In this episode, we are joined by Iced Knife for a rare and exclusive interview. His first ever published podcast interview. Iced is a well known and loved member of the Solana NFT community, and active investor in the space. We get a chance to learn more about his background in Esports as an early member of FaZe Clan, his thoughts on investing in Crypto and NFT’s, current vibes in the Solana ecosystem, Magic Eden and finding NFT Alpha.    

Topics discussed:

• Iced background in esports and finance
• Thoughts on risk tolerance and how to invest (NFA)
• FaZe Clan and being a Full Time esports YouTuber
• Applying Trad-fi education to investing irl
• Iced introduction to investing in Cryptocurrency
• Going all-in on Crypto & NFT’s
• Current vibes in the Solana ecosystem
• Advice on trading NFT’s (NFA)
• Views on the Magic Eden marketplace
• Methods for seeking NFT Alpha

Key Highlights:

0.13 - Intro

1.06 - Introductions to Iced 

3.57 - Thoughts on risk tolerance and how to invest (NFA)

6.58 - Intro to managing risk in NFT’s 

9.46 - FaZe Clan and being a full time esports YouTuber

12.29 - Earning money in esports 

15.00 - Applying Trad-fi education to investing irl   

17.59 - Iced introduction to investing in Cryptocurrency 

20.51 - Exposure to online poker 

24.43 - Team New Age

31.08 - Being early to Safemoon & Trading Bsc coins 

33.16 - Being early to Solana Monkey Business

43.11 - Going all-in on Crypto & NFT’s

45.13 - Working for yourself VS working in a corporate job

46.24 - Current vibes in the Solana ecosystem

50.29 - Advice from Iced on trading NFT’s (NFA)

56.04 - Iced views on the Magic Eden marketplace

1.00.25 - Iced process on seeking Alpha 

1.04.06 - Curated by Iced ME homepage collection 

1.08.27 - What’s next for Iced

1.09.28 - Outro

In this episode, we're joined by Joma, an amazing YouTuber who makes phenomenal videos about his life in tech and now, his life in crypto. Joma has recently made the transition from traditional tech to web3. Joma recently released a successful NFT collection via Magic Eden Launchpad and we hope this episode can inspire people who are looking to make that transition. We talk about Vaxxed Doggos, Blindr, Shadr, YouTube & education in tech.  

Topics discussed:

• Vaxxed Doggos
• Blindr
• Transition from tech to crypto & NFT’s
• Getting into crypto as a content producer
• Content gaps to help provide education in the NFT  space
• Design a marketplace to encourage the right type of projects
• Magic Eden company Philosophy

Key Highlights:

0.13 - Intro

0.50 - Introductions to Joma

1.16 - Vaxxed Doggos - Joma’s project released on Magic Eden

7.25 - Blindr, Shadr, YouTube videos and content creation

10.28 - YouTube ad revenue numbers

12.48 - Joma’s transition from tech to crypto & NFT’s 

15.25 - Timeline for NFT project, art, creation, marketing and launch 

12.48 - Why Joma got into crypto as a content producer

20.30 - Navigating skepticism from non-crypto YouTube audiences

25.20 - Joma on building an NFT community

28.37 - The future of Vaxxed Doggos

31.08 - Utility and benefits for Vaxxed Doggos hodlers

32.58 - Jacque Le Croix 

36.03 - K-pop

41.38 - What are some of the content gaps to help provide education in the space? 

48.57 - How to design a marketplace to encourage the right type of projects

56.55 - Magic Eden company Philosophy 

1.08.18 - Magic DAO

1.09.28 - Outro

• VC Funding
• Solana NFTs
• Ethereum DeFi and NFTs
• Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC)
• LinksDAO
• Magic Eden

Key Highlights:

0.13 - Intro

1.05 - Introductions from Jack & Zhuoxun of Magic Eden and Mike Dudas.

5.51 - The NFT Inflection Point / Leverage

6.25 - On 6th Man Ventures and VC Funds

7.30 - Magic Eden’s experience raising capital from VCs & 6th Man Ventures

12.27 - How the Solana NFT ecosystem is different & What to expect in 2022 

14.19 - Gaming NFTs

19.31 - On Ethereum’s DeFi and NFTs

29.12 - BAYC’s success (what helps an NFT collection be successful) 

33.14 - Twitter’s Verified NFT Profile Pic

34.47 - Bullish on NFTs

37.23 - LinksDAO

42.16 - What’s special about Magic Eden

47.42 - Outro

In this episode, DJ Trix & Andi talk NFT Alpha with Bryce to discuss the NFT ecosystem on the Solana & Ethereum Blockchains.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Bryce introduction to Crypto & NFTs
• Andi introduction to NFTs
• ETH & SOL blockchains
• ETH & SOL NFTs
• BAYC
• Emotional connection to NFTs

Key Highlights: 

0.13 - Intro

2.21 - Bryce history in Cryptocurrency & NFTs

8.11 - Ethereum & Solana Blockchains

14.49 - Benefits of operating on Solana 

17.45 - Bryce introduction to NFT’s on Solana

21.57 - Andi introduction to NFTs

25.00 - Working with Magic Eden

27.09 - ETH vs SOL NFTs

32.34 - Emotional connection to NFTs

35.52 - NFT Rarity and floor strategy

38.59 - BAYC

45.19 - Alpha DAO

46:25 - Solana NFT Alpha

53.35 - Community & derivatives

54.39 - Bryce on flipping vs hodling

56.39 - Looking forward to the future of Solana

57.22 - Outro

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Personal evolution throughout different roles 
• Concept of “Crypto Poor but JPEG Rich” 
• DeFi Protocols & Investments
• Solana v Other Chains 
• 2022 Prediction for NFTs

Key Highlights: 

0.13 - Intro

1.59 - Justin’s background and experience with growth hacking

3.56 - How Justin got into Web3

5.28 - His motivation behind Decentralcon and how it came about

9.18 - What Justin got into during the pandemic & on crypto

15.21 - How Justin got into NFTs

16.41 - Justin explains what ‘hackerpreneur’ and ‘crypto poor, jpeg rich’ means and how his knack for growth hacking started at a young age

31.24 - Opportunities in NFTs & what to look for when assessing a project to invest in

35.19 - The difference between quick flips and blue chips NFTs

37.30 - How Justin navigates across different L1s & DeFi farms

42.56 - NFT predictions for 2022 & why Solana will be the place for GameFi to take off

56.52 - Upcoming events and conferences planned 

1.00.13 - Advice for getting into DeFi and NFTs 

1.01.05 - Outro

In this episode, Tiff & DJ Trix talk with SolPlayboy & Magic Eden’s very own Chief Degen Officer ChartFuMonkey to discuss Solana NFT Alpha for 2022.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Coming from ETH to Solana
• Q1 NFT Market Sentiment
• Established NFT plays
• Metaverse & Tokenomics Alpha
• SOL NFT Twitter
• Chartfu Intro to Solana NFT
• Micro-niche communities
• What do the homies think of Magic Eden?
• Magic Eden Alpha

Key Highlights: 

0.13 - Intro

2.31 - SolPlayboy introduction to crypto & NFT’s 

6.56 - Bullish sentiment for NFT’s in Q1

7.49 - Established NFT plays - Metaverse & Tokenomics Alpha

10.15 - Early SolPlayboy NFT plays 

11.48 - Challenges with scaling staking and liquidity pools

13.30 - ChartFu early Alpha 

17.07 - Micro-niche communities 

22.51 - Token NFT Projects 

31.22 - Photography in NFT’s 

34.17 - Betting & gaming NFT niche 

36.47 - Paper handing tax

43:01 - We’re still early here

45.46 - Community projects 

48.11 - LinkedIn users waking up to NFT’s

51.01 - What do the homies think of Magic Eden? 57.55 - Bots, whitelists & over-subscribed mints  

1.05.20 - New project Alpha 

10.10.16 - Magic Eden company related Alpha

1.20.33 - Outro

In this episode, we have a conversation with Tom Pandolfi from Honey Defi, to discuss NFT Staking, Collateralization, Fractionalization, along with the current and future utility of The Honey Defi Platform.  

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Tom’s introduction to cryptocurrency, Defi & NFT’s 
• The Honey Defi platform
• Some of the collections Honey Defi has worked with to date
• NFT staking and liquidity pools
• NFT Fractionalization 
• Collateralization of NFT’s on Solana
• The Honey Defi NFT Mint and IDO plans
• Outlook for the Solana ecosystem in 2022

Key Highlights: 

0.13 - Intro

1.53 - Tom’s Background, introduction to Cryptocurrency & NFT’s

7.08 - The success and progress of Honey Defi so far

9.29 - Honey Defi Liquidity and discussion of the magnitude of the protocol

10.18 - Collections Honey Defi has worked with

11.48 - Challenges with scaling staking and liquidity pools

15.28 - NFT Fractionalization

16.30 - NFT Collateralization

18.10 - The opportunity cost of holding NFT’s

21.08 - Accounting for the volatility of NFT’s

23.27 - NFT Collateralization strategy

29.53 - Challenges and obstacles around decentralising the collateralization of NFT’s 

33.01 - NFT’s as a seed round allocation

35.48 - The Honey Defi NFT project, release and mint plans

42.33 - Challenges with bot prevention for NFT mints 

48.48 - Views on the Solana ecosystem to 2022

50.33 - What would Tom do differently if he could go back and start again?

52.02 - Outro

In this episode, we speak to community members Sol Beach Bum & Kiwi Princess about their personal journeys, of how Solana NFT’s have changed their lives and the lives of others in the ecosystem and where they see things going from here for 2022.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Sol Beach Bum introduction to collecting NFT’s 
• Kiwi Princess onboarding to Solana ecosystem
• What to look for in a good NFT project
• SMB purchasing and Shadowy Super Coder Mint
• Future outlook for NFT’s on Solana
• Top 3 NFT hodl’s for 2022

Key Highlights: 

0.13 - Intro

1.33 - Sol Beach Bum Story & introduction to NFT communities in the Solana ecosystem

7.58 - Sol Beach Bum on being early to Solana Monkey Business

15.11 - Kiwi Princess story and background are getting on-boarded to NFT’s on Solana

20.58 - Kiwi Princess on aspects to look for in a good NFT project

23.04 - Sol Beach Bum NFT‘ investment thesis 

28.54 - Kiwi Princess on minting the Shadowy Super Coder DAO NFT

36.50 - Kiwi Princess on starting small 

38.25 - Sol Beach Bum on the Future outlook for NFT’s on Solana

48.51 - Kiwi Princess on the Future outlook for NFT’s on Solana

57.58 - Sol Beach Bum & Kiwi Princess on the top 3 NFT hodl’s for 2022

1.03.44 - What would you do differently?

1.06.07 - Outro 

• Holger Danske’s investment thesis 
• Crypto, traditional stocks and NFTs 
• How to analyse NFT projects for a long-term hold
• DeFi and NFTs
• Advice for getting into personal investing

Key Highlights: 

0.13 - Intro

1.39 - Holger Danske’s background and how he got started in the investment space

11.46 - The Twitter thread on NFTs that took 30 hours to write, received over 50,000 impressions and was retweeted by hedge fund managers

19.44 - How Holger Danske started investing in crypto 

22.29 - Discovery of $SOL as an investment

23.40 - How NFTs got on his radar

27.17 - Thoughts on mobile wallets

30.12 - Process of analysing NFT projects to go for 

32.29 - On staking Pesky Penguins 

36.27 - Thoughts on collateralizing NFTs 

39.21 - Various options strategies that Holger Danske uses 

43.44 - Personal investment thesis for NFTs

45.49 - Predictions on SOL NFTs growth in 2022 

50.22 - Three pieces of advice for people to invest like Holger Danske 

55.29 - Outro

Resources:

• Follow Holger Danske on Twitter
• Degenerate Ape Academy 
• Join the Magic Eden Discord
• Read more on The Magic Eden Blog!
• Follow Magic Eden on Twitter
• Follow Theophana on Twitter
• Follow DJ Trix on Twitter

• $SHDW IDO Preparation 
• The Solana Blockchain 
• Handling Traffic Spikes
• Expanding the GenesysGo plans
• Holder Distribution
• Decentralized Storage
• Early Solana NFT Marketplaces
• Early Solana NFT Collections
• Solana NFT ecosystem going into 2022

Key Highlights: 

0.13 - Intro

3.06 - IDO Launch date: 3rd January 2021

5.47 - The Solana Blockchain 

13:35 - Handling Traffic Spikes

18:28 - Expanding the GenesysGo plans

21.16 - Holder Distribution

25.10 - What is Decentralized Storage?

27.93 - Moving to a Decentralized storage model 

37.36 - Building on The Blockchain

39.00 - Investing in hardware

44.47 - Pleased Implementation

49.05 - The GenesysGo Community

51.23 - $SHDW Tokenomics

54.19 - Vesting

1.00.01 - Filecoin comparison

1.02.24 - NFT raise vs traditional VC route

1.04.43 - Token Suply

1.39.45 - Better storage, more decentralization.

1.43.04 - Summary 

1.49.40 - Outro 

Resources:

• GenesysGo IDO site
• Follow GenesysGo on Twitter
• GenesysGo website
• Join the Magic Eden Discord
• Follow Magic Eden on Twitter
• Follow Theophana on Twitter
• Follow DJ Trix on Twitter

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Investing in Cryptocurrency
• The Solana Network
• Early Solana NFT’s
• Degenerate Ape Academy
• Solana Monkey Business
• Early Solana NFT Marketplaces
• Early Solana NFT Collections
• Solana NFT ecosystem going into 2022

Key Highlights: 

0.13 - Intro

2.13 - Saint Eclectics’ first investments into Cryptocurrency 

7.14 - The Solana Network 

9:43 - First mover advantage for NFT’s

12:29 - May and June crash

17.20 - Degenerate Ape Academy Mint

25.10 - September run up 

28.00 - Solana Monkey Business

29.45 - Kreatures - The fist NFT on Solana 

31.48 - Early Solana NFT Marketplaces

35.19 - The beginning of Magic Eden

39.46 - Early Solana NFT Collections

57.11 - The MonkeDAO validator / MonkeDAO stake pool

1.05.21 - Future security risks in the Solana ecosystem

1.26.13 - Pixel Art Projects 

1.31.12 - Solana NFT Derivatives

1.37.19 - Utility Driven NFT projects 

1.39.45 - Community driven NFT projects 

1.43.04 - The future of Degenerate Ape Academy

1.32.55 - Solana NFT ecosystem going into 2022

1.49.40 - Outro 

Resources:

• Follow The Saint Eclectic on Twitter
• Degenerate Ape Academy 
• Degenerate Trash Pandas
• Join the Magic Eden Discord
• Read more on The Magic Eden Blog!
• Follow Magic Eden on Twitter
• Follow Theophana on Twitter
• Follow DJ Trix on Twitter

• The mission of the Guardians
• MacD & Crypto G’s journey to Solana NFT’s
• MonkeDAO formation, 
• Development the ecosystem 
• Early mints on Solana
• Validator node and staking Solana
• Future security risks and solutions

Key Highlights: 

0.13 - Intro

2.13 - CryptoG Introduction to Crypto & NFT’s

10:12 - Minting Solana Monkey Business

13:54 - How MacD came to Crypto & NFT’s

19:16 - MonkeDAO formation, early mints on Solana

24.37 - Early days of p2p trading & NFT swaps

29.17 - Building The Guardians group to help protect the ecosystem

35.00 - Detail on Guardians membership

39.55 - Efforts to black-list scammers

44.03 - How to get ahead in the cat & mouse game

45.35 - How to join The Guardians group

51.03 - Validators, RPC Nodes & staking

57.11 - The MonkeDAO validator / MonkeDAO stake pool

1.05.21 - Future security risks in the Solana ecosystem

1.15.04 - Cross-mint

1.24.03 - DJ Trix summary

1.12.08 - Jack Shi discussion & itinerary 

1.30.25 - Making the Solana ecosystem more prosperous over time

1.32.55 - Q&A

1.55.14 - Outro 

Resources:

• MonkeDAO 
• Neonexus
• Subscribe to the Magic Eden Blog
• Join the Magic Eden Discord
• Follow Magic Eden on Twitter
• Follow Theophana on Twitter
• Follow DJ Trix on Twitter

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Magic Eden launchpad
• Mint details
• The open economy concept
• The thesis behind Faraway
• Why choose Solana
• Holding benefits

Key Highlights: 

0.13 - Intro

3.36 - Introducing Faraway and Mini Royale: Nations

5:47 - About the in-browser game

8:11 - Highlights from Web3 gaming panel event during Art Basel Miami and why Magic Eden is excited about gaming

11:11 - Why Alex Paley is interested in blockchain-native gaming and the two complaints that users have for free-to-play games and how blockchain technology solves these problems

13:14 - Alex Paley talks about the intersection between gaming, marketplaces and DeFi

14.51 - Utility and Roadmap behind Mini Royale

15.37 - On the current players of Mini Royale

21.01 - Alex Paley shares why Faraway chose the Solana blockchain to build on. TL;DR a lot of massive multiplayer games are written in Rust… Solana devs code in Rust

24.11 - Benefits to holding Mini Royale: Nations NFT

28.19 - Alex Paley’s opinion on Steam banning NFTs

30.40 - Floor handed over to Twitter Space audience to ask questions on the Mini Royale: Nations mint

35.14 - Alex Paley’s thoughts on the term play-to-earn and why Faraway rolled out Mini Royale initially without economic benefits

40.41 - Mistakes that projects make going into gaming and advice for projects wanting to venture into games

45.16 - Where there are financial incentives involved, some people will try to exploit it. Alex Paley shares how they’re addressing this within the game

49.56 - On the artwork design behind Mini Royale: Nations and in-game graphics

1.03.17 - Outro 

0.13 - Intro 

0.35 - Starting the Shadowy Super Coder DAO - NFT tied to Token Launch

3.00 - Building the Shadowy Super Coder DAO community with support from Interstellar Alliance DAO

6:36 - The Shadowy Super Coder DAO NFT Mint - 60th Mint powered by GenesysGo

8:46 - Paying homage to the various different existing projects on Solana 

10:52 - Solana NFT Dev community sharing news about the NFT drop

11.10 - Utility of the Shadowy Super Coder NFT - A truly decentralised RPC network

15.11 - Key differences between building and RPC network on Solana vs other blockchains

20.20 - Live BETA test of decentralised RPC network

21.01 - Working with the Solana code and network configs

22.03 - Token airdrop for Shadowy Super Code DAO NFT Holders

23.12 - Pros & cons of vesting IDO tokens

24.36 - Rewarding the true believers in the long term success of the project

26.07 - IDO Tokenomics

28.09 - IDO timing

29.32 - The process of creating the NFT art with Unicrys

34.48 - Next focus for GenesysGo - completing the decentralised RPC layer

41.09 - Discovering Solana

42.28 - Q&A

59.10 - Outro

1.35 - How Cake got into NFTs and discovered Sol Socks 

7.10 - Perks of working with a smaller group of people

8.28 - Jemmy from MonkeDAO shares how he got into NFTs, discovered Solana NFTs, and his experiences with SMB 

19.23 - What a 100% community driven initiative looks like and how monkeDAO started

21.58 - How SMB’s shirtless seven ties into MIMO and an explanation on how MIMO’s fractionalization works

36.17 - MIMO token discussion and performance on Raydium

40.25 - Jemmy shares his perspective on MIMO as an SMB holder. TL;DR it opens up new avenues of opportunity and access

44.21 - Rights for NFT fractionalised holders and MIMO’s viper branding

48.45 - How MonkeDAO started running a validator node on Solana

51.24 - MonkeDAO’s goal and direction

52.46 - Thoughts on OHM forks

54.53 - How to approach NFT Derivatives

59.39 - How MIMO came about, overall philosophy and other things they’re working on like a free mint for newer entrants into the Solana NFT ecosystem

1.03.03 - SockDAO’s NFT acquisition process and how they buy NFTs as a DAO 

1.07.22 - ThugDAO shares that the best time to build is when the market’s down, and what they’re working on like setting up a validator, a ThugMerch store, gaming tournaments and the Thug music label. 

1.11.41 - Thug music label is an expansion beyond pfp and into interesting web3 applications. 

1.13.26 - Music Royalties and DAOs. 

1.17.08 - The advantage of Web3 for independent musicians

1.18.56 - Big-time musicians getting into NFTs 

12.49 - How the idea of an NFT marketplace came about, the weird name that could have been Magic Eden but thankfully isn’t, and the meaning behind the name Magic Eden

20.49 - Jack, Sidd and Zhuoxun share major milestones since the first day of trading on Sept 17, 2021. For Sidd, it was when Magic Eden reached $50K in trades, that’s when he felt it really took off. And, for Zhuoxun, when the site was going down (a good sign of growth) and for Jack, it was the fact that the team was growing and people who had never met each other IRL was collaborating. 

24.43 - Magic Eden was the first to do…. (us flexing) and about being a doxxed team. Plus, shoutout to Tiff, our podcast host and head of marketing. 

26.54 - Sharing visitor stats on Magic Eden and Tiff introduces herself and her background. 

28.15 - Jack talks about what sets Magic Eden apart from other NFT marketplaces

30.55 - Zhuoxun talks about gaming and NFTs 

33.27 - Sidd talks about new features on Magic Eden in the works, the Magic Eden mobile app and the future of NFTs

36.15 - Where Magic Eden’s users are located, tl;dr we’re international. 

36.56 - What the team is looking forward to in December