto:

• Sriram Krishnan Twitter: @sriramk
• Sriram Krishnan Website: https://sriramk.com
• The Good Time Show: https://www.thegoodtimeshow.club
• a16z Crypto Website: https://a16zcrypto.com
• a16z Crypto Canon: https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources
• a16z 2022 State of Crypto Report: https://a16zcrypto.com/state-of-crypto-report-a16z-2022/

In this episode we discuss:

• Behind the scenes story of hosting Elon Musk on Clubhouse
• The preparation and psychology of preparing live shows
  • John le Carre - “In the first minute or so of the host talking to him, the host made le Carre feel like you’re going to be okay - we’re going to take care of you.”
• Favorite episode stories: Calvin Harris, Naomi Osaka
• Why Sriram moved from investing in Consumer to Crypto at a1z6
• How to get onboarded into Web3
• How a16z Crypto team id structured
• The Web2 to Web3 migration
• Why social media is right for Web3
• Differences between Operator and Investor
• Differences between Angel and VC
• What Sriram looks for in founders

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In this episode, we discuss his favorite NFT projects, go over some of his tweet threads, and his writing process as a creator.

Learn more about atareh.eth and Degen University:

• atareh.eth’s Twitter: @atareh
• atareh.eth’s Best Twitter Threads
• Degen University Website: https://degenuniversity.co
• Daily Degen Youtube
• Daily Degen Podcast
• Degen University Newsletter

In this episode we discuss:

• atareh.eth’s journey into Web3
• atareh.eth’s writing process to enable him to produce daily quality content
• What makes an NFT project like 10KTF so compelling - stories.
  • “It’s the strength of stories and lore that bring people in, not the airdrops, not the PFP art”
  • Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/atareh/status/1450877572854779911
  • Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/atareh/status/1512156019358515227
  • Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/atareh/status/1515782392581083139
  • Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/atareh/status/1515176641814794245
• The psychology of NFT communities
  • Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/atareh/status/1497718907464867842
• Explaining cc0 (Creative Commons Zero) NFTs: NounsDAO and Cryptoadz
• Explaining Opensea’s Seaport Protocol and what it means for the NFT ecosystem
  • Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/atareh/status/1528126971846066176
• Writing a thread on wallet security and having it go viral
  • Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/atareh/status/1526636736759181313
• Tactics Atareh uses when writing

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• Small Cap Science: The Lido stETH Depeg and Celsius Bank Run Thread

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In this episode, we discuss Linus’ experience building Coinbase and his new role at Origin Protocol.

Learn more about Linus and Origin Protocol:

• Linus’ Twitter: @linuschung
• Origin Protocol Website: https://www.originprotocol.com
• Origin Protocol Discord

In this episode we discuss:

• Catching up with Linus
• Key principles US companies need when expanding into China
• Lessons learned from expanding China
• Focusing on risk and fraud at Coinbase
• What fraud at Coinbase looked like:
  • Identity theft
  • Social engineering
  • Friendly fraud - “Buyer’s Remorse”
• Building and leading the growth team:
  • Doubled user base during 2017 Crypto Winter
  • Tripled user base by the time Linus left
  • Planted seeds for 2020 bull market
  • Growth Insights:
    • Magic moment: First crypto transaction, or really owning Crypto
    • Give aways red pilled people into Crypto
• How Linus is feeling about this crash, what he’s doing this winter
• What are some of Linus’ favorite NFTs and why?
• Leading Coinbase’s international expansion:
• Why Linus loved Coinbase Card
• What Linus is excited to improve in the NFT experience:
  • Mint verification
  • NFT reveal

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Sam is currently a Research Partner and the Head of Security at Paradigm - one the most high profile and active crypto native venture firms.

Learn more about samczsun:

• samczsun’s Twitter: @samczsun
• samczsun’s Website: https://samczsun.com

In this episode we discuss:

• What is a white hat hacker?
• Why Sam chose to be a white hat hacker.
• The emotional journey of finding and resolving a vulnerability with millions at stake.
• Differences between white hat hacking in web3 vs. traditional web2
• Why Sam decided to join Paradigm
• Types of bugs in smart contracts:
  • Only exploitable via the owner of the protocol
  • Only exploitable if a hacker has a huge amount of capital
  • Worst bugs: No special permissions or capital
• The story of how Sam saved $9.6m for Lien Finance
  • Recruiting an Ocean's 11 team to escape the MEV Dark Forest
• How Sam found the SushiSwap vulnerability and saved $350MM
• Reverse engineering the $325MM Wormhole Hack
• Designing the hardest hacking competition in crypto: CTF (Capture the Flag)
  • How Sam put together a CTF that blew every crypto hacker’s minds
  • Exploiting an etherscan bug to announce CTF 2022

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Coven Cats is a collection of hand-drawn, meticulously generated CATS. A community-driven extension - born out of love and appreciation for Crypto Coven. In this episode, Adrianne and Mensa the Literate shares the process behind creating a community NFT project.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Adrianne and Mensa the Literate were introduced into Crypto Coven
• The inspiration behind Coven Cats
• The relationship between a witch and their cat
• The team behind Coven Cats and the work it took to create the project
• Where to mint a Coven Cat: https://www.covencats.xyz

Learn more about Adrianne, Mensa, and CryptoCoven:

• Adrianne’s Twitter: @dradriannestone
• Mensa the Literate’s Twitter: @mensaisliterate
• Coven Cats Twitter: @coven_cats
• Coven Cats Website: https://www.covencats.xyz

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NFT Layer

• Fluf World - https://www.fluf.world
• Party bears - https://partybear.xyz
• AIFA football - https://aifa.football
• Altered state machine - AI Brains  - https://www.alteredstatemachine.xyz

Metaverse Layer

• Universe - Universe.xyz
• Sylo - https://www.sylo.io/wallet
• EnterDAO - https://enterdao.xyz
  • Landworks - https://landworks.xyz
  • MetaPortal - https://metaportal.gg
• Consortium9 - https://consortium9.co
  • NOR - https://consortium9.co/disrupting-the-play-model

Ethereum L2 Blockchain Layer

• Cennznet - https://cennz.net

L1 Blockchain Layer

• Plugnet - https://plugdefi.io
• Immersve - https://immersve.com
• OTTO Blockchain - https://www.ottoblockchain.com

Summary

• Games to draw people into communities built around different assets
• Each community is built around assets that do different things
• There are now communications between each community - to bring in and plug in different assets
• At the base: linking in real world payments & requirements

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• @jonwu.eth: The $UST Depeg Thread
• @4484: $luna $ust attack was coordinated & executed
• UST’s Do Kwon Was Behind Earlier Failed Stablecoin
• Terra blockchain is halted after token crash increases threat of governance attacks
• UST de-pegging is very parallel to Soro’s Breaking the Bank of England
• Zagabond: A Builder's Journey
• Criticisms on how Zagabond's rug pulls
• Zagabond's Apology
• Zagabond's plan to fix mistakes with abandoned projects

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In this episode, John describes his crypto journey from being a self-described OG game forum lurker way back in the early 2010’s, to how he lead blockchain initiatives both internally and externally at Google, to how his obsession with pokemon kickstarted his foray into play to earn NFTs and laid the foundation for SZNs.

Learn more about John Lee and SZNs:

• John’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/@jl2fa
• SZNS’ Website: https://szns.io
• SZNS’ Twitter: @sznsnft
• SZNS’ Discord: http://discord.gg/szns
• SZNS’ Litepaper
• Article John wrote back in 2015 on Ethereum

Episode notes and links:

• How John initially got into crypto through Team Liquid’s gaming forum
• Why John’s formative years crafted his Libertarian leanings at a young age
  • Growing up poor, distrusting of centralized institutional power
• Johns journey into tech and crypto
  • Learned programming in college, joined Oracle as sales engineer
  • First exposed to Ethereum in 2015 through a crypto meetup, wrote an article on ETH mining on Bitcoinist (link below)
  • How do we build trustless systems
  • DApps and verifying truth through code
• Joining Google in 2017 and working on crypto initiatives
  • Hosting and growing internal blockchain events
  • How John facilitated engagement with Block.one and eventually leading to a partnership where Google joined as a EOS block producer
• John’s investment history in crypto
  • How John initially pooled money from friends and family, began as a private investment club that achieved 70x returns
  • Starting Novak Capital in 2017
    • Looking to deploy majority in venture, some in liquid markets
• How John got started in collecting and investing in NFTs
  • Always loved collectibles, started from collecting pokemon figures from the late 90’s
  • Being ranked 130 on Blur leaderboard
  • Why John is bullish on the Azuki project
    • Buying a special Azuki for 2 ETH, and getting offers for over 200 ETH
• What is John’s strategy and approach in investing in NFTs?
  • Sweeping the floor and unloading at the right time
  • Price action similarities to ICOs back in the day
  • Real investing vs riding wave of crypto in general
• How did John start SZNS?
  • Working with friends from Google that wanted to do something together
  • Creating a platform for Axie trading - borrow for free, earnings profit sharing
  • Pivoting and joining AllianceDAO when Axie created Ronin chain
• What is SZNS? Why launch your DAO on SZNS?
  • Piloting a trustless way to manage your NFTs and protection against malicious proposals
  • How is SZNS different from Syndicate.io or other platforms?
    • How SZNS streamlined their voting mechanism
    • Allowing for arbitration periods where ppl can contest by bonding and staking their ETH via Reality.ETH module
    • How SZNS will initially monitor and oversee malicious proposals, eventually will transition to DAO governance
  • Private beta right now, public launch June 30th
  • What is the vision of the platform?
    • Not being bullish on fractionalization
    • Believing that the methodology of collections/albums with a token mechanism is a better way to decentralize ownership
    • Not being a platform for NFT flipping - quick buy/sell still an issue
• What happened in Beanstalk hack?
  • Flash loan to buy majority of governance tokens, edited smarted contract to steal assets
  • John sold some pods the same night as the hack exploit!
• Benevolent dictatorship vs fully decentralized checks and balances
  • Oliver Wendall Holmes - "If my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job."
• John’s book recommendation - “The ascent of Money”
  • The right of sovereignty and ownership of your own assets that have monetary value
• SZNS’ year end goal is to be number one Google search above SZNS KPOP group!

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• Cobie: Apecoin new blockchain suggestion
• Yuga Labs response on minting mess
• CPG Grey: Rules for Rulers Youtube Video
• Bored Ape Yacht Club Owner Yuga Labs Raises $450M Led by A16z
• Music, sports, and entertainment VIPs invest $87 million in MoonPay
• OpenSea: Why Andreessen Horowitz is betting big on NFTs
• Improbable raises $150m from Andreessen Horowitz and SoftBank
• Bored Ape Yacht Club Creators Yuga Labs Sign Representation Deal With Madonna, U2 Manager Guy Oseary
• Will's Blue Chip NFT Scorecard
• Rehito Hatoyama (Sanrio, Bathing Ape, Line Friends) new Azuki advisor
• Billboard President Julian Holguin new Doodle CEO
• Dead Brands Attempt Resurrection With Crypto

Correction: a16z did not invest in Moonpay. Only Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures did.

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In this episode, Kagami dishes on how Crypo Coven’s exceptional creative lore and unique community kickstarted his journey into Web3. We learn how Kagami initiated and volunteered to craft Crypto Coven’s open source informational library, how he sees the library evolving as an intellectual hub, and how he would choose between bread, rice, and noodles.

Learn more about Kagami and CryptoCoven:

• Kagami’s Twitter: @kagami_nft
• Crypto Coven Twitter: @crypto_coven
• Crypto Coven Website: https://www.cryptocoven.xyz
• CovenCats Twitter: @coven_cats
• Coven Librarians Twitter: @covenlibrarians
• Find the Librarians in Crypto Coven Discord: https://discord.com/invite/cryptocoven
• Crypto Coven Library

Episode notes and links:

• How Kagami initially got involved with CryptoCoven
• What is the Library? What is the role and responsibility of the Head Librarian?
  • What does a day in the life of the Head Librarian look like?
  • How Kagami’s own pain points in web3 onboarding inspired him to help create and build out the Library
  • How Kagami’s experience in content creation helped him in crafting the Library
• The most common question that is asked - “Where is the library??”
• What are things that people can learn?
  • Web3, NFT’s, Wallet security, Discord security
• What differentiates good onboarding?
  • Accessibility for all levels of knowledge of experience
  • Classification via tagging
  • “Choosing your own adventure”
• How did they recruit over 50 Librarians?
• Weekly summarizing tweets that recap everything that has happened each week
• New projects that have since spawned from the Library/Librarians
  • Librarian Talks - how the Libarians built out an amazing series of fireside chats
  • Engaging chats hosted on Discord with Nyx, Penguin Wizard, and more
  • Web3 job postings and opportunity sharing
• What advice Kagami would give someone looking to set up a library
  • Setting the right foundation by defining initial principles and values up front
  • How to facilitate genuine conversations within the community and create the confidence to start building - organic creation conversations since web3 folks are already creators
  • Staying true to community values, and attracting new members that buy into the ethos
• What is a chaos circle? When is the next chaos circle?
  • When a conversation becomes chaotic..
  • Kagami answers “If you have to give up one thing for the rest of your life, would it be rice, bread, or noodles?
• Does Kagami identify more with being a Mage or an Occultist?
  • Head librarian during the day
  • Occultist at night
• How CovenCats became a ecosystem inspired project
• CryptoCoven as a talent and idea incubator and accelerator
  • The diversity of talent and expertise within the Crypto Coven community
• Kagami’s thoughts around non-invasive anonymity and pseudonymity online
  • Respecting people’s privacy vs credibility and accountability
• What is the future of the Library as an intellectual hub?
  • Helping and supporting new ideas and initiatives that the community are interested in
  • How strong community culture and rules and regulation become self-perpetuating
• The characteristics of the broader Web3 community that make it so unique
• What resources Kagami utilize to learn about and engage with Web3
  • Podcasts such as Bankless and WLD Show!
  • Twitter, Discord and following interesting projects

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Links

• Cobie: ApeCoin & the death of staking
• Otherside: Dutch auctions are actually bullshit
• Moonbird COO Ryan Carson on leaving Moonbird
• What Happened to Treehouse? CEO Ryan Carson's track record  as a leader.
• Avidya.eth on Azuki BEANZ as an Asian market play
• Balaji: The Elon Drop

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Jason began his VC career in 2007 as a founding investor at FirstMark, where he led due diligence for the Series A of Riot Games - the company behind League of Legends.

Brian Cho has been investing in gaming and consumer startups since 2012, where he was a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and worked on investments including Oculus, Lyft, and Slack. Since 2014, he built and led the investment arm at Riot Games.

Learn more about Jason, Brian, and Patron:

• Jason Yeh Twitter: @jasonoliver
• Brian Cho Twitter: @brianjcho
• Patron Website: https://patron.xyz

In this episode, we discuss:

• What Jason and Brian saw in Riot Games
• How and why League of Legends changed gaming
• Why Jason and Brian left and started Patron
• Patron’s Spectrum of Play investment thesis
• Why Web3 introduces gaming mechanics to everything
• What does Patron typically look for in an investment
• Why are portfolio companies choosing Patron to lead their rounds?
• Why are gamers currently against Web3?
• What Web3 games are Jason and Brian currently into?

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Links

• Punk6529 tweet thread introducing OM
• Beanstalk hack explained
• Ronin hack explained
• Tristan Eaton GEMMA NFT
• VBA Game

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In this episode we discuss:

• How Phil became a board member of Karate Combat
• How Phil put together DeFiCon
• How he got All Seeing Seneca to do the art for DeFiCon’s NFT tickets
• How did they get such A-list guest speakers?
• What kind of goals are priority for DeFiCon 2022?
• What Phil is excited about in crypto and DeFi right now

Learn more about Phil and DeFiCon:

• Phil’s Twitter: @TheHuangWay
• DeFiCon Twitter: @DeFi_Conference
• DeFiCon: https://deficon.nyc
• Karate Combat: https://www.karate.com
• Karate Combat is hiring Product, Devs, and Community builders!  https://www.karate.com/jobs

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A big theme we’ve heard from all of our Web3 guests is that community is the key to success. Crypto Coven, one of the top NFT collections, has a community that I believe is unparalleled in the space. This episode is hopefully the beginning of a series of episodes where we learn about different aspects of what makes the Crypto Coven community so strong.

Learn more about Astrea and CryptoCoven:

• Astrea’s Twitter: @astrea_eth
• Crypto Coven Twitter: @crypto_coven
• Crypto Coven Website: https://www.cryptocoven.xyz
• Xuannu: Inking a Smart Contract

Episode notes and links:

• How Astrea got involved with Crypto Coven
• What is a full moon ceremony?
• What did the early days look like when cultivating the community
• What type of “cultivator” experience Astrea had and how she translated it to Crypto Coven
• Reasons why humans gather together and form in communities
  • Looking to connect with others
  • Coming together over shared interests
  • Share values with another
• Event planning: whether IRL or Digital - it’s about creating a container
• How high growth and an influx of people spurred the quick set up of community guidelines
• Had to create a set of community guidelines: backbone to enforce rules of engagement
• How do some of the rules differ?
  • Lore not floor - Don’t tolerate people coming to a discord to sell
• How Astrea has worked with hard conversations
• Pact Keepers: Discord moderators
• How Astrea manages her own mental health
• Community Managers of Crypto Coven:
  • Pact keepers: Setting the container
  • Librarians - building out Web3 educational resources and brewing new ideas around panels
• Lessons from enforcing the CryptoCoven guidelines
• What is community?
• How to build community
  • Guidelines
  • People to teach and nudge and guide - the guidelines
  • Provide art for inspiration
  • Cultivating a space for support and idea sharing
  • Cultivating enabling people to be exuberant and themselves
• Thinking more about:
  • How culture is what begets community
  • Culture often centers around really great art
  • The witches have charmed us all into gathering here in a community
  • How society has historically had very rigid standards for what makes great art
  • Book by School of Life: What is culture for?
    • Art redeems us
    • How we find companionship
    • How we genuinely engage in it
• Tangible action of how to build a strong community:
  • Keeping an ear to the ground on what kind of events to put on
  • Big picture thinking
  • Adapting the inspiration to the medium to make it feel meaningful to attendees
  • Throwing events to create experiences so witches feel heard, seen, and can learn from each other.
• Who gets to throw the events and how do they happen?
• How to be a community curator:
  1. Set guidelines and provide inspiration
  2. Nudge and teach people to adhere to culture
  3. Help people navigate and learn from the community
  4. See the community, listen to the community, notice what they need, provide inspiration, encourage people to be themselves and help
  5. Recognize who has expertise, connect people to gaps, help these folks share their expertise, patch their holes to they will be successful helping the community.
• Why has CryptoCoven been so successful?
• Some of Astrea’s favorite community moments
• What the process was like to get a custom witch?
• Have you seen any unhealthy signals that you now monitor?
• Astrea likes to “Underpromise and over-deliver”
• Astrea is thinking about “Converging the physical and digital spaces”

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Will's Twitter thread on where NFT value comes from: https://twitter.com/wiiichang/status/1510825521008951299

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Prior to Ava Labs, Ed was the Senior Director of Partnerships at the gaming company Electronic Arts. Prior to EA Games, he was the Entrepreneur in Residence at The Chernin Group, a media company that invests in, owns, and operates other media companies. where he primarily focused on e-sports and gaming opportunities. Ed was also the founder of Basikz Agency. A gaming influencer agency and consultancy.

In this episode, we discuss how Ed is helping Avalanche build out its gaming ecosystem.

Learn more about Ed Chang and Ava Labs:

• Ed Chang’s Twitter: @EdC
• Ed Chang’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/etchang
• Ava Labs - https://www.avalabs.org
• Ava Labs’ Twitter: @avalabsofficial

In this episode we discuss:

• What convinced Ed to jump into Web3
• What Ed was doing prior to Ava Labs
• Why Ed chose Avalanche
• How does Avalanche compared to other protocols
• Ed’s goals for Avalanche: Become the “Netflix of web3 games”
• What’s the pitch for games coming onto the platform?
• What it was like for Ed to drink from the Web3 fire hose.
• What’s the difference between Web3 and Web2 games?
• What are the programs that help new developers build on AVAX
• What makes new games stand out?
• What trends is Ed seeing in Web3 gaming?

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Paradigm first hired Dan as a weird experiment of embedding a protocol researcher at an investment firm. 3 years later, Dan has built an industrial research organization within the firm. Giving Paradigm an incredible competitive advantage.

Learn more about Dan and Paradigm

• Dan’s Twitter: @danrobinson
• Georgios Konstantopoulos’s Twitter: @gakonst
• samczsun’s Twitter: @samczsun
• Paradigm Website: https://www.paradigm.xyz

Articles and Research Papers referenced in episode

• Ethereum is a Dark Forest - Dan Robinson
• Escaping the Dark Forest - samczsun
• Uniswap V2 Whitepaper
• Uniswap V3 Whitepaper
• Uniswap v3: The Universal AMM Research Paper
• Liquidity Mining on Uniswap v3 Research Paper
• APE/ETH Liquidity pool impermanent loss - 0xfbifemboy
• TWAMM (Time Weighted Average) Research Paper
• Power Perpetuals (SQUETH) Research Paper
• RICKS (Fractionalized NFTs) Research Paper
• Gradual Dutch Auctions Research Paper
• Paradigm Foundry Toolkit

In this episode we discuss:

• How Dan went from Harvard Law School graduate to protocol researcher
• How Dan was recruited by Matt Huang to Paradigm
• How Dan built out the research team at Paradigm
  • Georgios Konstantopoulos kept showing up in their portfolio companies
• What is the pitch to Georgios, samczsun, and other insanely talented people to join Paradigm?
• Issues with a CLOB:
  • Very inefficient way to complete trades on Blockchain
    • Market makers typically make and close orders frequently
• What is Uniswap?
• What is an Automated Market Maker?
  • Decentralized exchange
  • Central limit order book (aka CLOB)
    • Issues with a decentralized CLOB:
      • Very inefficient way to complete trades on Blockchain. Market makers typically make and close orders frequently.
• What are the differences between Uniswap V1, V2, and V3?
• How is the price set in an AMM?
• New DEX concepts that still need to be explored
• What is MEV (Miner extractable value)?
  • Flash Boys 2.0
    • Miners continuously bidding up the right to mine first, so they can extract the value
  • What is the downside of the miners maximizing MEV? Estimate over $500,000 a day.
    • Could be a threat to proof of work mining.
• How does the research team work with portfolio companies?
  • What are power perpetuals? Squeeth
  • What are NFT fractionalized primitives? Fractional
• How the ultimate future goal for Paradigm’s research team is build the next Bell Labs

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Episode notes

In this episode, Orion discusses the story behind Orange DAO & Orange Fund, the process of managing a DAO, and how Orange DAO helps Web3 founders.

Learn more about Orion and Orange DAO:

• Orion’s Twitter: @OrionParrott
• Orange DAO’s Twitter: @orangedaoxyz
• Apply for Orange DAO funding
• Orange DAO’s Home Page
• Orange DAO Charter

In this episode, we discuss:

• Orion’s Orange Fund Co-General Partners
  • Ben Huh - “who is like the master of memes.“ Cheezeburger, Inc
  • Don Ho - Managing Director at Quant Stamp
• How Orion transitioned into web3
• How Orange Fund and Orange DAO interact with each other
• How Orange DAO was created to experiment with being a DAO
• Building tools to help scale the network
• The Howey Test
• Choosing a traditional LP/GP structure for Orange Fund to ensure they meet SEC regulations
• Tools OrangeDAO has built:
  • LFG: on-chain reputation tool to track deal sourcing. https://lfg.orangedao.xyz
  • Gem: on-chain identity tool for token-gated communities. https://badge.orangedao.xyz
• What value does OrangeDAO create?
  • Access to a strategic network, founders, and investors
  • Office hours
  • Validation
  • Providing flagship customers and users
  • Access to the VC network
• What type of startups does Orange DAO look for?
  • GameFi, guilds, in-game assets, DeFi protocols, DAO tooling
• When evaluating a company, Orange Fund places a lot of emphasis on the team.
  • Has the team had past successes?
  • Are they ready to build together?
• How has Orange Fund’s investment process and decision making changed?
  • Continuously working on investing in companies even before joining YC.
  • Given the “super angel strategy” and the current state of the market, not too much has changed.
• What Orion’s most excited about the future of OrangeDAO
• How to apply for Orange DAO funding

Lessons and key takeaways:

• If you’re creating a venture firm, here is a high level set of questions to answer and steps to take:
  • What size check are you cutting?
  • How often do you expect to give a check?
  • How much are you looking to raise?
  • How many investors will you likely raise from?
  • Once you’ve answered the questions above, speak with a securities attorney to find the legal entity which bests supports your requirements.
• Alternatively, if you’d like to invest in web3 start ups without setting up a VC, you can use crowd funding platforms such as Republic or Angel List to invest.
• Web3 VC investments are typically completed via SAFE or SAFT contracts
• The innovation of Orange Fund is that the 20% carry normally given to GPs is distributed as funds to the Orange DAO treasury instead.
• Orion’s recommended resources for setting up a DAO:
  • Origami
  • CoinBooks
  • Multis
• Recurring lesson: If you’re interested in web3, just get involved and/or start building.
• If you’re a VC fund looking to stand out to founders, two powerful items to provide are:
  • Access. Access to other respected builders & founders
  • Validation. Respected users using your app and validating it’s utility
• Orange DAO found it difficult to communicate vision and hired someone to run sharing the vision full time.
• Orange DAO organized and runs itself in the following manner
  • 3 governance teams - devs, governance, treasury
  • These teams set visions and scope work for people and sub-committees
  • Sub-groups or committees create proposals to complete work. Or just do the work and create a proposal on how this type of role should be rewarded.
• Orange Fund + DAO’s tech stack
  • Airtable: Forms, data
  • Stacker: No code apps
  • Groove: Customer support CRM
  • Finary: Investment discussions
  • Notion: Content
  • LFG: Sourcing
  • Gem: Identity
  • Discord: Communication
  • Camp Social: Community growth
  • Coordinape: Unofficial snapshots
  • Snapshot: Voting
  • Gnosis: Treasury
  • DexBot: Token Swaps
  • Liquifi: Token vesting and payroll

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Learn more about Jacky and Shibuya:

• Jacky’s Twitter: @taipeicity_eth
• Jacky’s Instagram: @jackywangadventures
• Jacky’s Art
• Jacky’s Writings
• Jacky’s Podcast: Left Side Escalator
• Shibuya: https://www.shibuya.xyz/about

In the episode we discuss:

• How Jacky became a self-taught developer
• Jacky’s time in Taiwan during DeFi Summer
• Why Jacky left Instagram
• Jacky’s journey into art and how he started an art exhibition featuring his art
• How Jacky started his podcast, Left Side Escalator, and monetizing his podcast
• What is Shibuya and how he cofounded the project with PplPlsr

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In this episode, we discuss Yang’s journey into Web3 design, what good Web3 design looks like, and the human side of Web3.

Learn more about Yang You:

• Yang’s Twitter: @_yangyou
• Yang’s Website: https://www.yangyou.space
• Syndicate: https://syndicate.io
• VectorDAO: https://vectordao.com

Episode notes and links:

• Yang’s Good Design in Web3 Talk for AllianceDAO
• Yang’s Designing for the Humans of Web3 Talk at EthDenver
  • Yang’s Slides from EthDenver Talk
• Yang’s journey from civil engineering to design
• How Yang advanced as a designer
  • Short courses on UI design and Research and Strategy
  • UX research: empathizing; removing your biases; understanding core user problems
• How civil engineering contributed to being a designer
• Yang’s first problem at Anchorage
  • How do we bring what institutions are familiar with and know (necessary for the survival of their business) and introduce these same actions to Crypto.
• What SyndicateDAO is and what they’re attempting to achieve
  • Enabling regular people to invest their money, or time to re-distribute who gets funding in Web3
• How Yang found and joined Syndicate
• Syndicate’s Web3 Investment Club Product:
  • Setting up a legal entity (optional)
  • Name the team
  • Set the rules - who can deposit, up to what amount, close time to deposits (written onto the smart contract)
  • Then, you can send an invite link to co-admins to deposit, track cap table.
  • Auto-track cap tables
  • Distribution.
• What is “good” design in Web3? What’s a good framework to think about good Web3 design
  • “Good design in Web3 isn’t that different from Web2 and what good design currently is.”
  • New topics: identity, governance
  • Principles:
    • Amplified decision fatigue and how to mitigate it.
    • How to help people understand and manage the new roles they are taking on
    • How to deal with the growth in noise and spam
    • Design as a practice: Building more intentionally towards the pluriverse
• Challenges to better designs, summarizing what’s happened over multiple transactions
  • Graph protocol
• CCS - Crypto, Culture, and Society
  • Austin Robey
• GitCoin
  • Quadratic funding
• One of Yang’s favorite communities / resources to help onboard to the space
  • She256
  • SheFi
• If you were to hire a new designer, are there specific concepts you’d onboard them to?
  • Aha moments:
    • How BTC vs. ETH addresses work behind the scenes
    • Working closely with the engineering team and asking them to walk through each step of an EtherScan
      • How to trace where a transaction came from
      • Association b/w a user’s contract and the club wallet representing the group of funds AND the user’s wallet
      • Getting an understanding of meta-data that’s on chain, so designers can help convey this information to users
• How has it been to work for a Web3 company? Advice? How do you think about it?
  • https://medium.com/@jillrgunter/trends-and-timescales-a9b738be3e97
  • Don’t look at tokens.
  • Take a long term approach

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In this episode we discuss the origin story of the accelerator, what he looks for in Web3 founders, and his learnings from forming a DAO.

Learn more about Imran and AllianceDAO:

• Imran’s Twitter: @lmrankhan
• AllianceDAO Website: https://alliance.xyz
• AllianceDAO Announcement

Episode notes and links:

• The origin of Chicago Defi Alliance as an Informal Industry Group
• The super power of being in Chicago - home to 60% of the market makers globally
• Defi Alliance’s first accelerator batch included dYdX, Kyber, Set Protocol, Synthetix
• Why Imran loved the first accelerator batch
• Why Imran believed in DeFi
• How it felt being at the center of DeFi and seeing it explode during DeFi summer
• Why Alliance finally raised a fund
• How the fund actually helped glue founders and market makers together
• What Chicago DeFi Alliance’s initial major offering was:
  • Capital
  • Regulatory help - Specifically regulations around trading
  • Product + go to market strategy
• How Web3 founder applicants have changed:
  • First batches started as tinkerers
  • Chris Dixon: What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years
  • Today’s applicants are FAANG talent
• Imran’s favorite founder stories
• AllianceDAO helps startups deal with regulations
  • How to building product, keeping in mind that you could be sub-poened.
  • Dane - Corporate governance
  • Mike - General Counsel Clearbit/Atrium
• Legal market fit. Sufficiently de-centralized and compliant
  • Keeps de-centralization and also a strong argument if something was to happen
  • 30% trading; now it’s how do you start your company; how to structure your DAO (should it be a foundation), where to incorporate
• Building effective products
  • Tokens can be a great customer acquisition strategy
  • Pros and cons: your customers are your investors
  • Build something people want
• New Web3 founder mistakes: not taking enough time to study the space
• How Imran assesses Web3 startup ideas
  • Originality of idea
• Traits Imran looks for in founders:
  • Resilience, creativity, thoughtfulness, leadership, empathy, sense of urgency
• What’s the best way to recruit talent?
• How Imran’s perspective on tweeting has changed
• Why a Web3 company is more challenging than Web2
• Why Alliance transitioned to a DAO and what the process was like
• How DAO’s can represent new, digital nations
• Imran’s take on NFT valuation
• What Imran is most excited about in the space
• Who is Alliance DAO looking for?
  • CTO - to help spearhead the bleeding edge of what the DAO should look like 5 to 10 years out.
  • Head of Partnerships:
  • Head of Marketing:
• Where Web3 founders go to apply: alliance.xyz

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Angel investors include Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai’s Family Office, Sacramento Kings co-owner Aneel Ranadive, and Marc Merrill the Co-Founder of Riot Games. In this episode, we discuss the inspiration of VBA Game, how the game works, and future plans and considerations.

Charles and VBA links:

• Charles’ Twitter: @gmcharmander
• VBA's Twitter: @vbagame
• VBA's Website: https://www.vbagame.com
• Explanation of game play: https://vbagame.medium.com/welcome-to-the-vba-f83b5701f7c7
• VBA's Medium: https://vbagame.medium.com/

Episode notes and links:

• Charles’ first exposure to basketball
• Charles’ playing basketball
• How Charles’ got excited about building VBA game
• Zed run: https://zed.run
• https://vbagame.medium.com
• How VBA Game’s goal is for managers to spend a lot of time talking to their friends, creating back stories, etc...
• VBA vs. Fantasy basketball’s core loops
• How VBA is “Fantasy, fantasy basketball”
• VBA game’s core loop
• The initial VBA team
• 7 initial players + potentially buying players from MagicEden
• VBA Player attributes and play styles
• How VBA simulations will run
• What’s given to GM’s at the end of games for more analysis
• Is VBA game thinking about GM’s hiring coaches or acting as coaches?
• How Charles thinks about player progression / regression work?
• NBA2k (https://nba.2k.com/) + MyGM fantasy sports
• How many players can someone hold?
• What was difficult to build?
  • How the fundamental simulator work?
  • What was on chain vs. off chain (player attributes)
• Evolving simulations + strategies
• How Charles thinks about reporters on the game
• Blaze ball
• How one Crypto Coven line, generate via GPT3, drove Charles to buy his CryptoCoven
• How did Charles refine the core loops and key problems to solve with VBA game?
• How Charles learned to code
• What unique Web3 role Charles is looking to hire for - COMMUNITY MANAGER!
• Have you met Joe Tsai?
• How Charles’ experience on the Facebook integrity team helped him think about and address potential risks to the game
• “Adversarial thinking”
  • https://www.smokescreen.io/adversarial-thinking-improving-cybersecurity-with-ants-and-barcodes/
  • 2018 NSA NCCP Workshop - Adversarial Thinking poster.pdf
• Where to mint a pack?

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Learn more about Kevin and CafeteriaDAO:

• Kevin’s Twitter: @caffeinatedkev_
• Cafeteria DAO Twitter: @cafeteriadao
• Cafeteria DAO’s Manifesto: https://www.cafeteriadao.com/manifesto
• Seedclub Twitter: https://twitter.com/seedclubhq/status/1490757788867305473

Episode notes and timestamps:

(02:52) How Kevin got into Web3

(04:30) What is Coffee Omakase

• The Kona Coffee Omakase Kevin set up: https://www.konacoffee.nyc/coffeeomakase
• Kevin was stoked to meet Arden Cho as an Omakase guest
• How Kevin built the coffee omakase:
  • Intro: palette warmer
  • 3 coffees in a row, with a focus on strong contrasts in flavor and preparation method
  • Coffee w/ dessert from Fouet bakery
• Kevin’s notion templates on coffee:
  • Low fidelity: Grind size, brew time, tasting notes
  • High fidelity (for specific recipe tastings): Low fidelity + Flavor, Intensity, Enjoyability
  • Finalizing a recipe
• How Kevin thinks about building the Coffee Omakase
  • Origin of bean - Altitudes, lots, processing methods
  • Roasting: Light (have more clarity/fruitiness), medium, dark (more nuttiness / chocolate notes)
  • Brew method
• Most important factor(s): The roast date and a fresh grind.
• Favorite dark, off the shelf coffee for drip? “Buy full beans and get someone to grind it!”

(17:51) Why Kevin was so inspired by Crypto Coven

• How Kevin was invited to speak about his DAO learnings in CryptoCoven
• Crypto Coven is a Web3 talent accelerator
  • Meta Angels
  • Companion in a Box
  • @____jacklyn

(27:15) What is CafeteriaDAO?

• Determining CafeteriaDAO’s purpose and if a DAO was the right structure for the company?
  • Knowing what community means to you
    • Knowing what you want to enforce
    • Knowing what you want to stand out
    • Knowing what you value
• Wanting to have a very curated community, that is strong, dedicated, and safe to meet IRL.
• The top topic Kevin is thinking about: inclusivity
• Seed club: https://seedclub.xyz (Y-combinator for DAOs)
• Balancing a DAO w/ a standard corporate entity if you’re doing IRL events.

(35:01) What the process was like to get into and be a part of Seed Club.

• Apply through a portal
• Accepted applicants participate in a token race: Started on mirror
  • Originally, a “write” race https://mirror.xyz/race
• The people who hold seed club, can vote
• Accepted companies invest 3% of their tokens into Seed Club
• What’s different about Seed Club’s token?
  • It’s a non-transferrable ERC token which has no liquidity value. It’s a locked token which was dropped to early alumni.
    • It’s mostly used for governance.

(40:01) Where CafeteriaDAO is today.

• First Token
• First Crypto native dining experience
• NFT ticketed dining experience

(41:47) How participating in @KERNEL0x is also helping Kevin build CafeteriaDAO.

• Kernel: https://kernel.community/en/start
• “What trust means on the internet”
• “How value is determined”
• How Kernel is like a liberal arts school

(44:45) What feature Kevin is focused on the most:

• Ensuring there is a structure in place to teach MM’s what to expect and where things are going.
• CafeteriaDAO’s vision
  • Creating new incentive models in restaurant businesses, to create more fairness across chefs, owners, restauranteurs, waiters.
  • A new editorial program which can have more equal coverage:
  • More decentralized editorial platforms. Eater or Infatuation.
  • How to better facilitate relationships b/w consumers and chefs.
    • Ex. NFT for discord and discussion
  • All in one community / platform: funding, media,
• How important a town hall is.

(52:58) What DAO leaders do you love speaking with / look up to right now?

• Jon Yan from VectorDAO
• High Witches of Crypto Coven: community building and management
• Alex and Ruby Justice of FWB: what their flows look like.
• Tina from Station: the difference b/w building a company vs. a DAO.
• Xuannu from Crypto Coven: @xuannu_eth
  • Inking a Smart Contract

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What happened this past round of Dark Forest has to be the most epic space saga of all time. dfdao’s Lindsay Presswell and Tony (ChaosGod) take us through the history of dfdao and orden_gg’s rivalry. 

And the epic battle that took place in Dark Forest v0.6 Round 5.

Learn more about dfdao and Dark Forest:

• Past WLD episode which explains the Dark Forest game, with Will Robinson
• Lindsay Presswell’s Twitter: @llpresswell
• Tony (ChaosGod)’s Twitter: @cha0sg0d_
• dfdao Twitter: @d_fdao
• dfdao Gitcoin Grant: https://gitcoin.co/grants/4875/dfdao-dark-forest-gaming-collective
• orden_gg Twitter: @orden_gg
• Dark Forest Twitter: @darkforest_eth
• Dark Forest Round Replays: https://blog.zkga.me/

Episode timestamps:

(01:26) How Lindsay and Tony got introduced to dfdao
(06:34) Round 1: the formation of dfdao
(10:05) What is it about Dark Forest that hooked Lindsay
(13:57) What is it about Dark Forest that hooked Tony
(17:22) Round 2: The Remembered
(27:43) Round 3: The Intergalactic Yolo
(32:00) Round 4: The Astral Colossus
(37:12) The new rules introduced in Round 5: Junk Wars
(39:21) dfdao’s strategy in Round 5
(51:35) The strategy is failing and back to the drawing board
(55:05) The Death Star
(01:01:53) The Betrayal
(01:08:17) The Redemption
(01:14:00) dfdao’s Gitcoin Grant
(01:18:00) Getting involved with dfdao

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Dan and Orca protocols links:

• Dan’s twitter: @itsdanwu
• Orca’s publications: https://orca.mirror.xyz
• Orca’s website: https://www.orcaprotocol.org
• Orca Protocol’s twitter: @OrcaProtocol

In this episode we discuss:

Before we get started, if you’re new to DAO’s, we like this article for explaining them:

• https://future.a16z.com/building-and-running-a-dao-why-governance-matters/
• Getting a photo with Andrew Yang at ETH Denver: https://twitter.com/itsdanwu/status/1495100959864745987
• The ReOrg podcast: https://www.reorgpod.com/
• How to become a PM at a web3 company: Join the discord and just start speaking, listening, and contributing
• John and Jules
• Similarities and differences b/w Web2 vs. Web3 PM
  • Where you speak to customers
  • Tech stack
• DAO characteristics
• How Orca protocol helps DAO’s
• The stage / type of Web3 DAOs Orca is best for
• Typical pods that Dan sees implemented
  • Meta-governance committees
  • Grants committee
• How voting typically works.
• Token-weighted voting governance attacks
  • https://twitter.com/justinsuntron
• The evolution of voting from single votes to delegates to meta-governance daos
• Fei protocol listing on index to get listed on AAVE
  • https://snapshot.org/#/index-coop.eth/proposal/QmZa8WsStWo84iz1wGCsPzuM1TJTAi4DvsP2yvhu7669CZ
• DAO set up basics and best practices
  • Working agreements
  • The Ready: https://theready.com/
  • The Ready’s podcast: https://www.bravenewwork.com/podcast
• Dan’s dream person to interview: Obama

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In this episode, we discuss the Dark Forest game, dark forest DAO, web3 games, incentives, the Alliance incubator program and what it offers, and the future of web3.

Will Robinson, dfda0, Alliance links:

• Will Robinson’s Twitter: @DangerWillRobin
• Will's writing on Web3 games: https://mirror.xyz/wbarobinson.eth
• Alliance’s DAO’s twitter: @AllianceDAO
• Alliance DAO’s accelerator: https://alliance.xyz
• Defi Alliance jobs: https://jobs.lever.co/defialliance
• dfda0’s Twitter: @d_fdao
• dfda0’s Medium: https://medium.com/dfdao
• dfda0’s Github: http://github.com/dfdao
• dfda0’s Discord: http://discord.gg/aaHada53mQ

Episode notes and links:

• How Will ended up getting a PhD in game studies
• How will decided to parlay where he spent the most time into a job
• How games are different from cinema
• Playbour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playbour
• How Will found a job at Catallaxy: https://catallaxy.rcgt.com/
• One of Will’s favorite games: The Passage by Jason Rora - https://passage.en.softonic.com/mac
• bitcoin.com
• The difference between Guilds that Shill vs. Guilds that Show vs. Guilds that Ship
  • Guilds that Shill: Create value via a large community
  • Guilds that Show: Creating a spectacle on top of a game. For example YouTube personalities and pros create value when they play games.
    • Miko Matsumura - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikomatsumura
    • Dota 2 - https://www.dota2.com/home
  • Guilds that ship: Guilds which add to game shelf life by contributing code and new worlds. Ex. People creating new worlds with the WarCraft III editor: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/warcraft3/23395649/revisiting-the-warcraft-iii-editor
• How tokenized games can re-distribute value to players when they build.
• How Will found the Dark Forest game
  • Dark Forest game: https://zkga.me
  • Dark Forest twitter: https://twitter.com/darkforest_eth
  • An intro to how to play Dark Forest: https://medium.com/coinmonks/how-to-play-dark-forest-the-zksnark-powered-mmo-game-part-1-7222e2c3ab4
• How Will recruited an entire guild, dfda0, to compete at it.
  • Omar Bohsali - @omarish
  • Manan19 - @manan19
  • Zha Yitong - @zhayitong
  • Tony - @cha0sg0d_
  • Lindsay - @llpresswell
• How the Dark Forest game works - https://zkga.me/
• Spoiler Alert: The story behind The Dark Forest which is book 2 of The Three-Body Problem trilogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)
• Dan Robinson (Head of research at Paradigm)
  • Twitter: @danrobinson
  • Paradigm investment firm: https://www.paradigm.xyz
  • Ethereum is a Dark Forest - https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest
• Gaming trends that Will is seeing: “Web3 are not going to be not like normal games and likely much worse.”
• The one real utility with blockchain is censorship resistance
  • Makes perfect sense for finance
  • Putting games on chain, doesn’t always benefit from this utility
• Web3’s value to games
  • Makes it provably fair that you can only be rewarded by playing and winning the game.
  • Composability and open standards (assuming builders are on the same protocol and utilizing the same engines).
• Key(s) to interoperability: aligned incentives
• How the 800 person dfda0 organizes itself
• What the Alliance accelerator is
  • Premise: Bring in lecturers from the DAO and support the top founders. When founder succeed, they come back and teach, to create a virtuous cycle.
  • Purpose: DAO of builder illuminati
  • Everyone is holding each other’s bags and incentivized to build up the DAO
  • Most common investment type(s):
    • Capital investment representing for 1% of the company’s current valuation
• Alliance incubator’s schedule:
  • First 7 weeks:
    • Lecture every day
    • Thursday meeting with other founders
    • Always able to schedule an unlimited amount of time with the Alliance mentors and founders
  • Last weeks:
    • Multiple reps to come away with strong product demos
• The differences Will sees between web3 and web2
  • Tokens
  • Token incentives
  • Secrets are gone, it’s about relationships, brand, being first, and getting enough liquidity to be sticky
  • Must raise large rounds to hire web3 engineers
  • Must be comfortable with regulatory uncertainty
• Do’s and Dont’s when applying and participating in the Alliance incubator
  • Apply to Alliance.xyz first - do a great job on the founder’s section - “Good vibes”
  • Come with a referral please
  • Note: “You can’t pivot who you are, you can pivot what you do.”
• What companies are the future of web3?
  • In the beginning, most projects were low level protocol and primitives. Today, companies are much fluffier: DAO’s, games, much more common retail purposes, much higher founder quality
• Why Will see with Web3: Scalability
• Future problems Will is hoping founders will focus on solving:
  • Entertaining “objects” into new industries
  • Defi protocols
  • DAO’s and DAO tooling on the legal side
    • Building a token warrant (standardizing deals in Silicon valley
  • DAOs - Decentralized alignment and incentives

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Many are observing a shift from a world where creators monetize individually from their fans, to one where they build wealth with their communities.

Bonfire is building infrastructure to enable creators to take advantage of this shift.  Its tools enable creators to host their communities on their own branded platforms, powered by their web3 assets.

Learn more about Bonfire and Melissa:

• Melissa’s twitter: @MelissaZhang13
• Bonfire’s twitter: @bonfire_tweets
• Bonfire’s website: trybonfire.xyz
• What Bonfire is focused on

In this episode we discuss:

• What is Bonfire?
• Create more sustainable communities for creators
• What inspired Melissa to build Bonfire
• Changing creators from labor into capital
• What Melissa is most excited about
• What broken incentives is Bonfire working to fix?
• How Bonfire’s tools helps creators build a community
• Which creators Bonfire is most focused on.

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After graduating from Harvard Business School, Teddy built a storied career as one of the first Asian American executives in Hollywood. Teddy was the Executive Vice President of Production at Columbia Pictures. As well as the Executive Producer for films such as The Pursuit of Happyness, Hitch, and Saving Face.

Learn more about Teddy Zee and MintNFT

• Teddy Zee on Twitter: @TEDDYZEE
• MintNFT Website: https://mintnft.com
• MintNFT’s Twitter: @mintNFTofficial

In this episode we discuss:

• What inspired Teddy to go into Hollywood
• Teddy’s experience as an Asian American in Hollywood
• What Teddy saw in Web3 that made him excited to jump into the space
• How Teddy onboards brands to Web3.
• Why brands are adopting NFTs
• What is MintNFT?
• How do brands build credibility in entering the Web3 space
• What makes a good target brand partner for NFTs
• Why a personal foundation is so important to Teddy
• David Chang and Teddy Zee podcast

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In this episode we discuss

• How Sean became a poker player
• Sample size and result required to give Sean confidence that he could quit the prescribed path for poker
• How poker brought Sean freedom
• April 15th, 2011: Black Friday which shut down all online poker in the US
• How Sean searched for a location and method to maintain his livelihood
• Bitcoin poker games
• Why Sean turned to Bitcoin
• Moving to Costa Rica
• How Sean tracked his poker games
• “EV” - Expected Value: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-expected-value-in-poker#how-to-use-expected-value-in-poker
• Bitcoin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
• The bad and the good Sean saw on Silk Road
• How buying, selling, and competition changes when a transparent market is created
• How Sean chose his next job after poker
• Why Sean believes in Bitcoin so much
• Opennode: https://www.opennode.com
• Who Michael Saylor is and his Bitcoin beliefs: https://www.michael.com

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Guild of Guardians, a free-to-play mobile RPG, is one of the most highly anticipated Web3 games in the space. Apex Legends, a free-to-play battle royale-hero shooter, is one of the hottest AAA games in the industry. Howie and David bring their experience and perspectives to discuss the challenges and opportunities Web3 gaming faces.

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A 19 year-old just created Art Blocks for musicians:

Benny Conn is the founder of Beat Foundry. Beat Foundry is a generative music NFT that actually sounds good. All song data is forever stored on-chain in MIDI format so anyone can freely interpret and remix it in their own way. We discuss Benny’s story and how Beat Foundry works.

Learn more about Benny and Beat Foundry:

• Beat Foundry Website: beatfoundry.xyz
• Ocarina NFTs on OpenSea
• Beat Foundry’s FAQ
• Beat Foundry’s Twitter: @BeatFoundryNFTs
• Benny’s Twitter: @bennyconnn

In this episode we discuss:

• Benny’s origin story and pivoting into software engineering
• Other music NFT projects like Arpeggie, Sound, and Catalog.
• Discovering MIDI - a format for communicating music to a computer.
• What Beat Foundry actually does.
• How Beat Foundry is able to store music on-chain. What does it mean and how does it work?
• How Benny’s background in Jazz helps him think about putting music together that sounds good.
• New possibilities of Beat Foundry’s NFTs. Creating a new type of composer.

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Moxie Marlinspike (Signal Founder) - My first impressions of web3

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Learn more about Emerson and CritterzNFT

• Emerson’s Twitter: @intemerson
• Emerson’s Website: https://www.emersonhsieh.com
• CritterzNFT Website: www.critterz.xyz
• CritterzNFT Whitepaper: https://www.critterz.xyz/whitepaper

In this episode we discuss:

• What is CritterzNFT?
• What is MineCraft and how do people play?
• What does fully on-chain mean for CritterzNFT?
• Who Emerson was inspired by
  • Anonymice NFT Staking
  • Ether orcs
• How Critterz staking works
• Earning $Blocks and buying plots of land
• What does renting Critterz mean?
• Emerson’s path to entrepreneurship and building
• What Emerson’s most excited about
• An example of a Minecraft build on the CritterzNFT server: The Dragon

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Learn more about Peter and OdysseyDAO:

• Peter’s twitter: @petergyang
• Peter’s book: Principles of Product Management
• OdesseyDAO
  • OdysseyDAO Website - https://www.odysseydao.com
  • OdysseyDAO’s Twitter - @odyssey_dao
  • OdysseyDAO Discord
  • OdysseyDAO - Season 1 Plan

In this episode we discuss:

• What is a OdysseyDAO and what it provides: Quality, concise guides for learning Web3 together.
• OdysseyDAO’s mission: Onboard 1 million people to web3
• What got Peter started with OdysseyDAO.
• How Peter went from having a popular newsletter to launching a community
• How Peter realized that it’s not the number of members in the community, but the key is the number of core contributors
• How it all started with a tweet.
  • Signals
    • Learning DAO to explain to people how to onboard to web3
    • Curious beginner post took off
  • Accelerate writing out all the content
• How Peter decided on what work to delegate:
  • Rule of 3: No more than 3 priorities
    • Content
    • Design the website
    • Growing the community
• What it’s like to run a remote company with a part time work force
• What tools are safe in DAO.
  • A communication platform: Discord
  • Shared treasury - Crypto wallet that multiple people have access to: Gnosis safe
  • Crowdfunding: Mirror has no code tools to set up the crowd fund, sell NFTs, and sell governance token
  • Voting proposals using governance token: Snapshot
• The main point of the DAO is to give core contributors upside and ownership
• How OdysseyDAO has guided learning onramps.
• How do you build an audience on Twitter?
• What Peter would have done differently building out the DAO
• What the future of OdysseyDAO looks like

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Learn more about Marcel:

• Marcel’s Twitter: @marcelc63
• Marcel’s Smart Contract Twitter Thread Breadowns: https://web3pad.xyz
• Marcel’s Retro1990 NFT’s: https://retro1990.xyz
• Retro1990’s Instagram: @retro_vintage1990

Smart Contracts Discussed:

• Cool Cats
• Alpha Girls Club
• Loot
• AltNoun
• Constitution DAO
• Wolf Game
• SuperSea
• Chain Runners
• AdidasOriginal
• WAGMIGOTCHI

In this episode, we cover:

• Marcel’s history
• How BuildSpace helped Marcel learn Web3
• Building in Web3
  • How much simpler it was to set up an ETH tip jar tipeth.xyz in Web3 than in Web2
  • Web3’s inherent benefits to developers: ownership, being permissionless, and economy
  • Marcel explains how Rareblocks encourages and enables developers to build upon their platform
  • How active participation and growing a platform, results in NFT holders gaining value
  • How web3 empowers developers and rewards them for building
• How Marcel finds and reads the code for NFT contracts
• Why Marcel started to do contract breakdowns
• Breaking down the Cool Cats contract and how most pfps work
• Breaking down the AlphaGirls contract and how they reduced minting fees
• The difference between reading and writing on the blockchain
  • Read: Reading data off the blockchain is free
  • Write: Writing to the smart contract requires paying tokens
• The difference between on-chain vs off-chain NFTs
• Breaking down how Loot’s on-chain NFT doesn’t need external links to host images
• What NounDAO’s on-chain SVGs allows other developers to do
• How code is part of the NFT art for on-chain
• Breaking down AdventureGold’s contract and how airdrops work
• How someone went around AdidasOriginal’s 2 NFT minting limit to mint 300 NFTs
• How ConstitutionDAO was structured to collect and manage millions of dollars

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Learn more about Jon and VectorDAO

• Jon’s Twitter: @jonjyan
• Jon’s NFT gallery: https://gallery.so/jon
• VectorDAO’s Twitter: @VectorDAO
• VectorDAO’s website: https://vectordao.com
• Introducing Vector DAO

Episode notes:

• What is a DAO?
  • Decentralized organizations (DO) vs. Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO)
  • Vitalik Buterin explaining DAO’s and associated entities
• What the simplest form of a “DAO” can be
• Why a “DAO” for VectorDAO
• How and why VectorDAO was started
• Books that inspired Jon
  • The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
• The history of work in America
  • How happiness dropped once the industrial age hit
  • How workers trade off happiness & freedom for a consistent salary
• How capital has become more abundant and skilled workers are the scarcest asset
• VectorDAO’s Season 0 goals
• How VectorDAO negotiates new employment terms
• How VectorDAO negotiates for equity
• How the day to day lives of designers have changed in the new employment model
  • Doing less of what doesn’t give you energy
  • Providing more project diversity with much less effort
• How Jon was inspired by Packy McCormick’s write up on Liquid Super Teams
• Evaluating which protocols are most likely to succeed based on who the founders are and what talent they’ve attracted
• How VectorDAO allocates payment if some people contribute differently
• The roles on the cap table of a new deal
  • Deal lead (BD)
  • Project lead (senior designer)
  • VectorDAO designers
• How equity is calculated and shared
• How VectorDAO ensures new members are a good fit and immediately impactful
  • A thorough interview and voting in process
  • Not adding new designers unless there is definitely something for them to do
  • Invest in tooling and the onboarding flow:
    • Sharing the DAO’s rules
    • Teaching new members what the key channels are and asking them to rais their hand
  • Writing a clear mission and purpose
    • Make Web3 a lot more accessible
    • Empower best talent to get best terms possible
• How VectorDao is iterating and working towards automating organizational logic
• Why Jon tells everyone to “decentralize slower”
  • Minimum viable governance
• The biggest differences designing for web3 vs. web3
  • Web3 is much more inter-disciplinary
• What some good principles in web3 are
  • Yang You’s Talk on Good Design in Web3
• How VC investment models might change due to service DAO’s
• How DAO’s will exist to serve member needs
• How Jon thinks about creating the best possible experience for talent
• The future of work
  • People opting in as owners
  • Shifting employment goals away from not getting fired
  • How we need to shift how employees and employers think about work

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Learn More about Tae Oh and Gluwa:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/taelimoh
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tae-lim-oh
• Gluwa: https://gluwa.com/about
• CreditCoin: https://creditcoin.org
• Gluwa Capital: https://gluwacapital.com/

Episode notes and links:

• How Tae Oh got his start in Bitcoin and Crypto
• The origin story of Gluwa’s first product
• What CreditCoin is and what it enables
  • The ability for companies and people without a credit history to obtain credit (this is huge for the bankless)
  • The ability to build a credit history that can be used with any lender
• CreditCoin’s origin story
• The three types of stable coin:
  1. Fiat backed stable coins - The creator holds 1 USD per coin and custody of issuer has to be exposed to regulatory audits. Examples:
     • Tether
     • USDC
  2. Crypto collateralized stable coins
     • Currency example: DAI
     • Organization responsible for DAI - Maker DAO
  3. Algorithmic stable coins
     • Company example: Basis
• The types of customers who are most interested in CreditCoin
• Why Gluwa is considering a DAO to approve a new multi-chain gateway
• How Tae Oh manages and guides his team across many industries
• Gluwa’s key performance indicator (KPI)
• How Tae Oh thinks about and acts on risk
  • Delegate mitigating risk to the right people
  • Don’t worry about work that’s been delegated
  • Continuously group parts of your role, create a job description, hire, delegate it, focus on something only you can do.
• What’s next for Gluwa?

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Kevin found yield farming in March of 2021 and has been hooked since then. We discuss his first investment, getting rug pulled, base yield farming concepts, researching new protocols, create a check list of how to get on a protocol, and tracking your investments.

In this episode we discuss:

• Magic internet money
• Iron finance (the first rug pull):
• MIT course on crypto
• In yield farming, you are typically earning interest on your collateral because the protocol founder is paying you to:
  • Stake
  • Lend
  • Provide market liquidity
  • Use the protocol
• The mechanics of getting onto a new protocol
  • Read the white paper, evaluate the developers, check for social proof, etc.
  • Understand what protocol and coins are required to get onto the protocol
  • Working backwards from the required protocol and coin to understand how you can obtain said coin on said protocol.
  • Getting on a centralized exchange so you can convert fiat into a crypto currency
  • Setting up a crypto wallet
  • Transferring currency from an exchange to a wallet
  • Finding the appropriate "Off ramp" or "Bridge" or "Swap" to get the coin you need
  • Getting onto the protocol
  • Monitoring your investment(s) via services like:
    • https://zapper.fi
    • https://apeboard.finance
• Different yield protocols (You must do your own research and consider if the risk is worth the reward before investing. Not investment advice).
  • Anchor protocol
  • Aave on Avalanche
  • Wonderland
  • Abracadabra money

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In this episode we discuss:

• What Aaron and Atrbute offer through creative management
• What types of artists are most interested in NFT's
• Onboarding digital artists to NFT’s:
  • How important it is to understand why his artists are interested in NFT’s and what it is they hope to create, before starting to tailor a solution.
  • Ensuring artists create unique, thoughtful contracts which protect them
  • What tools to use to publish an NFT:
    • If the art is a 1 of 1: Superare - https://superrare.com
    • If the art is a collection of 1:1's: Foundation - https://foundation.app
    • If the art is a programatically generated NFT: OpenSea - https://opensea.io/assets
• The difference between generating art and minting an NFT
• Programmable on-demand generative art through Art Blocks - https://www.artblocks.
• How Aaron helps launch new digital art projects
• How Aaron meets artists and networks with buyers and corporations
• How Aaron started his creative agency
• How artists might be the vanguards defining which neighborhoods will be the most desirable
• How curating your wallet will be like curating your music collection times 10
• What makes art valuable?
• How being part of the street art wave has prepared him for the NFT wave
• What different contract types between artists and corporations look like
• How has Art Basel changed in 2021?

More About Aaron and Atrbute

• Twitter: @aaronlbarr
• ENS: agentaaron.eth
• BAYC #5650, Cool Cat #427
• Tristan Eaton tweet thread on why NFTs
• Shantell Martin on remapping the old art world with NFTs.
• Atrbute: https://www.atrbute.com
• Atrbute IG: @atrbute

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In this episode we discuss:

• What NFT's are: https://ethereum.org/en/nft/
• What Gallery is:
  • A space for NFT collectors to display their collections.
  • A set of tools for collectors to manage and curate their NFT's.
  • A place to add meaning and context to NFT's
• How Gallery protects wallet holders from their NFT's being shown without authorization.
• Mike’s first NFT: Beeple
• Some of Mike’s favorite galleries:
  • https://gallery.so/mikey
  • https://gallery.so/jo7
  • https://gallery.so/pleasrdao
  • Pleasrdao is the owner of “The Doge that started it all”:
• How Mike evaluates NFT's and collections
• Securing an investment from Flamingo DAO - - through an interview with a set of black screens.
• How Gallery got the top NFT collectors as users such as FlamingoDAO, DCInvestor, and Kevin Rose
• How to get Gallery membership via OpenSea
• The difference in mind set when building a Web3 company vs. a Web2 company
• How Gallery is growing and the roles it’s hiring for: Gallery's Careers
• If Mike was to do this over again, whether he would’ve done anything differently
• How NFT's will create the texture of who you are online and what you love
• How NFT's will represent more and more items such as tickets, music, and experiences:
  • Books, movies, music
  • Collecting your experiences! For example utilizing PoAp’s, which are badges that represent you were somewhere - https://app.poap.xyz
  • Games - Assets and skills
• Using https://www.artblocks.io as a vending machine to generate your own art
• What Gallery is focused on next
• Taking your gallery anywhere and using it as a jumping off point into any 3D world

Learn More About Gallery

• Gallery's Twitter: @useGALLERY
• Mikey's Twitter: @mikeybitcoin
• Gallery's Open Positions

Gallery Angel Investors Include:

@santiagoroel, @Cooopahtroopa, @gabusch, @DeezeFi, @gregisenberg, @pplpleasr1, @_jamiis, @whatdotcd, @andy8052, @dandelion_eth, @seth, @thattallguy

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In this episode we discuss:

• His previous experience at Boston Consulting Group building blockchain projects for enterprise customers
• Why Rick learned Rust and WASM (web assembly)
• What is Decentralized Social (DeSo) and why is it important for today’s society?
• What are the building blocks within each DSCVR portal?
• What is DFINITY? Containerized, decentralized computing.
• Civil resistance / establishing personhood - how do you establish persons or persons?
• The multi-level altitudes that NFT's can exist at.
  • NFT's can represent your identity and contain more NFTs!
• The tokens and DAO's on DSCVR
  • Social token - earned via participation on the platform (not trade-able, not purchase-able) - helps make decisions on the platform
  • Governance token - Purchase-able, trade-able, used for powering the platform.
• How each portal on DSCVR is like a subreddit. Rick's belief that each portal (subreddit) should be a DAO. Thinking about whether each portal should have their own token / NFT / governance.
• Rick's goal is to create the rails people can build on to create communities. Creating the tools for a community to grow itself. Truly decentralized and governed by the community.
• Requirements for a community to successfully govern itself.

We're introducing a new series where Will, Lee, and Andrew Learn about Web3. This is a pivotal moment in time where Web3 has exploded and a lot of smart people we know are dropping their careers to transition into Web3. This is a series where we bring friends on to learn about what's happening.

Learn More About DSCVR

• Website http://dscvr.one
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/DscvrO
• Introducing DSCVR: A platform that belongs to its community
• DSCVR Portal Governance

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Find CryptoCoven at:

• Website: https://www.cryptocoven.xyz
• NFT’s: https://opensea.io/collection/cryptocoven
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/crypto_coven
• IG: https://www.instagram.com/crypto_coven
• How to mint: https://www.cryptocoven.xyz/guide

In this episode, we discuss:

• The story behind choosing witches and the Crypto Coven name
• The lore behind each high witch’s name
• Community building: How the high witches asked the community for mood boards and articulations (witch descriptions) and used these to weave custom styles and items into each witch archetype so the community would see their fingerprints throughout the collection. How they found the mood boards to be "Asking for proof of humanity through proof of taste"
• How Savage x Fenty inspired the High Witches to create as diverse and distinct a set of NFT’s as possible. How they wanted to enable people to see as wide a range of women as possible, so that it resonates and people can find art that looks like them.
• Why they created such a detailed minting guide and why they think they were so successful onboarding people new to NFT’s to CryptoCoven.
• “Enjoying seeing femininity become part of the default assumption versus an exception”
• Why the High Witches have a purposefully vague road map and prefer "showing rather than telling"
• How Neopets - https://www.neopets.com was a big inspiration from the High Witches’ past
• The process and story behind how they landed on their minting process:
  • How they researched and decided on their specific mint process
    • https://www.paradigm.xyz/2021/10/a-guide-to-designing-effective-nft-launches
    • Dutch auction - https://medium.com/geekculture/what-is-a-dutch-auction-and-why-it-matters-in-the-nft-space-59d5d26369f9
  • Methods used to prevent people from buying witches just based on rarity
  • How the community reacted and discussions they had when people learned about the minting process.
  • How they dealt with and felt about different community expectations.
• How they customized every aspect each witch and the roll out process
  • The thought process behind creating witch archetypes and building their divination quiz: https://www.cryptocoven.xyz/divination
  • How they used code to make witch silhouettes, colors, items, and attributes as diverse and distinct as possible.
  • How they generated unique names, articulations and lore by sourcing turns of phrase from their community and plugging it into AI in batches until they created unique, amusing names like “mint mint”
• What the future of Crypto Coven could bring

We're introducing a new series where Will, Lee, and Andrew Learn about Web3. This is a pivotal moment in time where Web3 has exploded and a lot of smart people we know are dropping their careers to transition into Web3. This is a series where we bring friends on to learn about what's happening.

Previous Will, Lee, and Andrew Learn about Web3 Episodes:

• Will, Lee & Andrew Recap After 25 Episodes and Starting a Learning Web3 Series
• #27 Yoshi Luk: Exploring DeFi (Decentralized Finance)
• #28 Evan Lai: How to Get Started Learning About Web3
• #31 Jay Chang: Cofounding Genopets. A Play-to-Earn NFT Game on Solana.
• #32 Shalin Pei: Coinbase Designer. Unlocking a Playground for Creativity.
• #33 Howie Zhang: Designing an NFT Game Economy as a Quant Analyst
• #34 Li Ouyang: Discovering an NFT Community She's Passionate About
• #36 Peter Ng: Designing Spatial. The Airbnb for NFTS
• #37 Katherine Liu: Onboarding the Next Million Artists into Web3

Resources to learn more:

• Read Chris Dixon: Why Web3 Matters
• Listen to Tim Ferriss' episode with Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant on Web3
• Listen to #14 Elliot Chun: Making the World a Better Place with Blockchain

She has been a designer at Instagram, IDEO, and Facebook. In parallel, she's launched multiple front page Product hunt projects and many of her own art works. Today, she's learning by exploring projects with her partner, founded a Web3 community, and dreaming up her next project. In this show we discuss:

• Launching a new NFT generator - NiftyGenerator - on product hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/nifty-generator
  • How NiftyGenerator works - https://niftygenerator.xyz
  • Upload images that are static or animated
  • Upload meta data - ETH or Solana
• How to think about an NFT and the roles it takes to create one: engineer, marketer, community manager, and designer.
• Mycoverse - https://mycoverse.xyz/ and its goal to onboard the next million developers onto the Metaverse
• Porta Penguin - Pooping on penguin - https://www.katherineliu.me/portapenguin
• Using NiftyPixels to mint your own NFT's - Polygon - https://www.niftypixels.io
  • Choosing Polygon to reduce the cost of minting and sharing
• How to realize if you have enough conviction about your project: "Do we have 5 to 10 years of commitment?"
• What Katherine's learned from her projects?
  • The community required to be successful
• What minting is
  • OpenSea - "Lazy minting" - They don't mint it until someone buys it. (no gas fees until someone actually purchases it)
  • Foundation - You mint your NFT when you upload your artwork - giving name and description
    • Once minted - it's uploaded to the blockchain and then you can't change the information
• How does Nifty Pixel mint?
  • Transaction happens when you press mint
  • Pressing mint - should open a MetaMask (wallet) window
    • After you confirm the transaction, you're confirming that your wallet is the creator
• Shared ownership
  • Royal - https://royal.io/
• How to join the Mycoverse
  1. Join the Discord - https://discord.com/invite/j8hczUtZcr
  2. You can mint this month if you're lucky
• Electronic mushroom music
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-nIBA0V_No
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2t-xGAg7-w
• Katherine's favorite mushroom
  • Favorite to eat - Black trumpet mushroom
  • Favorite aesthetic - Coral
• What Katherine is excited about, that she's not working on: DAO's

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Wired: Spatial: The Airbnb for NFTs

• The spatial virtual reality experience
  • Hardware
    • Oculus Rift - https://www.oculus.com/rift
    • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens
    • Magic Leap - https://www.magicleap.com/en-us
  • Platform being built on Unity
  • How they create a presence layer for people to collaborate and mingle
  • 3D environments to showcase art and portfolios
• How to think about making a unique 3D NFT and how it's related to sculpture
• Taking virtual hikes
• People are minting whole environments!
  • https://www.dezeen.com/2021/03/22/mars-house-krista-kim-nft-news
  • Sold on SuperRare: https://superrare.com
• Why it's important to display art in the right lighting, context, and setting. How Peter and spatial are working to create appealing digital architecture to show art in.
• How spatial partnered with OpenSea and SuperRare.
• How Peter transitioned from 3D artist to Mobile designer and how learning art as a baseline enabled him to jump mediums
• How hard it is to be a digital artist
• Peter's excitement about DAO's and De-centralization
  • https://ethereum.org/en/dao
  • Why DAO's creating ownerships automatically pushes people to share
  • Lack of approval requirement
  • "The world wide web becoming the world wide web again"
• The no code movement : https://medium.com/@McBain/build-a-no-code-ethereum-app-in-under-2-minutes-e1834d131685
• How do you actually view or interact with NFT's?
• Uploading, selling, and buying through Spatial
• Buying land via Decentral land - https://decentraland.org
• The easiest onboard to VR: Spatial + Oculus Quest 2
• NReal, one of the most inspiring new VR hardware developments
  • https://venturebeat.com/2020/08/10/nreal-light-ar-glasses-add-vr-lenses-launch-august-21-in-south-korea

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